Toy Story is the soundtrack album for the 1995 Disney/Pixar animated film Toy Story, with music composed, conducted, orchestrated, arranged, and performed by Randy Newman. The soundtrack includes the film score, as well as three original songs written and performed by Newman. It was released by Walt Disney Records on November 22, 1995, the week of the film's release, and the first soundtrack album from a Pixar film.
The soundtrack for Toy Story received praise for its "sprightly, stirring score". It received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ("You've Got a Friend in Me"). Despite the film's critical success, the soundtrack peaked at number 94 on the Billboard 200. A cassette and CD single release of "You've Got a Friend in Me" was released on April 12, 1996, to promote the soundtrack's release.
After it went out of print, the album was made available for purchase digitally in retailers such as iTunes. The soundtrack, along with Newman's complete unreleased score for the film was remastered and reissued on July 17, 2015, as the tenth entry of The Legacy Collection series.
Contents
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
Randy Newman – piano (1, 2, 3, 16), orchestral arrangements (1–3), brass arrangements (1–3)
Randy Kerber – keyboards (1, 2, 3, 16)
Kevin Savigar – Electric Organ / Hammond B-3 (16)
John Goux, Dean Parks – guitars (1)
Jimmy Johnson - bass guitar
Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
Yvonne Williams, Bobbi Page, Luana Jackman – background vocals (1, 2, 3, 16)
Lyle Lovett – co-lead vocals (16)
Gabe Witcher – violin (16)
Production
Randy Newman – producer
Ted Kryczko, Joey Miskulin and Gary Powell – producer (1)
Don Davis, Frank Wolf, Jim Flamberg, Chris Montan – producer (2–15)
Don Was – producer (16)
Brian Rajaratnam, John Costello, Michael Fahey, Monique Evelyn, Sean Badum – studio personnel, assistant recording engineer (1)
Andrew Page – music producer (1)
Jeff De Morris – assistant engineer (16)
Rik Pekkonen – recording and mixing engineer (16)
