The Jungle Book (franchise) Adventures of Baloo and Mowgli"), an unofficial sequel also written by screenwriter Larry Simmons, which continued the story of the film, and included Phil Harris and Louis Prima voicing their film roles. In the record, Baloo (Harris) is missing Mowgli (Ginny Tyler), so he teams up with King Louie (Prima) and Bagheera (Dal McKennon) to take him from the man village. Four new songs were composed for the record, two of which ("Baloo's Blues" and "It's a Kick") made appearances as bonus tracks on CD versions of the soundtrack to the original "The Jungle Book." On April 19, 2016, Disney
In the Jungle Groove was voted as the fourth best reissue of 1986 in "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll. The newspaper's Robert Christgau called it "long-promised, worth-waiting for, full-length, '69-'71 dance classics", while ranking it as the eighth best reissue of 1986. In a retrospective article for "Rolling Stone", Christgau said that, because most of the "renowned" album is available on "Star Time" (1991), "In the Jungle Groove" is "for serious students only", even though "Brown is the rare artist who improves with length." Douglas Wolk, writing for "Wondering Sound", said that it "inspired a million hip-hop samples" and featured