Does anyone know, if the original songs written by Terry Gilkyson, are still existing .I read that Walt considered them as being too dark , so he hired the Sherman Bros.
The 2 Disc Platinum edition release includes the demo recordings. Following is an excerpt from a review of the DVD.
"Easily the most exciting extra of the section is 21 minutes of demos of deleted songs composed by Terry Gilkyson. They were written for a Jungle Book that was to be more serious and less hip. "Brothers All" offers a dramatic opening, "The Song of the Seeonee" mines group wolf howls for music, and "The Mighty Hunters" provides morbidity. There's also an alternate version of "Bare Necessities", Mowgli's folk ballad "I Knew I Belonged to Her", and the upbeat, '60s-sounding "Monkey See, Monkey Do" and "In a Day's Work." To sum up, none of these demos really seem worth replacing existing songs, but they're very much worth a listen for an aural taste of how different the movie could have been." DVDDIZZY.com
This is very fascinating. I never heard this story before. The change in tone doesn't surprise me though. Walt was always challenged with taking serious, violent, morbid material, and altering the content enough so it fit the "Disney Brand" of entertainment.
