You'll Be in My Heart
You'll Be in My Heart is a song by Phil Collins from the Disney film Tarzan (1999). The song appeared on the film's soundtrack as well as on other Disney compilations. A version of the single interpreted by Glenn Close was also included on the soundtrack.
A demo with Collins singing on the piano was released as a bonus feature on Tarzan's 2 DVD Special Edition.
Kevin Godley directed the music video for the song .
Production and context
Although Collins ultimately sang the song, Disney had originally only hired him as a songwriter. With regard to his past as a drummer for the rock band Genesis , Collins seemed suitable for the Disney makers, since he forced a "powerful jungle beat to accompany Tarzan's adventures". Collins wrote this ballad as one of five original songs for the film.
The song, originally planned to be titled “Lullaby,” is used in the scene in which Tarzan's adoptive gorilla mother Kala Tarzan tries to calm down as a crying baby. She persuades him that she will protect it and keep it warm. She says that everything will be fine and "you will be in my hearts, always" (English for "you will always be in my heart, always"). The song is about "love is a bond that cannot be severed".
In the film, the song ends with the first verse. The full version of the song on the soundtrack album states that others cannot understand how a mother and her child can love each other when they are so different.
When fate calls, Tarzan is told that he must be strong even when his parents are not there. The song is one of only two songs in Tarzan, some of which are interpreted by a film character (the other is "Trashing 'the Camp"). The rest are sung by Collins himself. The entire song is eventually played during the credits.
In the stage version from 2006, the song is performed by Kala and the ensemble. A recapitulation is sung by Kala and Tarzan when the latter decides to return to the human world. This was because the omniscience of Collins' songs did not translate too well, so the song along with Two Worlds, "perform similar thematic and character introductions on stage".
Critical reception and awards
Manila Standard said Collins "grow poetically" with the song. The Disney Song Encyclopedia called it a "brisk ballad" and a "tender song". American Musical Theater: A Chronicle said Merle Dandridge, who sang the song in the Broadway version as Tarzan's adoptive mother Kala, had "the best song." American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations stated that the song had a "contemporary sound, with its impulses fitting wonderfully into the pulsating sound of the jungle". Billboard said the song went "in the same vein" as Collins' song "Can't Stop Loving You". Musical Experience in Our Lives: Things We Learn and Meanings We Make told a personal story of how the song had a special meaning for the mother-daughter relationship. Similar stories were also reported by two other sources.
Soon after the song was released, it was already being traded as an Oscar contender. The song eventually won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song . Collins performed the song live at the Oscar ceremony. The song also received a Grammy Award nomination , but fell short of Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger" from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me .
Charts
The song became very popular and played consistently on the radio. “You'll Be in My Heart” was number one on the Adult Contemporary Charts for 19 consecutive weeks (“the longest time ever”) and peaked at number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . The song was Collins 'first Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 since "Everyday" in 1994. On the UK Singles Chart , the song made 17th place, continuing Collins' success since "Everyday" did not ebb.
| country | Chart placements |
|---|---|
| Canadian Singles Chart | 16 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 35 |
| German single charts | 20th |
| Polish Singles Chart | 21st |
| UK Singles Chart | 17th |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 21st |
| US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |
Other languages
The entire Tarzan soundtrack, including “You'll Be in My Heart”, was translated into and sung in various other languages by Phil Collins , namely German , French , Spanish and Italian . In Hungarian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Burmese, Swedish and Portuguese, the entire soundtrack was performed by Hungarian singer Akos , Norwegian singer Tor Endresen , Brazilian singer Ed Motta , Japanese singer Masayuki Sakamoto, Chinese singer Wakin Chau, the Burmese singer Zainal Abidin, the Swedish singer Pelle Ankarberg and the Portuguese singer Luís Represas . The Portuguese version still contains the original version of the song. The Spanish version of the song, "En Mi Corazón Vivirás", is Collins' only placement on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. The song reached number 32. On German television, Sat.1 ran the casting show for the cast of the German musical version , in which Collins was on the jury. He also sang the German-language version "You own my heart" live on television on Wetten, dass ..? .
| “You'll Be in My Heart” in other languages | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| language | Interpreter | title | translation |
| Arabic | هشام نور (Hesham Noor) | "حتعيش هنا في القلب" ("Hat'eesh hina fil alb") | "You will live here in my heart" |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Ed Motta | "No meu coração" | "In my heart" |
| Bulgarian | Стамен Янев (Stamen Yanev) | "Във моето сърце" ("Vav moeto sarce") | "In my heart" |
| Cantonese | 周華健 (Emil Chau / Jau Wa Gin) | "我 深 心 的 愛" ("?") | "My deepest love" |
| Catalan | Miquel Fernández | "Dins del meu cor" | "Within my heart" |
| Croatian | Tony Cetinski | ? | ? |
| Czech | Petr Muk | ? | ? |
| Danish | Stig Rossen | "You 'with hjerteslag" | "You're my heartbeat" |
| Dutch | Bert Heerink | "Jij woont in mijn hart" | "You live in my heart" |
| European Portuguese | Luís Represas | "Tu vives no meu coração" | "You live in my heart" |
| Finnish | Pekka Kuorikoski | "Sä oot sielussain" | "You're in my soul" |
| Flemish | Paul Michels | "Jij woont in mijn hart" | "You live in my heart" |
| French | Phil Collins | "Toujours dans mon cœur" | "Always in my heart" |
| German | Phil Collins | "My heart is yours" | "My heart belongs to you" |
| Greek | Άλεξ Παναγής (Álex Panayís) | "Βαθιά στην καρδιά" ("Vathiá stin karthiá") | "Deep in the heart" |
| Hebrew | מומי לוי (Momy Levy) | "אתה אצלי בלב" ("?") | "You are in my heart" |
| Hungarian | Kovács Ákos | "A szívem vigyáz rád" | "My heart takes care of you" |
| Icelandic | Stefán Hilmarsson | "Í brjósti mér þú býrð" | ? |
| Italian | Phil Collins | "Be dentro me" | "You're within me" |
| Japanese | 坂 本 昌 行 (Sakamoto Masayuki) | "い つ も 心 に" ("Itsumo kokoro ni") | "Always in the heart" |
| Korean | 윤도현 (Yoon Do-Hyun) | "함께 사는 세상" ("Hamkke sanŭn sesang") | "The world we live in together" |
| Burmese | Zainal Abidin Mohamad | "Kau di hatiku" | "You're in my heart" |
| Standard Chinese | 周華健 (Emil Chau / Zhōu Huá-Jiàn) | "你 在 我 心 里面" ("Nǐ zài wǒ xīn lǐ miàn") | "You're in my heart" |
| Norwegian | Gate end counter | "Mitt barn" | "My child" |
| Polish | Paweł Hartlieb | "W mym sercu jest twój dom" | "Your home is within my heart" |
| Romanian | Alin Oprea | "În inima mea" | "In my heart" |
| Russian | Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Мали́нин (Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin) | "В сердце у меня" ("V serdtse u menya") | ? |
| Slovak | Vašo Patejdl | "Yes ťa v srdci mám" | ? |
| Spanish | Phil Collins | "En mi corazón vivirás" | "You'll live in my heart" |
| Swedish | Pelle Ankarberg | "You finns inom mig" | "You're within me" |
| Thai | สุ ท ธานิน มาลัย พง ษ์ (Suthanin Malaiphong) | "เธอ แนบ ข้าง ใจ" ("?") | ? |
| Turkish | Fatih Erkoc | ? | ? |
| Ukrainian | Володимир Трач (Volodymyr Trach) | ? | ? |
Individual evidence
- ^ David Roberts: British Hit Singles & Albums , 19th. Edition, Guinness World Records Limited, London 2006, ISBN 1-904994-10-5 , p. 137.
- ^ Ocala Star Banner - Google News Archive Search .
- ^ Manila Standard - Google News Archive Search .
- ^ The Disney Song Encyclopedia .
- ↑ Global Perspectives on Tarzan .
- ^ Manila Standard - Google News Archive Search .
- ↑ American Musical Theater .
- ^ American Literature on Stage and Screen .
- ^ Billboard .
- ^ Musical Experience in Our Lives .
- ^ Musical Experience in Our Lives .
- ^ "Mothers' Singing To Fetuses: The Effect Of Music Education" by Candice Sirak . Archived from the original on October 31, 2014.
- ^ Rome News-Tribune - Google News Archive Search .
- ^ The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search .
- ↑ Bruno Mars .
- ^ Joel Whitburn : Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001 . Record Research, 2002.
- ↑ Maury Dean : Rock N 'Roll Gold Rush . Algora, 2003, ISBN 0-87586-207-1 .
- ↑ model.vnuArtistId = 4332 & model.vnuAlbumId = 555318 Billboard.com
- ↑ Polish Singles Chart | .
- ^ Billboard .
- ↑ Phil Collins - You own my heart . In: YouTube . Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ↑ Tarzan Soloist . Retrieved April 2, 2016.