1. The Jungle Book – I wanna be like you
The so-called classic era of Disney, when we received Snow White, Dumbo, Pinnochio, Bambi and The Jungle Book gave us not only many hugely memorable musical moments, but also some of the finest animation films to have ever graced our screens.
Songs like When You Wish Upon A Star, The Elephants on Parade, Whistle While You Work and so forth have become iconic and rightly so. The Jungle Book is rammed full of toe-tapping musical numbers but it is King Louie’s I Wanna Be Like You that really stands out.
The vocals, the music and the animation all inter-weave to utterly entertaining and enchanting effect, whether little touches like an ape skipping through his own arms, or trumpeting with his lips, or the great use of scat singing, or the gradual seduction of Baloo into joining in the party. Excellent, hilarious stuff, right up to the point at which Baloo loses his brilliant disguise.
