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Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Bare Necessities

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Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Bare Necessities is a Disney's Sing-Along Songs video released on October 6, 1987, and then on DVD in 2006. Released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Jungle Book, it is notably the first Sing-Along Songs video in which Jiminy Cricket appears as the host instead of Professor Owl, who appears at the beginning to introduce Jiminy. It is also the first Sing-Along Songs video in which the featured songs all have a central theme - in this case, the animal kingdom.

Description[]

Get set for a tuneful time with Baloo the Bear from The Jungle Book as well as other Disney characters in a brilliant, song-filled program of sing-along singing fun! You'll learn the words to a sparkling collection of magical songs with Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Bare Necessities. Gather up the entire family for a captivating songfest that is highlighted by a rainbow of scenes from best-loved animated Classics, movies and cartoons. Voices ready? Everybody sing!

Sing along with songs from The Jungle Book, Cinderella, The Aristocats, Dumbo...and more!

Songs[]

  1. "Disney Sing-Along Songs Theme Song" (Regular)
  2. "The Bare Necessities" (The Jungle Book)
  3. "You Are a Human Animal" (Mickey Mouse Club)
  4. "Cinderella Work Song" (Cinderella)
  5. "Old Yeller" (Old Yeller)
  6. "Figaro and Cleo" (Figaro and Cleo)
  7. "Winnie the Pooh" (Winnie the Pooh Featurettes)
  8. "I Wan'na Be Like You" (The Jungle Book)
  9. "Look Out for Mr. Stork" (Dumbo)
  10. "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" (The Aristocats)
  11. "The Ugly Bug Ball" (Summer Magic)
  12. "The Bare Necessities" (Reprise)

Trivia[]

  • Known as El Libro de la Selva: Ritmo en la Selva in Spanish, released in Spain and in limited quantities in the United States.
  • Known as Le Livre de la Jungle: Il En Faut Peu Pour Être Heureux in French, released in France.
  • "You Are a Human Animal" uses footage from Make Mine Music, For Whom the Bulls Toil, The Aristocats, Farmyard Symphony, You and Your Sense of Touch, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Birds in the Spring, and Figaro and Cleo.
  • Professor Owl's introduction to Jiminy Cricket is entirely stock audio from Heigh-Ho (from the introduction to "Theme from Zorro") and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (from the introduction to "Give a Little Whistle").
  • Jiminy Cricket's segments use stock footage from This is Your Life, Donald Duck, You, the Human Animal (with original audio of Cliff Edwards), You and the Living Machine, Fun and Fancy Free, I'm No Fool Having Fun, You and Your Eyes, You and Your Five Senses, and You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste.
  • During "Winnie the Pooh", a clip of the opening scene from Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too runs, then after a clip of Pooh bouncing on the lyrics to the chorus, Jiminy says "You can do better than that, so I'll give you more words. Let's do it over!" and the rest of the song lyrics appear on the screen during a montage of clips from all the featurettes.
    • Additionally during "Winnie the Pooh", although the chorus is heard singing "Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff", the on-screen lyrics mistakenly read "Chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff". Two years later, a variation of the song was recorded for the Disney's Storyteller Series adaptation of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh indeed featuring the lyric "chubby little cubby", and was also used on some subsequent album releases (usually aimed at children).
    • After the song, Jiminy then says "Great! Part of this song doesn't have real words. So have fun with it! Ooh-bee-doo with Baloo! Just make them up as you go along." which then leads into "I Wan'na Be Like You".
  • During "I Wan'na Be Like You", at one point, Jiminy says "Baloo and Louie are singing whatever they want, and you can too!"
  • During "Look Out for Mr. Stork" Jiminy says "Hmmm...Poor Mrs. Jumbo! All those babies and no sign of her little pachyderm."
  • The 2006 DVD features the original post-credits promo, but Jiminy's narration is missing.
  • "The Ugly Bug Ball" uses the original footage from Summer Magic, then it also contains footage from classic Disney bug cartoons like Woodland Café and Mickey's Garden throughout the rest of the song, including new original animations for the middle and end lines of the song, it also takes out the instrumental breaks making the song a bit shorter than it normally is.
  • "Old Yeller" uses a montage of clips from the movie of the same name.
  • The closing credits use the still background from The Jungle Book instead of the normal blue one with G-clefs embossed.
  • One of the last Disney videocassette releases to have the print logo sandwiched between blue lines on the tape label.
    • However, the 1994 re-release had a surprise appearance on the 1984 Red FBI Warning screens at the beginning instead of the 1991 Green FBI Warning screens.
  • The full version of the "Cinderella Work Song" is included on Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess.
  • The 1994 re-release still features the 1987 title card before the intro plays.
  • The French and Dutch versions from 1996 featured the 1994 title card albeit without the film's name.

Goof[]

  • Jiminy Cricket's audio dialogue is "Great! Part of this song doesn't have real words. So have fun with it! Ooh-bee-doo with Baloo!" and he mouths "Fine! We're having a terrific time. Now, more fun. So I wanna hear you.".

With the voice talents of[]

Uncredited[]

Gallery[]

v - e - d
Disney's Sing Along Songs - 1986-1990 Logo
International
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (1986) • Heigh-Ho (1987) • The Bare Necessities (1987) • You Can Fly! (1988) • Very Merry Christmas Songs (1988) • Fun with Music (1989) • Under the Sea (1990) • Disneyland Fun (1990) • I Love to Laugh! (1990) (also known as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) • Be Our Guest (1992) • Friend Like Me (1993) • The Twelve Days of Christmas (1993) • Circle of Life (1994/1995 for countries outside of North America) • Colors of the Wind (1995) • Topsy Turvy (1996) [Known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame or The Bells of Notre Dame in releases outside of the US] • Pongo & Perdita (1996) • The Early Years (1997) • The Magic Years (1997) • The Modern Classics (1997) • Sing a Song with Pooh Bear (1999) • Sing a Song with Tigger (2000, not an official Disney's Sing-Along Songs video)
Outside of the US (Foreign releases)
Let's Go to Disneyland Paris [Similar to Disneyland Fun] (1993) • 101 Notes of Fun (1994) [Similar to Fun with Music] • From Hercules (1997)
US Exclusive Releases
Honor to Us All (1998) • Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland! (1998) • Flik's Musical Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom (1999) • On My Way (2003) • Little Patch of Heaven (2004) • Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream (2004) • Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party (2005) • Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess (2006)
See Also
Disney Sing-Along Songs Theme Song
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