Louis Prima - Jungle Book

[yalreetdeeyas]

This is brilliant. It looks like Louis Prima had a reyt do. Looks like he's having such a fun time!

[Jedibuds87]

Where did you get this footage from?

[jonykakuyo]

this and the elephants were my favorite scenes in the movie

[EmilioChileno]

King Louie IRL

[boiledhead]

Where is this clip From?? What film/Doc??

[sirjuandabicho]

Gracias por compartirlo.

[martinmerrywinkle]

how can you call one of the greatest musical scenes ever racist??

[JenSnelling]

What a great video! Thanks for sharing it!!

[lion6987]

RIP Louis Prima

[thecarpenter45]

I still wonder what would happen if louis armstrong got the role instead

[paak2010]

@thecarpenter45 He wrote Bear Necessities.

[BRRGames]

RIP Louis Prima, the voice of King Louie

[loveforhimloveforhim]

Wonderful footage...Gotta love Louis Prima..

[TheDoydotty]

Does anyone know where I can find any photo's of Louis Prima recording the soundtrack to the Jungle Book?

[Erniesduck123]

People actually think this song is racist and can't be bothered to see that the person who voices King Louie is not black?

[Othras]

@Erniesduck123 he's not black, he's Sicilian-American.

[Erniesduck123]

@Othras You didn't read my comment did you?

[Othras]

@Erniesduck123 obviously not. my bad.

[BOBBRY19]

Funny seeing Louis Prima do the stanky leg @ 1:39

[THEBIRDMAN9412]

Im related to him... hes my grandpas blood cousin... so that makes him my cousin? hahaha awesome.

[Erniesduck123]

@THEBIRDMAN9412 First cousin twice removed

[Lukeblueslover]

Louie was the greatest. 

[markkanges]

Is that Sam Butera narrating?

[ramo823]

What kind of documentary type thing is this from? :) It's very informative

[catnipbro]

thoses 19 people hvae no taste in music

[shaddy39]

THAT'S NOT LOUIS ON THE DRUMS OR WEARING THE MASK. THAT'S LOUIS' DRUMMER, JIMMY VINCENT.

ANOTHER FACT IS THAT PRIMA WROTE "SING, SING, SING'".

THE GREAT JAZZ PIECE BENNY GOODMAN MADE MORE FAMOUS.

SHADDY39

[ShawnSavage07]

omfg i didnt know louis prima DID THIS SONG

[thestraniero]

He was truly a musical genius! He might have been a fucking genius too... you have to ask his wife!

[tiffinnisaintranae]

adorable!  hurray! looove prima! such joy in their sounds!!!!

[felmilward]

I think this is from "The Jungle Book: The Making of a Musical Masterpiece"

[missabbebuck]

Woot!

[rasataplanta]

louis prima was a fucking genius

[MORKOS621]

My favorite JB song. I ruined our VHS from watching it over and over.

[eleventhousandfour]

@MORKOS621 Mine too, and I did the same with a music cassette tape.

[tsoe2001]

who would vote dislike?? There must be some pathetic people in the world. This was great!

[SoopSoopa]

is that tommy lee jones?

[patsguy369]

I f'n miss louie prima

[jax00000]

Is this from a documentary on the movie?

[antoniodcz]

Fascinating, thanks for posting

[Hashpotato]

@ANASTASIACHAVEZFILM great taste!

[Fedoracrow97]

They actually first decided to have Louis Armstrong for King Louie, but they decided that would bring up some comments about racism with a black man being a monkey. So they got Louie Prima, which is i think italian or something.

[jmali1]

@Fedoracrow97 sicilian

[vTHExUNKNOWENv]

Very Swell

[miked1234567]

Like, craaazy, man....

[BigJonBone]

This video is awesome.

[MrGearJammmer]

I ould like to see the whole clip, if it's out there....

Great job

[dragonz4eva]

@MrGearJammmer me too I would LOVE to!

[ZzTobyZ]

LOL this is 1000% proof this song isn't racist, lol the singer isn't even black!

[babyinblack]

louis prima is like the king of cool

[jmali1]

@babyinblack no james brown is

[JulieRebu07]

THIS PROVES HOW THIS SONG ISNT BEING RACIST FOR ALL THOSE CRAZYS OUT THERE

[sixstrings2]

The only way you could dislike this is if you are jealous of his energy

[sixstrings2]

That's so cool........

[NicolasROOT]

Yeah Louis Prima is a king of swingers, but in Brazil and the all world have a minor part of populations who likes a good music like the songs of louis prima

[3030indaface]

thumbs up if your swinging your legs and tapping your feet while you listen to this

[thomas231095]

I Like When Louis Prima Play His Trumpet..... He play Such a maestro....

[staplersattack]

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!

[jmta1974]

nice video!!!

[campusqueen57]

Had no idea that Louis was singing this song, who knew??

[Zenden1313]

Louis Prima immortalized the voice of King Louie on the song "I wanna be like you" !

I remember when he sang "Just a Gigolo - Ain't Got Nobody", "Angelina - Zooma Zooma", "Buona Sera", "Oh Marie", "The Lip" (with Kelly Smith)...

a great singer !!!

[catra195]

jesus christ both top comments are even more racist then the implication in the movie 

[funkdatschway]

@catra195 Oh give it up already... You probably though Louis was african american but he's Italian and was completely down with the song and the idea of getting to be a character in the movie. Quit feeling sorry for people to feel better about your self. Some of us still have a sense of humor.

[funkdatschway]

@funkdatschway And now I go to your page and you have a video called robert is gay... So gay bashing is ok hu? Hippocratic.

[spacecommander12]

@funkdatschway Definition; Hippocratic: A form of government in which what they say is very different from what they do. Incidentally, all Governments are Hippocratic but not all Hypocrites are Governments. (see also, "Hippocratic Oath")

[TheRealCodeBlack]

@spacecommander12 You mean "hypocritical." "Hippocratic" is taken from a legendary Greek doctor's name, and isn't a word on it's own.

[ParticularlyEvil]

Cool!  Where is this from?

[SATURDAYateSUNDAY]

@ParticularlyEvil i would like to know to its amazing

[MrTerryKay]

I heard he had to write Baloo's scat 'improvs' on paper. Is that true?

[playgirlc]

@MrTerryKay - i heard that too....or something like it...

[Jrogerssr]

The 4 A.M. lounge show in Las Vegas was Prima at his best. Many of the other entertainers in town would be there after they were done with their shows and the joint would really rock.

[irviprisly]

Great Louis Prima!

[feeney429]

does anyone know where i would be able to get this movie ??

[labruixamaduixa]

Quina cançó més gran!! qe guapo el makeinoff del doblatge!!

[jodroboxes]

thanks for putting this up! fav

[Wilfslad]

R.I.P Sam and Louis, the music lives on. Verve and Pizzazz that so few of today's acts have.

[jk47hm4]

I did NOT know he sang that!!!

[bodgaard]

Just a great song with great singing. Fun and memorable.

[05241078]

My favourite music of all time. Louis Prima was THEE big show in Las Vegas until Elvis Presley came along. He used to play golf with Walt Disney and he was the natural choice for a new movie idea Disney had. Enjoy this short clip. Keely Smith is still alive as is Sam Butera, the sax player.

[sickkat44]

@05241078  unfortunately, sam butera died in june of 2009.

[oopaulorafael]

This is THE BEST song the feature The Jungle Book in my opinion. Louis Prima FOR THE WIN!!!

[kcdrew69]

would have been great to know or even see Louis Prima, wouldn't it? wow

[kburnout]

real talent

[MrbloodyG]

dosent joe in mafia 2 linda look like louis prima

[comeonfolks]

flip dang, you i don't think ANY entertainer performs with that much energy anymore.

[dearmalika]

Thanks sooo much for posting this!

[tejoHr]

Biggest Disney song ever. :)

[Muzikman127]

what show is this from?

[westfield90]

Superb

[MissHoJu]

Awesome!!! What show is this from? I just have to see it all.

Thanks so much for uploading!

[trappchevrolet]

Get over the enuendo and live life without trying to find something sinister in everything.

[tsuikjoshiomatsu]

This is so fucked up, the most racist innuendo possible.

Disney can go to hell. Anyway this is a good song.

[moarts51]

I WANT MORE!!! 

[Stokjockey]

God bless you Louis Prima and I'm glad you got your Star on the Walk of Fame.........One kid from the 60's who Loves the Jungle Book !!!

[ptollman]

Duplication - Not Cloning - technology Transfer - Must localise - Scalabiltiy - Leverage

[TeamRenesmee117]

i love when Louie nad Baloo scat! :D

[Tom6093]

Classic !!!!!!! Music will never be this way again. !!!!!

[21EDF21]

@Tom6093 Thats not true. Anything is possible. I am an 18 year old trumpet player who is in his Senior year of high school. Anything can happen, and I have many years to prove it.

[TreeLeg]

@21EDF21 Go for it kid and give it all you've got. Hope to hear from you soon;-)

[dearmalika]

Great Louis Prima!

[lengthenthedays]

louis prima is an awesome guy but when they says disney land at first it sounds like dixie land lol

[JoshuaSwiger]

@lengthenthedays he is saying "Dixieland." He's talking about Dixieland jazz, which is roughly the style of music in this song.

[camillia057]

Jungle book :)

[SinfulAlchemist]

this is so awesome!

[kakadu89]

where can one find this footage?

[sugarcoatedbitch]

@kakadu89 At the end of the VHS version of The Jungle Book.

[TnYokel]

Prima was a fucking genius...

[wjsprsn]

@TnYokel what a stupid expression...

[anapanasati1970]

I've seen it a dozen times when I was a kid, but it's still so funny to see an animated orangutan with Louis Prima's voice.

[Pinhykrion]

Wow! I've never realized that the monkey was the very Louis Prima!

[acidfreak1967]

@Pinhykrion well duuuuuuuuuh

[ENDiTunes]

I don't like the Jonas brothers, but honestly? He'd probably just appreciate that they wanted to cover it.

[contrabndsuprman]

This is so awesome!!!! I never knew any of this, and that whole silliness they displayed is just amazing!!!

[mariantonetta]

and2244rew, I thought you were being rude, but it's true! LOL. I grew up on Louis Prima and his band but never saw them live. What a gem! ; ))

[TiffanYnaffiT]

things like this just lighten up your day :)

[and2244rew]

At 0:53 he takes off the monkey mask and still looks like a monkey underneth!

[liolev]

Haha that's great(:

[TiffanYnaffiT]

haha :)

[arpee915]

ROFL!!! Man that was funny! He still looks like a monkey.

[BusinessDK]

@and2244rew hahhaha good one.

[brownieman12]

@and2244rew not funny

[amirkamaruzzaman]

@and2244rew LMAO~!!

[00Muttley]

Great to see so many genuine Louis fans on here, whether you are new to his amazing music, or a long term dedicated fan. Do any of you guys out there know what movie or programme this footage was taken from? It appears it might be from a Disney biopic of some sort. I would love to see the whole movie.

[SwampDaddy7]

I got this one, Muttley. It's The Jungle Book. It's part of the "Making of" footage. There's a ton of it online.

[00Muttley]

@Swampdaddy7 Thanx daddy-o! Apprecate the info. I'll be looking for it now. Can't get enough of this guy and his amazing band. Pity there is only a limited amount of footage out there. His act was classic, Keeley Smith a fantastic singing partner (what a voice, what a looker!!) and the band were ace. I reckon I was born in the wrong era. I would've loved to see them live. What fun they had playig together. There just isn't that rapport anymore. Too much ego these days, with modern-day 'celebs'.

[SwampDaddy7]

No problem, cool cat! Louis and the band are red hot . . . well so was Keely but that's for another reason haha. If only good acts like this were still around instead of (c)rap.

[hipnotyq]

its from the Jungle Book

[Oldiesmann]

Knowing Disney, it's likely a bonus feature on the 50th Anniversary Edition DVD, which was probably originally shown on The Wonderful World of Disney.

[00Muttley]

@Oldiesmann many thanks for the info 'Old Boy'. Can't get enough of Louis Prima and Keely. Her voice still amazes me, with its purity. The notes she hits run 'shivers down my spine'. I keep watching he live videos of them on YouTube and I'm mesmerised by the depth of talent they had. Breath-taking.

[TimJuergenFaust]

Das waren noch Künstler ! Toll, einfach toll !

[normski262]

Louis, THAT man is something else, a one time giffted man never to be repeated. Shear genius!!!!!

[romodig]

Shear genius! Just imagine... the animators patterned the scene after Louis Prima's style! I wish we all could do something that we had as much fun doing as Louis and his musicians did when they performed.

[mooievisserm]

I agree.

[Cano2319]

HAhahahah awesome!!!

"What? You wanna make a monkey out of me?"

"And so we did..."

[VValkyrie]

Here in New Orleans, we were lucky enough to have Louis Prima in the Endymion Mardi Gras Parade.Phil Harris was Bacchus that year in their parade. Good memories.

[warneka]

hahaha so sweet! n.n this made my day! thanks!

[pingpongking]

I met Louis Prima once in Memphis, Tennessee. I said to the man in front of me, "Hey, nice socks!" He turned around, and it was Louis Prima! Then he ate a banana.

[jusaLOSER]

@pingpongking guess he wanted "to be like you oo oo!" LOL that's funny!

[MageAtYou]

@pingpongking what kind of pick up line is that

[seb205green]

Geant !!!

[LACatahoulaCur]

before katrina at the concert hall in new orleans they had all these picture of louis prima because thats where he was from i remeber seeing them when i was little and when my little sister started taking dance and for him to be as famous as he was for an italian man in the early 50 was amazing because italians were consider a minority back then but i learned that from my grandparents my mom and dad got the same kind of treatment up until the late early 70s

[moviecritic121]

Apparently, that Disney only used what Prima sang/played and put the music we hear in the song over his band's original recording. They said it was "too wild" for audiences of the time. Man, what I wouldn't do to hear that original recording!

[th3falconator]

what a fucking legend

[TheJakuar]

Ide love to see Louis Prima sing this song. (An origonal video)

[Barclay1987]

Cool!

[cocopuffyblue]

wonderful

[liolev]

Where did you get that footage?

I really want to see the rest, which is probably

about Shere-Kahn - Milt Kahl's genious performance!

Please reply(:

[Tozzywozzy01]

The footage is available on the Platinum edition dvd

[mintwithahole]

They modelled King Louis completely on Prima! The way he moved, even his face!! Pure class.

[Jasonagf]

Cool to see that he pretty much made the dance/whole scene for this part of the movie.

Hate when people do this, but theres a wicked cover of this, By Paolo Nutini. His New CD is pretty much this style of music, Turns out his idol is infact Louis Prima, And hes only 22 or 23 years old.

[ramitupursnout]

Wow, this is priceless. The Golden age of entertainment.

[silvertonguedbard]

I would really like to see more of this. Can you please tell me where you uploaded this from?

[Physicsnerd1]

HE WAS ONE OF OUR BEST ENTERTAINERS!!

[mesalboy]

One of the Very Best Entertainers of the Big Band era....There was none as good as him, befor or after... Porbably playing with Gabrial and his Horn. Bless U Lou..

[PeteLindup]

If you play the Bechet-Spanier 1940s version of "That's a plenty" you'll hear,in his solo, Muggsy Spanier play the same melody as "I wanna be like you", written 23 years later!

[jazzalex22]

Nobody can beat Louis Prima's version of I Wanna Be Like You. Louis P was such a great artist in music. He even did some recordings for Disney vinyls before this most of them did feature Phil Harris. Louis P also was never a serious man. He was wacky. Before he passed away he had amnesia cause he couldn't remember what he had done in his career.

[brian777999]

I wish we could have seen more of that.

[1mommas]

Louis Prima one of the giants of American music!

Fabulous entertainer, brilliant writer and performer.

Thank God we have this legend on film.

No one like him before or after, a true genius!

[10squidplease]

Thank you for putting this to youtube

[Rouyome]

I agree thank you so much

[NoirFan01]

Wish there were more video/film recordings of Louis Prima performing in concert!

[HELLAcrew]

The jonas brothers did this song and one of the beatles songs and made it gay.I hope they don't do the who.

[Bladerunner861]

very interesting

[nexus01gr]

What an entertainer!

Thank you for uploading!

[russofamerica]

Very cool, thank you for the upload.

[evilkevin232]

Where did you get this footage from? I'd love to see the whole thing.

[bongo1127]

it's on the jungle book dvd extras.

[XximwishinxX]

Its at the end of the video. After all the credits, and they play how they picked the people for the movie.

[MarioMaster9664]

It's from "The Jungle Book: The Making of a Musical Masterpiece," from the 1997 30th Anniversary Disney Masterpiece Edition VHS of The Jungle Book. I got that tape as a kid and it was my favorite movie (and the first full-length feature film I was able to watch as a kid without getting bored and leaving to do something else.) I Wanna Be Like You was also my favorite song from it as a kid. Good times.

[Chitlen123]

I live in New Orleans and Louis Prima was from the neighborhood where Im from and that line dance they was doing is the second line. Anybody from new orleans could see that!

[HELLAcrew]

Sucks that the jonas brothers did this song, its a perfect song that they made so bad. And I mean BAD

[krxifox11]

Smoother than a baby's bottom!

[westfield90]

God those were talented people back then. The whole bunch of them.

[playgirlc]

there still talented people around - they're just not necessarily on tv and in the charts...

[ejworthy]

fan tas tic!!!!

-Emile

[Voldum10]

RIP Louis Prima

[smartass2st]

Looks like black people are gonna have to find something else to be pissed about after watching this.... Most idiots thought King Louie was a racist character, mocking black people. Too bad it was played by an Italian.

[infrogmation]

Prima grew up in a racially and ethnically mixed neighborhood of New Orleans, hearing all the musical influences from when he was little.

The story is when he got to New York, one of the first places he auditioned at wouldn't hire him, because from his playing and singing they thought he must be a light skinned black trying to "pass". But it was just Prima playing music the way he grew up with.

New Orleans jazz tradition-- nothing wrong with having fun and making the audience happy.