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.

The Happiest Millionaire
Studio album by Count Basie and His Orchestra
Released	November 1967
Recorded	October 4, 5 & 6, 1967
Studio	A & R (New York)
Genre	Jazz
Label	Coliseum D 41003/DS 51003
Producer	Teddy 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

• 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