"I'd Like to be You for a Day" - Theme Song from Freaky Friday (1976)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2011
- Performed by Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, who play daughter and mother, then mother and daughter.
However, other reports (including the IMDb FAQ page) suggest that this theme was actually sung by a multi-tracked ten-year-old named Susie Stevens (now Susan Stevens-Logan).
This is the theme song which plays over the opening titles of the original 1976 version of Freaky Friday. 
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The 1976 version of the movie with Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster remains my favorite version hands down!
I just watched again after almost 30 years and realized what a great message exists in it. I was 11 when it came out and it sure has aged better than I have.
Agreed 100%
me too
Agreed but the Lindsay Lohand version is awesome also
R.I.P. Beautiful Barbara Harris😢 this song and movie were my favorite as a child and now..you were a great & funny actress😢😔🎶💖
R.i.p Bárbara
@@Head02 my Dad's aunt was named Barbara who passed away at 21
Back in the days when every Disney film had a theme song!
I remember watching this in the theater and not wanting the song and animation to end
:(
I thought I was the only one! It's fun to watch. Sweetly retro.
Yes, very '70s. :)
that is so sweet!
Just like for other classics back in the 70's, did people in the movie theater clap at the end when they switched the mother & daughter switched their minds back into the right bodies?
Ryan Cannon
From what I can remember, not at all 🙂 We weren’t that reactive with movies at that time.
I watched this in a small town in Iowa if that makes a difference.
Rest In Peace 🌹 Barbara Harris
7/25/35 - 8/22/18
Such a funny lady she was. She was amazing
suddendee Im so saddened by her passing ..i didn't even know till yesterday..i didn't hear anything about it until i looked something up. It's sad that some of the greats don't get the recognition they deserve.😢 Rip Barbara Harris💖 loved this movie as a child and now!😔
She died on my birthday 🙁
These animated intros gave a very magical and nostalgic air to the old Disney Live-Actions 👌
I'd like to be Jodie Foster for a day, she is amazing
I spent over thirty years without hearing this song, I'm writing these lines with tears in my eyes. Wonderful memories of my late mother, she loved this movie.
This movie was part of our Beta tape collection along with Tron and a few other Disney classics. I just watched it for the first time since I was a kid. It holds a warm place in my memory. Weirdly, i still remember some lines for the movie lol
I’m sorry
This one is a zillion times better than the remake. I watched this this morning while eating breakfast! "What else would a junk food junkie eat for breakfast?!" :)
Rum raisin banana split.
Bubble gum? (
KeepOnChasingLights5
No
I'd like to be Mandy Moore for a day because I love Mandy Moore all the time.
I've got one question. (takes bite) What is this?
RIP Ms. Harris! You were one of the greats!
as a 25 year old guy. I love how films back then they put a lot of effort into even the opening titles and the beguine there as entertaining as the film its self.
films opening credits now are sadly glossed over quickly if they have any ,usual shafted to the end now,
I love the book Freaky Friday, and I love this movie. Barbara Harris was fantastic in this role. What a talented woman. RIP Barbara
There was a book????
@@DebraCTrialByFireProductions Yes, it was written by Mary Rodgers and released in 1972. It is my favorite book from childhood. It's a very funny and sweet story about mothers and daughters.
OMG. I used to watch this movie all day long when I was a kid. just wonderful!!!!!
Without a doubt, this is the best and only version of this movie. They remade this three times, with each remake getting worse and worse. Leave well enough alone! Barbara Harris, is a wonderful actress. I really like what she brought to this. I remember watching this when I was a kid in the 1970s. I was actually more interested in Barbara Harris's character as the child. Then Jodie Foster as the adult. Barbara Harris's opening line really fits the mood. When she said to her husband, "that child doesn't have a clue about my life, not a single clue". Good movie and I enjoy watching it from time to time.
I grew up watching this movie! It brings back great memories! 😀
Amazing song and incredible opening title credits! This is what I loved most about Disney movies from about 1960 to 1980.
The era when you had walt and his son in law ron miller in charge
SO much meaning behind every lyric. I really love this song because eventhough it's non-cannon, I feel like I can imagine Ellen and Anabelle just singing this song distantly. It also resembles the meaning of the movie in just a song. Beautiful melody too.
Barbara Harris is a terrific singer.
Great theme song. Awesome movie. The remake was good too but this was the original. Jodie Foster in one of her earliest roles! Well done.
Barbara Harris 1935-2018 RIP
Timeline 1:35 where Annabel Andrews is crying
As you know Barbara Harris who played as Ellen Andrews in Freaky Friday 1976 and in North Avenue Irregulars has died, may you rest in peace. I enjoyed this Disney opening video with Synthesizer Jazz music.
No
Please not Barbra
dont tell me she died today
Rest in Peace, Barbara Harris and Dick Van Patten.
not dick van patten
@@LuannOsbourne Dick Van Patten died in 2014.
The best of the three versions of freaky Friday by far and this is my favourite song from a Disney movie. I loved the fact Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster sung the song as well as were the main players in the movie. Disney should go back to making films like this again,
I like both the 1976 and 2003 versions! I just recently saw the 2018 and thought it was terrible! I thought those songs were terrible and so corny and I just thought they were not good... I thought the acting was terrible as well! I didn't think it was going to be good going into it but after I watched it... It was way worse than I even imagined!
I like both the 1976 and 2003 versions! I just recently saw the 2018 and thought it was terrible! I thought those songs were terrible and so corny and I just thought they were not good... I thought the acting was terrible as well! I didn't think it was going to be good going into it but after I watched it... It was way worse than I even imagined!
@@christiancisco7444 did you see the direct to video 1995 version with Shelly long as the mother? It was not a bad version.They used a magic pendant to have them switch bodies. So there are four versions of the film. I think Gabby Hoffman was playing the daughter who was in the school diving team. I had no idea there had been a 2018 version until you mentioned it.
That’s the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard
RIP Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris had such a warm great voice
I love this movie! On the day before the last day of school + the last day of school (I think or its just the day before the last day of school) when I was in fifth grade, my class and I were watching this movie.
Great Song and film.
My 1st grade teacher showed us this in 1994. We loved it.
LYRICS:
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to climb into the dreams you hide
To know the grown-up and the child inside
Whatever makes you smile
I'd like to see it
Go ahead and free it
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
Are you excited by electric trains?
And kinda lonely every time it rains?
To stare out through your eyes
Would start revealing all the things you're feeling
What's on your mind when you hear a tune?
Or ride a toy balloon?
Just let me look
Let me read your book and learn it
Loving every pages as I turn it
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
There's so much more I need to understand
It's not enough to simply hold your hand
And hear the words you say
I wanna touch you
I wanna reach you
In every single way
I'd like to be you for a day
To put you back on the track when you go astray
I'd like to be you for a day
To know your aims and to share the games that you play
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to find this on videocassette for a day. Freaky Friday (1976). My mom still loves this movie. My mom loves watching this movie over and over again during the 70s (as much as the 2003 remake with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis).
Jodie Foster made a great film debut as well, at a time when Disney Studios were making a living off family-oriented comedy films, such as The Parent Trap and The Absent-Minded Professor
My mom used to sing this to me. 🥺💗 brb, crying.
This was back when Disney made good movies that kids and adults could watch.
don't know if your on youtube anymore, but I agree.
@@eniigma2943 Yep still here.
What treasure in the universe wouldn't I give to go back...
Brings tears to my eyes: One of the few videos that my entire family could gather around on a rainy Sunday afternoon and watch all the way through.
Groovy song!! I have the original at home!
You have the original song?? Lucky!
It's great to have something like that to treasure. I'm envious. 😊
I remember both versions of this Disney movie and they're on Disney plus.
There are four versions! Only three are on Disney Plus, unfortunately -- the 1995 version with Gaby Hoffmann and Shelley Long is not.
I know most of you don’t like the remake as much as the original but I liked it and it was before I’d even knew there was an original but still I will be honest the original was much better than the remake and the opening song is pretty memorable and catchy.
This is actually much closer to the novel, which is one of my favorites. The novel's author Mary Rodgers wrote the screenplay for this. The only flaw I can find is transplanting the story from upper Manhattan to the California suburbs, since New York City itself was so much of a character in its own right. (Even more so in A Billion For Boris, my favorite of the three sequel novels. The other two sequels just rehashed Freaky Friday's premise.)
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to climb into the dreams you hide
To know the grown-up and the child inside
Whatever makes you smile
I'd like to see it
Go ahead and free it
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
Are you excited by electric trains?
And kinda lonely every time it rains?
To stare out through your eyes
Would start revealing all the things you're feeling
What's on your mind when you hear a tune?
Or ride a toy balloon?
Just let me look
Let me read your book and learn it
Loving every pages as I turn it
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
There's so much more I need to understand
It's not enough to simply hold your hand
And hear the words you say
I wanna touch you
I wanna reach you
In every single way
I'd like to be you for a day
To put you back on the track when you go astray
I'd like to be you for a day
To know your aims and to share the games that you play
I'd like to be you for a day
I'd like to be you for a day
I was born in 1978 and this is the version I grew up with. I refuse to watch the remake.
The remake is actually good.
Wiz Khali Maybe for you but I prefer this over the original
There were 2 of em, neither of them have this one's charm.
I thought the remake was okay but still the original is better.
Jodie Foster was the actress I associated most with my childhood movies and this was one of them. I absolutely do not like the remake. Lindsay Lohan can't compare to a 2-time Oscar winner or Barbara Harris...
This song is awesome and i would rather watch jodie than lindsay any day
Lisa Dillon
Jodie is overrated and the remake is so much better
+Jovany Marquez
No, no! Jodie's never overrated- especially in her other roles, like this one. The remake is too much rock and roll.
@@jovanym2931 What would make you think Jodie's overrated? She played her role well and gave a brilliant performance of what a kid in the 1970's would've acted like.
Thanks for uploading this! I was amazed when I learned that Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster actually sang the song.
I think its more to do with the time synthesizer sounds were very popular and used to illustrate spookiness. I think its more directed towards the films main them freakiness and strangeness.Also hints of dream like childhoods.The mums memories of it and the daughter currently experiencing it, rather than going for a space age themed sound effect your were thinking
This animated opening segment from 1976 looks like a cartoon and I like it. ❤❤❤😄
0:53 Anabelle looks cute in that outfit and that and also jewelry. ☺
1:01 And that smile. Awww.
its all about jodie foster voice overs in this film that make it funny
I love Barbara Harris!!!
Brings tears to my eyes: One of the few videos that my entire family could gather around on a rainy Sunday afternoon and watch all the way through.
31 years years later can still make me cry, (yes I know it's from 76 but I'm sure it was 85 when I first saw it)
damn... just relized, that makes this 40 years old
Personally, it caught me off guard, too. I think we should enjoy the message of a daughter finding out she has a lot of strengths her mom never expected and vice-versa. The song is beautiful pop poetry.
I miss the old Disney live action movies how they begun & ended like this, the original parent trap and Pollyanna
I remember watching this on VHS at nearly 12 fell in love with the old Disney films after that
I love Jodie :)!
This is a song...by two amazing girls....❤ Them ❤
Forget the remake....this could not be matched 😊....i have the dvd😊of this
Thank god he was replaced because no one could match Barbara HARRIS's performance. I've always loved the 1976 version of Freak Friday and I appreciate what a genius Barbara Harris was in the role a whole heck of a lot more now as an adult. :)
Thank you for posting this! It cheers me up. All that 70s flute background music is perfect. Is it really Jodie and Barbara? They're good!
Who else thinks this is much better than the cruddy remake?
You can never beat the classics. I wouldn't necessarily call 2003 a cruddy one, but I would've loved that version if it wasn't filled with too much of that rock and roll jazz- felt too much like I was at a rock concert to see that whole version. Oy vey...Jodie Foster is the best.
Better Than Lindsay I Hated The Lindsay Lohan One
Who needs the remake?
This version is the bomb
#ClassOf1978
@Da Slickstanator
you need the remake?
ur a fuckwit!
@Da Slickstanator
well that was close....
i love this song
I'm so happy to have been brought up with this version of the movie as a gen-z
I sing this song with my kids. I grew up watching this in the 70's and 80's.... My kids think this song rocks (and hey, it's like getting to watch a small cartoon with it, which is cool)!
There was also a made for TV movie of Freaky Friday that was made in 1995 if anyone remembers. It had Shelley Long in it.
Mike D I do. It was Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman, but in my eyes, it doesn't compare to this. I saw this at five and am now 33. One of my absolute FAVORITE films, and had me following Jodie since. The remake with Gaby and Shelley was okay, but the LiLo remake-- garbage (even though I LIKE Jamie Lee Curtis and Marc McClure makes a quick cameo reprising his original role of Boris)!
Mike D I do. Watched it on the Disney Channel back then.
Wow!
I try to put the made for TV remake out of my mind for various reasons. Same with the TV remake of Escape to Witch Mountain.
I fucking love this movie 💗💚
I grew up watching this film, and I absolutely love it! I haven't seen the remake, but I plan on taking a look at it this weekend. The theme song is a fantastic piece of music written by Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha. To me, there is nothing sweeter than clever rhyming lyrics!!!
***** Fantastic!
There are actually 2 remakes as well as 2 sequels Disney made, The Summer switch and a Billion for Boris.
I'll show you all my age now, i went to the cinema to see this when i was a kid...me and my sister thought it was great sneaking in a second time to see it for free, terrific memory's to a lovely film.
Wow...I remember a whole load of these seventies 'quirky' magic movies that seemed to be repeated way into the nineties. I don't know if todays kids really experience much of the old movies beyond maybe a few classic's. I remember seeing this film in a block with another 'magic body swap' film called the Shaggy D.A about a district attorney who turns into an old english sheepdog, which was done in the same 70's period, probably also by Disney. That was pretty good too.
This film was superior to the 2003 version. I LOVE Barbara Harris
If this is actually both Barbara and Jodie singing, Barbara’s voice is beautiful. I think she was just an actress though
No, she has done Broadway shows and the last song on Nashville.
Will always be my favourite movie. Love the song too. Xx
The Animated Intro is Very Great!
The Song I'd Like to be you for a day is Heartwarming!
Loved the movie and theme music
I watched the movie in early 2007 aged nearly 12 and didn't know it was filmed in '76 I love this movie a lot and the theme is fantastic. It should've been put as a dowload on iTunes
Crazy, I was almost the same age when I first saw this movie. I guess I have a soft spot for Jodie Foster because she was in so many movies that I saw when growing up. I admit she is the actress who was most prevalent through my childhood. Even into adulthood, she was still entertaining me in movies like Panic Room or Contact. She did everything: horror, comedy, drama, etc.
I love this song so much.
I wish they had the full movie on youtube!! LOVE THIS MOVIE.
Animation reminds me of those older Disney shorts like A Symposium on Popular Songs.
Amazing bouncy job!!
Estás intros animadas le daban un aire muy mágico y nostálgico a los Live-Actions antiguos de Disney 👌
I have most versions of this movie. I don’t think the one from 1995 was ever released on Audio Visual
Wow I still love this movie!
My father's aunt's name was Barbara, but she passed away at the age of 21 😢
rest in peace Disney studio soon
love this song!!!!!!
Amazing job courtesy of Disney!!
I'd like to be Jodie Foster for a day, she is amazing so much it feels like I'm on Cloud 9!
Beautiful! ^^
cute song, when this movie came out i wasn't born yet but make me feel sad and nostalgic...
Never knew they could duet like that!
This such a cute intro
"I'd Like To Be You For a Day" is the opening song of the film, Freaky Friday, and was sung by Ellen Andrews and her daughter Annabel Andrews.
I may be eternally out-of-touch, and nothing against Simple Plan, but this song and title sequence is heaps more enticing and stirring of the curiosity, not to mention gets at the very heart of this story, so I’ll take it over simply a cover of “Happy Together” any day.
I would take 1 day and watch "Freaky Friday", "Candleshoe", "Blackbeard's Ghost", and "Snowball Express", Back to Back (In that order).
Barbara Harris died in 2018. I Love Barbara Harris 😭😢❤❤
Those pre Pixar era Disney live action films
Nostalgic. Even though I’ve never heard the song.
Buona settimana di ferragosto Marco la mia Jodie Foster
Not only that, they had quite an all-star lineup, too (Ruth Buzzi, Kaye Ballard, Dick Van Patten, Sorrell Booke, Marvin Kaplan, Al Molinaro, Jack Sheldon).
This ain't have to go so hard
My Sister and Duet this song. She is professional singer and I am tone deaf (but heaps of fun) and we cannot get passed the first words without bursting into laughter. My parents have asked us to please stop. We are 46 and 43
ESTAS INTROS ANIMADAS LE DIERON UN AIRE MUY MÁGICO Y NOSTALGICO A LOS VIEJOS LIVE-ACTIONS DE DISNEY👌
I really don't get why some people favour the Lindsay Lohan version of this film, because THIS version is the best :)
I always thought the 2003 version of that movie, was like combining Freaky Friday (1976) to the films, Rock n' Roll High School (1979) and Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). I felt that their scenes, with all that rock music, went on way too long and didn't develop some of the same flavor that the '76 version had. Either way, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Harmon, Lindsey Lohan, and Harold Gould, had some great performances, of their own, but nothing would ever take over my admiration I had for this one.
😍💕💕
Interestingly enough, the ladies sing this song as if they want to be the other for a day so that they can understand each other. They each seem to want to see the world from the other's point of view. In the actually movie, however, their motives are somewhat more selfish. Both Annabelle and Ellen make that wish so that the other will understand HER. They each think the other's life is a snap and want them to experience things a little differently. Well, in the end, they both get that, but they also get a little eye opener themselves. In the end, it's a humbling experience for the both of them.
Though any remakes of this film bring about satisfactory infusions, the original one is far better than any other versions, particularly with the theme song.
Sweet.
Cool!!