shere khanOn the wikipedia it said that ed gilbert used old recordings of phil harris and took many hours of practicing to get his rendition of baloo's voice into him and to get it right so in other words his rendition of baloo's voice did not come to him naturally and it was probably techneicily a hard voice for him to do is that right
steet
Probably, but considering he did the voice of another similar bear (Gus in Kissyfur) it was easier for him to do the voice of Baloo than someone else.