Title: You've Got a Friend
Content:   "You've Got a Friend" was written by Carole King during the January 1971 recording sessions for her own album Tapestry and James Taylor's album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. King has stated that "the song was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced. The song wrote itself.  It was written by something outside myself, through me." According to Taylor, King told him that the song was a response to a line in Taylor's earlier song "Fire and Rain" that "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend." King's album was recorded in an overlap with Taylor's, and King, Danny Kortchmar, and Joni Mitchell perform on both. The song is included on both albums; King said in a 1972 interview that she "didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. But when James heard it he really liked 
Title: You've Got a Friend in Me
Content: It was performed by George Jones and Kathy Mattea on The Best of Country Sing the Best of Disney. ; In 2006, Steve Tyrell and Dr. John did a duet of the song on Tyrell's CD "The Disney Standards". ; Michael Bublé covered "You've Got a Friend in Me" on his 2013 album, To Be Loved. The track became a U.S. Adult Contemporary chart hit, spending 14 weeks on the chart and peaking at number 10. ; A remix of "You've Got a Friend in Me" was released on April 22, 2014 by Alfred Montejanhyper on the remix album Dconstructed. ; On May 31, 2018, Rex Orange County released a cover of "You've Got a Friend in Me", performing along with Randy Newman, the creator of the song. ; An instrumental remix of "You've Got a Friend in Me" plays in the Toy Box world of Kingdom Hearts III, arranged by Yoko Shimomura and released in 2019. ; On December 13, 2019, a cover by Cavetown was published on YouTube and released all streaming platforms. ; A covered version of the song appears in Just Dance 2021. 
Title: You've Got a Friend
Content:  "You've Got a Friend" is a 1971 song written by Carole King. It was first recorded by King and included in her album Tapestry. Another well-known version is by James Taylor from his album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. His was released as a single in 1971, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The two versions were recorded simultaneously in 1971 with shared musicians. "You've Got a Friend" won Grammy Awards both for Taylor (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance) and King (Song of the Year). Dozens of other artists have recorded the song over the years, including Dusty Springfield, Michael Jackson, Anne Murray and Donny Hathaway.
Title: You've Got a Friend
Content:  "You've Got a Friend" was recorded by British acid jazz and funk group the Brand New Heavies for their 'Shelter' album in 1997 and was the third single to be released from the album. It reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart and number 13 in Scotland in October 1997. The song also peaked within the top 10 in Hungary. The group performed the song on the music chart television programme Top of the Pops.
Title: You've Got a Friend
Content:  lyrics translated into Khmer. Vannary's rendition is featured in the soundtrack to the 2015 documentary film Don't Think I've Forgotten. "You've Got a Friend" was performed by Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan, and Carole King at the VH1 Divas Live concert in Beacon Theatre, New York, in 1998. It was released as a single and reached number 74 on the Belgian Flanders Airplay Chart. In 2005, British pop/rock band McFly's cover of this song charted at number one in the UK Singles Chart. This was released as a double-A side along with the band's song "All About You". This was also the official single for that year's Comic Relief event. Yo La Tengo covered this song on their album Popular Songs.
Title: You've Got a Friend (Sonia and Big Fun song)
Content:  "You've Got a Friend" is a song written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and performed by Sonia and Big Fun, and featuring Gary Barnacle on sax. The song, a midtempo pop ballad, was released as a charity single for the Childline foundation on June 11, 1990. Initially the artists recorded the well-known Carole King song of the same name, but for reasons unknown it was ultimately not used and SAW wrote an original song with the same name instead. The cover version was finally released in the 2010 re-issue of Big Fun's album, A Pocketful of Dreams. The single peaked at #14 in the UK and #12 in Ireland. It was later included on Big Fun's Japanese edition of their debut album A Pocketful of Dreams.
Title: You've Got a Friend in Me
Content:  "You've Got a Friend in Me" is a song by Randy Newman. Used as the theme song for the 1995 Disney/Pixar animated film Toy Story, it has since become a major musical component for its sequels, Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019) as well as a musical leitmotif throughout the whole Toy Story franchise. The song was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but lost both to "Colors of the Wind" from Disney's Pocahontas. Like many other Disney theme songs, "You've Got a Friend in Me" has been covered numerous times. Cover versions featured in the first three Toy Story films include a duet with Newman and Lyle Lovett in Toy Story;  a diegetic instance by Tom Hanks, a version by Robert Goulet and an instrumental by Tom Scott in Toy Story 2, and a Spanish language version by the Gipsy Kings in Toy Story 3.
Title: Friend (song)
Content:  "Friend" is a 2004 song by Fleetwood Mac's keyboardist and vocalist Christine McVie from her album In the Meantime. The song was written by McVie, Robbie Patton, George Hawkins, and McVie's nephew Dan Perfect. The song reached #29 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart in 2004.
Title: You've Got a Friend in Me
Content:  Toy Story 2, where an episode of Woody's Roundup (the 1950s puppet show he was based on) shows the puppet Woody singing the song, directed at the young audience and featuring a small child hugging the puppet. Woody sees this and has an epiphany, realizing that his mission as a toy is to be there for a child. (In-universe, the song was presumably written for Woody's Roundup.) The Woody's Roundup version was performed by Tom Hanks, with acoustic guitar backing; Wheezy's version was sung by Robert Goulet (though the character was voiced by Joe Ranft); and the Spanish version, "You've Got a Friend in Me (Para el Buzz Español)", was performed by the Gipsy Kings.
Title: Friends (Bette Midler song)
Content:  "Friends" (also titled "(You Got to Have) Friends") is a 1973 hit single by Bette Midler. It was written by Buzzy Linhart and Mark "Moogy" Klingman. In the United States, the song reached No. 9 on the Adult Contemporary chart and reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Question: who sang the song you got a friend in me?
Answer: Lyle Lovett.
Randy Newman.