| Kingdom Hearts III You've Got a Friend in Me -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | |
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| Arranger | Yoko Shimomura |
| Composer | Randy Newman |
| Orchestrator | Natsumi Kameoka |
| Length | 4:16 |
"You've Got a Friend in Me" (君はともだち Kimi Wa Tomodachi, lit. "You Are My Friend") is a song written and performed by Randy Newman from the 1995 Pixar film Toy Story. An instrumental arrangement by Yoko Shimomura appears in Kingdom Hearts III as the field theme of Toy Box.
Appearances
"You've Got a Friend in Me" is the field theme of Toy Box in Kingdom Hearts III.
Kingdom Hearts III
- Toy Box: "The Masked Intruders", "It Wasn't Always This Lonely", "Dino-napped", "Rex Impresses", "Buzz's Doubts", "The Chamber of Andy", "Where's Rex?", "To Save a Friend", "To Infinity and Beyond"
Composition
"You've Got a Friend in Me" is approximately four minutes and sixteen seconds in Kingdom Hearts III. The piece has a time signature of 4/4, and a tempo of 126 beats per measure.
Instrumentation includes a full string section—violins, violas, cellos, and basses—along with clarinets, oboes, muted trumpets, trombones, piano, flutes, a triangle, and snare drums, and cymbals. A piano and flute duo perform the first and second verse in addition to the bridge, while the third verse replaces the flute with a violin. Snaps are also heard during the second verse of the song.
At its core, this rendition is an instrumental version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" from the original Toy Story movie. The rendition's instrumentation is fairly faithful to the original, replacing an electric guitar and tuba bass line with a plucked double bass and removing the original's hints of guitar, and still retains the relaxed, friendly, and almost nostalgic nature of the original track.
Albums
Disc 2, Track 3 in the Kingdom Hearts - III, II.8, Unchained χ & Union χ (Cross) - Original Soundtrack