Aladdin Sega Genesis music composer

[Sensei Don]

For Aladdin Sega Genesis I composed 5 original tunes just for the game and did the arrangements of the 5 Alan Menkin tunes from the movie. My son was excited to tell me the game was on Steam.

Donald S. Griffin

[zuberee]

May I have link to soundtrack...

[Doc Holiday]

Congrats on your great work, sir

[Tanoomba]

Originally posted by Sensei Don:

For Aladdin Sega Genesis I composed 5 original tunes just for the game and did the arrangements of the 5 Alan Menkin tunes from the movie. My son was excited to tell me the game was on Steam.

Donald S. Griffin

I don't know if you're for real or not but I was always tremendously impressed with the OST for the Genesis Aladdin (having played it way back in my early teens). I actually preferred the original tunes to the movie songs! Decades later I still listen to my favorite tracks on YouTube when I need a mood boost. "Camel Jazz", "Gloomy Tune", and "Turban Jazz" are outstanding tracks that sound great to this day, and prove that the Genesis was capable of producing excellent music despite its hardware limitations. Truly incredible work!

[Virtua Sanus]

Love your work. Have a lot of unforgettable memories with your songs.

[Pua]

Genesis' Aladdin was one of the few games that I used the option menu to listen to the soundtrack without playing the game. I loved the music from this game when I was a child.

[Valet2]

Hold on, Tommy Tallarico did the music for Aladdin on Sega Genesis.

[GRIMM]

Originally posted by Valet2:

Hold on, Tommy Tallarico did the music for Aladdin on Sega Genesis.

You do realize multiple people can work on a single category in a project right? Both Tommy and Donald are credited as working on music for the Genesis Aladdin.

[Valet2]

Yeah, I've just learned all those new songs were made by Donald. Always thought Tallarico was the only composer.

The desert jazz theme is awesome!

[Valet2]

A few years later, I'm trying hard to find a single track that Tallarico really composed! It seems he lied about every game he'd been credited.

[Tanoomba]

Originally posted by Valet2:

A few years later, I'm trying hard to find a single track that Tallarico really composed! It seems he lied about every game he'd been credited.

From Wikipedia:

Originally posted by Wikipedia:

Virgin Games composer Tommy Tallarico assigned Donald Griffin to arrange five of the film's musical themes, as well as create five original pieces. Griffin would reduce the film's songs to smaller MIDI files and return them to Tallarico, who converted the songs note for note by employing a channel normally dedicated to samples to replicate the film's music as closely as possible. Tallarico also composed the game's incidental transition music.

So it seems like Tallarico's role was more to "assign" than to actually compose, as well as to convert midi to the Genesis soundchip (which, to be fair, is no small task).

[slider86]

Nice work Donald! The music in Aladdin is awesome. I also loved the music from Cool Spot and The Jungle Book.

Originally posted by GRIMM:

You do realize multiple people can work on a single category in a project right? Both Tommy and Donald are credited as working on music for the Genesis Aladdin.

THIS!

Originally posted by Valet2:

A few years later, I'm trying hard to find a single track that Tallarico really composed! It seems he lied about every game he'd been credited.

He hasn't lied. It's all credited on MobyGames.

Originally posted by Tanoomba:

So it seems like Tallarico's role was more to "assign" than to actually compose, as well as to convert midi to the Genesis soundchip (which, to be fair, is no small task).

He handled the music Donald did and created an extra piece. It was both direction and creating new material which is what I'd expect of a music director.

[Rae]

really nice work, Don. you captured the musical spirit of Aladdin very well.