Cinderella (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

This is the soundtrack to Walt Disney’s classic Cinderella, which was released in 1950.

On the 23rd Academy Awards, “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” was nominated for the Best Original Song category, and Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith were nominated for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

The film marked the launching of the Walt Disney Music Company, the music recording and publishing arm of Walt Disney Studios. The soundtrack was also a pioneer in the use of multitracks for vocal recording, used in the song “Oh, Sing Sweet Nightingale”, in which Ilene Woods recorded a second and third vocal track to enable her to harmonize with herself.

The restored soundtrack for Cinderella we can hear today was released on February 4, 1997, and included the demo recording of “I’m in the Middle of the Muddle”, a deleted song from the film, as a bonus track.

In 2012, The Lost Chords: Cinderella was released, an album consisting of demos of deleted songs from the film and studio recordings of them.

Because of the film’s 65th anniversary, the soundtrack was re-released in 2015 as part of the Walt Disney’s Legacy Collection.