PEABO BRYSON & REGINE BELLE - A WHOLE NEW WORLD

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

PEABO BRYSON & REGINE BELLE

SONGWRITERS: ALAN MENKEN & TIM RICE.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE MUSIC BEHIND THE MAGIC

LABEL: WALT DISNEY RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1994

 

       "A Whole New World" is a song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. A duet originally recorded by singers Brad Kane and Lea Salonga in their respective roles as the singing voices of the main characters Aladdin and Jasmine, the ballad serves as both the film's love and theme song. Lyrically, "A Whole New World" describes Aladdin showing the confined princess a life of freedom and the pair's acknowledgment of their love for each other while riding on a magic carpet. The song garnered na Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 65th Academy Awards. "A Whole New World" also won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, the first and so far only Disney song to win in the category for the version sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. Zayn Malik and Zhavia Ward did their version of the song for the Aladdin (2019 film).

         The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice is a four-disc box set highlighting the creative evolution behind the music of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Released on November 22, 1994 on Walt Disney Records, the set includes work tape recordings, demos, previously released final recordings, and unreleased master recordings of songs and score cues.

(Peabo Bryson)

I can show you the world

Shining, shimmering, splendid

Tell me, princess, now when did

You last let your heart decide?

 

I can open your eyes

Take you wonder by wonder

Over, sideways and under

On a magic carpet ride

 

A whole new world

A new fantastic point of view

No one to tell us no

Or where to go

Or say we're only dreaming

 

(Regina Belle)

A whole new world

A dazzling place I never knew

But when I'm way up here

It's crystal clear

That now I'm in a whole new world with you

 

(Regina Belle)

Unbelievable sights

Indescribable feeling

Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling

Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Don't you dare close your eyes

 

(Regina Belle)

A hundred thousand things to see

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Hold your breath, it gets better

 

(Regina Belle)

I'm like a shooting star

I've come so far

I can't go back to where I used to be

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

With new horizons to pursue

 

(Both)

I'll chase them anywhere

There's time to spare

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Let me share this whole new world with you

 

(Regina Belle)

A whole new world

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

A new fantastic point of view

 

(Both)

No one to tell us no, Or where to go

 

(Regina Belle)

Or say we're only dreaming

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

 

(Regina Belle)

Every turn a surprise

 

(Peabo Bryson)

 With new horizons to pursue

 

(Regina Belle)

Every moment red letter

 

(Both)

I'll chase them anywhere there's time to spare

 

(Regina Belle)

Anywhere

 

(Peabo Bryson)

There's time to spare

 

(Regina Belle)

Let me share

 

(Peabo Bryson)

this whole new world with you, you

 

(Regina Belle)

A whole new world.

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

 

(Regina Belle)

That's where we'll be

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Where we will be

 

(Regina Belle)

A thrilling chase

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A wondrous place

 

(Both)

For you and me.