Movie Music: Ever Ever After

On sale today is a magical treat for lovers of movie musicals of old: the original motion picture soundtrack for Enchanted, featuring songs by the Academy Award-winning team behind Pocahontas, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

Inspired by the classic Disney music of animated features past, five new songs appear in the movie, including three performed by the main characters played by Amy Adams and James Marsden. Adams' Giselle and Marsden's Prince Edward duet on the delightful fairy tale opening number, "True Love's Kiss". A comedic highlight is "Happy Working Song", a clever throwback to the days of Snow White, Cinderella and the chipper critters who pitched in to help "whistle while they worked". But by far the best of the bunch is "That's How You Know", a Central Park showstopper in the tradition of "Under the Sea" and "Be Our Guest"; if any of the Enchanted songs should be up for the Best Song Oscar, this is it.

"So Close", a romantic ballad performed by Jon McLaughlin, and the end credit number "Ever Ever After", sung by American Idol winner Carrie Underwood (check out the music video with a hot Patrick Dempsey stand-in) round out the track list, along with Menken's magical score and an outtake of Marsden crooning the Dean Martin standard "That's Amore". You can also listen to the full album on the Enchanted My Space page, as well as watch the complete (yes, complete) scenes featuring "Happy Working Song" and "That's How You Know".

UPDATE: YouTube videos (some "homemade") for all of the songs have now been added and can be accessed by clicking on the song titles, above.

Click here to buy the Enchantedsoundtrack album from Amazon.com.
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