Trust in Me (The Python's Song)

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Twenty years after the song was first released, Siouxsie and the Banshees redid "Trust In Me" with a Gothic twist.

"Trust in Me (The Python's Song)" 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 Shere Khan the tiger in his search for Mowgli.^[1]

1 The Sherman treatment
2 Cover versions
3 See also
4 References

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] Cover versions

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, Through the Looking Glass, and subsequently on several compilation albums.
The Holly Cole Trio covered "Trust in Me" on the 1991 release Blame It on My Youth.
Alternative rock group Belly 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.
Part of the song is on the soundtrack of the HalloWishes fireworks show as part of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World resort.
The Dead Brothers made their version of "Trust in Me" in a very dark, psychedelic and bluesy style. This cover appears on their fourth album Wunderkammer.
Susheela Raman covered "Trust in Me" on her debut album, "Salt Rain" in 2001.