The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

“THE OZ-KAN HOP” 153
“Our Town” is the Oscar-nominated folk song written by Randy Newman
for the computer-animated movie Cars (2006). During a flashback in which
it is shown how the new interstate highway bypassed several rural towns,
James Taylor sings the easygoing but poignant ballad about the days back
when one grew up, stayed, and grew old in one’s hometown.
“Out of Thin Air” is a revealing character song David Friedman wrote for
the video sequel Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1995). In the affecting
duet, Aladdin (voice of Brad Kane) wants to ask the oracle about his longlost
father, but fears who he might be. The princess Jasmine (Liz Callaway)
encourages him, knowing that the father must be like the son and arguing
that Aladdin did not come out of thin air.
“Out of This World” is the pop-rock ballad written by Matthew Gerrard
and Lisa Benenate for the television movie Zenon: Z3 (2004), the third film
about the title teenage girl living in the twenty-first century. The intergalactic
rock star Proto Zoa (Phillip Rhys) and his band, the Cosmic Blush,
sing about the way a loved one’s smile can send you into space. Rhys made
a music video of the lite-rock number.
“Out There” is the stirring “I am” song for the deformed Quasimodo (voice
of Tom Hulce) in the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).
Alan Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyric) wrote the expansive ballad,
which the lonely hunchback sings as he climbs the towers of Notre Dame
and looks down upon the ordinary people on the street, wishing he could be
like them. Jason Danieley recorded the song, and Andrew Samonsky made an
effective version with Kaitlin Hopkins and Brian Sutherland in 2005.
“Over It” is the breezy rock song by Adam Watts and Andy Dodd that
encourages one to let go of the past and move on, as heard in the television
movie Stuck in the Suburbs (2004). Anneliese van der Pol sings the carefree
number on the soundtrack during the closing credits of the film.
“The Oz-Kan Hop” is the swinging charm song written by Buddy Baker
(music) and Tom Adair (lyric) for the proposed film The Rainbow Road to
Oz, and although the movie was never made, the song was performed by
the Mouseketeers on the television show Disneyland in 1957. The Cowardly
Lion has been put under a spell that makes him vain and cruel, so
Dorothy (Darlene Gillespie) leads the cast in this silly song and dance that
incorporates footwork in the Kansas and Ozian styles.