My Lion King Forum

Originaly posted here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19794#p575281
But I think that this song deserves for separate topic
[quote]Mufasa was originally scripted to sing a song titled "To Be King" during the film's early production, but it didn't suit James Earl Jones' singing voice. [/quote]

So what do you think about this song?
For me this song is better than "Morning Report" or any song from TLK2 (hmm... maybe "He Lives In You" is better but primitively it was song for TLK1) and James Earl Jones sounds pretty good ^^

wow I never heard that before! great song, but you can tell that it's not mufasa's voice that's singing though

[quote]wow I never heard that before![/quote]
Because it was not published before BluRay! ^^

[quote]you can tell that it's not mufasa's voice that's singing though[/quote]
It's really possible, I'm not English so I'm not the best in distinguish voices from english dubbing

I think they should have left it.

I didn't really like it.

I liked it a lot, think they should of kept it.

I dunno, it's okay... but it doesn't really fit the mood and magic of the original scene with Mufasa and Simba talking, IMO. The song is just plain goofy to me, while the talk between Simba and Mufasa was a serious life lesson, and I absolutely love that scene. (Until The Morning Report song ruined it.)

Mufasa singing? Odd. Its cool but I prefer it the other way

It didn't do much for me. I guess it's slightly better than Morning Report which I find to be really obnoxious, but I still prefer the first release version of this scene that doesn't have a song at all.

Becasue The Morning Report is an included scene that you can remove at will, I am very glad that they left this thing out. I agree with teh producers: James Earl Jones + Singing =Bad Idea.
Not that he is necessarily a bad singer, but his voice is very bad in this case.