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 The Year of a Million Dreams continues -- and new surprises await! We'll spill the beans for you next week.
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Louis Prima and his band made "I Wanna Be Like You" a swingin' sensation.
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Making "The Jungle Book" Swing
Like Rodgers & Hammerstein or Lerner and Loewe, Robert and Richard Sherman are one of the great American songwriting duos, with a parade of memorable hits penned for Disney. Sherman brothers' songs like "A Spoonful of Sugar," "It's a Small World," and "I Wanna Be Like You" have had audiences tapping their toes and singing along for decades.
Now, with "The Jungle Book" being released on DVD in a deluxe 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition on October 2, those classic Sherman brothers songs sound better than ever! Richard Sherman shared with us his memories of Walt Disney, the making of the film, and just how wild Louis Prima and his band got while recording "I Wanna Be Like You."
"The Jungle Book" was the last animated feature personally produced by Walt Disney himself, and Richard has vivid memories of working with him on the film -- from the outset, it was clear that Walt was going to leave his own stamp on the project.
"Walt sat us all down in his office and said 'How many of you guys have read 'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling?' No one r...
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DO YOU KNOW DISNEY?
What was the only song in the feature "The Jungle Book" (1967) not written by the team of Richard and Robert Sherman?
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THIS WEEK IN DISNEY HISTORY
October 5, 1922 - The Laugh-O-gram animated short "Goldie Locks and the Three Bears," directed and co-animated by Walt Disney, is released.
October 8, 1907 - Animator Art Babbitt is born in Omaha, Nebraska. He will join Disney in 1932 and over the next 9 years work on such classic animated features as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," and "Dumbo."
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YOUR QUESTION
I don't know what other schools did during lunch on rainy days, but at Betsy Ross we went into the cafeteria and watched movies. There was one movie that I absolutely loved, but I don't remember the name. It was narrated by Jiminy Cricket, he sang the "Encyclopedia Song" and talked about different types of music. I also remember that there were some cavemen that were used as "drums" -- one of them had a huge belly and made a very deep sound. Does any of this ring a bell?
- Nonnie, 40, Culver City, CA
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DAVE'S ANSWER
I think you may be confusing a couple of films. "Encyclopedia" was a series of short educational films starring Jiminy Cricket that first aired on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the mid-1950s. "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" was a cartoon showing the evolution of musical instruments beginning with the cave dwellers.
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