I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

Louis Prima · 1967 · Le Livre de la jungle, Disney, 1967

Context

The Sherman brothers wrote this song from The Jungle Book (1967) with a Dixieland-style melody. Louis Prima provides the voice, trumpet, and scat for King Louie, in a duet with Phil Harris (Baloo); Sam Butera also scats. The song was released by Walt Disney Records on the day the film opened.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917), Swing, big bands, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.

By the same artist

• Jump, Jive an' Wail (1956)
• Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody (1956)
• Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) (1936)

Sources

• EN: I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

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