Try coziness

Give it a try with coziness (English original title: The Bare Necessities, analogously "Das Allernnecessigste") is a song written by Terry Gilkyson that was used in the Disney film The Jungle Book . In the English version, the title is a play on words based on the consonance of the adjective bare ("blank", "merely") and the noun bear ( bear , in this case the film character Baloo, the bear ).

The song is sung in the original English by Phil Harris as Balu and Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli . The German version of the song was sung by Edgar Ott as Balu and Stefan Sczodrok as Mogli , the translation was by Heinrich Riethmüller . At the end of the film, a version with the panther Baghira ( Joachim Cadenbach ) and Balu is sung.

The song was originally composed for an earlier draft of the film, but it was discarded. The Sherman brothers , who wrote the other songs in the film, insisted that the song be used in the final version. Van Dyke Parks undertook the arrangement on his first assignment in 1963 . The song was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Song category .

Cover versions

The song has been re-recorded many times, for example by Louis Armstrong , who recorded it for the album Disney Songs the Satchmo Way , and Tituss Burgess for a BBC radio special on Disney's music. In 2005 two more recordings were made, one by Julie Andrews for her album Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs , the other by the group Bowling for Soup for the album DisneyMania 3 .

Gottlieb Wendehals , Mike Krüger and Klaus and Klaus recorded a German cover version together in 1993. In 1997, Stefan Raab recorded the song with a different text as Try it out with Gemütlichkeit (Nice and easy) for the continuation of the film The Jungle Book 2 . Its adaptation reached position 89 in the German single charts in four weeks, which makes it the most successful chart version of this piece. In 2013, the group Jupiter Jones re-recorded the song for the compilation album Giraffes 2 .

Individual evidence

^ Guy Cook: Language Play, Language Learning. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-442153-8 , pp. 56 f.
↑ Richard Henderson: Song Cycle / Van Dyke Park. Continuum, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2917-9 , p. 37. On the background also Jerry Zolten: The Beatles as Recording Artists. In: Kenneth Womack (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-86965-2 , pp. 33-61, here p. 35.
↑ Barry Lowe: Atomic Blonde. The Films of Mamie Van Doren. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2008, ISBN 978-0-7864-3138-0 , p. 98 .
^ Jos Willems: All of Me. The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong (= Studies of Jazz. Volume 51). Scarecrow, Lanham 2006, ISBN 0-8108-5705-7 , pp. 386. , 387, 391.

[1] Guy Cook: Language Play, Language Learning. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-442153-8 , pp. 56 f.

[2] Richard Henderson: Song Cycle / Van Dyke Park. Continuum, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2917-9 , p. 37. On the background also Jerry Zolten: The Beatles as Recording Artists. In: Kenneth Womack (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-86965-2 , pp. 33-61, here p. 35.

[3] Barry Lowe: Atomic Blonde. The Films of Mamie Van Doren. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2008, ISBN 978-0-7864-3138-0 , p. 98 .

[4] Jos Willems: All of Me. The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong (= Studies of Jazz. Volume 51). Scarecrow, Lanham 2006, ISBN 0-8108-5705-7 , pp. 386. , 387, 391.