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Subject: Lyr Add: Bare Necessities (Terry Gilkyson) From: Joe Offer Date: 02 Aug 21 - 06:15 PM Hark! A Disney song by American Folk Music Royalty. Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities Old Mother Nature's recipes That brings the bare necessities of life Wherever I wander, wherever I roam I couldn't be fonder of my big home The bees are buzzin' in the tree To make some honey just for me When you look under the rocks and plants And take a glance at the fancy ants Then maybe try a few The bare necessities of life will come to you They'll come to you! Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities That's why a bear can rest at ease With just the bare necessities of life Now when you pick a pawpaw Or a prickly pear And you prick a raw paw Well, next time beware Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw When you pick a pear Try to use the claw But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw; Have I given you a clue? The bare necessities of life will come to you They'll come to you!\ "So just try and relax, yeah cool it Fall apart in my backyard 'Cause let me tell you something, little britches If you act like that bee acts – uh-uh You're working too hard And don't spend your time lookin' around For something you want that can't be found" When you find out you can live without it And go along not thinkin' about it I'll tell you something true The bare necessities of life will come to you Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Terry Gilkyson |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bare Necessities (Terry Gilkyson) From: GUEST,henryp Date: 03 Aug 21 - 12:12 AM Quite a character! From Discogs; Real Name: Hamilton Henry Gilkyson III Born: Phoenixville, Pennsylvania 17 June 1916 Died: Austin, Texas 15 October 1999 "Terry" Gilkyson, singer and songwriter, wrote several of the biggest hit records of the early 1950s. His "Memories are Made of This" became both a number one song for Dean Martin in 1956 and a clever catchphrase for the nostalgia boom. He recorded two albums of folk songs, The Solitary Singer, volumes 1 and 2, in 1950 and 1951, but had his first hit record in 1951 when he joined The Weavers, with "On Top of Old Smokey". With his songwriting friends Rick Dehr and Frank Miller, Gilkyson had formed a folk group, Terry Gilkyson And The Easy Riders. They released the album "Golden Minutes of Folk Music" in 1953. In 1958 the Easy Riders scored the film Windjammer, and then in the 1960s, Gilkyson wrote music for the long-running television series The Wonderful World of Disney. In 1967 Gilkyson wrote the song "The Bare Necessities" for the Walt Disney cartoon The Jungle Book, in 1970 he contributed to the score of The Aristocats. His daughter Eliza Gilkyson is a singer-songwriter. His son Tony Gilkyson has played with both X (5) and Lone Justice. From Lyrics.com; "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. Originally, it was written for an earlier draft of the movie that was never produced. The Sherman Brothers, who wrote the other songs of the film, kept this as the only song used from the previous version. A reprise of the song was sung by Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera and Phil Harris as Baloo at the end of the film. Van Dyke Parks worked on the arrangement, which was his first paid gig after moving to California. The song was also sung by Louis Armstrong. In 1967, "The Bare Necessities" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle. A hip-hop version of the song performed by Lou Rawls was used as the theme song for Jungle Cubs. Other hit songs. From Wikipedia; "The Cry of the Wild Goose" is a 1950 song written by Terry Gilkyson. Originally performed by Frankie Laine, the song was the third of three consecutive number-one hits for him, following the previous year's hits "That Lucky Old Sun" and "Mule Train". The Brothers Four is an American folk singing group, founded in 1957 in Seattle, Washington, and known for their 1960 hit song "Greenfields". "Tell Me a Story" is a song written by Terry Gilkyson and performed by Jimmy Boyd and Frankie Laine. It reached #1 in Australia, #4 on the U.S. pop chart, and #5 on the UK Singles Chart in 1953. The song ranked #23 on Billboard's Year-End top 30 singles of 1953. |
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