The Bare Necessities
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| "The Bare Necessities" | |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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] Bill Murray and Neel Sethi, in the same roles, performed the song in the 2016 remake.[3]
Originally, it was written for an earlier draft of the film that was never produced.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] A hip-hop version of the song performed by Lou Rawls was used as the theme song for Jungle Cubs.[7]
