The track "We Belong Together" was initially planned as a duet song, featuring popular singers Lady Gaga or Katy Perry, and John Mayer performing the track. But Pixar decided against doing so, and instead wanted him to sing the track as "to retain that consistency" as he voiced for the songs in the first two instalments.[11][12]
In a 2015 interview, Newman recalled that he was unhappy with the director Lee Unkrich, on using the temporary version of the score. He said that, "The movie did great and everything, and maybe I'm wrong and if I look back on it I won't know the difference – but it didn't fit hand in glove the way I would have tried to do – and he fell in love with the [temporary score] very much".[13] He further rejected the offer for composing, Unkrich's Coco (2017), which later went to Michael Giacchino.[14]
In addition to the tracks included in the soundtrack album, the film also uses several other tracks such as "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright,[16] "Le Freak" by Chic,[17] and Randy Newman's original version of "You've Got a Friend in Me".[17] Furthermore, tracks "Cowboy!" and "Come to Papa" included material from Newman's rejected score to Air Force One.[18] The song "Losing You" from Newman's own album Harps and Angels was also used in the first trailer for the film.[19] The Judas Priest song "Electric Eye" was also used in the film in the temp score for the opening scene of Toy Story 3.[20]
Toy Story Favorites
In 2010, Walt Disney Records released a special soundtrack titled Toy Story Favorites, that included songs from the previous Toy Story soundtracks. The tracks "We Belong Together" and Gipsy Kings' version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" were featured in the album.[21]
^van der Lugt, Peter (August 11, 2009). "An interview with Michael Giacchino". Twitch. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. Retrieved February 16, 2014. And will the CD of Up be released, someday? Unfortunately, it will not. The Walt Disney Company decided that, from now on, all the music from its films will be exclusively sold via digital download.
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