I would like to be like you

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I would like to be like you (English: I Wan'na Be Like You ) is a song from the Disney film The Jungle Book 1967, which by the Sherman Brothers was written.

The song is sung in the original English by Louis Prima as King Louie and Phil Harris as Balu. The German version of the song was sung by Klaus Havenstein as King Louie and Edgar Ott as Balu; the German text is from Heinrich Riethmüller .

The Disney animators shaped the character of King Louie and the scene in the jungle partly according to the way Louis Prima and his band moved on stage. The scat dialogue between Balu and King Louie was recorded in two sessions. Louis Primas Part was the first to be recorded. It was initially planned that Phil Harris should repeat Prima’s words. However, Harris did not sing his part from Primate's model.

Context in Disney film

The orangutan King Louie is portrayed in the film as a cunning monkey king who wants to persuade the human child Mowgli to share the secret of fire with him (“give me the power of man's red flower” or “the splendor of fire, give me) the power to be exactly like you ”), striving for human likeness and power. Mowgli imitates the monkey's dance. At the same time, the monkey king is aped in his choreography by another smaller monkey. In addition, Baloo the bear disguises himself as an orangutan in order to rescue Mowgli from the captivity of the monkey gang through a diversionary maneuver - the song ends abruptly when the masquerade is exposed.

Cover versions

Pinky and Perky recorded the song for their album Film Parade (1970). In 1994 Phish sang a version in The Metropolis Concert Hall in Montreal, Canada . Big Bad Voodoo Daddy sang the song for the soundtrack for the movie Swingers . The song was later also released on the album This Beautiful Life (1999). In The Jungle Book 2 the song is sung by Smash Mouth . The Turnpike Cruisers , Barbriel Rios and the Jonas Brothers also covered the song. Robbie Williams recorded the track with Olly Murs in 2013 for his album Swings Both Ways . This version was also able to place in the German single charts.

In 2009 the song was used in an American anti-smoking campaign film. To the music, children are shown who copy the behavior of their parents, combined with the warning that children can be encouraged to smoke by parents who smoke.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Prima, by Garry Boulard . books.google.de. Retrieved September 16, 2009.

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