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Untitled[edit]

the mood created is proud and uplifting the opening song is great.

Please sign your comments using ~~~~. This page is for discussion of the article and not the subject in general. Blue Phoenix 22:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should There be a section on the more scientific aspect? The cycle of birth, life, death, then birth again? Or at least a reference? If so, can someone add it in? ^.^ 65.7.181.151 (talk) 04:04, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

College GameDay on ESPN[edit]

The Zulu introduction lyrics (Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba…) was used for a commercial for the first College GameDay on ESPN of the 2013-2014 NCAA Division I Football season. Because the Zulu intro accompanies the sunrise at the beginning of the animated film, the advert read, "GET UP FOR 9AM GET UP. IT'S GAMEDAY.", indicating that College GameDay moved from its previous 10:00 AM EST starting time to 9:00 AM.

DaDoc540 (talk) 14:06, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification on Academy Award[edit]

I think this sentence could be clearer

Circle of Life was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1994 along with two other songs from The Lion King: "Hakuna Matata" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" [4][5] which won the award.[4]

Perhaps saying "the latter of which won the award" would make it more obvious which one won. WinderA (talk) 20:53, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WinderA Agreed. Go crazy! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:52, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

circle of life is the intellecual property of Dino Lawrence Capito and Cheril Dianne Russell[edit]

I had a meeting at Disney, set up by Jerry Goldstine, in the executive office. I left a tape of original recordings. A song called The River was on this tape. The chorus of this song and ideas in the lyrics makes it obvious that Cheril and I Should be credited for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:7380:4F60:28B1:2282:7DEA:5C3 (talk) 04:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is interesting but completely beyond the scope of the article. I've read that many record companies will not listen to demo tapes in case this sort of thing happens. If you could point to YouTube video or similar with a performance of "The River" it would also be interesting, but bear in mind that plagiarism in music is usually defined as pretty much note for note similarity, not vague similarity. "Stairway to Heaven" springs to mind here.[1][2]--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:11, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Version Clarification[edit]

This article confusingly skips between versions of the song and would benefit from more clarity, and possibly even breaking up the article into one about the film version and one about Elton John's pop version. Different sections talk about different versions (e.g. the film version in "Opening of song" and the first few sentences of the intro; John's single in "Critical reception", "Charts", and other parts of the intro), and the article often just says "the song". This isn't a minor difference as those two versions have different singers, totally different instrumentation, and even different languages (only the film version has the Zulu intro). The mentions of the song's critical reception is particularly unfortunate since it all seems to be complaints about John's singing, and surely the reception to the film version would be different. 2600:4041:5679:4200:89A:B071:BEBB:A67B (talk) 01:52, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]