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Bare necessities (ver. 2) by Terry Gilkyson - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
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"The Bare Necessities" is a song, written by Terry Gilkyson, from the animated 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book sung by Phil Harris as Baloo and Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli. It was written for an earlier, rejected, draft of the movie, and was, as the only song of that version, kept, on the request of the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the other songs of the film. A reprise of the song was sung by Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera and Phil Harris as Baloo at the end of the film. The song was also sung by Louis Armstrong. In 2005, Julie Andrews recorded the song for her album "Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs", Tituss Burgess Performed The Song For The BBC Radio Special "BBC Radio 2 Celebrates The Music of Disney" and, Bowling for Soup recorded it for Disney's DisneyMania 3 Album. In Disney's 1994 live-action film, Dr. Julius Plumford says "The bare necessities of life!" in the ballroom.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Hamilton H. Gilkyson III (June 17, 1916 - October 15, 1999), better known as Terry Gilkyson, was an American folk singer, composer, and lyricist. Gilkyson was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and graduated from St George's high school in 1935. By his early twenties, he had become a worker on a ranch in Tucson, Arizona, then joined the military during World War II. In 1947, he married Jane Gilkyson and moved to California to pursue a career as a folk singer. He wrote and recorded "The Cry of the Wild Goose," which became a hit song for Frankie Laine in 1950, as well as the 1953 hit song "Tell Me a Story" recorded by Jimmy Boyd and Laine. In the 1956, he formed a group called The Easy Riders with Richard Dehr and Frank Miller. The group had a major hit with "Marianne," both written and performed by the trio. The record sold in excess of one million copies, earning a gold disc.[1] The three also wrote "Memories Are Made of This," which became a popular song in several versions, including an adaptation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. "The Bare Necessities" is a song, written by Terry Gilkyson, from the animated 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book sung.
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