The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

“Babes in the Woods” is the operatic title song for the 1932 Silly Symphony
film short loosely based on Hansel and Gretel. Bert Lewis wrote the
number, which is sung by an uncredited voice on the soundtrack, telling
how two Dutch children are captured by an evil witch and almost added to
her collection of humans turned into spiders and rats, but are rescued by a
band of forest elves.
“Baby Mine” is the heartbreaking lullaby ballad written by Frank Churchill
(music) and Ned Washington (lyric) for the animated circus tale Dumbo
(1941). Betty Noyes sings the number on the soundtrack as young Dumbo
is comforted by his mother, who is locked up as dangerous and can touch
him only with her outstretched trunk. Les Brown (vocal by Betty Bonney)
and Jane Froman both had popular records of the Oscar-nominated song
and years later Barbara Cook, Ashley Brown, Kerry Butler, Steve Tyrell,
Paige Morehead, Michael Crawford, and Bette Midler each made a heartfelt
recording of the lullaby.
“Back in Business” is a bouncy pastiche number written by Stephen Sondheim
in the 1930s Depression-be-damned style for the film Dick Tracy
(1990), where it was sung by a line of nightclub chorines during a montage
showing Big Boy Caprice’s illegal enterprises booming. Sondheim’s
energetic melody and dancing lyric are somewhat lost in the busy editing,
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