You've Got a Friend in Me
| 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 musical composition by Yoko Shimomura. It is an instrumental arrangement of "You've Got a Friend in Me", originally composed and performed by Randy Newman for the 1995 Pixar film Toy Story. It is the field theme of Toy Box.
AppearancesEdit
"You've Got a Friend in Me" is the field theme of Toy Box in Kingdom Hearts III.
Kingdom Hearts IIIEdit
- 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"
CompositionEdit
"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.
AlbumsEdit
Disc 2, Track 3 in the Kingdom Hearts - III, II.8, Unchained χ & Union χ (Cross) - Original Soundtrack