The song is performed by Phillip Glasser and Betsy Cathcart, who replaces Tanya's voice actress Amy Green for the song. [26] It was also nominated for "Best Fantasy Film" and "Best Music" during the 14th Saturn Awards, losing to The Boy Who Could Fly and Little Shop of Horrors, respectively. Check out Somewhere Out There (From "American Tail") by Movie Sounds Unlimited on Amazon Music. Although his family also attends, they stand well in the back of the audience and they are unable to recognize Fievel onstage with her. It was filmed in New York City and features Ronstadt and Ingram, in two separate rooms, sitting at their desks while drawing and coloring scenes from the film. [3][16] In his review for the Chicago Reader, Pat Graham panned its "flimsy characterizations" but said that "the overall quality of the animation—baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived—makes it worth a look. He knew it would be difficult, but felt it was worth the sacrifice to work with Spielberg on a major project. In the main body of the film, the fictional characters singing the song, Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz, are brother and sister, and the love they share is described as general. The mice take over an abandoned museum on the Chelsea Piers and begin constructing their plan. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. Musick (Tony Toponi) is one of a small number of women in animation chosen to voice a male character. [43] The Mousekewitz family would also be parodied, somewhat, as a family of Italian-American fleas in a few episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, also produced by Steven Spielberg. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The song had a lasting legacy in Hollywood, one that it doesn't often get traced back to. Steven Spielberg, the producer of An American Tail, invited songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil to collaborate with the late James Horner on four songs for the film's soundtrack, to be completed in a four week timeframe. Try again. The music video for the song was directed, produced, and edited by Jeffrey Abelson. 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Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. [6], The film was also plagued by union difficulties. The song also appeared in the compilation Now That's What I Call Music! The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: In 1987, An American Tail was first released on VHS, and later on LaserDisc in both regular[32] and CAV play editions in November 1991 by MCA Home Video in North America, and CIC Video internationally. Fievel:Somewhere out thereBeneath the pale moonlightSomeone's thinking of meAnd loving me tonightSomewhere out thereSomeone's saying a prayerThat we'll find one anotherIn that big somewhere out thereAnd even though I know how veryFar apart we areIt helps to think we might be wishingOn the same bright starFievel:And when the night wind starts to singA lonesome lullabyIt helps to think we're sleeping Underneath the sa… Somewhere Out There is a song that Fievel and Tanya both sing one night while Fievel is lost in New York City, neither knowing that the other is also singing the song. It is the only such playground at any of NBC Universal's theme parks. Often I brought them over myself, so that I could explain them. If it has the highs and lows in the deliverance of lines and it captures the focus of the character, it allows the animators to get a true fix on the action. Steven Spielberg, the film's producer, invited songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil to collaborate with James Horner on four songs for its soundtrack, to be completed in a four-week timeframe. He escapes with Tony Toponi, a street-smart Italian mouse, and they join up with Bridget, an Irish mouse trying to rouse her fellow mice to fight the cats. "Somewhere Out There" is a song released by MCA Records and recorded by American singers Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram for the soundtrack of the animated film An American Tail (1986). A huge mechanical mouse, inspired by the bedtime tales Papa told Fievel of the "Giant Mouse of Minsk", chases Warren and his gang down the pier and into the water. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The song was written by James Horner, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, and produced by Peter Asher and Steve Tyrell. The concert was recorded by Telarc Records and released in late 1987. The consensus is: "Exquisitely animated, An American Tail is a sweet, melancholy immigrants story. The final score became one of the film's strongest points. No one knows what to do about it, until Fievel whispers a plan to Gussie.