You'll Be in My Heart
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"You'll Be in My Heart" is a song by Phil Collins
, from the 1999 Disney animated feature Tarzan
. It appeared on Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack as well as various other Disney compilations. A version of the single performed by Glenn Close
also appears on the soundtrack.
The music video
for the song was directed
by Kevin Godley
.
. The song was Collins's first appearance on the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 chart since 1994's "Everyday
". The track peaked at #17 in the UK Singles Chart
, continuing his success that had not stopped after "Everyday". The song went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
and the Academy Award for Best Original Song
. Collins performed the song live at that year's ceremony.
in various other languages beside English, namely German
, French
, Spanish
, and Italian
. In the Hungarian, Norwegian, Brazilian, Japanese, Malay and Swedish versions, the whole soundtracks were performed by the Hungarian singer Akos
, the Norwegian singer Tor Endresen
, the Brazilian singer Ed Motta
, Japanese singer Masayuki Sakamoto
, Malaysian singer Zainal Abidin and Swedish singer Pelle Ankarberg respectively. Because of the multiple recordings, a Spanish version of the song, "En Mi Corazón", marks Collins' only appearance on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. The song charted at #32.
On German television, he sang a translation of "You'll Be in My Heart" called "Dir Gehört Mein Herz".
sings that her baby should stop crying because she will protect her baby, and keep him safe and warm. She says everything will be fine and she tells him that "you will be in my heart always". In the movie the song ends on the first verse, the full version of the song on the soundtrack album notes that others don't understand why a mother and child who are so different can love each other. When destiny calls, the child is told he must be strong even if the parent is not with him. The song is one of only two songs within Disney's Tarzan to be sung (at least partly) by an actual character (the other "Trashin' the Camp" is essentially just scat singing though.). The rest of the songs were performed by Collins himself and overlaid into the movie.
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
, from the 1999 Disney animated feature Tarzan
Tarzan (1999 film)
Tarzan is a 1999 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999...
. It appeared on Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack as well as various other Disney compilations. A version of the single performed by Glenn Close
Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and...
also appears on the soundtrack.
The music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for the song was directed
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
by Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley
Kevin Godley is a British musician and music video director.He was born in a family of Jewish descent, and went to North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham....
.
Charts and awards
"You'll Be in My Heart", spent nineteen non consecutive weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary charts and peaked at #21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. The song was Collins's first appearance on the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 chart since 1994's "Everyday
Everyday (Phil Collins song)
"Everyday" is a ballad pop song by Phil Collins released as the second single of his fifth studio album, Both Sides. It's also been released as the seventh track on the first CD of the 2004 compilation album, Love Songs: A Compilation.....
". The track peaked at #17 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, continuing his success that had not stopped after "Everyday". The song went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...
and the Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
. Collins performed the song live at that year's ceremony.
Other languages
The entire Tarzan soundtrack, and therefore "You'll Be in My Heart", was also written and performed by Phil CollinsPhil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
in various other languages beside English, namely German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
. In the Hungarian, Norwegian, Brazilian, Japanese, Malay and Swedish versions, the whole soundtracks were performed by the Hungarian singer Akos
Ákos
Ákos Kovács, born in Budapest, 6 April 1968, is a Hungarian pop-rock singer-songwriter. He is known for his solo career writing and performing serious, poetic pop songs, as well as a member of the now defunct group Bonanza Banzai. Kovács uses his given name, Ákos, in his career...
, the Norwegian singer Tor Endresen
Tor Endresen
Tor Lars Oskar Endresen is a Norwegian singer and composer.He has entered the national Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest numerous times, but has only won it once, and represented Norway in the international final in 1997, where he came last with nul points.Endresen was part of a popular Norwegian...
, the Brazilian singer Ed Motta
Ed Motta
Ed Motta , is a Brazilian MPB, rock, soul music, funk and jazz musician. He is nephew of late Brazilian singer Tim Maia....
, Japanese singer Masayuki Sakamoto
V6 (band)
V6 is a six-member Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates. The group debuted on November 1, 1995 with the single "Music for the People", which was used as the image song for the World Cup of Volleyball in 1995...
, Malaysian singer Zainal Abidin and Swedish singer Pelle Ankarberg respectively. Because of the multiple recordings, a Spanish version of the song, "En Mi Corazón", marks Collins' only appearance on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks. The song charted at #32.
On German television, he sang a translation of "You'll Be in My Heart" called "Dir Gehört Mein Herz".
Cover versions
- Country singer John Berry covered the song on his record Wildest Dreams, which was released by Lyric Street, a Disney record label.
- In 2005, Julie AndrewsJulie AndrewsDame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...
selected this song for her album Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs. - On the DisneymaniaDisneyMania (series)Disneymania is an American series of compilation albums of classic Disney songs, covered by Disney Channel and mainstream artists singing their own rendition or version of the song. As of 2010, 9 Disneymania albums have been released....
series albums DisneymaniaDisneyManiaDisneymania is the first of a series of albums released by Walt Disney Records featuring various musical artists performing Disney songs. The original album, released on September 17, 2002, featured contemporary Disney classics...
, Disneymania 4DisneyMania 4Disneymania 4 is the fourth in the Disneymania series. This is the album debut of many current stars on Disney Channel, like Miley Cyrus from Hannah Montana...
and Disneymania 6DisneyMania 6Disneymania 6 is the sixth installment in the Disneymania series. It features contemporary performers' takes on classic Disney songs. It was released on May 20, 2008.-Track listing:...
, "You'll Be in My Heart" was redone. UsherUsher (entertainer)Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...
redid the song on the first album, Teddy GeigerTeddy Geiger-Singles:-Album appearances:-Television and movie appearances:-External links:****...
redid the song on the fourth album, and Drew Seeley covered it on the sixth album. - A karaoke version of the song is on the Brother BearBrother BearBrother Bear is a 2003 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the forty-fourth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. In the film, an Inuit boy pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which...
Disney Karaoke Series CD. - The song was parodied on an episodeTimmy 2000"Timmy!" is the 51st episode of the Comedy Central animated series South Park. It originally aired on April 19, 2000. It was voted #6 of the "10 South Park episodes that changed the world"...
of South ParkSouth ParkSouth Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
as "You'll Be in Me" as revenge of the creators' song losing the Oscar to Collins. - Michael Crawford performed the song on The Disney Album, a collection of Disney songs all sung by Michael Crawford.
- American country music singer Bucky CovingtonBucky CovingtonWilliam Joel "Bucky" Covington III is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records...
covered the song on the 2008 compilation album Country Sings DisneyCountry Sings DisneyCountry Sings Disney is a compilation featuring the biggest stars in country music. Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Billy Ray Cyrus, Martina McBride and several others appear on the album. It was released on July 8, 2008 via Walt Disney Records. The album debuted at #15 on the U.S...
. - One of the new members of Celtic WomanCeltic WomanCeltic Woman is an all-female musical ensemble conceived and assembled by Sharon Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show Riverdance...
, Alex Sharpe sings this song for the "Isle of Hope" tour. - Kenny LogginsKenny LogginsDuring the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he was referred to as, King of the Movie Soundtrack.He began with "I'm Alright" , "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" from Caddyshack...
covered this song on his record More Songs from Pooh CornerMore Songs from Pooh CornerMore Songs from Pooh Corner is a children's music album released in 2000 by Kenny Loggins. The follow-up to Loggins' 1994 album Return to Pooh Corner...
in 2000. - The song was covered in the Disney musical revue On the Record by cast members Ashley BrownAshley BrownAshley Brown is an actress who is best known for playing the title character in the United States national tour and Broadway productions of Mary Poppins.-Career:...
, Emily SkinnerEmily SkinnerEmily Skinner is an American musical theatre actress and singer. She has performed in such Broadway shows as Side Show, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight and, currently, in Billy Elliot...
, Brian Sutherland and Andrew Samonsky. Kaitlin HopkinsKaitlin HopkinsKaitlin Hopkins is an American stage, screen, and television actress, the daughter of actress Shirley Knight and stage producer/director Gene Persson....
replaces Emily Skinner on the cast recording. - On the 2011 album V-Rock Disney, which features visual keiVisual Keiis a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Some sources state that visual kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of Japanese rock, with its...
artists covering Disney songs, Dasein covered this song.
Lyrics
The song is used in a scene when Tarzan's adoptive gorilla mother KalaKala (Tarzan)
Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, and in the Walt Disney-produced animated movie Tarzan based on it....
sings that her baby should stop crying because she will protect her baby, and keep him safe and warm. She says everything will be fine and she tells him that "you will be in my heart always". In the movie the song ends on the first verse, the full version of the song on the soundtrack album notes that others don't understand why a mother and child who are so different can love each other. When destiny calls, the child is told he must be strong even if the parent is not with him. The song is one of only two songs within Disney's Tarzan to be sung (at least partly) by an actual character (the other "Trashin' the Camp" is essentially just scat singing though.). The rest of the songs were performed by Collins himself and overlaid into the movie.
Charts
| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Dutch Singles Chart | 35 |
| German Singles Chart | 20 |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
17 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
21 |
| US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
1 |