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Song of the Day #4,476: ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ – Randy Newman

Continuing my countdown of every Pixar movie…

#12. Finding Dory (2016)
(up two spots from previous ranking)

Pixar’s best non-Toy Story sequel, Finding Dory worked even better the second time around.

Dory was played for comic relief, with a hint of melancholy, in the first film, but this one digs into the trauma her condition would understandably cause. The movie plays similar heartstrings as its predecessor, with Dory’s parents’ commitment to finding her mirroring Marlin’s determination to find Nemo.

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Song of the Day #1,092: ‘I Will Go Sailing No More’ – Randy Newman

All of the clips I’ve featured so far this week have been sung by somebody other than Randy Newman. And each of them should have been, in order to work best in the context of those films.

I can’t imagine ‘When She Loved Me’ working better in the Jesse montage than it does with Sarah McLachlan’s haunting soprano. ‘Our Town’ is perfect in the honey tones of James Taylor. ‘Almost There’ obviously had to be sung by the lead actress of The Princess and the Frog, and the Monsters Inc. duet was written expressly for Billy Crystal and John Goodman.

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