Jungle Book

A reviewer below complained that this is not the soundtrack of Jungle Book, but it most certainly is... The record he remembers as a child is a storybook album, which is very different than a soundtrack. Since he was dissapointed that this is not an read aloud type version of the movie, he pans the CD and gives it 1 star. This CD is a masterpiece of the original Disney music and score of the the actual movie, taken right from the master recordings. Very enjoyable.

The original recordings for making the movie were used to make this CD. This CD is yet another stellar masterpiece of historical preservation, overseen by producer Randy Thornton, whose father worked for Disney (you can see his name in some of the live action movie credits). The music has been digitally repaired and reassembled, deleted portions replaced. Randy is really devoted to making these CD's special and throws in all the extras such as an interview with the fabulous composers "the Sherman Brothers". They composed many many songs for Disney over the years like Mary Poppins, and non-Disney like "Chitty CHitty Bang BAng". The composer of the beautiful underscore was George Bruns who wrote the music for the Pirates of the Caribbean" (with X. Atencio writing the lyrics). The song "Bare Neccesities" was composed by Terry Gilkyson. There are 2 songs from an old Jungle book story album that are not actually in the movie, and have not been...Read more

Our whole family loves Jungle book film and hence we ordered this audio CD.

The CD's sound quality is excellent. It comes with a booklet that contains the lyrics (which is a great value for people like me who likes to sing the songs along with my kids). The CD has the film songs, some non-vocal music numbers and some demo songs. I really enjoyed the Sherman Brothers interview (~12 minutes).