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"You've Got a Friend in Me" is a song by Randy Newman. Used as the main theme song for the 1995 Disney/Pixar animated film Toy Story, it has since become a major musical component for its sequels, Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010) Toy Story 4 (2019), and Toy Story 5 (2026) as well as a musical leitmotif throughout the whole Toy Story franchise. The song was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Like many other Disney theme songs, "You've Got a Friend in Me" has been covered numerous times. Cover versions featured in the first three Toy Story films include a duet with Newman and country singer Lyle Lovett in Toy Story; a diegetic instance by Tom Hanks, a version by Robert Goulet and an instrumental by saxophonist Tom Scott in Toy Story 2, and a Spanish language version by the Gipsy Kings in Toy Story 3. Although the song was featured in the trailer for Toy Story 5, it did not appear during the credits sequence of the film, instead being replaced by "I Knew It, I Knew You" by Taylor Swift.
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