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Aaaah! This sounds familiar to something I asked about a while ago. I, too, asked about a lion singing about being "numero uno." Unfortunately I never got an answer. This must exist somewhere, but sadly I have no title and likewise my searching has turned up nothing.
On Worldcat, I found a movie matching this description (animals visit Baby Jesus). It's called "The Fourth King" and was made in 1995.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/fourth-king-an-animated-christmas-story/oclc/37597139&referer=brief_results
EDIT: Confirmed. The special was actually made in 1977. The lion's name was "Uno", hence his song. https://books.google.com/books?id=MdGoAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=Fourth+King+Productions,+Inc.&source=bl&ots=oCEkztuZW4&sig=bAfKr16aCUEImcxMc3oJd8LzPJY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_lPPGuoDQAhWm5oMKHTRXD78Q6AEINDAE#v=onepage&q=Fourth%20King%20Productions%2C%20Inc.&f=false
That's it! Thank you, I was just a kid when I had the video and I couldn't remember the name at all. I could hug you!
Awesome, I think this would be the one I saw, too. Thanks!
I had a video in the 1990's with a religious style cartoon on it. It starts off in a jungle where a group of animals talk about this new baby being born and that he's important. They then decide that if the humans are travelling to bring this child a gift, then the animals should do so as well. The lion considered himself the king of the jungle and was very vain and arrogant about it, while the robin who brought the news of the child's birth kept getting annoyed at the lion's attitude. Eventually the pair decide they should be the ones to bring a gift and set off, meeting up with a tortoise and I think a beaver and all travelling together following the star to bring a gift to baby Jesus. Along the way they help one another when there's trouble, mainly for the lion who eventually changes his attitude and becomes nicer, and when they find the child they realise they haven't brought a gift, only for the robin to then sing a sweet song for everyone to hear.
I can't remember the robin's song, but there's a song the lion sings close to the beginning of the cartoon in the jungle that I know a verse of:
I'm numero uno the greatest and the best I'm numero uno and I lead all the rest for I am the strongest and I am the smartest and I believe the most handsome and I believe the loudest
I've tried typing the lyrics into google but nothing shows up and I've typed in just about every combination I can think of but I haven't found even a single image that leads me to finding out this cartoon's name.
Help!
Edited by loverofeevee