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"Tarzan & Jane" is a song by Danish group Toy-Box from their debut album, Fantastic (1999). It was released as the lead single in 1998 in Germany and then re-released in 1999 to coincide with the premiere of Disney's Tarzan .
"Gitarzan" is a novelty song released by Ray Stevens in 1969 about a character who lives in a jungle and forms a musical band with his female partner, Jane, and their pet monkey. The song features Tarzan's jungle calls, scat singing, and a funky boogie-woogie, a quote from the song "Swinging on a Star", with the line "Carrying moonbeams home in ...
Toy-Box was founded by Amir El-Falaki and Anila Mirza in 1996, after they had met each other at a New Year's Eve party. They had been both singing and dancing professionally for some years, and also stand behind the choreographies of the group.
[3] [4] The song appeared on the German Singles Charts for five weeks, peaking at number 43 in October 2000. [4] In the Disney Interactive video game Tarzan Activity Center, an activity entitled "Tarzan's Sing and Swing" gave players the ability to either listen to three Tarzan songs, among them "Two Worlds", or sing along to a karaoke version ...
FanTastic is the debut studio album by Danish bubblegum pop band Toy-Box.It was released by Edel on 21 May 1999. It includes the hit singles "Tarzan & Jane", "Best Friend" and "The Sailor Song", and the promotional single "Teddybear".
The Disney Song Encyclopedia deemed it an "uptempo ballad" and "tender song". [5] Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton, in their book American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, wrote that Merle Dandridge, who performed this song as the role of Tarzan's adoptive mother Kala in the Broadway version, had "the best song". [9]
The song opens and concludes with the lyrics, "Tarzan and Jane were swingin' on a vine / Sippin' from a bottle of vodka double-wine", which was credited as a sample used from "Tarzan & Jane Swingin' on a Vine" from the 1998 album Run To Cadence With U.S. Marines. [6]
"Strangers Like Me" is a song by the English drummer Phil Collins for the soundtrack of Disney's 1999 animated film Tarzan. The song peaked at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and received highly positive reviews. Collins also recorded the song in Spanish (Lo extraño que soy), Italian (Al di fuori di me ...