I Wanna Be Like You (Covered by T.C.)

[T.C. Elliott]

From the wild and roaring movie The Jungle Book, a cover for Monkeyfest. "I Wanna Be Like You" written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and performed by me. Please pardon the out of tune mouth trumpet.

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Now, I'm the king of the swingers, oh, the jungle V.I.P.
I've reached the top and I've had to stop and that's what's been botherin' me
I wanna be a man, mancub. And stroll right into town
And be just like the other men. I'm tired of monkeyin' 'round

Oobadee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too

You'll see it's true
An ape like me
Can learn to be
Human, too

Don't try and kid me, mancub. And don't get in a stew
What I desire is man's red fire so I can be like you
Give me the secret, mancub. Just clue me what to do
Give me the power of man's red flower and make all my dreams come true

Oobadee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too

You'll see it's true
An ape like me
Can learn to be
Human, too

[64Guitars]

Great song choice and very well done. I love it.

[Groundy]

Nice one TC,What a great cover, love the mouth trumpet, well done............Alex

[Geir]

EXCELLENT !!!!

Great song choice and very well done. I love it.

Ditto that !!

Very entertaining performance !!

[ODH]

Ooh!

nice one

 

[T.C. Elliott]

Thanks all. Yeah, it's a good song. I was wanting to do a version of this for the monkeyfest and kept putting it off. I started to get a cold this weekend and when I realized it was getting worse I dashed it out last night.
This is a one take, two mic recording with a bit of mixing to clean it up a bit. Today I can barely talk at all and only in the lowest register or the voice goes completely out. Talk about timing. (I'm sure singing this song last night didn't help.)

Thanks again for the listens and comments.

[Redler]

Excellent playing and singing, TC! Top class recording as well!

[Hilary]

Oh it did make me giggle, you doing a mouth trumpet whilst playing the guitar

I love the way you play the guitar TC and you've made this a really cool version - fabulous!

[danieldesete]

Great post TC, you turn this into a kind of bluesy boogie version, really entertaining indeed. What a catchy song, and that's a great cover.
Monkey on !
Daniel

[fenderbender]

Great cover TC
top notch!!!!!
love it.



Tommy