"Baby Mine" is a song from the 1941

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animated feature ''

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''. The music is by

Frank Churchill Frank Edwin Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was an American film composer and songwriter. He wrote most of the music for films directed by Walt Disney, such as ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Dumbo'', ''Bambi'', '' The Adve ...

, with lyrics by Ned Washington.

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recorded the vocals for the original film version. In the film, Dumbo's mother, Mrs. Jumbo, an elephant locked in a circus wagon, cradles her baby Dumbo with her trunk while this

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is sung. It is also the last appearance of the circus animals. The song was nominated for an

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at the

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in 1942. It is also listed on AFI's "100 Years... 100 Songs" as one of America's greatest film songs.

Recordings

Early popular recordings include those by Les Brown,

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, and Jane Froman, followed by several others; and decades later, the song regained attention.

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covered the song on the 1988 ''

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. In the same year,

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and

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recorded the song for the album, '' Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films.''

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recorded the song for the 1996 album ''

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''. Her version peaked at number 82 on the '' RPM'' Country Tracks chart in Canada. Krauss' cover earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1997. Soap actress

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recorded the song with Jim Brickman for ''

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''. An instrumental version by violinist

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was included in the Grammy-nominated album ''

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'', released in 2011.

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recorded his own arrangement of "Baby Mine" on his '' In the Key of Disney'' Disney cover album in 2011. There have been numerous Disney compilation releases of the original, as well as an Original Cast recording from the musical, '' Disney's On the Record: A New Musical Review'' The song is used recurrently in the AMC television drama '' Halt and Catch Fire'' as a lullaby that Donna Clark (

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) sings to her daughters. Sharon Rooney and

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covered the song for the 2018-2019 live-action remake of ''Dumbo'', while Norwegian singer

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performed the song for the trailer. The song also features in the 2019

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sci-fi drama ''

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'', sung by

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and later by Nina Ferro.

References

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