A DISNEY CHRISTMAS!

In honor of our upcoming trip to Disneyland Paris, I have added some new Disney Christmas songs to the music player. One is a lovely number by all your favorite characters and the other is sung by Natalie whenever she gets the chance and Belle in The Beauty and the Beast which is set in France. I found out some interesting info on the origins of the story:

• Belle is french for beauty (it is called La Belle et la Bête in french).
  
• The story is actually based upon a traditional French fairytale first published by Mme. Villeneuve in 1740.
  
• The best known version of the tale is Mme. Beaumont's adaptation.
• Her version has been adapted for the opera, Broadway, television and film. It is even the title of a song by David Bowie.
• Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast is the only full-length, animated film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture!
• In the Chinese dub of the film, Jackie Chan is the voice of the Beast! so funny!
• Did you know that characters from different Disney movies crossover into others! In Beauty and the Beast you can see Bambi's mother (back from the dead apparently!), Oliver the cat and Ichabod Crane in the opening song, and King Triton during the library scene.
• Belle can be seen walking across the square reading a book in the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Beast is a toy in Aladdin! I don't know about you but I'll never be able to focus on a Disney movie again, I'll be too busy looking for crossover characters!
  

I couldn't resist putting a video for the song As Long as There's Christmas from the second Beauty and the Beast movie! (Sidenote: Lumiere is a very accurate portrayal!):


Just for shits and giggles, here's the French version of the same song called Tant Qu'il Y'aura Noel: