The Jungle Book (soundtrack) by the RIAA, and was later nominated for an Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. Another version, simply titled "The Jungle Book", was issued on the Buena Vista Records label, featuring less narration and dialogue to be marketed for adults. It was first reissued on CD in 1990, as Disneyland Records was reworked into Walt Disney Records. Disneyland Records issued another soundtrack album in 1967, "Songs from Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book and other Jungle Favorites", which featured reworked jazz versions of the film's songs plus two covers, performed by Louis Prima and his band under the title "The
The Jungle Book and class are mapped out in the stories, contributing to "an imagining of Englishness as a site of power and racial superiority." Nyman suggested that "The Jungle Book"'s monkeys and snakes represent "colonial animals" and "racialized Others" within the Indian jungle, whereas the White Seal promotes "'truly English' identities in the nationalist allegory" of that story. Swati Singh, in his "Secret History of the Jungle Book", notes that the tone is like that of Indian folklore, fable-like, and that critics have speculated that the Kipling may have heard similar stories from his Hindu bearer and his Portuguese "ayah" (nanny) during