The Happiest Millionaire (album)

The Happiest Millionaire (complete title Count Basie Captures Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra featuring performances of tunes featured in Walt Disney's motion picture The Happiest Millionaire recorded in 1967 and released on the Coliseum label.[1][2]

The Happiest Millionaire
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1967
RecordedOctober 4, 5 & 6, 1967
A & R Recording, NYC
GenreJazz
LabelColiseum
D 41003/DS 51003
ProducerTeddy Reig
Count Basie chronology
Basie's in the Bag
(1967)
The Happiest Millionaire
(1967)
Half a Sixpence
(1967)

Track listing

All compositions by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

  1. "Detroit"
  2. "Strengthen the Dwelling"
  3. "I'll Always be Irish"
  4. "Valentine Candy"
  5. "Bye-Yum-Pum-Pum"
  6. "Watch Your Footwork"
  7. "What's Wrong with That"
  8. "Let's Have a Drink on It"
  9. "Are We Dancing"
  10. "Fortuosity"
  • Recorded at A & R Recording in New York on October 4, 1967 (tracks 1, 2 & 5), October 5, 1967 (tracks 6, 8 & 10) and October 6, 1967 (tracks 3, 4, 7 & 9)

Personnel

References

  1. Big Band Paradise, accessed November 17, 2015
  2. Edwards, D., Callahan, M., Eyrie. P., Watts, R. & Neely, T. Coliseum Album Discography, accessed November 17, 2015
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