Alan Menken

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Tony, Emmy, Grammy and 8-time Oscar winning composer Alan Menken joins Gilbert and Frank to talk about the marriage of screen music and images, the demise (and resurrection) of movie musicals, the genius of the late, great Howard Ashman, and the "architecture" of songs like "Be Our Guest," "I See the Light," "Part of Your World" and "Somewhere That's Green." Also, Danny DeVito mimics Jimmy Durante, Steve Martin plays a sadistic dentist, Brad Garrett and Jeffrey Tambor perform a "want" song and Alan praises the talents of John Williams, Thomas Newman and Lin-Manuel Miranda. PLUS: "Fantasia"! The comedy of Randy Rainbow! "I'll Do Anything"! Alan wins a Razzie! And Bob Dylan turns down "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I can't take it anymore!
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0:18.0	Bala bala bala bala!
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0:25.0	Check it out!
0:26.0	It's hot outside!
0:27.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santopudry.
0:39.0	Ah, well, we'll probably embarrass our guest this week by calling him a living legend, but we're gonna do it anyway.
0:48.0	He's a songwriter, conductor, music director, record producer, and composer for stage, television, and motion pictures who has received a Tony Award and an Emmy Award,
1:03.0	an 11 Grammy Award, and eight Academy Awards.
1:09.0	His celebrated stage work includes the musical sister act, the brunk style newsies, a Christmas carol, and leap of faith, successful stage adaptations of his iconic Disney musicals,
1:26.0	and of course the most successful production in the history of both Broadway, Little Shop of Horrors. His unforgettable compositions for feature films helped to usher in a Renaissance for both Walt Disney Studios and for big screen musicals in general,
1:49.0	and his scores and songs for films like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and a Latin, hey, I think I know that one.
2:01.0	Ah, the hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontes, Circules, home on the range, enchanted and tangled, have earned him eight Oscars and a hallowed place in the history of American songwriting.
2:18.0	Classic Commable Melodies like Under the Sea, Beer, Guests, Beauty and the Beast, friend like me, a whole new world, go the distance, colors of the wind, and I see the light, have real generations of moviegoers and become part of the soundtrack of our lives.
2:40.0	Not bad for a guy who originally thought he'd go into dentist's story. Franken-eye, you're excited to welcome to this show, one of the most talented and admired artist of his generation,
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