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A Friend In Me: Randy Newman's "Toy Story" Up Next in Disney's Legacy Collection

June 26, 2015 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Legacy Collection - Toy StoryWalt Disney Records' Legacy Collection marches on.  The next project in the series spotlights a movie of relatively more recent vintage than some of the other releases this year.  Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Toy Story will be the recipient of the 2-CD soundtrack treatment which is due out on July 10.

Who would have thought in 1995, just one year after Disney's blockbuster The Lion King that the direction of the animated studio would be forever altered by a computer-animated film about talking toys with songs written by the man who composed "Sail Away" and "Short People?"  But that is what happened upon the release of Toy Story in November, 1995.

Spun out of the computer division of Lucasfilm, Pixar Animation Studios began producing short films in the mid-1980s.  Eventually fully owned by Apple's Steve Jobs, Pixar made a deal in the early 1990s to produce feature-length films.  The first of these would be Toy Story.  It would be the first feature-length computer animated film in history.  Director John Lasseter and a team of screenwriters crafted the tale of what a child's toys are up to when the child is not around.  Starring the voices of Tom Hanks as the cowboy toy Woody and Tim Allen as the space ranger toy Buzz Lightyear, the story revolves around the group of toys accepting Buzz when their owner receives him as a gift on his birthday.

Lasseter and the team at Pixar decided that Toy Story should not be a musical like the animated films of Disney's past.  Instead, songs would be sung over the action to convey emotion.  Singer-songwriter Randy Newman was tapped to compose the score and songs.  Newman crafted an emotional and sweet score which was very different than the bitingly acerbic style of many of his most famous works.  The film's signature song, "You've Got a Friend in Me," became one of Disney's most iconic tunes.  This collaboration marked the beginning of long relationship between Newman and Pixar.  He has scored six more of their films with a seventh on the way.

Upon its release, Toy Story was greeted with much critical praise.  It was nominated for three Academy Awards and received an Academy Special Achievement Award "for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film."  The film also was a hit at the box office, scoring $362 million in its initial release.  This began a streak of commercial and critical hits for Pixar which continues up through today with last weekend's opening of Inside Out.  Toy Story itself would generate two sequels (with a third scheduled for 2017).  It also spawned television specials, video games, rides at Disney Parks, and, of course, toys.

The original soundtrack to Toy Story was released on November 22, 1995.  The 16-track score and song album would peak at No. 94 on the Billboard chart.  It was remastered in 2006 but featured no additional material.  For this new Legacy Collection edition, the full score is being presented for the first time.  Coming in at 51 tracks, the new CD presents the score and songs in sequential order.  The second disc adds eight of Newman's demo/instrumental versions of the songs.  The CDs will be housed in the same hardback digipak style as the rest of the Legacy Collection series.  It will also contain a 20-page booklet with liner notes by John Lasseter and Randy Newman.

It is hard to believe that it has been twenty years since Toy Story was first released.  Pixar, now a full-fledged part of the Walt Disney Company, is still going strong today.  If you would like to have a look back at where it all started, we've got order links below together with the complete tracklisting.  The release is due on July 10!

Randy Newman, The Legacy Collection - Toy Story Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records, 2015) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

CD 1

  1. Opening Instrumental
  2. You've Got a Friend in Me Randy Newman
  3. Andy's Birthday Is Today Instrumental
  4. They're Alive! Instrumental
  5. "Staff Meeting Everybody!" Instrumental
  6. "You Too, Bo Peep" Instrumental
  7. Andy's Birthday Party Instrumental
  8. Code Red Instrumental
  9. A Good Soldier Never Leaves a Man Behind Instrumental
  10. Presents: Who Invited That Kid? Instrumental
  11. Surprise Present Instrumental
  12. "What Are You Doing Under the Bed?" Instrumental
  13. Buzz Revealed Instrumental
  14. Buzz Flies Instrumental
  15. Strange Things Randy Newman
  16. Woody/Bo Peep Instrumental
  17. Sid Instrumental
  18. Virtual Realty Instrumental
  19. Woody Plots Instrumental
  20. Rube Globeburg Instrumental
  21. "Woody Did It!" Instrumental
  22. Rescue Attempt Instrumental 
  23. "Buzz, You're Alive!" Instrumental
  24. Buzz and Woody Fight Instrumental
  25. Buzz's Mission Instrumental
  26. "It's a Spaceship, Buzz" Instrumental
  27. Pizza Planet Rock Instrumental
  28. "What? Hello? A Space Port!" Instrumental
  29. The Claw Instrumental
  30. Sid Instrumental
  31. Mutant Toys Instrumental
  32. Woody's Gone Instrumental
  33. "Sorry Guys, Dinner's Canceled" Instrumental
  34. Scud Instrumental
  35. Buzz Lightyear Commercial Instrumental
  36. I Will Go Sailing No More Randy Newman
  37. Out the Window Instrumental
  38. Sid's Toys Fix Buzz Instrumental
  39. The Big One Instrumental
  40. Sad Andy Instrumental
  41. "Buzz, I Need Your Help" Instrumental
  42. Working Together (Leads to Failure) Instrumental
  43. The Rescue Pt. 1 Instrumental
  44. Sid Counts Down Instrumental
  45. The Rescue Pt. 2: Play Nice, Sid Instrumental
  46. Chasing the Van Instrumental
  47. RC to the Rescue Instrumental
  48. To Infinity and Beyond Instrumental
  49. Together Again and a Very Merry Christmas Instrumental
  50. You've Got a Friend in Me Lyle Lovett and Randy Newman
  51. End Credits Instrumental

CD 2

  1. Strange Things Piano/Vocal Demo
  2. Plastic Spaceman Piano/Vocal Demo
  3. I Will Go Sailing No More Piano/Vocal Demo
  4. Fool Piano/Vocal/Background Vocal Demo
  5. You've Got a Friend in Me Instrumental Version
  6. Strange Things Instrumental Version
  7. I Will Go Sailing No More Instrumental Version
  8. Thanking the Orchestra Spoken

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Randy Fairman

Entertainment historian and writer Randy Fairman is a graduate of Northwestern University. Randy has written for publications including University Reporter Chicago and co-authored the graphic novel Love Bytes. A native of Indiana, he currently resides in New Jersey.

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Comments

  1. Magnus Hägermyr says

    June 27, 2015 at 6:52 am

    There's a lot of good music to be captured in Newman's soundtracks through the years but maybe it keeps him too busy from making a "real" album. It's been seven years since "Harps And Angels".

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  2. Magnus Hägermyr says

    June 28, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    In fact since this Oscar-success twenty years ago we've only seen two solo efforts with new material; 1999:s "Bad Love" and the before mentioned "Harps & Angles" in 2008. Did Hollywood kidnaped Randy Newman? If so what's the ransom?

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