Hayley Mills

Audio Recordings

• 45 RPM Records
  
• LP's - CD's
  
• "A Letter to Hayley"

• Jeepers Creepers
  
• Green and Yellow Basket
  
• Sentimental Sunday
  
• Ding Ding Ding
  
• Side By Side
  
• Cranberry Bog
  
• Little Boy
  
• Cobbler Cobbler
  
• Johnny Jingo
  
• Pollyanna Song
  
• Jimmie Bean Song
  
• Let's Get Together

On September 4, 1961, Hayley's first single, "Let's Get Together", broke into the Billboard Top 100. It stayed on the list for 14 weeks and made it as high as number eight. In Hawaii, it reached number one. On the flip side is "Cobbler, Cobbler" This single was produced on the Buena Vista label.

On March 17, 1962, "Johnny Jingo" made it into the Billboard Top 100. It lasted for a period of 11 weeks, and it reached number twenty-one. "Johnny Jingo" was on the flip side of "Jeepers, Creepers." This single was produced on the Buena Vista label.

Again in 1962, "Ding Ding Ding" / "Side By Side" were released on the Buena Vista label.

Walt Disney's "In Search of the Castaways" (1962) yielded 4 different singles. "Castaway" was on the flip side of "Sweet River". Unfortunately, "Sweet River" was not actually included in the movie. It's a shame. In my honest opinion, it is a lovely song. "Let's Climb" was on the flip side of "Enjoy It!". All four songs feature Hayley, and each record was released on the Buena Vista label.

In 1963 an EP entitled "Alcoa Wrap Presents Music from Walt Disney's 'Summer Magic'" was produced "specially for Alcoa Wrap" on the Wonderland Music label. It included seven songs, of which Hayley sang four.

In 1966, a record containing the songs "Gypsy Girl" / "Younger Than 17" were released on the Mainstream Label. "Gypsy Girl" is the only song that she sang in the movie of the same name.

In 1962, Walt Disney Productions released a record album entitled "Let's Get Together With Hayley Mills". It was released on the Buena Vista label, and was produced by Camarata. The text on the back of the cover is as follows:

In Walt Disney's motion picture "The Parent Trap" Hayley Mills as Susan Evers and Hayley Mills as Sharon McKendrick sing a little song called "Let's Get Together". Performing a duet with one's self is a not inconsiderable feat, but Hayley carried it off in the film with such a winning manner that her record of the tune became one of the biggest hits of 1961. Thus, another facet, recording artist, was added to Hayley Mills brilliant career.

"Let's Get Together" was not the first song Hayley had sung in a Disney picture. In "Pollyanna" she warbled "America the Beautiful" with a group of other girls all dressed in costumes which made the ensemble look like an American flag. This was a very unlikely beginning as a recording artist, particularly for an English girl. David Swift, who directed "Pollyanna", set a lyric to her background theme and a "kiddie" record of this plus "America the Beautiful;" and a song about Pollyanna's sidekick "Jimmie Bean" was the first commercial recording of Hayley's voice to hit the market. It was a modest success but not in the class of "Let's Get Together" which was a 'smash' all over the world.

In Walt Disney's "The Castaways" which Hayley just finished shooting in England with Maurice Chevalier and George Sanders, Hayley sings a beautiful ballad entitled "Castaway" and a duet with Maurice Chevalier "Enjoy It" which she says she certainly enjoyed.

This long-playing record gives the listener two examples of vintage Hayley from "Pollyanna" days; "The Parent Trap" Hayley of "Let's Get Together" and "Cobbler Cobbler", and the Hayley of today. Eight selections were recorded in London by Musical Director Tutti Camarata, four of which feature a unique combination of Hayley's talent with old style ragtime backgrounds. Hayley's teenage tastes are in many ways typical, and to her this was a new type of music. The infectious ragtime rhythms and sounds seem a perfect showcase for her personality.

Disney re-released this album on compact disc in 1997. It contains all of the original material, and it has been digitally remastered. Unfortunately, it is no longer available! Keep your eyes peeled in case some of the discs come up for auction at e-bay.com.

The lyrics to all twelve songs are below. They are not exact, however. My sister and I spent an hour listening to the record and writing them down. The songs are: Jeepers Creepers, Green and Yellow Basket, Sentimental Sunday, Ding Ding Ding, Side By Side, Cranberry Bog, Little Boy, Cobbler Cobbler, Johnny Jingo, Pollyanna Song, Jimmie Bean Song, and Let's Get Together. Enjoy!

Green and Yellow Basket

Spoken: Where can it be? It worries me!

A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket
I wrote a letter to my mum, and on the way I dropped it
I dropped it, I dropped it, yes on the way I dropped it
A little boy picked it up and put it in his pocket

Round and around and around I go
Where can it be-e
Round and around and around I go
Please bring back my letter to me

A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket
My, oh my, I feel so low
Where my letter is I don’t know
I hope that boy that picked it up
Will bring it back to me-e

INTERLUDE

Round and around and around I go
Where can it be-e
Round and around and around I go
Please bring back my letter to me

A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket
My, oh my, I feel so low
Where my letter is I don’t know
I hope that boy that picked it up
Will bring it back to me

Sentimental Sunday

INTRODUCTION

Let’s spend a sentimental Sunday
A sentimental Sunday
Like the old folks do (old folks do)
Let’s look at souvenirs and pictures
Souvenirs and pictures
Of when our love was new (our love was new)
Let’s play our old-time records while we reminisce
Read the old love letters that we sealed with a kiss
Let’s spend a sentimental Sunday
A sentimental Sunday
Darling make a vow (please make a vow)
I know that it will be a fun day
That sentimental Sunday
Twenty years from now

INTERLUDE

Let’s spend a sentimental Sunday
A sentimental Sunday
Darling make a vow (please make a vow)
I know that it will be a fun day
That sentimental Sunday
Twenty years from now-ow-ow-ow
Twenty years from
Twenty years from
Twenty years from now

Ding Ding Ding

Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding

I know a fellow just as cute as can be
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
I really think that he’s the boy for me
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
He takes me to dances and he sure knows how
He’s a real humdinger and a triple wow
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding

We go together but when we are alone
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
We’re always talking on the telephone
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
We went to the cinema and as I planned
The plot got exciting and he held my hand
Ching ching

Oo-oo-oo, when we twist yeah yeah
(yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)
Oo-oo-oo, it’s just the swingingest
(yeah yeah)
You’re my style, crocodile

If I had the pick of all the boys in town
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
I’d pick him up and put the others down
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
On a string I wear his high school ring
I’m his queen and he’s my everything
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
Ching ching

INTERLUDE

You’re my style, crocodile
If I had the pick of all the boys in town
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
I’d pick him up and put the others down
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding
On a string I wear his high-school ring
I’m his queen and he’s my everything
Ching ching, and a ding ding ding

Side By Side

INTRODUCTION

Oh we ain’t got a barrel of money
May be ragged and funny
But we’ll travel along
Singing a song
Side by side

Don’t know what’s coming tomorrow
Maybe it’s trouble and sorrow
But we’ll travel the road
Sharing our load
Side by side

Through all kinds of weather
What if the skies should fall
Just as long as we’re together
It doesn’t matter at all

When they’ve all had their quarrels and parted
We’ll be the same as we started
Just traveling along
Singing a song
Side by side

INTERLUDE

When they’ve all had their quarrels and parted
We’ll be the same as we started
Just traveling along
Singing a song
Side by side

Cranberry Bog

INTRODUCTION

The other night we were driving through the woods
We were looking for the long way home
We found a spot that was very very strange
But we could be alone

It was a cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Couldn’t see your face for the cranberry fog
But we fell in love
In the very berry
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog

We saw a house and the doors were boarded up
‘Neath a creepy weepy willow tree
And then a voice came a screaming through the night saying
You cannot come close to me

In the cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Couldn’t see your face for the cranberry bog
But we fell in love
In the very berry
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog

When we got home well we told our kids
You should have heard them scream (scream)
How could we know that it was a haunted place
The place we found love’s dream

In the cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Couldn’t see your face for the cranberry bog
But we fell in love
In the very berry
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog
Cranberry, cranberry, berry, berry bog

Little Boy

INTRODUCTION

I am just a little girl
But now I know I’m old enough
Yes, old enough to want a little boy
Just someone that I can walk with
Someone nice that I can talk with
That is why I want a little boy

In every love song
The poets say
Youth is wasted on the young
So I can’t waste a day

I would take my great big chance with
Someone nice that I could dance with
Where, oh where, oh where’s that little boy
Though I’m just a little girl
Deep in my heart I’m old enough
Yes, old enough to want a little boy

INTERLUDE

In every love song
The poets say
Youth is wasted on the young
So I can’t waste a day

I would take my great big chance with
Someone nice that I could dance with
Where, oh where, oh where’s that little boy
Though I’m just a little girl
Deep in my heart I’m old enough
Yes, old enough to want a little boy
Yes, I’m old enough to want a little boy
Uh-huh, I’m old enough to want a little boy
Old enough to want a little boy

Cobbler Cobbler

INTRODUCTION

Cobbler cobbler mend my shoe
I’ve been dancing the whole night through
I’ve got such a strange romance
Because the boy I love is crazy to dance

Cobbler cobbler save my sole
Need my shoesies to blithe and stroll
He’s so handsome he’s so sweet
But just the same that boy is killing my feet

He never takes me to a show
We only go to record hops
He never dances nice and slow
He only cha-cha-chas and bops

Cobbler cobbler hear my plea
He means more than the world to me
Cobbler cobbler mend my shoe
Because I’ve got a lot more dancing to do

He never takes me to a show
We only go to record hops
He never dances nice and slow
He only cha-cha-chas and bops

Cobbler cobbler hear my plea
He means more than the world to me
Cobbler cobbler mend my shoe
Because I’ve got a lot more dancing to do
(Cobbler cobbler hear my plea
Cobbler cobbler save my soul
Cobbler cobbler mend my shoe)

Johnny Jingo

INTRODUCTION

I never loved any boy like I loved Johnny Jingo
I never kissed any boy like I kissed Johnny Jingo
I’m through with Billy, Willy, Ricky, Dickey, Eddie, Freddie
Got me a brand new steady
Ooh what he does what he does to my heart when he holds me
Ooh how I love when he whispers in my ear
This is love, the feeling is zingo, zingo
I never loved any boy like I loved Johnny Jingo

INTERLUDE

Ooh what he does what he does to my heart when he holds me
Ooh how I love when he whispers in my ear
This is love, the feeling is zingo, zingo
I never loved any boy like I loved Johnny Jingo
Yeah! I never loved any boy like I loved Johnny Jingo
I said Jingo

Pollyanna Song

INTRODUCTION

What is it I really think
I think that spring has sprang
I woke up feeling tickled pink
And this is what I sang

I’m as happy as a little clam
I am, I am, I am in love
Just with nothing in particular
I are, I are, I are in love

Gracious goodness, dearie me
My sainted aunt above
Bless my heart for pity’s sake
I’m bursting out with love

I’m so silly tell you why it is
I is, I is in love with everyone

INTERLUDE

Gracious goodness, dearie me
My sainted aunt above
Bless my hear for pity’s sake
I’m bursting out with love

I’m so silly tell you why it is
I is, I are, I am
I am in love with everyone

Jimmie Bean Song

INTRODUCTION

There’s a boy named Jimmie Bean
Greatest kid you have ever seen
Climbs a tree just to prove that he
Ain’t afraid of nothin’

When that boy, that Jimmie Bean
Goes to swim in the lazy stream
Dives down low ‘cause he wants to show
He ain’t afraid of nothin’

When he goes to a haunted house
He is always hopin’
He’ll meet up with a ghost one day
But he leaves the front door open

‘Cause that boy named Jimmie Bean
Smartest kid you have ever seen
Won’t get stuck, doesn’t push his luck
He ain’t afraid of nothin’

INTERLUDE

When he goes to a haunted house
He is always hopin’
He’ll meet up with a ghost one day
But he leaves the front door open

‘Cause that boy named Jimmie Bean
Smartest kid you have ever seen
Won’t get stuck, doesn’t push his luck
He ain’t afraid of nothin’
He ain’t afraid of nothin’, of nothin’
(ghost wails in background)
Spoken: Except for ghosts maybe (giggle)

Let’s Get Together

INTRODUCTION

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Why don’t you and I combi-ine
Let’s get together, what do you say
We can have a swingin’ ti-ime
We’d be a cra-a-azy team
Why don’t we ma-a-ake a scene
Together, oh oh oh oh

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Think of all that we could sha-are
Let’s get together everyday
Every way and everywhere
And though we haven’t got a lot
We could be sharin’ all we’ve got
Together

Oh, I really think you’re swell
Uh-huh, we really ring the bell
Oo-wee, and if you stick with me
Nothing could be greater, say “hey alligator”

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Two is twice as nice as one
Let’s get together right away
We’ll be having twice the fu-un
And you can always count on me
A gruesome twosome we will be
Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah!

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