You'll Be in My Heart

"You'll Be in My Heart" is a song by Phil Collins, from the 1999 Disney animated feature Tarzan.^[2] 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.

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 100.^[3] The song was Collins's first appearance on the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 chart since 1994's "Everyday".^[4][5] The track peaked at #17 in the UK Singles Chart,^[2] 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.^[2][4] 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 Collins 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.^[5]

On German television, he sang a translation of "You'll Be in My Heart" called "Dir Gehört Mein Herz".^[6]

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 Andrews selected this song for her album Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs.
• On the Disneymania series albums Disneymania, Disneymania 4 and Disneymania 6, "You'll Be in My Heart" was redone. Usher redid the song on the first album, Teddy Geiger redid the song on the fourth album, and Drew Seeley covered it on the sixth album.^[7]
• A karaoke version of the song is on the Brother Bear Disney Karaoke Series CD.
• The song was parodied on an episode of South Park 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 Covington covered the song on the 2008 compilation album Country Sings Disney.
• One of the new members of Celtic Woman, Alex Sharpe sings this song for the "Isle of Hope" tour.
• Kenny Loggins covered this song on his record More Songs from Pooh Corner in 2000.
• The song was covered in the Disney musical revue On the Record by cast members Ashley Brown, Emily Skinner, Brian Sutherland and Andrew Samonsky. Kaitlin Hopkins replaces Emily Skinner on the cast recording.
• On the 2011 album V-Rock Disney, which features visual kei artists covering Disney songs, Dasein covered this song.^[8]

Lyrics

The song is used in a scene when Tarzan's adoptive gorilla mother Kala 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

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1999 (U.S.)

References