The Happiest Millionaire - Songs

Songs

  1. "Fortuosity"
  2. "What's Wrong with That?"
  3. "Watch Your Footwork"
  4. "Valentine Candy"
  5. "Strengthen the Dwelling"
  6. "I'll Always Be Irish"
  7. "Bye-Yum Pum Pum"
  8. "Are We Dancing?"
  9. "Detroit"
  10. "I Believe in This Country"
  11. "There Are Those"
  12. "Let's Have a Drink On It"
  13. "It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas (Let Them Go)" (Roadshow version only)

The song "Detroit" contains the lyric "F.O.B. Detroit" (freight on board). According to the Shermans, Walt Disney was walking down the hall of the studio animation building and overheard them singing the song. Walt, misinterpreting the phrase as "S.O.B.", immediately went into their office and scolded them for using such offensive language in a Disney movie. The Shermans explained Walt's misinterpretation and they all had a good laugh about it.

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Famous quotes containing the word songs:

    “And our sov’reign sole Creator
    Lives eternal in the sky,
    While we mortals yield to nature,
    Bloom awhile, then fade and die.”
    —Unknown. “Hail ye sighing sons of sorrow,” l. 13-16, Social and Campmeeting Songs (1828)

    “When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang’umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?”
    —Julius K. Nyerere (b. 1922)

    “Dylan is to me the perfect symbol of the anti-artist in our society. He is against everything—the last resort of someone who doesn’t really want to change the world.... Dylan’s songs accept the world as it is.”
    —Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)