I don’t disagree with you one bit, this truly was his best. It’s just too bad these songs and the movie as a whole are overshadowed by the other films from the Disney renaissance, such an underrated film
I like how Frollo turns the opening cords of Out There into a negative song, whereas Quasimodo turns his version of Out There into a hopeful, joyous song. The musical captured this theme really well.
Tafami If you listen to the song “Sanctuary”(Which is basically “the world is cruel” segment of “Out There” expanded into its own song) from the 1999 German stage adaptation of this movie, “Der Glockner Von Notre Dame”, Frollo sings the starting notes of “Out There” in minor formation near the end as well! th-cam.com/video/7_kigA6Dqkc/w-d-xo.html
I find it quite humorous that a lot of people think just because this was a Disney movie that it was marketed to children. The people of Disney wanted not only kids to love it, but their parents and other adults alike. It was decisions like those which make it so successful, especially in 90's. The perfect tone of dark and somber tones to the jolly and fun moments definitely makes this one of my favorite Disney movies of all time.
They're rescued some of it in the musical version. As soon as Quasi goes back inside the cathedral after the events of the fest of fools he and Frollo do a small reprise of Sanctuary/Out There.
I think the way they ended up changing the lyrics was *very* clever. In this preliminary version Frollo tells poor Quasi outright that they would hurt him BECAUSE he's a monster. In the final version, Frollo points out Quasimodo's deformity, and how he, personally, hasn't cared about it and raised him, but the others would see him and call him a monster, and likely hurt him -letting Quasi come to the conclusion that he's a monster "on his own", so to speak. It's much subtler abuse, much more damaging. It accomplishes the same thing but while reinforcing Quasi's trust and dependence on his abuser.
+Sarah Ann Aboueljoud Indeed, it is. This song "Out There" and "When Will My Life Begin?" share a similar concept in terms of their main characters' longing for freedom.
@@twist58 They also share the love of art and make their prison into art studio ;) Quasimodo do woodwork while Rapunzel paint.... No surprise why they're so many fanart of this two together like this one www.deviantart.com/mango-pirate/art/Quasipunzel-267063024
as much as I love the usual power note at the end of the number, I think it sounds more passionate with a softer end. You could really feel his sadness.
I think Alan was about to break his voice, that's why he got softer. I like Tom Hulce's amazing range and sustain. Alan has a great voice but you can tell that last note would have killed his vocal chords.
As somebody who sang in high school choir and is semi-familiar with vocal technique, I can definitely hear Alan Menken's voice giving out at the end. After the line "I swear I'll be content with my share", there isn't much time to breathe at all before the ending. I think Menken spent a little too much breath and pushed a bit hard on the lines building up to "I'll have spent one day out there", and he didn't have the vocal prep to sustain that final line as a belt. Also, the notes in this line (the highest note being an E5 in this version) are pretty high for a male singer, and higher notes demand a higher amount of vocal control. Most likely Alan picked a key for this demo he would be comfortable singing in, but still, trying to hold out a belt after such a strenuous section of singing is difficult for any singer. Which really showcases Tom Hulce's skill singing as Quasimodo, although not to diss Alan Menken's beautiful musical composition and his singing here. It's a great version regardless of not being 100% perfect vocal techique. The heart is there.
Alan Menken's version is amazing! Disney should combine his version of the song with the orchestration from the final film. The result would be nothing short of spectacular!
that was what Walt Disney wanted when he made Snow White. He used to get so frustrated when people only chalked up his movies as just for children. He wanted everyone to enjoy them. Personally, I think he would've loved this movie because they did put something in there for everyone.
I prefer this version of the song to the orchestra version. There's a quality about this piano only arrangement that reinforces the theme the song portrays splendidly. Not that I want to diss the orchestral pieces and all but I would have preferred if they kept the piano-only arrangement to emphasize Quasi's loneliness and solitary confinement but also show he has this amazing personality with how elegant and varied the piano is even when it's by itself. I'm analyzing this too much though...
I love the original song so much, but I find myself coming back to listen to this one more and more often. Something about the piano...it makes it seem more personal, and every time I sing along I can't decide whether to smile or cry.
I, like many other commenters, hadn’t heard Menken’s voice before seeing this. I really appreciate most of his work, but I had no idea that he was so skilled in singing. It’s not a particularly typical Disney voice, but it would be sorta neat to hear his voice make it into a movie someday. If he had ambitions in the area, anyway.
Alan Menken is Disney's Andrew Lloyd Webber! I wonder if Webber and Menken ever met in person? Including James Horner? I'm so happy that brother bought the soundtrack and it's now in my iPod Touch!
After hearing this version of this song it tells us that we don't have to be handsome or beautiful or look like other people to have a good heart or be a good person it's the heart just be yourself everyone is born different that's the greatest gift that God and our parents given us. Also who's also here because of the Notre Dame in Paris France catching on fire 2019!😖🗼
Wow... just.... wow.... that's all I can say about this demo that Menken and Swartz did... You can feel a good bit of the terror and warning in the beginning with Frollo's bits, but then you'd find yourself wanting to allow Quasimodo his chance in the sun, if you could...
I'm late to the party here, lol. But this is my FAVORITE Disney song, from one of my favorite Disney films. And, while I love the powerhouse ending Tom Hulce, and others since then, have given this song, I love Menken's softer ending, too. Trailing off quietly like that evokes a sense of the wistful sadness Quasi must feel. Awesome concept art, too!
The concept art is amazing. Its amazing just looking at these characters and the multiple ways they designed them. They really tried to make Quasimodo look appealing while not making him look handsome, and they show this is the concept art.
I love how people are calling the one they put in the movie the original..I mean, isn't this technically the original? :P Regardless, I love the one with Tom Hulce singing..but damn can Menken create and sing such beautiful works of art! :)
@violatormelms This was indeed a kids movie but had lessons for all. It shows what makes a man, a man or monster. Plus I just love how Frollo died like his exact quote. "And he shall smite the wicked an cast them into a fiery pit", and thus his ass was smited.
what a nice clean voice Mr. Menken has. I adored the OST of this movie as a child, I still know all the songs by heart. Great music and Great movie! One of the very few times Disney actually took risk in a production, those were the days
This movie had ZERO songs nominated for a Best Song Oscar. I don't get why Menken & Schwartz were robbed for this film. I do know some songwriters and composers were bitter that Disney kept winning from Little Mermaid (1989) - Pocahontas (1995), for Best Song AND Best Score. The Oscars even created an additional new category specifically regarding Best Score because Menken kept winning that award. This is definitely the most underrated soundtrack from Alan Menken and Disney.
I absolutely love this version of Out There, the piano and voice just make it so much more emotional. Also, the artwork accompanying the music here is absolutely amazing! I really like style and the watercolour paintings. Great video!
I love this song and this early version is so interesting! I also love Disney concept art. The one at 0:50 reminds me a lot of some of the designs for Sleeping Beauty.
Esmerelda had more of an Afro appearance in the concept art. I heard somewhere that Esmerelda is ethnically Egyptian and she was adopted by the Romani as a child. In the movie verse of course.
It appears she’s mixed with French and Indian because the Gypsies are from India and sometimes the gypsies and the French would mix. It especially looks like Esmeralda is a mixed gypsy because she sorta has Caucasian features like her green eyes.
oh man i have never heard alan menken actually sing and it was amazing!! :D im just bummed he didnt go for the high belting note on "I'D treasure every instance" but overall so awesome :)
@Zephyrrix I agree too, as someone once said (I think it was Frank Losser's daughter) "composers always sing their songs best, even if their voices aren't good!"
I can see why the changes were made for the final film, but woooow! This version is really good. Never figured Menken's own voice was this good either, got a somewhat rawer yet pure feel to it. also I'm getting weird flashbacks to something right at the start of this? it's probably a few things but I can't put my finger on it. kinda reminds me of the animated Hobbit film a little but I don't think that's it :/
I think they're both totally different and unique in their own way so its hard to say that one is better than the other this has a certain type of charm to it, like a live performance. The movie version was more of orchestral version.
The demo version feels darker, and sadder than the final version Alan’s vocals during Quasi’s parts has so much emotion in his voice that hearing him say “Master I am sorry that I offended you this way”, it really makes me feel bad
2:16, 3:12 and 3:27 took my breath away. Such amazing concept art, all so unique and expressive, I just love it! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
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Unpopular opinion, but I think this movie has some of the best music Menken ever wrote for Disney.
Not unpopular, I too think it was his best.
Unpopular? Really? I totally agree with you. And I'd say more: it's one of the most beautiful soundtracks ever.
No way this opinion is unpopular
This is literally the truest thing ever Aladdin is close but not compared to this
I don’t disagree with you one bit, this truly was his best. It’s just too bad these songs and the movie as a whole are overshadowed by the other films from the Disney renaissance, such an underrated film
I like how Frollo turns the opening cords of Out There into a negative song, whereas Quasimodo turns his version of Out There into a hopeful, joyous song.
The musical captured this theme really well.
Frollo is a bit of an emo 😂😂
Tafami If you listen to the song “Sanctuary”(Which is basically “the world is cruel” segment of “Out There” expanded into its own song) from the 1999 German stage adaptation of this movie, “Der Glockner Von Notre Dame”, Frollo sings the starting notes of “Out There” in minor formation near the end as well!
th-cam.com/video/7_kigA6Dqkc/w-d-xo.html
The same happens again in the transition between Haven's Light and Hell Fire
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Quasi is deformed but he’s kind and optimistic. Frollo is normal looking but he’s cruel and cynical.
Rapunzel: I've been gaslighted and locked in a tower for 18 years
Quasimodo: same here wanna sing about it?
Rapunzel: Yes.
I find it quite humorous that a lot of people think just because this was a Disney movie that it was marketed to children. The people of Disney wanted not only kids to love it, but their parents and other adults alike. It was decisions like those which make it so successful, especially in 90's. The perfect tone of dark and somber tones to the jolly and fun moments definitely makes this one of my favorite Disney movies of all time.
I love how Frollo has a longer part in this song compared to the film.
They're rescued some of it in the musical version. As soon as Quasi goes back inside the cathedral after the events of the fest of fools he and Frollo do a small reprise of Sanctuary/Out There.
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I don’t think it’s longer, but I think I prefer to the film’s since it’s more structurally similar to Quasimodo’s.
I think the way they ended up changing the lyrics was *very* clever. In this preliminary version Frollo tells poor Quasi outright that they would hurt him BECAUSE he's a monster. In the final version, Frollo points out Quasimodo's deformity, and how he, personally, hasn't cared about it and raised him, but the others would see him and call him a monster, and likely hurt him -letting Quasi come to the conclusion that he's a monster "on his own", so to speak. It's much subtler abuse, much more damaging. It accomplishes the same thing but while reinforcing Quasi's trust and dependence on his abuser.
So Alan has a great voice as well as being a genius composer? The man's talents knows no bounds!
+Angelic Storm amen
I've never heard Alan Menken sing before, and then I stumbled across this.
My favourite composer and my favourite Disney song. :') :') :')
ME TOOOOO IM DYING
Mine, too! He sang a lotta demos b/f this film.
Yeah he’s great, there’s versions of this for his Aladdin song, proud of your boy
wow
The original "Tangled".
AND better
+Sarah Ann Aboueljoud Indeed, it is. This song "Out There" and "When Will My Life Begin?" share a similar concept in terms of their main characters' longing for freedom.
Rylan Dawe I love Disney's rapunzel
Pip bernadotte what's not to love
@@twist58 They also share the love of art and make their prison into art studio ;)
Quasimodo do woodwork while Rapunzel paint....
No surprise why they're so many fanart of this two together like this one www.deviantart.com/mango-pirate/art/Quasipunzel-267063024
We need an album of all of Alan Menken's Demo Recordings
Yea!!
i'd buy that
This song is lovely. I wasn't aware of Menken's pure voice, which makes this rendition so touching.
as much as I love the usual power note at the end of the number, I think it sounds more passionate with a softer end. You could really feel his sadness.
It's also fits his character I think. He's one of the more softer, gentler Disney protagonists.
Yes, I think they should use this version for the live action version if it's already planned.
I think Alan was about to break his voice, that's why he got softer. I like Tom Hulce's amazing range and sustain. Alan has a great voice but you can tell that last note would have killed his vocal chords.
As somebody who sang in high school choir and is semi-familiar with vocal technique, I can definitely hear Alan Menken's voice giving out at the end. After the line "I swear I'll be content with my share", there isn't much time to breathe at all before the ending. I think Menken spent a little too much breath and pushed a bit hard on the lines building up to "I'll have spent one day out there", and he didn't have the vocal prep to sustain that final line as a belt. Also, the notes in this line (the highest note being an E5 in this version) are pretty high for a male singer, and higher notes demand a higher amount of vocal control. Most likely Alan picked a key for this demo he would be comfortable singing in, but still, trying to hold out a belt after such a strenuous section of singing is difficult for any singer. Which really showcases Tom Hulce's skill singing as Quasimodo, although not to diss Alan Menken's beautiful musical composition and his singing here. It's a great version regardless of not being 100% perfect vocal techique. The heart is there.
i love the different lyrics during frollos part!
they're great
Yeah. They should've kept the longer Frollo lyrics.
makes you wonder
I would've
A A unfortunatly we will never see that because frollo’s voice actor has passed on
All the concept art of Quasimodo are so sad. Too see all his tears design it's make me sad.T-T
Alan Menken's version is amazing! Disney should combine his version of the song with the orchestration from the final film. The result would be nothing short of spectacular!
true
Ya!
that was what Walt Disney wanted when he made Snow White. He used to get so frustrated when people only chalked up his movies as just for children. He wanted everyone to enjoy them. Personally, I think he would've loved this movie because they did put something in there for everyone.
Alan Menken really gave life to all those Disney classics!
For a composer, he has quite a voice!!!!
It's pretty amazing how alike Menken's and Hulce's voices sound. This is one of my very favorite Disney songs, and this is a great version of it. :)
Yeah :o
The piano tune is so beautiful and yet so haunting...
I didn't even know Alan Menken sang.
Frollo doesn't tell a single lie in either version of this song.
I prefer this version of the song to the orchestra version. There's a quality about this piano only arrangement that reinforces the theme the song portrays splendidly. Not that I want to diss the orchestral pieces and all but I would have preferred if they kept the piano-only arrangement to emphasize Quasi's loneliness and solitary confinement but also show he has this amazing personality with how elegant and varied the piano is even when it's by itself. I'm analyzing this too much though...
Wow didn’t know Alan Menken voice is this amazing.
I absolutely love this concept art. There's something so nostalgic and mystifying and even kind of eerie about seeing what could have been.
Hope people can now understand the hard work and time that goes into making animate movies, comics and graphic novels.
I love the original song so much, but I find myself coming back to listen to this one more and more often. Something about the piano...it makes it seem more personal, and every time I sing along I can't decide whether to smile or cry.
I, like many other commenters, hadn’t heard Menken’s voice before seeing this. I really appreciate most of his work, but I had no idea that he was so skilled in singing. It’s not a particularly typical Disney voice, but it would be sorta neat to hear his voice make it into a movie someday. If he had ambitions in the area, anyway.
WOW!!!! Alan Menken's voice is gorgeous!!!!
Love this version, and the images are so nice. God, this movie is just such an underrated classic, easily among the best movies Disney has ever made.
Dobadobadooo HECK yeah it’s literally tied with Lion King IMO. It’s so underrated.
I love so much when he says " i am a monster " "Only a monster " and "not above them, but part of them"
I love the drama, the pain and deep longing in this song. One of my all time faves.
Alan Menken's voice is gorgeous...
It is utterly criminal that Hunchback did not go to Broadway....the musical was so amazing 😍😍 i
Alan Menken is Disney's Andrew Lloyd Webber! I wonder if Webber and Menken ever met in person? Including James Horner? I'm so happy that brother bought the soundtrack and it's now in my iPod Touch!
Wow!
After hearing this version of this song it tells us that we don't have to be handsome or beautiful or look like other people to have a good heart or be a good person it's the heart just be yourself everyone is born different that's the greatest gift that God and our parents given us. Also who's also here because of the Notre Dame in Paris France catching on fire 2019!😖🗼
Tom Hulce and Alan Menken: the amazing Disney duet
I wish they had used this art style in the actual film. It's so beautiful.
Ya. I like the ones w/ Esmeralda.
These storyboards are awesome. And I didn't know that Alan Menken had such a beautiful voice. This video is a treasure !
I'm deeply touched by that voice...... 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Wow... just.... wow.... that's all I can say about this demo that Menken and Swartz did... You can feel a good bit of the terror and warning in the beginning with Frollo's bits, but then you'd find yourself wanting to allow Quasimodo his chance in the sun, if you could...
I'm late to the party here, lol. But this is my FAVORITE Disney song, from one of my favorite Disney films. And, while I love the powerhouse ending Tom Hulce, and others since then, have given this song, I love Menken's softer ending, too. Trailing off quietly like that evokes a sense of the wistful sadness Quasi must feel. Awesome concept art, too!
The concept art is amazing. Its amazing just looking at these characters and the multiple ways they designed them. They really tried to make Quasimodo look appealing while not making him look handsome, and they show this is the concept art.
I'll be honest I never really liked Alan singing his songs, but this one really works.
I love this man. Think of how many Disney songs he has made!!!
Man, I wish Alan Menken would come write music for another Disney animated picture!
Watching things relating to hunchback of notredame always makes me cry man I just love this movie so much
Is it me or do the deleted disney songs sound better than the canon ones?
0inspirationalheart0 it depends on which song some may be like “Proud of your boy” or some may be like “in a place of miracles”
alan menken provided the soundtrack to most of our childhoods
I love how people are calling the one they put in the movie the original..I mean, isn't this technically the original? :P
Regardless, I love the one with Tom Hulce singing..but damn can Menken create and sing such beautiful works of art! :)
The extended opening is really good I'm surprised it was'nt carried across to the stage play. Menken has always had such an amazing voice
So much raw emotion in this. I can never get enough of this version.
I love the original.....but this version is a million kinds of gorgeous.
Alan pls... you're such a legend
@violatormelms This was indeed a kids movie but had lessons for all. It shows what makes a man, a man or monster. Plus I just love how Frollo died like his exact quote. "And he shall smite the wicked an cast them into a fiery pit", and thus his ass was smited.
He who hesitates disintegrates.
what a nice clean voice Mr. Menken has. I adored the OST of this movie as a child, I still know all the songs by heart. Great music and Great movie! One of the very few times Disney actually took risk in a production, those were the days
great version of this song actually brought a tear to my eye
Menken is a genius! And he sings very well.
If only Tony Jay sang this, that would've been amazing!
This version is beautiful but more emotions when it's Tom Hulce as Quasimodo :3
Mandy Patinkin was Supposed to Voice Quasimodo, But No, He Did the Live-Action Version Instead.
None of us deserve to live on the same planet as Alan Menken.
OH MY STARS!! This is sooooo magical
This movie had ZERO songs nominated for a Best Song Oscar. I don't get why Menken & Schwartz were robbed for this film. I do know some songwriters and composers were bitter that Disney kept winning from Little Mermaid (1989) - Pocahontas (1995), for Best Song AND Best Score. The Oscars even created an additional new category specifically regarding Best Score because Menken kept winning that award. This is definitely the most underrated soundtrack from Alan Menken and Disney.
I totally agree with you. It was such a shame. Menken and Schwartz did one of their best works here.
I absolutely love this version of Out There, the piano and voice just make it so much more emotional. Also, the artwork accompanying the music here is absolutely amazing! I really like style and the watercolour paintings. Great video!
I love this song and this early version is so interesting! I also love Disney concept art. The one at 0:50 reminds me a lot of some of the designs for Sleeping Beauty.
I love this movie
T Wilson ikr. That’s why I loved the part of Quasimodo because his heart was as good as gold
I wish there was a MP3 of this version!!!
Sounds nice on piano, Alan Menkens voice is great and the pictures are awesome! I like it as much as real film version. Great, thanks. :D
Aww, Menken's voice is just mesmerising 😍😍😍
Esmerelda had more of an Afro appearance in the concept art. I heard somewhere that Esmerelda is ethnically Egyptian and she was adopted by the Romani as a child. In the movie verse of course.
+Krystal Ortiz I believe in the book she was a French woman's child who was stolen by gypsies, who left Quasimodo in her place.
In the book she was adopted. In the movie she was born a gypsy.
People would've thought that would've been anti-Gypsy.
It appears she’s mixed with French and Indian because the Gypsies are from India and sometimes the gypsies and the French would mix. It especially looks like Esmeralda is a mixed gypsy because she sorta has Caucasian features like her green eyes.
@@onedollarbleach6891 The Romani people are super mixed. Green eyes are not necessarily Caucasian features, tho
I m just in love with this version !! It s bien mounths sincère i've discored it and i can't stop listening. Alan is just amazing !
I didn’t know that there is a part of Frollo singing the words “out there”. Love this duet.
wow. i seriously love his voice..
oh man i have never heard alan menken actually sing and it was amazing!! :D im just bummed he didnt go for the high belting note on "I'D treasure every instance" but overall so awesome :)
This is so perfect......
This is just so beautiful, and Alan is just amazing as always !!
Do not duplicate; just kidding, edit
Cheers for pointing that out. Good laugh.
@Zephyrrix I agree too, as someone once said (I think it was Frank Losser's daughter) "composers always sing their songs best, even if their voices aren't good!"
Menken's voice is incredible though
RIP TONY JAY
I can see why the changes were made for the final film, but woooow! This version is really good. Never figured Menken's own voice was this good either, got a somewhat rawer yet pure feel to it.
also I'm getting weird flashbacks to something right at the start of this? it's probably a few things but I can't put my finger on it. kinda reminds me of the animated Hobbit film a little but I don't think that's it :/
was always my favorite movie as a kid
Same
The concept drawings of Frollo look even creepier!!
I loved the hunchback of notre dame. Frollos song were pretty amazing . Quasimodo song out there is still my favorite song .
I think they're both totally different and unique in their own way so its hard to say that one is better than the other
this has a certain type of charm to it, like a live performance.
The movie version was more of orchestral version.
The voices aren't as powerful but there's something about it which just sounds fantastic!
Dang, Menken can sing!
Love this version.
Oh my God I've never heard thissss😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😱💗
Im a long time fan since it came out.
*sigh.* I miss being 6 yrs old! being 19 is awful! I wanna go back to being a kid and watch this film again!
ilovelegos2000 it gets better.
Likewise. Even if frollo does give me the creeps
The demo version feels darker, and sadder than the final version
Alan’s vocals during Quasi’s parts has so much emotion in his voice that hearing him say “Master I am sorry that I offended you this way”, it really makes me feel bad
You can find that concept art in the "Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dome."
i like this demo version and the original version also!
Alan should have voiced and sang for Qausi! He did it so much better then the guy we hear in the movie
2:16, 3:12 and 3:27 took my breath away. Such amazing concept art, all so unique and expressive, I just love it! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
Great job alan! Thank you for my childhood
Awesome piece of movie history - beautiful.
Alan Menken's sounds like what I imagine book Frollo sounds like. But that's just me. I love the book way too much.
やっぱりこれメンケン先生のお声だったんだ…デモ版も好きです😘
This should be in the Original Trailer of Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ya! Like for Pocahontas!
This is very touching