"The Bare Necessities" | |
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Song by Phil Harris and Bruce Reitherman | |
from the album The Jungle Book | |
B-side | "Trust in Me" ( Sterling Holloway) |
Released | 1967 |
Recorded | 1966 |
Genre | Jazz |
Length | 4:51 |
Label | Disneyland |
Songwriter(s) | Terry Gilkyson |
"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]
Originally, it was written for an earlier draft of the film that was never produced. [3] The Sherman Brothers, who wrote the other songs of the film, kept this as the only song used from the previous version. A reprise of the song was sung by Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera and Phil Harris as Baloo at the end of the film. Van Dyke Parks worked on the arrangement. [4] The song was also sung by Louis Armstrong. In 1967, "The Bare Necessities" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to " Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle. [5] A hip-hop version of the song performed by Lou Rawls was used as the theme song for Jungle Cubs. [6]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom ( BPI) [7] | Gold | 400,000‡ |
United States ( RIAA) [8] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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