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TIL Alan Menken, the composer who relaunched Disney's fortunes with hit songs, once dreamt of being a singer-songwriter in the Bob Dylan mode and hated that his soundtracks were associated with cartoons for children. His works with Disney later made him win more Oscars than any living person.

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