Description
Original Cast Sound Track Album - Walt Disney - The Happiest Millionaire / Music and Lyric by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Music Supervised, Arranged and Conducted by Jack Elliott / Buena Vista Records Audio CD 2002
UPC 5099921610028
The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 American musical film starring Fred MacMurray, based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony Drexel Biddle. The film, featuring music by the Sherman Brothers, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design by Bill Thomas. The screenplay by A. J. Carothers was adapted from the play, based on the book My Philadelphia Father by Cordelia Drexel Biddle. Walt Disney acquired the rights to the play in the early 1960s. The film was the last live-action musical Disney produced before his death.
The song "Detroit" contains the lyric "F.O.B. Detroit". According to the Shermans, Disney overheard them singing the song and misheard the phrase as "S.O.B.", then scolded them for using such language in a Disney movie. The Shermans corrected Disney and the three laughed about it.
The original cast soundtrack was released on Buena Vista Records in stereo (STER-5001) and mono (BV-5001) versions. A second cast recording with studio singers and orchestrations by Tutti Camarata appeared on Disneyland Records in stereo (STER-1303) and mono (DQ-1303).
The cast soundtrack was re-released on CD in 2002 (60781-7), remastered from the original eight-track master tapes to reduce the heavy reverb from the original LP. The soundtrack is currently available on iTunes.
[Are We Dancing] was included on the 1992 CD compilation The Sherman Brothers. The song along with Fortuosity was included on the 2009 Sherman Brothers Songbook compilation set.
The Supremes covered "It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas" for their planned album of Disney covers, but the tracks from that session were not released until the 1980s.
| Label: | Buena Vista Records – 5099921610028 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: | 2002 |
| Genre: | Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Soundtrack |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Walt Disney Studio Orchestra– | Overture | 2:33 |
| 2 | Tommy Steele– | Fortuosity | 3:12 |
| 3 | Fred MacMurray, Lesley Ann Warren– | What's Wrong With That | 1:34 |
| 4 | Eddie Hodges, Paul Petersen– | Watch Your Footwork | 2:36 |
| 5 | Lesley Ann Warren– | Valentine Candy | 3:43 |
| 6 | Fred MacMurray– | Strengthen The Dwelling | 1:04 |
| 7 | Tommy Steele, Fred MacMurray, Lesley Ann Warren– |
I'll Always Be Irish | 3:08 |
| 8 | Joyce Bulifant, Lesley Ann Warren– | Bye-Yum Pum Pum | 3:08 |
| 9 | John Davidson, Lesley Ann Warren– | Are We Dancing | 3:27 |
| 10 | Fred MacMurray– | I Believe In This Country | 0:50 |
| 11 | John Davidson, Lesley Ann Warren– | Detroit | 4:31 |
| 12 | Fred MacMurray– | When A Man Has A Daughter | 1:16 |
| 13 |
Geraldine Page, Gladys Cooper, Tommy Steele– | There Are Those | 2:33 |
| 14 | Tommy Steele, John Davidson– | Let's Have A Drink On It | 3:46 |
| 15 | Tommy Steele– | Finale | 2:09 |
| 16 | Anne Shelton– | It Won't Be Long 'til Christmas |
3:17 |
| 17 | Richard M. Sherman– | Off Rittenhouse Square | 2:30 |
