I have to admit I wasn't really thinking about the songs from the "classic" Disney movies, because most of those were not full-fledged musical "numbers" -- they tended to use short songs that complimented the action (and were often written after the action had already been worked out at the...
The untimely death of Howard Ashman may have also had something to do with the problems of some of Disney's mid-'90s movies. Ashman not only wrote the lyrics, he was a producer on Mermaid and Beauty and did some story-development work on Aladdin before his death. But apart from that, he was a...