<P> She and Him's next album, Volume 3 was released by Merge Records in May 2013 . In the 15 - track album, Deschanel wrote eleven songs, while three other are cover songs . It debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 . The band's fifth studio album, Classics, received a December 2014 release by Columbia Records, and it features 13 covers of classic songs, recorded live and accompanied by a 20 - piece orchestra . Response towards the album was positive, with Robert Hamm for Alternative Press writing that Deschanel "is a delight, at times coy and romantic, and in other moments, moody and pensive". She also appeared as a guest vocalist on Brian Wilson's album No Pier Pressure (2015). </P> <P> Deschanel made her on - screen singing debut in The New Guy (2002). In Elf (2003), she sings with Will Ferrell in the bathroom shower scene on "Baby, It's Cold Outside", and was also heard singing it on the soundtrack with Leon Redbone . Her piano composition "Bittersuite" was used thematically in the dark dramedy Winter Passing (2006), in which she co starred with Ferrell and Ed Harris, and also sings "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" in the film . </P> <P> In 2007, other singing credits followed: the television musical Once Upon a Mattress ("An Opening for a Princess", "In a Little While", "Normandy", and "Yesterday I Loved You"); an old cabaret song in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ("A Bird in a Gilded Cage"); and the short film Raving ("Hello, Dolly!"). Deschanel and the cast of school children sing the Steve Earle song "Someday" and War's "Why Can't We Be Friends?" in Bridge to Terabithia . </P> <P> In Yes Man (2008), Deschanel sings several songs featured in the film and on the film soundtrack, and is shown singing "Uh - Huh" and "Sweet Ballad" with San Franciscan all - girl electro soul - punk group Von Iva in a fictional band called "Munchausen by Proxy". In (500) Days of Summer (2009), Deschanel sings a cover of The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" and it appears on the soundtrack of the film, as performed by She & Him . She also sings a cover of "Sugar Town" by Nancy Sinatra . Deschanel and Joseph Gordon - Levitt did a music video, called Bank Dance, directed by (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb, to accompany the film . It uses the She & Him song "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?", and some complicated choreography, choreographed by Michael Rooney . Mason Novick, the film's producer said, "We made the short because Zooey came in and said,' I have this idea...because I didn't get to dance in the movie"' (as Gordon - Levitt did). </P>

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