Friend Like Me (Aladdin, 1992 animated film)
~ Recording by Robin Williams
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track Artist | Release Title | Release Artist | Release Group Type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official | |||||||||
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Robin Williams | Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (with original lyrics for “Arabian Nights”) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 60846-2, 60846-7 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (original version with original lyrics for “Arabian Nights”) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 60846-0 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (with original lyrics for “Arabian Nights”) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | CD 60846 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (original version with original lyrics for “Arabian Nights”) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 60846-2 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 0777 7 89245 2 4 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | WDR 36007-2 |
| 1.22 | A Friend Like Me | 2:29 | Alan Menken | The Very Best of Disney | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Pickwick Records (UK imprint, subsidiary of Pickwick International Inc. (GB) Ltd.) | DISCD 471 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (edited lyrics version) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Pickwick (US imprint of Pickwick International, Inc.) | DSTCD 470 |
| 3.13 | Friend Like Me (final) | 2:30 | Alan Menken | The Music Behind the Magic | Alan Menken | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 60014-2 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Natasha Records, Walt Disney Records | NAT 1017-2 |
| 2.13 | A Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:27 | Robin Williams | The Very Best of Disney: 39 Original Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Polydor (worldwide imprint, see annotation) | 529 408-2 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 60846-7 |
| 1.12 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:31 | Robin Williams | Disney Forever | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | CP2K-2415 (WALT502369 2) |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Alan Menken | Aladdin (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 5050466-1485-2-0 |
| 2.10 | Friend Like Me | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Disney’s Magical Music Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 5050466-8613-2-0 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Special Edition Soundtrack | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 61163-7 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Special Edition Soundtrack (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 5050467-3433-2-0 |
| 2.4 | Friend Like Me | 2:28 | Robin Williams | Disney’s Greatest Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 00946 341246 2 1 |
| 3.4 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:28 | Robin Williams | Die größten Disney Filmhits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 0946 3 49151 2 0 |
| 2.4 | Friend Like Me | 2:28 | Robin Williams | Disney’s Greatest Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 094634914925 |
| 3.4 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Robin Williams | Les Plus Grandes Chansons des films Disney | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 0946 3 49535 2 8 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin: Special Edition Soundtrack (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Walt Disney Records | 0946 3 51029 2 5, 351 0292 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Robin Williams | Aladdin: Special Edition Soundtrack | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | |
| 1.14 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Now That’s What I Call Disney! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 50999 6 78546 2 2, VTDCD 1036 |
| 1.14 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Now That’s What I Call Disney! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Walt Disney Records | 50999 0 17524 2 7, VTDCDX 1052 |
| 1.13 | Friend Like Me (soundtrack) | 2:27 | Robin Williams | Best of Disney | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | |
| 3.9 | Aladdin: Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Robin Williams | Disney: les 50 Plus Belles Chansons | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music France | |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Now That’s What I Call Disney 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | B0022023-02 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me – From “Aladdin” | 2:28 | Robin Williams | NOW That’s What I Call Disney 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| NOW (bogus label; use the MusicBrainz Series instead) | |
| 1.15 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Now That’s What I Call Disney! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | |
| 1.15 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Now That’s What I Call Disney! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | CDNNNOW20 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me – From “Aladdin” (soundtrack) | 2:28 | Robin Williams | Now! Disney 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music Canada | |
| 1.16 | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) | 2:29 | Robin Williams | Now That’s What I Call Disney! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music on Demand, Walt Disney Records | CDNNNOW60 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin (original version with original lyrics for “Arabian Nights”) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | 473708 2 |
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Alan Menken | Aladdin (1992 film soundtrack) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack | Polydor (worldwide imprint, see annotation) | 519 232-4 | |
| Pseudo-Release | |||||||||
| 1.6 | Friend Like Me | 2:26 | Robin Williams | Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Pseudo release listing vocal artists) | Alan Menken | Album + Soundtrack |
| Walt Disney Records | CD 60846 |
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.12 | Friend Like Me | 2:27 | Robin Williams | Disney Ultimate Buddy Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Walt Disney Records | 8734779 |
Relationships
| recording engineer: | Bruce Botnick Michael Farrow |
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| producer: | Alan Menken |
| mixer: | Bruce Botnick |
| editor: | Kathleen Fogarty-Bennett |
| vocals: | Robin Williams (US actor & comedian) |
| conductor: | David Friedman (film and theatre composer, songwriter, author, lyricist and conductor) |
| arranger: | Alan Menken Danny Troob |
| vocals arranger: | David Friedman (film and theatre composer, songwriter, author, lyricist and conductor) |
| orchestrator: | Danny Troob |
| 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 1992) |
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| recording of: | Friend Like Me (Aladdin) |
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Related works
Friend Like Me (Aladdin)
| lyricist: | Howard Ashman |
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| composer: | Alan Menken |
| referred to in medleys: | Steps in Time Finale |
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| later translated versions: | Je suis ton meilleur ami (Aladdin) フレンド ライク ミー (アラジン; 高橋知伽江 translation) フレンド・ライク・ミー (Japanese Version of Friend Like Me) |
| part of: | Aladdin (1992 film soundtrack) Aladdin (stage musical based on the 1992 Disney animated film) (order: 10) |
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