That's What Friends Are For (1967 song)
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"That's What Friends Are For"' is a song in the widely popular Walt Disney film The Jungle Book from 1967. The song was sung by a quartet of "mop top" vultures who are making friends with the main character of the film. The song was written by Disney staff songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman. [1]
[edit] The Sherman Treatment
The Shermans were brought onto the film by Walt Disney due to Disney's feeling that the interpretation was keeping too true to the Rudyard Kipling book. In a deliberate effort to keep the score "light", this song as well as the Sherman Brothers' other contributions generally concern darker subject matter than the accompanying music would suggest. In the case "That's What Friends Are For", the vultures sing in the style of barbershop quartet making their song endearing to Mowgli (and that much more dangerous). [2]
[edit] Barbershop Quartet
The Sherman Brothers also use a Barbershop Quartet styling in their 1973 musical adaptation of Charlotte's Web in the song, "Zuckerman's Famous Pig".
[edit] References
- ^ Sherman, Robert B., Walt's Time: from before to beyond, Camphor Tree Publishers, Santa Clarita, California, 1998, p 84., ISBN 0-9646059-3-7
- ^ Sherman, Robert B., Walt's Time: from before to beyond, Camphor Tree Publishers, Santa Clarita, California, 1998, p 84., ISBN 0-9646059-3-7
