Trust in Me (The Python's Song)
"Trust In Me" is a song in the widely popular Walt Disney film The Jungle Book from 1967. The song was sung by Sterling Holloway playing the part of "Kaa, the snake". The song was written by Disney staff songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman. In the song, Kaa hypnotizes Mowgli, placing him under a trance. As the song concludes Kaa readies himself to devour the boy, only to be stopped by Bagheera the panther in the nick of time.[1]
The Sherman Treatment
The Shermans were brought onto the film by Walt Disney due to Disney's feeling that the interpretation was keeping too true to the Rudyard Kipling book. In a deliberate effort to keep the score "light", this song as well as the Sherman Brothers' other contributions generally concern darker subject matter than the accompanying music would suggest. In the case of this song, Kaa speaks and sings with a subtle, lilting lisp giving the song a humorous dimension that it would not otherwise have. [2]
Other Uses
One of the least traditional uses of a Disney song has been the 1987 Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of "Trust In Me". This cover first appears on the Siouxsie and the Banshees LP entitled, Through the Looking Glass and then on several compilation albums over the following decades.
Alternative rock group Belly (band) covered "Trust In Me" as a B-side to one of their singles in 1993.
In Mickey's House of Villains, during the "It's Our House Now" musical number, Mickey and Minnie are tossed to Kaa, who sings a few lines from "Trust in Me" to them.
References
- ^ Sherman, Robert B., Walt's Time: from before to beyond, Camphor Tree Publishers, Santa Clarita, California, 1998, p 86., ISBN 0-9646059-3-7
- ^ Sherman, Robert B., Walt's Time: from before to beyond, Camphor Tree Publishers, Santa Clarita, California, 1998, p 86., ISBN 0-9646059-3-7