 Ashman and Menken wrote the Beauty song score during the pre @-@ production process in Fishkill , the opening operetta @-@ styled " Belle " being their first composition for the film . Other songs included " Be Our Guest , " sung ( in its original version ) to Maurice by the objects when he becomes the first visitor to eat at the castle in a decade , " Gaston , " a solo for the swaggering villain , " Human Again , " a song describing Belle and Beast 's growing love from the objects ' perspective , the love ballad " Beauty and the Beast , " and the climactic " The Mob Song . " As story and song development came to a close , full production began in Burbank while voice and song recording began in New York City . The Beauty songs were mostly recorded live with the orchestra and the voice cast performing simultaneously rather than overdubbed separately , in order to give the songs a cast album @-@ like " energy " the filmmakers and songwriters desired . 
