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"The Bare Necessities" is a jazz song, written by Terry Gilkyson, [1] from Disney's 1967 animated feature film The Jungle Book, sung by Phil Harris as Baloo and Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli. [2] Bill Murray and Neel Sethi, in the same roles, performed the song in the 2016 remake .
The instrumental music was written by George Bruns and orchestrated by Walter Sheets. Two of the cues were reused from previous Disney films, with the scene where Mowgli wakes up after escaping King Louie using one of Bruns' themes for Sleeping Beauty, and Bagheera giving a eulogy to Baloo when he mistakenly thinks the bear was killed by Shere Khan being accompanied by Paul J. Smith's organ ...
Walt Disney sought to make his version of The Jungle Book a lot more upbeat than the Rudyard Kipling-penned source material, the original Bill Peet script, and the initial score composed by Terry Gilkyson (whose song "The Bare Necessities" ultimately made it into the final film).
Though the movie hasn’t exactly held up, the wholesome aspects of this story of a free-spirited girl are captured beautifully in the lyrics and melody of the movie’s most memorable song. 11 ...
The song "The Bare Necessities" was nominated for Best Original Song at the 40th Academy Awards, losing to "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle. [113] Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Gregory Peck lobbied extensively for the film to be nominated for Best Picture, but was unsuccessful. [114]
Dr. John performs "The Bare Necessities" in the credits of the 2016 film The Jungle Book. Dr. John's unexpected performance on June 20, 1986, in Blairgowrie, Scotland is the subject of Michael Marra's song "Mac Rebennack's Visit to Blairgowrie" on his 2007 EP, Quintet. [77] Upon being told of the song, Dr. John wrote Marra a cheque for "love ...
In 1968, he was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Bare Necessities" from the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book. [4] Other songs Gilkyson wrote for Disney films were: Swiss Family Robinson (1960) Song: "My Heart Was An Island'" Savage Sam (1963) Song: "Savage Sam and Me" The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) Song: "Thomasina"
Disney Sing-Along Songs [a] is a series of videos on VHS, betamax, laserdisc, and DVD with musical moments from various Disney films, TV shows, and attractions. Lyrics for the songs are sometimes displayed on-screen with the Mickey Mouse icon as a "bouncing ball".