Beauty and the Beast. Little Shop of Horrors. The Little Mermaid. Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winner Howard Ashman wrote the lyrics for some of the stage and screen's best-loved scores before his untimely death in 1991.

This new volume of PS Classics' celebrated Songwriter Series, drawn primarily from private demo recordings, features Ashman singing selections from all these scores, as well as songs from lesser-known shows like God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and from unproduced works. A bonus CD includes a true rarity: the complete demos – 15 tracks – from Ashman's 1986 collaboration with Marvin Hamlisch, the Broadway musical Smile.

This two-CD set captures the diverse and memorable accomplishments of one of the true geniuses of the contemporary American musical theatre.

1. Da Doo
   
2. Bad
   
3. The Rosewater Foundation
   
4. Mushari's Waltz
   
5. Cheese Nips
   
6. Growing Boy
   
7. Straw Boater Rag
   
8. Sheridan Square
   
9. Part of That World
   
10. Under the Sea
    
11. Poor Unfortunate Souls
    
12. Les Poissons
    
13. Arabian Nights
    
14. Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kasim
    
15. Call Me a Princess
    
16. Gaston
    
17. Be Our Guest
    
18. Beauty and the Beast
    

Disc Two:

1. Typical High School Senior
   
2. Santa Rosa Intro – Postcard
   
3. Disneyland
   
4. Shine
   
5. Postcard
   
6. Nerves
   
7. Young and American
   
8. Act I Finale
   
9. Act II Opening / Do It for Me
   
10. Ted Farley Sequence
    
11. Smile
    
12. We Wish We Were You
    
13. In Our Hands
    
14. Pretty as a Picture / Finale
    
15. Bonus Track: Big Bob's Song