Top 10 Disney Songs That Shaped Our Childhood 

Circle of Life is such a powerful opening number. It perfectly captures the theme of the film, and I just can't get through it without tearing up.

*All these songs actually did shape my childhood. Especially the amazing Phil collins doing the Tarzan soundtrack.*

These particular Disney songs did more than just shape out childhood, These are the Disney songs that help us get through life even when we're adults you can always count of these classic Disney songs to give you the confidence to push past every day trials and tribulations!

Alan Menken was a great composer who was responsible for the music for Disney's Golden Age, including ``The Little Mermaid,'' ``Beauty and the Beast,'' and ``Aladdin.'' Especially "Something There", "Part of Your World" and "A Whole New World" were great songs.

I remember Hakuna Matata, You’ve Got a Friend in Me, I’ll Make a Man Out of You, Be Our Guest, Friend Like Me, and Colors of the Wind. ❤️❤️❤️ Those Disney songs defined my childhood. ❤️❤️❤️

As a 90s baby who grew up during the Disney Renaissance, this list is awesome!

Hakuna Matata is definitely a song that will be a banger for generations to come and Circle of Life is just inspirational and full of soul

When you wish upon a star is the epitome of innocence magic and imagination However, having grown up with sleeping beauty, nothing beats once upon a dream

It's the Circle of Life! And it moves us all! Through despair and hope! Through faith and love! Till we find our place! On the path unwinding! In the circle! The Circle of Life!

All of them are so important much more as an adult than when I was a kid. Disney should be a genre in itself.

Circle of Life will always be THAT SONG. A dream is a wish your heart makes deserves to be in the honorable mention

Circle of Life is always the number one of any Disney song , no matter what , the song is too wonderful to not be the number one

I love “Be Our Guest” so much as a kid, and I still do. Jerry Orbach’s voice was and is still fantastic to listen to. RIP Jerry Orbach

Delighted that "Sleeping Beauty" at least got an honorable mention. "Heigh-Ho" and "Zippity-doo-dah" are more to my taste (and age bracket - lol).

Some of my earliest memories of watching Disney are watching some of the original Disney movies such as Snow White, Bambi, Dumbo and Pinnocchio. I watched pratically all of the Disney princess movies but those are my favourites because they caught my attention and even now as an adult, those are still some of my favourite movies.

We all could use a little "Haukuna Matata" in our lives!

Some of these films I haven't watched in years. Aside from Tarzan and Mulan, are the one's I haven't watched very much. I'm 35 years old, and I remember watching all the other movies on VHS. I still know the lyrics to these songs. Some songs, they're just buried in our heads for life. It's more of a treasured memory from my childhood.

You must be swift as a coursing river! With all the force of a great typhoon! With all the strength of a raging fire! Mysterious as the dark side of the moon...!

Circle of Life is my favorite Disney song of all time!

Thanks for a walk down memory lane!

Ah yes, back when Disney was a magical place, where dreams came true, and shaped thousands of childhoods for several generations. Not like what it's become today.

Always expect MsMojo to put Lion King on the top.

Beauty and the Beast will forever be my favorite movie

Circle of Life will always be Iconic

All of these great timeless classic Disney masterpieces with their amazing soundtracks in this list has been a huge part of my childhood and each one has a very special place in my heart 👍❤️🥲

I definitely couldn't forget any Disney movie, especially its songs, the ones I remember most and loved as a child are: Hakuna Matata (of course, how not to hum it when I'm happy?), Circle of Life (It is a powerful message that the song contains and it moves me more remembering it when I am older now), "Let it go" (it definitely shaped my childhood I singing it all the tima as a child jaja), "I'll make a man out of you", "Be our guest", You’ve Got a Friend in Me, A Friend Like Me and "A dream is a wish your heart makes"

My childhood songs were the Hercules soundtrack, specially Zero To Hero and I Won't Say (I'm In Love). Such an underrated movie amd soundtrack😢

I love Disney music

I would like to see a list for top 10 Pixar songs. True, they're not known for musical films, but most of their films do have at least one original song.

Thank you for the update, MsMojo..!! For me, the best of the best was 'Once Upon a Dream' from Sleeping Beauty. I watched that movie for the first time in kindergarten more than 40 years ago, I was amazed to realize how beautiful that song was. Cinderella's 'So This is Love' was amazing as well. Also, I don't know why they cut out 'Human Again' in Beauty and the Beast though. That was a good song to listen to. 🤣

Wonderful songs! My favorites are "When you wish upon a star" & "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

The entire Lion King and Tarzan Soundtracks were my whole childhood. I would even add in Life is a Highway in there too!

I would personally have added "Bella Notte." it's played at least once a year in most Swedish households. (December 24th)

The entire Lion King soundtrack!

All these songs on this list is so good and beautiful and wonderful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Beautiful songs!

A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

While Lion King has some bangers the nostalgia floods in for me with Beauty and the Beast. It makes me feel so magical and I end up humming it for hours afterwards. Also want to give a shout out to Oo-de-lally from Robin Hood. That is a very nostalgic movie for me and is still one of my favorite Disney films

Agree with most of this list but for me its gotta be Out There from Hunchback Of Notre Dame

These songs shape my childhood in so many ways. They bring me lessons to learn, beautiful songs to memorise so that I can sing to myself, the stories to enrich my imagination and to appreciate them as a grown up with the child within. A wonderful list.

Good thing I grew up watching this Disney movie when I was a little kid 👍🎥

I grew up with 8 of the 10 and every honorable mention. As a mentally disabled kid from the late 90s growing up, these made my day. To this day, I still find it hilarious as to how the animators got a bunch of feather dusters to dance without hands in be our guest

Super cute I love all the songs

Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job mis mojo one of my absolute favorite list ever 😊❤

That "Baby Mine" song brings me tears of memories.

My childhood songs were the songs Winnie the Pooh-Theme Song, Circle of Live, Be our Guest and If I wasn‘t so small

All of the Disney movies were great to watch and had great storyline

I instantly have happy memories of my childhood watching this!! Stand out favourites for me are The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast - two of my favourite Disney films!

I almost stopped watching after Randy Newman bc I absolutely despised that song as a kid, the worst part was seeing it in the theatre and not being able to fast forward, glad I could just jump to the next song here

Literally all these Disney songs really shaped my childhood by teaching me good lessons and making my childhood feel special and magical. 😊❤️❤️❤️

I love it

"You got a Friend in Me" and "Circle of Life" were the best songs in my childhood

I love all of these songs ❤❤

Mister Aladdin sir, what will your pleasure be? Let me take your order, jot it down, you ain't never had a Friend Like Me!

Honestly, all these songs are amazing, but 🎶 When You Wish Upon A Star🎶 defined the Walt Disney Studios. It's such a BEAUTIFUL piece, and brings about feelings of the way the studio used to be.

10. I wanna be like you 9. Poor unfortunate souls 8. Trashing the camp 7. Junkyard society 6. It's All about me 5. Why should I worry? 4. I'm looking out for me 3. When you're the best of friends 2. Love is an Open door 1. Love Will find a Way

Beauty and the best and hunchback easily have the best soundtrack of all time 🤩

Part of Your World was always part of my childhood!

I've seen lots of movies growing up. But as far as Disney Songs or movies, I love Aladdin, Beauty & The Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mulan, and ones from before my time I've seen. And I'm in my 30s.

Honorable mentions for You Can Fly from Peter Pan, Everybody Wants To Be A Cat from The Aristocats and Go the Distance from Hercules for me.

When You Wish Upon a Star, Part of Your World, Why Should I Worry, The Married Life from Up and even Fireside Dance from Oz the Great and Powerful shaped my childhood.

Another RU-vidr discussing this topic pointed out that Disney songs used to be Broadway oriented in their structure, versus the Pop-radio tunes of recent films. After watching this list, the difference can easily be heard, and Disney is worse for the change.

When I here the theme intro of circle of life it puts me in the chills in my skin, so hype amazed

I listened to most of these numbers on three of the Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic CDs and I recall listening to the Tarzan CD a lot as a kid. I'll be hard to make a song that could be on par with any of these, but I am willing to take that challenge.

When You Wish Upon a Star should be #1 and Be Our Guest should be #2. Disney uses these two songs to advertise their idealized world for a reason.

It’s 2024, of course a song about Africa WON ✊🏾👍🏼

I'm so happy that they included Once upon a dream as an honorable mention, however it really did shape my childhood so it would have made my personal list

i actually really love or like you'll be in my heart,part of your world,be our guest and i obviously LOVE the circle of life from the lion king

Fun Fact: Originally there had been a dialogue scene written for the opening scene of The Lion King but once Elton John and Tim Rice had written #1 the directors of TLK Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff decided to scrap the dialogue scene and just go with the music not only that the opening scene was so perfect that it was actually used as a trailer for the movie

Their lives often transform into an unceasing battleground, a relentless tightrope walk between upholding a public image and yearning for those fleeting moments of private serenity.

When Disney was actually good at what they did…

Oh, I love "I'll Make a Man out of You"!

Of course not, Emely, it's obvuosly "Circle of life". Have a happy sunday afternoon and God bless you, greetings from Colombia to you as well.

For me Colors of the Wind is my #1 cause it really informed my relationship with nature and others different than me growing up. Also Everybody Wants to be a Cat is up there too cause I'm such a cat person. Otherwise, decent list.

You'll be in ,my heart was used at Niece's high school Graduation along with on my way from Brother Bear

I say thsee ones Pinocchio When You Wish Upon A Star Lion King Circle Of Life Little Mermaid Part Of Your World Beauty and The Beast Title track

Also a 90's kid; For me personally, it would be anything from Lion King, Toy Story, Snow White, Little Mermaid, Jungle Book, some others I can't really list right now, and Aladdin. I didn't watch some of the others until I was an adult.

The jungle book. I wanna be like you ❤

"You'll Be in My Heart" and "I'll Make a Man Out of You" were the first two songs I ever learned as a kid. Listening to Disney CDs on the long road trips to my family cabin, I learned to love many of these songs, but the two I mentioned mean the most. Today, I am preparing to release my own songs on Spotify, and it all started by squeaking out Phil Collins and Donny Osmond...

They could have added under the sea when they were talking about the little mermaid other movies they talked about had two songs added to the list

I like bear necessities song Make man out of you Supercalifragilsticexpialdocious and friend like me and when you wish upon a star and baby mine

"A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella?

Fun Fact: Lily Collins has said that #9 is her favourite song by her dad because he originally wrote it for her she was just 10 years old when he wrote it

My favorite Disney movie is brother bear and it is so funking awesome and amazing and I Love Phil Collins ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Rip Julie Andrews, she'll be missed but never forgotten.

Circle of life definitely is a showstopper of a hit and the one song from Lion King I applaud for its cinema magic. Of course it was trumped by Pocahontas' Color of the Wind afterwards. Songs with nature in theme tend to work with me.

Disney songs that shaped my childhood Go the distance Hercules- This song really shaped my childhood as a girl who has a disability and “going the distance” and putting in all my hard work towards having my dream job. How far I’ll go Moana- This Song/ movie basically is my childhood living next to the ocean ever since I was a child. I always sing this song whenever i go there to feel safe and reminds me of what I am meant to do reaching How far I’ll go in the world of disability advocacy!!!! Show yourself Frozen 2- This Song is all about self-discovery of oneself having a disability You’ll be in my heart- This song shaped my childhood forming a special relationship with my grandparents. Sadly I lost my remaining grandfather last year and I know you’ll be in my heart. I still deeply sad and still grieving I am Moana (Ancestors Song)- This Song/ movie basically my childhood with this song is a reminder of who I am and my relationship with my grandmother. I could hear her and me singing this together.

My favorite Disney song is "Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride" from Lilo & Stitch, which is my favorite Disney film. Also in my perspective, this song can actually describe someone wanting to be on vacation and not leave when it's over.

Eu gostei de i.

My numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 10! But the number one song for me will always be "The circle of Life" they sure don't make good Disney movies like they used to anymore.😊

Reflection from Mulan ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

After hearing about them all my life, I finally saw The Jungle Book, Pinocchio, and The Fox and Hound over the last few years.

This list must have been darn near Impossible for you guys to put together.

Circle life my alarm clock

I just hope that in the movie of Shrek 5, once Disney buys DreamWorks, all the Official Disney Princes and all the Official Disney Princesses from their respective movies appear, especially all the characters from the movie of Rise of the Guardians, from the movies of Frozen, from the movies of How to Train Your Dragon, from the movie of Brave, from the movie of Tangled, from the movie of Moana, from the movie of Raya and the Last Dragon, from the movie of Encanto and the most important character in the movie of The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, Melody, the daughter of Prince Eric and Princess Ariel, and besides, they will be the new main characters of the movie of Shrek 5 so that they help Shrek, Princess Fiona, Donkey, Dragon, Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws, Perrito, Goldilocks, the Three Bears, Prince Lancelot, Princess Tiffany, King Artie, Princess Guinevere, the children of Shrek and Princess Fiona: Fergus, Farkle and Felicia, the children of Donkey and Dragon: Bananas, Parfait, Peanut, Eclair, Coco and Debbie and the others to defeat Rumpelstiltskin, Death, all the Official Villains of Disney and all the Official Villains of DreamWorks, as Queen Grimhilde, Lady Tremaine, Maleficent, Marina del Rey, Ursula, Gaston LeGume, Jafar, John Ratcliffe, Shan Yu, Dr. Facilier, Zhan Tiri, Judge Claude Frollo, Mother Gothel, Tamatoa, Drago Bludvist, Grimmel the Grisly, Mor'du, Prince Hans, King Runeard, Pitch Black, the Druun, the Soldiers, Dr. Zara, Queen Nerissa, King Magnifico, Morgana and Drizella Tremaine, and to prevent Rumpelstiltskin, Death, all the other Official Villains of Disney and all the other Official Villains of DreamWorks from ruling and destroying the kingdom of Far Far Away and all the Multiverse, Shrek along with his wife named Princess Fiona will need help from their new friends which are all the Official Disney Princes and all the Official Disney Princesses, as Prince Florian, Princess Snow White, Prince Charming, Princess Cinderella, Prince Philip, Princess Aurora, Prince Eric, Princess Ariel, Prince Adam, Princess Belle, Prince Aladdín, Princess Jasmine, Prince John Smith, Princess Pocahontas, Prince Li Shang, Princess Fa Mulan, Prince Naveen, Princess Tiana, Prince Flynn Rider, Princess Rapunzel, Maui, Queen Moana Waialiki, Hiccup Haddock, Princess Merida, Kristoff Bjorgman, Queen Anna, Jack Frost, Princess Elsa, Varian, Cassandra, Jin, Yi, Connor, Ruby Gillman, Lathyn, Anastasia Tremaine, Princess Raya, Princess Mirabel Madrigal, Princess Asha, Namaari and Melody, although in reality, Melody is the first and only that she is not a true Official Disney Princess along with Namaari, Cassandra and Anastasia Tremaine, because Cassandra and Anastasia Tremaine they were not born to royalty, while, Namaari is an Unofficial Disney Princess and Melody made her debut in the movie of The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea and it is also because she is the first and only daughter of an Official Disney Princess, but Shrek, Princess Fiona, Donkey, Dragon, Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws, Perrito, Goldilocks, the Three Bears, Prince Lancelot, Princess Tiffany, King Artie, Princess Guinevere, the children of Shrek and Princess Fiona: Fergus, Farkle, and Felicia, the children of Donkey and Dragon: Bananas, Parfait, Peanut, Eclair, Coco and Debbie and the others also need Anastasia Tremaine, Cassandra, Namaari and Melody's help to protect and save their kingdom of Far Far Away and all the Multiverse away from Rumpelstiltskin, Death, all the other Official Villains of Disney and all the other Official Villains of DreamWorks, because Anastasia Tremaine, Cassandra and Namaari are now good people and Melody is the daughter of Prince Eric and Princess Ariel, but I also want to see the death of Queen Lillian, because since her husband named King Harold passed away in the movie of Shrek 3, she has felt heartbroken and that caused her own death in her kingdom of Far Far Away, and all the inhabitants of the kingdom of Far Far Away are saddened by the death of Queen Lillian, because now she is with her husband named King Harold in heaven, and now they have lost their queen, that means now the kingdom of Far Far Away needs a new queen and King Artie said that his love interest, girlfriend, fiancée and former classmate from Worcestershire school called Princess Guinevere would be the one to be the new Queen of Far Far Away, so King Artie decided to return to his old school called Worcestershire along with Shrek, with his older cousin Princess Fiona, with Donkey, with Dragon, with Puss in Boots, with Kitty Softpaws, with Perrito, with Goldilocks, with the Three Bears, with the children of Shrek and Princess Fiona: Fergus, Farkle and Felicia, with the children of Donkey and Dragon: Bananas, Parfait, Peanut, Eclair, Coco and Debbie and with the others to meet again with their friends from their school who are actually Prince Lancelot, Princess Tiffany and their love interest, girlfriend and fiancée Princess Guinevere to take them back to his kingdom of Far Far Away, and I also want to see the romance of all the Official Disney Princes and all the Official Disney Princesses from their respective movies, especially the romance of Maui and Queen Moana Waialiki, the romance of Hiccup Haddock and Princess Merida, the romance of Jack Frost and Princess Elsa, the romance of Varian and Cassandra, the romance of Prince Lancelot and Princess Tiffany and the romance of King Artie and Princess Guinevere, because I think that Maui will be Queen Moana Waialiki's love interest, boyfriend and fiancé, while Hiccup Haddock will be Princess Merida's love interest and boyfriend, Princess Tiffany will be Prince Lancelot's love interest, girlfriend and fiancée and Princess Guinevere will be King Artie's love interest, girlfriend and fiancée, because Queen Moana Waialiki is going to fall in love with Maui, Princess Merida is going to fall in love Hiccup Haddock, Princess Tiffany is going to fall in love with Prince Lancelot and Princess Guinevere is going to fall in love with King Artie, but they don't know how to tell them their feelings towards them and neither how to win their hearts, because every time Queen Moana Waialiki gets too close to Maui when it comes to true love, she gets very nervous with him, while which in the case of Princess Merida is also the same, because whenever Princess Merida gets too close to Hiccup Haddock when it comes to true love, she also gets very nervous with him, in the case of Princess Tiffany it is also the same, because whenever Princess Tiffany gets too close to Prince Lancelot when it comes to true love, she also gets very nervous around him, and in the case of Princess Guinevere too, because every time Princess Guinevere gets too close to King Artie when it comes to true love, she also gets very nervous around him, but luckily for them, Princess Fiona will help Queen Moana Waialiki to win the heart of Maui, also Princess Merida to win the heart of Hiccup Haddock, also Princess Tiffany to win the heart of Prince Lancelot and also Princess Guinevere to win the heart of King Artie, and I also want that Jack Frost will be Princess Elsa's love interest and boyfriend and Varian will be Cassandra's love interest and boyfriend, because Jack Frost leaves fall in love with Princess Elsa, but he doesn't know how to tell her his feelings and how to win her heart, because every time Jack Frost gets too close to Princess Elsa when it comes to true love, he gets very nervous with her, because Varian leaves fall in love with Cassandra, but he doesn't know how to tell her his feelings and how to win her heart, because every time Varian gets too close to Cassandra when it comes to true love, he gets very nervous with her, but fortunately for they, Shrek will help Jack Frost to win the heart of Princess Elsa and also Varian to win the heart of Cassandra, except Goldilocks, Namaari, Princess Raya, Princess Mirabel Madrigal and Princess Asha, because now they will be the only Official Disney Princesses who do not need to have love interests and who can remain single forever, and I also say the same for Melody, the daughter of Prince Eric and Princess Ariel, because like her adoptive aunts Goldilocks, Namaari, Princess Raya, Princess Mirabel Madrigal and Princess Asha, she doesn't need a love interest either, but I also want to see the rivalry between King Artie and Queen Anna because they both want to compete in a challenge to see who is the best ruler of a kingdom, because both want to do what is best for their own kingdom, because King Artie wants to do the best for his kingdom of Far Far Away because now he is the new King of Far Far Away and Queen Anna wants to do the best for her kingdom of Arendelle because now she is the new Queen of Arendelle, but at the end, King Artie and Queen Anna become best friends in the world, because at the end, they both learned from their mistakes that they have made since their challenge to compete to see who is the best ruler of a kingdom, and that at the end, King Artie and Princess Guinevere see their first true love kiss and that they become a romantic couple, just like Prince Lancelot and Princess Tiffany, and also that at the end of the movie of Shrek 5, Maui, Hiccup Haddock, Kristoff Bjorgman, Jack Frost, Varian, Jin, Connor, Lathyn, Prince Lancelot and King Artie become the new official members of the Official Disney Princes, while Queen Anna, Princess Elsa, Cassandra, Yi, Ruby Gillman, Anastasia Tremaine, Goldilocks, Namaari, Princess Mirabel Madrigal, Princess Asha, Princess Tiffany and Princess Guinevere become the new official members of the Official Disney Princesses and that one day, Princess Tiffany will be the wife of Prince Lancelot and that they have a family in the future, and that also Princess Guinevere is the wife of King Artie, that they also have a family and that she becomes the new Queen of Far Far Away in the future.

Alan Menken Elton John Phil Collins the Sherman brothers etc wrote the soundtrack of our childhoods

A Whole New World > Friend Like Me. I love Friend Like me but A Whole New World is more of my childhood than Friend Like Me. It's the reason it's one my favorite Disneys songs ever (it would be #1 but that Jasmine song Speechless from the Live Action beats it). I do have to say thank you for including Why Should I Worry in honorable mentions. Aladdin and Oliver were my childhood and my 2 favorites Disney movies.

I am showing my age on this one, for I grew up with Song of the South's "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah".

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You'll be in my heart is beautiful song and pretty song is When you wish upon a star is prettiest song