Talk to the Animals
| Talk to the Animals | |
|---|---|
| Rex Harrison | |
| publication | 1967 |
| length | 2:48 |
| Genre (s) | Soundtrack |
| Author (s) | Leslie Bricusse |
| Producer (s) | Nick Redman |
| Label | 20th Century Fox Records |
| Award (s) | Oscar / Best Song |
| album | Doctor Dolittle Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Cover versions | |
| 1967 | Bobby in it |
| 1967 | Sammy Davis Jr. |
| 1968 | Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass |
| 1968 | Alvin & The Chipmunks |
| 1968 | Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| 1968 | Bing Crosby |
| 1968 | Louis Armstrong |
| 1980 | Roger Moore & The Muppet Show |
| 1993 | Homer Simpson |
Talk to the Animals is a movie song by Leslie Bricusse from the film Doctor Dolittle . In the film he is sung by main actor Rex Harrison . The film won an Oscar for Best Song at the 1968 Academy Awards .
background
Leslie Bricusse wrote the complete soundtrack for the film Dr. Dolittle from 1968 based on the novels by Hugh Lofting . For Rex Harrison, the star of My Fair Lady who took on the title role, he wrote the songs The Vegetarian , St the Crossroads , When I Look in Your Eyes , Like Animals . I Think I Like You and Something in Your Smile and of course Talk to the Animals . The song is sung twice in the film, on the one hand after a dialogue with his parrot Polly when he developed the gift of speaking with animals and later, as a recapitulation , when he has mastered the gift and celebrates with the animals. In fact, the soundtrack, which contained a lot of musical elements, was much more popular than the film that nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox .
At the 1968 Academy Awards, Talk to the Animals won an Oscar for Best Song. In fact, when Barbra Streisand named the winner, a clear “Oh no!” Could be heard from the audience.
Cover versions and cultural references
Shortly after its release, the song was recorded by various other artists. A popular version, which is relatively fast compared to the rather slow original, comes from Sammy Davis Jr. , who re-recorded the entire soundtrack on Sings The Complete "Dr. Dolittle" in 1968 . At the Academy Awards he even performed his version of the song and received the Oscar on behalf of Bricusse.
Other versions are from Bobby Darin , Herb Alpert , Tennessee Ernie Ford , Bing Crosby and Alvin & The Chipmunks .
The song was also played a lot on television. So he was the theme song of the animated series Doctor Dolittle , which ran from 1970 to 1972. 1980 Roger Moore appeared in the 24th episode of the fifth season of The Muppet Show with the song. The song was also intoned in the episode Homer and the Singing Brothers (5.1 / No. 85) from The Simpsons . The vocals voiced by Chief Wiggum in the series were by Hank Azaria .
In 1998 a remake by Dr. Dolittle with Eddie Murphy in the title role. A version by Louis Armstrong is used in the credits, but it is not on the soundtrack. The version is from 1968.
Individual evidence
- ↑ AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann at Allmusic (English)
- ^ David Mansour: From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century . Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7407-9307-3 , pp. 124 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Anthony Holden: The Oscars . Little, Brown Book Group, 2016, ISBN 978-0-349-14243-2 ( google.de [accessed January 16, 2018]).
- ^ A b Matthew Kennedy: Roadshow !: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s . Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-026244-0 , pp. 123 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Sammy Davis, Jr .: Sings the Complete Dr. Doolittle AllMusic Review by Lindsay planners at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Doctor Dolittle (TV Series 1970–1972) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ "The Muppet Show" Roger Moore (TV episode 1980) at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ "The Simpsons" Homer's Barbershop Quartet (TV episode 1993) at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Doctor Dolittle (1998) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Scott Allen Nollen: Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career . McFarland, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7864-1857-2 , pp. 183 ( google.de ).