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Louis ArmstrongLoading (This song sung by Louis Armstrong here was actually written for a bear in a Walt Disney film called The Jungle Book) 'Bare Necessities' is a phrase to describe the simple things of life - those that are necessary for our survival.
'The Bare Necessities' by Louis Armstrong Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities Of mother's nature recipies That bring the bare necessities of life Wherever I wander,wherever I roam I can't be fonder of my big home The bees are buzzing in the trees To make some honey just for me You look under the rocks and plants And take a glance at the fancy ants Then maybe try a few The bare necessities of life will come to you Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your stife I mean the bare necessities That's why a bear can rest at ease With just the bare necessities of life So just relax,yeah in my backyard If you act like the bee acts You're workin' too hard Don't spend your time,just lookin' around For something you want,can't be found You find out you can live without it And go along,not thinking about it I'll tell you something true The bare necessities of life wïll come to you They'll come to you, they'll come to you They'll come to you, oh yes!
He came from an impoverished background. His grandparents had been slaves and he lived on a rundown estate called the "Battlefields" because of the range of social problems in the area like drunkeness, shootings, gambling and fighting. When he was twelve years old he celebrated the New Year by firing a gun into the air and was arrested and taken to a reform school. Here he learned to sing and play the coronet, a trumpet like instrument. Once he was released he started to play with bands and learned to play the trumpet. During the 1930's Louis achieved world wide fame and travelled the globe. By the end of his career in the 1960's he was considered to have been a major influence on popular music. He was known as an exremely generous man giving as much money away as he kept for himself. He started out as an American Jazz Trumpeter but went on to establish himself as a vocalist and musical improviser and contributed towards the foundations of modern american music. He had a distinctive deep gravelly voice and many hit records and in 1964 knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts with "Hello Dolly. At the time he was 63 years of age and the oldest artist ever to have a hit single on the charts. He also appeared in more than a dozen Hollywood films. Forty years after his passing his records are even more popular than when he was alive and are broadcast all over the world. He never forgot his early life in the reform school and went back to visit often. He died in New York on the 6th of July in 1971. Listen to the cartoon version of this song with Mowgli and Balooin the famous story The Jungle Book Another great song We Have All the Time in the World by Louis Armstrong from the Learn English with Music Library. Explore these links for movies and audio biographies as well as more songs like What a Wonderful World with Louis Armstrong Return to the Learn English with Music
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