DUMBO's End Credits Will Feature A Cover Of "Baby Mine" From Arcade Fire; Listen To A Sneak Peek Here

DUMBO's End Credits Will Feature A Cover Of "Baby Mine" From Arcade Fire; Listen To A Sneak Peek Here

Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire has teamed up with Disney to create a cover of the classic song "Baby Mine" that is as "interesting" and "artistic" as the man helming the film, Tim Burton.

By MattIsForReal - Mar 05, 2019 07:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Disney
Source: Toonado
Trailers for Tim Burton's Dumbo have featured the track "Baby Mine," and now it has been revealed that the classic lullaby from the animated film has been covered by indie rock band Arcade Fire for the upcoming live-action remake. As announced by Disney, the cover will play during the film's end credits scene.

With a director as creative as Tim Burton helming the film, Mitchell Leib, president of music & soundtracks for Walt Disney Studios, sought to work with a band that could create a version of the classic lullaby that was equally as "interesting" and "artistic."

With Arcade Fire's Win Butler actually having a personal connection with the 1941 animated classic, it seemed like a perfect match.

“There is a scene with a locomotive in the original ‘Dumbo’ that uses an instrument called the Sonovox that my grandpa Alvino Rey made famous in the 1930s,” explained Butler. “Every time I saw the film I thought it was him."

Turns out, Arcade Fire's cover of "Baby Mine" was actually a family project for Butler, whose mom, brother, wife, and son all contributed. 

"When we were asked to do the [end credit version of ‘Baby Mine’], I immediately got all of my grandfather’s old guitars and wanted to play them in the song," he revealed. "My mom plays the harp on the track, my brother the theremin, my wife [Régine Chassagne] sings and plays drums, and our son even plays the triangle, as well as the rest of our ‘family’ in Arcade Fire. I will forever relate to the song thinking about the people I hold so dear that are ‘so precious to me.’ Listen for the cameo of my grandpa Alvino’s famous Sonovox at the end.”

While we'll have to wait until Dumbo flies into theaters later this month to hear the full version, Disney has released a preview of the song.



With music by composer Frank Churchill and lyrics by Ned Washington, the Oscar-nominated "Baby Mine" is perhaps one of Disney's most iconic songs, accompanying the touching moment between Dumbo and his mother, who is locked away in a train car. The scene is both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time and is easily one of the most memorable moments in the 1941 classic film.

While Arcade Fire's version of "Baby Mine" will play during the end credits, Sharon Rooney, who portrays Miss Atlantis, will perform it in the actual film.

This isn't the first time Disney has sought out a major rock band for help with its end credits scene. For Ralph Breaks the Internet, Walt Disney Animation Studios teamed up with Imagine Dragons for the original song "Zero."

Dumbo flies into theaters on March 29, 2019.

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MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 3/5/2019, 7:10 AM
Gonna need a hankie.
Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 3/5/2019, 7:20 AM
If that's what it sounds like, then it sounds pretty terrible. It's supposed to be a lullaby. Whatever, still wanna see the movie, but come on Disney, who greenlight's this stuff?
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 3/5/2019, 8:54 AM
Not a fan of overly sprucing up the song becuse it can just muck it up. But if the Arcade Fire version is just during the end credits I guess it's okay. That original scene is movie magic at it's devastating heartbreaking finest.

Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 3/5/2019, 9:02 AM
Okay, but the important question is who is going to do When I See An Elephant Fly?
thejon93rd
thejon93rd - 3/5/2019, 10:34 AM
Last time Arcade Fire was attached to a movie, Where The Wild Things Are, I loved it. I'm really looking forward to this film. It might go down as one of the better live-action retellings of an animated classic. I also think this will be Burton's best film since Ed Wood. I see a lot of heart and soul in this project already and I can't wait to see it.
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