That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)

That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)

"That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)"' is a song in the widely popular Walt Disney film "The Jungle Book" from 1967. The song was sung by a quartet of "mop top" vultures who are making friends with the main character of the film. The song was written by Disney staff songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman.Sherman, Robert B., "", Camphor Tree Publishers, Santa Clarita, California, 1998, p 84., ISBN 0-9646059-3-7]

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 "That's What Friends Are For", the vultures sing in the style of barbershop quartet making their song endearing to Mowgli (and that much more dangerous).

Barbershop Quartet

The Sherman Brothers also use a Barbershop Quartet styling in their 1973 musical adaptation of "Charlotte's Web" in the song, "Zuckerman's Famous Pig".

Rocky the Rhino

The vulture sequence would have also contained a rhino named Rocky the Rhino (Frank Fontaine). After fighting Mowgli, the rhino would have sung along with the vultures and Mowgli on "That's what friends are for." His role after that is unknown.

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