The David Bowie song from the 1986 film Labyrinth featuring the line “You remind me of the babe” is “Magic Dance.” In the film, Bowie performs it as Jareth, the Goblin King, while entertaining the crying baby Toby with his goblin subjects.
Bowie wrote and recorded “Magic Dance” for Jim Henson’s musical fantasy film, which premiered in 1986. The song appears on the Labyrinth soundtrack, released in July 1986, and was later issued as a single in limited markets. The film’s production and end credits sometimes referred to it as “Dance Magic,” which can cause confusion about the title.
The call-and-response passage beginning “You remind me of the babe” echoes a comic exchange from the 1947 film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant and Shirley Temple. Bowie adapted that older nonsense chant by replacing “man” with “babe” and “hoodoo” with “voodoo.”
Labyrinth contains several other Bowie songs, including “Underground,” “Within You” and “As the World Falls Down.” Those tracks belong to different scenes, but the memorable babe-and-power exchange identifies “Magic Dance.”