Who sings the classic soundtrack version?

On the 1991 soundtrack, Gaston is voiced by Richard White, with Jesse Corti as LeFou, supported by a chorus.

Why does it feel like a pub song rather than a standard solo?

Because it is written as a crowd-engine: the hook is the chorus response, and the story is told by the room agreeing louder each time.

What is the dramatic function inside the film?

It converts personal rejection into public status, then shows how fast a town can be recruited into someone else's myth.

Most performances sit in a triple feel, matching the waltz-leaning bounce that keeps the chant moving.

Did the live-action film change the number?

Yes. The 2017 version extends bits and reintroduces lyric ideas associated with the original writing, shifting some focus toward LeFou's commentary.

Why is LeFou so important to the song's humor?

He is the narrator who cannot resist overselling, and his enthusiasm gives the crowd permission to turn exaggeration into fact.

What is the sharpest irony in the lyric?

The chorus praises plotting and persecution as if they were virtues, revealing the town's moral blind spot while keeping the tune cheerful.

How does it connect to the later mob sequence?

It is the friendly prototype: a crowd in rhythm, chanting unity. Later, the same mechanism points at a target.

Why do stage versions often get huge audience reactions here?

The number is built for physical comedy and synchronized group business. In musical theater, that is catnip.

Is there a reprise, and what does it do?

Yes. The reprise pivots from bragging to coercion, moving the character from vanity to strategy.

Gaston (Beauty And the Beast) Lyrics — Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic

Gaston (Beauty And the Beast) Lyrics

Gaston:
Who does she think she is?
That girl has tangled with the wrong man!
LeFou:
Darn right.
Gaston:
No one says "no" to Gaston!
Dismissed! Rejected!
Publicly humiliated! Why, it's more than I can bear.
LeFou:
More beer?
Gaston:
What for? Nothing helps. I'm disgraced.
LeFou:
Who, you? Never! Gaston, you've got to pull yourself together.
Lefou:
Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Gaston
Looking so down in the dumps
Ev'ry guy here'd love to be you, Gaston
Even when taking your lumps
There's no man in town as admired as you
You're ev'ryone's favorite guy
Ev'ryone's awed and inspired by you
And it's not very hard to see why
No one's slick as Gaston
No one's quick as Gaston
No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston's
For there's no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon!
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they'll tell you whose team they prefer to be on

Lefou and Chorus:
No one's been like Gaston
A king pin like Gaston
LeFou:
No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston
Gaston:
As a specimen, yes, I'm intimidating!
Lefou and Chorus:
My what a guy, that Gaston!
Give five "hurrahs!"
Give twelve "hip-hips!"
LeFou:
Gaston is the best
And the rest is all drips
Chorus:
No one fights like Gaston
Douses lights like Gaston
LeFou:
In a wrestling match nobody bites like Gaston!
Bimbettes:
For there's no one as burly and brawny
Gaston:
As you see I've got biceps to spare
LeFou:
Not a bit of him's scraggly or scrawny
Gaston:
That's right!
And ev'ry last inch of me's covered with hair
Chorus:
No one hits like Gaston
Matches wits like Gaston
LeFou:
In a spitting match nobody spits like Gaston
Gaston:
I'm espcially good at expectorating!
Ptoooie!
Chorus:
Ten points for Gaston!
Gaston:
When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
Ev'ry morning to help me get large
And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge!
Chorus:
Oh, ahhh, wow!
My what a guy, that Gaston!
No one shoots like Gaston
Makes those beauts like Gaston
LeFou:
Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Gaston
Gaston:
I use antlers in all of my decorating!
Chorus:
My what a guy,
Gaston!
Last Update: December, 31st 2025

Song Overview

Gaston lyrics by Beauty and the Beast cast — Beauty and the Beast cast sings 'Gaston' lyrics in the video.

Review and Highlights

Quick summary

1991 animated film tavern number that sells the town on a self-made hero.
Written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman as a waltz-leaning drinking song with stacked call-and-response.
Lead voices on the classic soundtrack are Richard White (Gaston) and Jesse Corti (LeFou), backed by chorus.
The 2017 live-action edition expands bits and restores a few lyric ideas discussed by the creators.
On the 1991 soundtrack album, it sits at Track 4, followed by a short reprise.

Scene from Gaston by Beauty and the Beast cast — 'Gaston' in the official video.

Beauty and the Beast (1991) - animated film - diegetic. Tavern singalong, roughly early-mid Act 1 (approx. 00:15:00-00:20:00 depending on cut). Why it matters: the crowd becomes Gaston's amplifier, turning bragging into communal mythmaking, and planting the social momentum that later hardens into the mob.

As a set-piece, this number is built like a pub toast that keeps finding new elbows to hook you with: a boast, a chorus reply, a punchline, then a bigger boast. The writing trick is that the chorus does not merely agree - it drafts the legend in real time. LeFou serves as hype man, stumbling into the spellings and tall tales that make the room laugh, and that laughter is the glue. You can hear Menken treating the town as percussion: claps, stomps, tankards, and those chanted riffs that feel like a sports terrace, long before that image became a meme machine.

Creation History

Menken has described the piece as a comic drinking-song idea - an intentionally blunt celebration of a "lug-head" that lets Ashman's lyric craft do the sly work under the hood. That craft is not just jokes about eggs and biceps; it is the way the lyric makes cruelty sound like civic virtue, a tiny satire of how a community can clap for the wrong values when the tune is catchy enough.

Song Meaning and Annotations

Beauty and the Beast cast performing Gaston — Video moments that reveal the meaning.

Plot

After Belle turns him down, Gaston is nursed back to swagger by LeFou and a room full of villagers. The sequence piles up "evidence" of heroism: strength, appetite, and a resume of petty violence dressed up as valor. The crowd chants each claim into fact, and the number ends with the sense that the town is ready to follow this man anywhere - even where they should not.

Song Meaning

The song is not a love song; it is a power song. It stages charisma as a group project: one loud personality plus a chorus willing to repeat the slogan until it sounds like truth. The mood is comic, but the mechanism is serious. Under the laughs, the piece maps how status is manufactured - and why "the strongest guy in the room" can become the town's story even when the story is rotten.

Annotations

"No one fights like Gaston."
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), lyric excerpt

Notice how the chorus frames violence as a civic asset. It is not "he fights" but "no one fights", a ranking system that turns aggression into a medal.

"No one eats like Gaston."
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), lyric excerpt

Food becomes comedy, then mythology. The appetite gag is also a cartoonish badge of excess: the town is admiring someone for having no brakes.

"No one plots like Gaston."
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), lyric excerpt

This is the tell. The chorus accidentally admits the dark skill set, but the groove makes it sound like another harmless brag.

Shot of Gaston by Beauty and the Beast cast — Short scene from the video.

Driving rhythm and style fusion

Set in a triple-feel that nods to a waltz, the number borrows the convivial push of a tavern chorus while keeping Broadway precision in the internal rhymes. You get the best of both worlds: rowdy surface, exact machinery.

Orchestration and staging logic

Brass stabs and quick woodwind runs act like cartoon eyebrow-raises, while the chorus works as movable scenery: one moment cheering section, next moment jury. In stage versions, this is where choreography earns its paycheck, because the beat is made for synchronized mugging, tables, and lifted tankards.

Cultural touchpoints

The number sits in a lineage of musical-theater "community songs" where a crowd becomes a character. If you have ever heard a pub sing a chorus louder than the soloist, you already understand the joke - and the warning label.

Technical Information

Artist: Richard White, Jesse Corti, Chorus (Beauty and the Beast cast recording)
Featured: Ensemble chorus
Composer: Alan Menken
Producer: Howard Ashman; Alan Menken
Release Date: October 22, 1991 (soundtrack album)
Genre: Musical theater; waltz-leaning drinking song
Instruments: Orchestra (brass, woodwinds, strings, percussion), group vocals
Label: Walt Disney Records
Mood: Boastful, comic, swagger-forward
Length: 3:40
Track #: 4 (1991 soundtrack)
Language: English
Album: Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music style: Chorus-and-solo call-and-response with tight internal rhyme
Poetic meter: Accentual with quick anapestic pickups over 3-beat phrasing

Questions and Answers

Who sings the classic soundtrack version?: On the 1991 soundtrack, Gaston is voiced by Richard White, with Jesse Corti as LeFou, supported by a chorus.
Why does it feel like a pub song rather than a standard solo?: Because it is written as a crowd-engine: the hook is the chorus response, and the story is told by the room agreeing louder each time.
What is the dramatic function inside the film?: It converts personal rejection into public status, then shows how fast a town can be recruited into someone else's myth.
Is it in 3 or 4?: Most performances sit in a triple feel, matching the waltz-leaning bounce that keeps the chant moving.
Did the live-action film change the number?: Yes. The 2017 version extends bits and reintroduces lyric ideas associated with the original writing, shifting some focus toward LeFou's commentary.
Why is LeFou so important to the song's humor?: He is the narrator who cannot resist overselling, and his enthusiasm gives the crowd permission to turn exaggeration into "fact".
What is the sharpest irony in the lyric?: The chorus praises "plotting" and persecution as if they were virtues, revealing the town's moral blind spot while keeping the tune cheerful.
How does it connect to the later mob sequence?: It is the friendly prototype: a crowd in rhythm, chanting unity. Later, the same mechanism points at a target.
Why do stage versions often get huge audience reactions here?: The number is built for physical comedy and synchronized group business. In musical theater, that is catnip.
Is there a reprise, and what does it do?: Yes. The reprise pivots from bragging to coercion, moving the character from vanity to strategy.

Awards and Chart Positions

The song itself was not pushed as a standalone pop single in 1991, but the surrounding soundtrack became a genuine awards magnet. According to the Recording Academy's Grammy.com, the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack won multiple Grammy Awards and also landed an Album of the Year nomination - a rare crossover for an animated film score-and-songs package.

Item	Result	Notes
Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Billboard 200 peak	No. 19	US album peak reported in standard chart histories.
US soundtrack albums chart peak	No. 9	Soundtrack category peak.
US certification	3x Platinum	RIAA certification level as commonly listed in reference discographies.
Grammy recognition	Multiple wins for the soundtrack era	Grammy.com notes major wins and a landmark Album of the Year nomination.

For a sense of scale, Billboard magazine chart pages from early 1992 show the album moving through the Billboard 200 during its peak period, a reminder that Disney soundtracks were not just tie-ins - they were mainstream records.

How to Sing Gaston

Common key: C major (often labeled as original key in arrangements). Tempo: about 108 BPM. Feel: triple meter, with quick spoken-style pickups. Range: many stage-style charts place the tune from B up to G in the original key, with transpositions available for different voices.

Tempo first: Lock the 3-beat sway before you chase jokes. Tap 1-2-3 with your foot and keep your consonants riding on beat 1.
Diction: This number is built on crisp names, lists, and punchlines. Over-articulate "t" and "k" without biting the tone.
Breathing: Plan quick sips of air after chorus chants. Do not try to inhale like a ballad singer; think actor breath, not opera breath.
Flow and rhythm: Treat the verse like patter with melody. Keep vowels short so the rhythm stays springy.
Accents: Punch the brag words, then back off so the chorus can slam the hook. The comedy lands when contrast is clear.
Ensemble cues: If you are Gaston, leave space for LeFou and the room. If you are in the chorus, commit to unison like it is a sports chant.
Mic and projection: Aim for chest-forward resonance, but do not bark. Smile slightly on the hook - it brightens the sound and sells confidence.
Pitfalls: Rushing the patter, swallowing consonants, and turning the chorus into background. This piece lives or dies on group precision.

Additional Info

The 2017 film version became a small case study in Disney revisionism: extended staging, more LeFou texture, and lyric details discussed in press coverage as linked to earlier writing choices. You can also find official sing-along style releases that repackage the number as a participatory chant, which is almost too perfect for a tavern chorus built to be repeated by strangers.

A small trivia nugget for theater people: the stage lineage has often played with bits of business around spelling and crowd reactions. The humor survives because it is not only about a bully - it is about the room that keeps clapping.

Key Contributors

Entity	Type	Relation
Alan Menken	Person	Composed the music for the song and the broader film score.
Howard Ashman	Person	Wrote the lyrics and produced the soundtrack sessions with Menken.
Richard White	Person	Performed the lead vocal as Gaston on the 1991 soundtrack.
Jesse Corti	Person	Performed as LeFou on the 1991 soundtrack.
Walt Disney Records	Organization	Released the 1991 soundtrack album.
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)	Work	Primary on-screen context for the number as a tavern sequence.
Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Work	Album that places the track at No. 4 and carries the award-era recognition.

Sources: Gaston (song) - Wikipedia, Beauty and the Beast (1991 soundtrack) - Wikipedia, IMDb soundtrack page for Beauty and the Beast (1991), Grammy.com - Disney's Beauty and the Beast: 3 Grammy facts, Billboard 200 chart pages (1992), Vanity Fair clip coverage of the 2017 performance, Teen Vogue clip coverage of the 2017 performance, Tunebat and SongBPM tempo listings, London Arrangements range and key listing, Official Disney UK sing-along lyric video

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