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Baby Elephant Walk. Baby Elephant Walk is a song written in 1961, by Henry Mancini, for the 1962 released movie, Hatari!. In 1962, the song earned Mancini a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The tune was written for an impromptu scene in Hatari! in which 'Dallas' (Elsa Martinelli) led three baby elephants to a pool to bathe.
Plucked from obscurity by songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin, for whom she was babysitting, Little Eva reached the top of the charts with the dance song The Loco-Motion in 1962. She appeared on the popular TV dance show American Bandstand, and her follow-up single, Keep Your Hands off My Baby, made it into the top 20 later that year.