Baby Elephant Walk
Baby Elephant Walk is a 1962 song by Henry Mancini. It was made for the comedy Hatari! written that takes place in East Africa. The song is attributed with a childish, playful character that made it a successful catchy tune .
In 1962 Mancini received a Grammy Award for best instrumental arrangement for the song . In his autobiography Mancini mentions that the song is written in the style of boogie-woogie , because when looking at a scene in the film, small, running elephants in the way they walked strongly reminded him of boogie-woogie.
The song was covered by Lawrence Welk , Bert Kaempfert , Dalida , Tommy Seebach and Judy Lynn , among others .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Keller : Henry Mancini - Jazz, Swing, Film. His ten best soundtracks. In: BR-Klassik . June 13, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ^ Artist Henry Mancini. In: Official website of the Grammy Awards. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .
- ^ Henry Mancini, Gene Lees : Did They Mention the Music? Cooper Square Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8154-1175-8 , pp. 109 (English, preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk. In: hitparade.ch . Retrieved January 4, 2020 .