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.
Contents
Track listing
All compositions by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
"Detroit"
"Strengthen the Dwelling"
"I Want to Be Irish"
"By Your Pom Pom"
"Valentine Candy"
"Watch Your Footwork"
"What's Wrong with That"
"Let's Have a Drink"
"Are We Dancing"
"Fortuosity"
Notes
Recorded at A & R Recording in New York on October 4, 1967 (tracks 1, 2 & 5), October 5 (tracks 6, 8 & 10), and October 6 (tracks 3, 4, 7 & 9)
Three song titles differ from their originals: "I'll Always Be Irish", "Bye-Yum Pum Pum", and "Let's Have a Drink on It"
Personnel
Count Basie - piano
Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Gene Goe, Sam Noto - trumpet
Richard Boone, Harlan Floyd, Grover Mitchell - trombone
Bill Hughes - bass trombone
Bobby Plater - alto saxophone, flute
Marshal Royal - alto saxophone, clarinet
Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone, flute
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
Freddie Green - guitar
Norman Keenan - bass
Louis Bellson - drums
Chico O'Farrill - arranger