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► Audio learning tracks: jneel@free.fr ► Download this song on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/cat-iTunes ► Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/trudbolmusic ► Twitter: http://twitter.com/trudbol ► Make a donation: http://tinyurl.com/showYourSupportNow A one man a cappella multitrack cover of "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat", the jazzy theme song from Walt Disney's "Aristocats", sung by Julien Neel (trudbol)! "The Aristocats" is a classic animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970. The twentieth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them, after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress' fortune which was meant to go to them. The crafty stray cat Thomas O'Malley takes the family under his wing back to Paris, and has them meet his jazz friends. In the original movie, this song was sung by Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat, Phil Harris as Thomas O'Malley Cat, and Thurl Ravenscroft as Billy Boss the Russian Cat. It was also released as a now rare 45 rpm single, in a version sung only by Phil Harris, which lacked the cartoon voices of the common release. The soundtrack CD released in 1996 contains an edited version of the song. LYRICS: Everybody wants to be a cat, Because a cat's the only cat Who knows where it's at. Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat, Cause everything else is obsolete. A square with a horn, Makes you wish you weren't born, Everytime he plays. And with a square in the act, You can set music back To the caveman days. I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing, But still a cat's the only cat Who knows how to swing. Who wants to dig A long-haired gig And stuff like that? When everybody wants to be a cat. A square with a horn, Makes you wish you weren't born, Everytime he plays; But with a square in the act, You can set music back To the caveman days. Everybody wants to be a cat, Because a cat's the only cat Who knows where it's at. When playin' jazz you always has a Welcome mat. Cause everybody digs a swingin' cat!
