The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Sea is the third of three original albums inspired by Disney's The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid (1989 film)

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was originally released to theaters on November 14, 1989 and is the twenty-eighth film in...

film. It is a concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

; listening to the tracks in order will present the story of a typical day in the life of the mermaid

Mermaid

A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known as a "merman" and in general both males and females are known as "merfolk"...

 Ariel (set sometime before the events of the film).

Ariel (Jodi Benson

Jodi Benson

Jodi Marie Benson is an American actress, voice actress, soprano singer, and Disney Legend. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voices of Disney's Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequels. In 2002 and 2006, she reprised the role of Ariel in the English...

), Sebastian (Samuel E. Wright

Samuel E. Wright

Samuel E. Wright is an American film and theater actor and singer who is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the main vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He also voiced Kron in Disney's CGI film...

), Scuttle (Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and actor.-Early life:Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103...

), King Triton (Kenneth Mars

Kenneth Mars

Kenneth Mars was an American television, movie, and voice actor. He may be best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968's The Producers, and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's Young Frankenstein...

), and Ariel's sisters sing the songs.

Track listing

1. "Sea Kingdom"
2. "What's it Like to Be a Mermaid?"
3. "The Scuttle Strut"
4. "There's Only One Ariel"
5. "He's a Friend"
6. "At the Mermaids' Ball"
7. "Party With Me"
8. "My Room in the Sea"
9. "Dreaming"
10. "H20, What a Feeling!"
11. "We Share the Earth"
12. "Where Mermaids Dwell"