Part of Your World | Howard Ashman Directs Jodi Benson | The Little Mermaid | Recording Session

Here is video footage of Jodi Benson&recording session for "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid. The project was lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken&first collaboration with Disney, and Jodi and Howard&second collaboration. (The actress had previously been cast in Howard&short-lived Broadway musical, Smile.) This footage comes from the special features of the 2010 DVD release of the documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, Though the on-screen credit gives the date for this recording as August 16, 1989, that&possibly a mistake, as the final film would be released three months later on November 17. According to Jodi in a 2011 interview with Howard&sister Sarah, no one expected much to come from the project, saying, "You get a paycheck to show up at work for seven days, you’ll disappear into oblivion, no one will ever know, there’ll be no publicity and you’ll get your residual check every seven years. I thought it was really cool that we weren’t going to be revealed. They were just going to run our names at the end of the credits. That was it." Fondly remembering Howard&directing style, she stated, "He directed me all the time in the booth. Now that’s unheard of. You never have anybody inside the booth with you because they make too much noise. But he stayed with me the whole time inside. I mean all of my lines, all of my vocals he was right on my left side. Whenever I’m crying and I’m doing my scene it’s because he’s looking at me, playing Triton. And...