A charming score for the Don Bluth animation. It has several songs, the best of which is Somewhere Out There which has to be one of my favourite songs from any film. The film version is a bit too sweet and may make some people sick, I mean, this is singing mice! The Ronstadt and Ingram version is lovely though. The best of the other songs is probably There are No Cats in America which is half sad verses and half joyful choral work. The actual score is a lot less exciting than I thought it would be. This is not a criticism, but it is just quieter than I thought. It is, very good though and has some lovely moments in it, occasionally adding in the choir where appropriate. The strange thing about this score is that there are many highly original bits and these are beautiful, but there are also many parts that appear in other Horner scores, both before and after this was written. Fortunately, they all gel quite well and produce and fine score. Comparing it to a Disney score would be difficult. It is perhaps more like The Lion King in the sense that it has a very good score but not such great songs. However, I think the songs are better than some of the Lion King ones. I would certainly recommend this to all Horner fans and fans of animation as I think it is nice to have something different to the Menken scores.

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  1. Main Titles (5:07)
  2. The Cossack Cats (2:15)
  3. There Are No Cats in America (3:00) (Song)
  4. The Storm (3:59)
  5. Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor (2:44)
  6. Never Say Never (2:25) (Song)
  7. The Market Place (3:02)
  8. Somewhere Out There (2:40) (Song)
  9. Somewhere Out There (3:59) (Sung by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram)
  10. Releasing the Secret Weapon (3:38)
  11. A Duo (2:38) (Song)
  12. The Great Fire (2:54)
  13. Reunited (4:44)
  14. Flying Away and End Credits (5:59)

Total Time ~ 44:49