Link to today's earlier matchup:
https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=33050951

Circle of Life - Composed by English musician Elton John, with lyrics by Tim Rice for the 1994 film The Lion King. The song was performed by Carmen Twillie (the deep female lead vocals) and Lebo M (opening vocals in Zulu). It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1994, along with two other songs from The Lion King. The soundtrack shipped over 10 million copies in the U.S. and eventually went 10× platinum in 1995, thus becoming the biggest-selling soundtrack ever from Disney's 1994 animated feature film. Its certification was promoted to Diamond when the award was instituted in 1999.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQoLC3iDj4&feature=shared

Part of Your World - Written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for The Little Mermaid (1989). Performed by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in the titular role as Ariel, a mermaid princess. Written in 1986, "Part of Your World" was the first song lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote for The Little Mermaid, although Menken had not yet been enlisted as Ashman's composer when the song was first conceived.

Ashman first met actress and singer Jodi Benson while he was directing her in Smile; she had also performed "Disneyland" in the musical. After the production closed prematurely, Ashman invited Smile's entire female cast to audition for The Little Mermaid using "Part of Your World", although he did not tell them the name of the project they were auditioning for. Ashman mailed a copy of his demo of "Part of Your World" to Benson, to which she listened in a public restroom in preparation for her audition. Benson then recorded a brief sample of the song on a reel-to-reel tape with casting director Albert Tavares, which she mailed to Disney. All audition tapes were left unidentified so that the candidates would remain anonymous to Musker and Clements, delighting Ashman when the directors ultimately selected Benson's tape to be the voice of Ariel, about which she was informed one year after submitting the tape.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1Y6Vxl6Nk&feature=shared