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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 ...
[10] [11] "The Bare Necessities", written by Terry Gilkyson, is performed by Murray and Sethi, [12] and a cover version by Dr. John is featured in the end credits. " I Wan'na Be Like You " and " Trust in Me " — written by the Sherman Brothers — are performed by Walken and Johansson, respectively; Richard M. Sherman wrote revised lyrics for ...
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]
In the 1960s, he left the group to work for the Walt Disney Studios, writing music both for movies and the television series The Wonderful World of Disney especially "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh." In 1968, he was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Bare Necessities" from the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book. [4]
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).
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