Baby Mine (song)
| Baby mine | |
|---|---|
| publication | 1941 |
| length | 2:26 |
| Genre (s) | Film music |
| text | Ned Washington |
| music | Frank Churchill |
| Award (s) | Oscar nomination in 1942 as "Best Song" |
Baby Mine (German: Dear Child ) is a song written by Frank Churchill (composition) and Ned Washington (text) for the animated film Dumbo from 1941. It is sung in the soundtrack by Betty Noyes , while the animals in the circus slowly fall asleep and the little elephant Dumbo says goodbye to his elephant mom. The film received an Oscar in the category “Best Film Music” .
1942 was Baby Mine in the category "Best Song" for a Oscar nomination. However, the award went to Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for their song The Last Time I Saw Paris from the film musical Lady Be Good .
Cover versions
In 1941 also took Les Brown ( Okeh 6500), Claude Thornhill . Glenn Miller and Bea Wain sang the song on Bette Midler , Baby Mine, in the 1988 film-drama Girlfriends as CC while helping Hillary ( Barbara Hershey ) give birth to her baby. Also Alison Krauss coverte the song, as well as Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys , who recorded the song in his program (Album In the Key of Disney ). The British musical singer Michael Crawford also interpreted Baby Mine ( The Disney Album ).
The song should not be confused with the song of the same name by Raymond A. Browne and Leo Friedman from 1901.
Web links
- Baby Mine In: catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce: In Time Magazine 1941, - Volume 38 - page 69
- ^ Billboard Jan. 31, 1942 or Ernie Bayly: The Talking Machine Review - Issues 44-49, 1977 - page 1032
- ^ Will Friedwald : A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers , 2010, p. 636
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 17, 2014)
- ^ Baby Mine - Bette Midler azlyrics.com. Retrieved January 16, 2014.