<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Wan'na Be like You" is a song from Walt Disney's 1967 film The Jungle Book . The song was written by songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman and was performed by Louis Prima . </P> <P> Richard Sherman said he and his brother aimed for a jazz sound, with a Dixieland - like melody . He added that "When we first got an idea for' I Wan'na Be Like You,' we said an ape swings from a tree, and he's the king of apes . We'll make him' the king of the swingers .' That's the idea, we'll make him a jazz man ." Once Prima was invited to do the song, he mockingly responded to the Shermans with "You want to make a monkey out of me? You got me!" The instrumentals were originally recorded by Prima--who also played the trumpet--and his band, Sam Butera & The Witnesses, but the music was replaced by one written by the film's composer, George Bruns, and orchestrated by Walter Sheets . The "scat dialogue" between Baloo and King Louie was the result of two recording sessions . Louis Prima recorded first, with the intent that Baloo--played in his recording by Butera--would simply repeat what Louie scatted, but Phil Harris decided not to imitate Prima's recording and made up his own . The song was released the same date as the motion picture itself . </P>

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