Fathoms Below (The Little Mermaid, 1989)

~ Recording by Ship’s Chorus

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Ship’s ChorusThe Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackAlan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1989-10-13
Walt Disney Records
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1989-10-13
Walt Disney RecordsCD-018
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack, BMG music club release)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)60841‐2, CD‐018, D190113
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
Pickwick Music (UK imprint, subsidiary of Pickwick International Inc. (GB) Ltd.)DSTCD 451
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1992-06-25
Walt Disney Records60841‐2
1.2Fathoms Below (final)1:41Alan MenkenThe Music Behind the MagicAlan MenkenAlbum + Compilation
  • US1994-11-22
Walt Disney Records60014-2
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US1997-10-14
Walt Disney Records60946‐7
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records5012012-2
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Ship’s CrewThe Little Mermaid Special Edition Double PackVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records0946 3 65155 2 6
1.2Fathoms Below (The Little Mermaid)1:46Alan MenkenDisney ForeverVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Walt Disney RecordsCP2K-2415 (WALT502369 2)
1.1Fathoms Below1:42Alan MenkenThe Little MermaidAlan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records0927443712
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Ship’s ChorusThe Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2006-05-30
Walt Disney Records
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1989 film soundtrack, 2-disc special edition)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2006-10-03
Walt Disney Records861618‐7
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Ship’s ChorusThe Little Mermaid: Special EditionAlan MenkenAlbum + Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records
1.11Fathoms Below1:44Ship's ChorusDisney Princess Sing-Along[Disney]Album + Compilation
  • GB2007-06-01
Parragon
1.1Fathoms Below1:43Ship’s ChorusThe Little Mermaid: Greatest HitsAlan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2013-09-24
Walt Disney RecordsD001886702
1.1Fathoms Below1:42Ship’s ChorusThe Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2014-11-24
Walt Disney RecordsD002065692
1.1Fathoms Below1:42Ship’s ChorusThe Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • XE2014-12-01
Walt Disney Records0050087318796
1.1Fathoms Below1:42Ship’s ChorusThe Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack, 24-Bit/96kHz)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • XW2014-12-14
Walt Disney Records
1.1Fathoms Below1:42Ship’s ChorusThe Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • XW2014-12-15
Walt Disney Records
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan Menken & Howard AshmanThe Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
  • XE2018-04-27
Walt Disney Records8739257
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Ship’s ChorusThe Little Mermaid: The SongsAlan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
  • JP2019-06-26
Walt Disney RecordsUWCD-1042
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Ship’s ChorusThe Little Mermaid: The SongsAlan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
  • JP2019-06-26
Walt Disney Records
1.1Fathoms Below1:41Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Columbia House)Alan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Soundtrack
Walt Disney RecordsCD-018
Promotion
1.1Fathoms Below1:44Alan MenkenThe Little Mermaid FavoritesAlan MenkenAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2013-10-01
Walt Disney Records
Pseudo-Release
1.1海の底で1:41シップス・コーラスリトル・マーメイド ザ・ソングスAlan Menken & Howard AshmanAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack

Relationships

engineer:John Richards (engineer)
producer:Howard Ashman
Robert Kraft
Alan Menken
conductor:J.A.C. Redford
arranger:Alan Menken
Robbie Merkin
orchestrator:Thomas Pasatieri
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. (briefly as Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (1987/03/06–1987/07/24), rights holders and distribution) (in 1989)
recording of:Fathoms Below (The Little Mermaid)

Related works

Fathoms Below (The Little Mermaid)

lyricist:Howard Ashman
composer:Alan Menken
publisher:Walt Disney Music Company (music publisher, do not use as release label) (in 1988)
Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (a division of Disney Music Publishing) (in 1988)
referred to in medleys:The Little Mermaid Medley (Disneyland) (order: 2)
later translated versions:Dans les profondeur de l'océan
Derinlerdeki Hayaletler
Det bundløse dyb
Det mystiska blå
Im Herzen der tiefblauen See
Vadems Benee
Στον ωκεανό
later versions:Fathoms Below (The Little Mermaid; Broadway version)
Fathoms Below (first German dubbing)
part of:The Little Mermaid (1989 film soundtrack) (order: 1)