Her first(?) 45 RPM single, Let's Get Together (from the movie The Parent Trap) broke into the Billboard Top 100 on 4 Sep 1961, made it as high as number 8 and stayed on the list for a total of 14 weeks. Cobbler, Cobbler was on the flip side. Buena Vista F-385.

In 1962, she had a single with the songs Jeepers Creepers and Johnnie Jingo on the Buena Vista label (F-395). Johnny Jingo broke into the Billboard Top 100 on 17 Mar 1962, made it up to number 21 and lasted on the list for 11 weeks. The picture sleeve version (left) came with the silver on black record label (upper right) with F-395-Y in the runout groove on side 1 (F-395-Z on side 2), followed by a 2 or Z in a circle. Another version (lower right) came in a company sleeve with a black on blue and white record label with F-395-1 K-2696 SS-BR in the runout groove on side 1 (F-395-2 SS-BR K-2697 on side 2). Can anyone provide any information about these two different versions?

Also in 1962, she recorded the songs Ching Ching and a Ding Ding Ding / Side by Side on the Buena Vista label (F-401).

And again in 1962, from the movie In Search of the Castaways, the songs Castaway and Sweet River were available on Buena Vista F-408.

From the movie Summer Magic, Hayley teams up with Maurice Chevalier to sing Let's Climb and Enjoy It on Buena Vista F-409.

Also from the movie Summer Magic, Hayley Mills and Eddie Hodges sing Flitterin' and Beautiful Beaulah on Buena Vista F-420.

In 1963 an EP was produced "specially for Alcoa Wrap" on the Wonderland Music label (AL-701). It was titled Alcoa Wrap Presents Music from Walt Disney's 'Summer Magic' and contains seven songs, four of which include Hayley's voice.

Gypsy Girl / Younger than 17 was released in 1966 (Mainstream 656). The first was from the movie Gypsy Girl and was the only song she sang in it.

Please note that the soundtracks from some of the movies in which she appeared may not include her voice. I have indicated in the descriptions if I know for sure, one way or the other.

The soundtrack from Pollyanna was available on the Disneyland label (DQ 1307 - yellow; ST-1906 - blue); © 1963, Walt Disney Productions.

Camarata conducts the music from Walt Disney's "The Parent Trap!" was released in 1961 on the Buena Vista label (BV-3309). Hayley sings Let's Get Together and Cobbler, Cobbler on the album. As noted above, these two songs were also released on a single 45 RPM record. The back of the jacket contains the following text:

Making people laugh has always been Walt Disney's forte and when animated cartoon features became too expensive and time-consuming to produce oftener than once every two or three years, Walt Disney turned to live action adventure and comedy films. The tremendous successes of "Shaggy Dog" and "Absent Minded Professor" are indicative of the public's desire to laugh and forget the troublesome times in which we live. With "The Parent Trap", however, Walt Disney essays a more penetrating type of story. It's a comedy, all right - spiced liberally with songs by the youthful and very successful songwriting team of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman - but it also is a subtle study of the problem of children in broken homes.

Hayley Mills, the brilliant young English actress who won an Academy Award for her role in Walt Disney's "Pollyanna", plays two roles in "The Parent Trap". She's twins, and on one occasion in the film she performs the not inconsiderable feat of singing a duet with herself. The twins, Susan and Sharon, are separated when they're still babies. Sharon goes to live with her mother (Maureen O'Hara) in Boston and Susan goes to live with her father (Brian Keith) on his California ranch. The girls meet by accident at a summer camp when they're 14 years of age and discover that they are sisters. Then follows a hilarious plot as they switch places in order to effect a reconciliation between their parents. Naturally this happens, but before it does there are many laughs, not a few tears, and some wonderful music. Maureen O'Hara, whose singing prowess matches her auburn-haired beauty, sings "For Now For Always", a haunting ballad that was "their song" when she was being wooed by the handsome Brian Keith. Hayley, as mentioned above, sings a duet with herself of "Let's Get Together", a not-too-subtle hint to the estranged parents. Tommy Sands and Annette sing the title song; and "Whistling at the Boys" with its infectious lilt is heard during a dance sequence.

It's "Maggie's Theme" (For Now For Always) which dominates the score and which provides the twins with a valuable assist in getting their father and mother together again as they ingeniously recreate the scene of the parents' first date.

1962 marked the release of her record album titled Let's Get Together with Hayley Mills on the Buena Vista label (BV-3311). The back of the jacket contains the following text:

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.

The soundtrack from In Search of the Castaways was released in 1962 on the Disneyland label (ST-3916). This was actually a kind of 'storybook' record, telling the story through large chunks of dialog from the movie, with voice-over narration by John Mills to fill in the gaps. It also included all of the songs, in the places where they occured in the movie.

An album titled Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, "All-Time Children's Favorite Stars and Songs" was released in 1963 on the Disneyland label (DQ-1245; mono). Hayley sings two songs on the album: "America the Beautiful" and "Pollyanna Song".

The original cast album of Summer Magic, which starred Burl Ives in the lead role, was released in 1963 on the Buena Vista label (BV-4025).

Maurice Chevalier and Hayley Mills take you to ... Teen Street; 1964; Buena Vista; BV-3313. This is an anthology of British songs and singers. Maurice and Hayley introduce the songs and comment on teen life in general; they don't sing on the album.

Although you don't hear Hayley's voice on it, there was an Original Sound Track Music album for The Moon-Spinners available on Buena Vista Records (BV-3323, copyright 1964 Walt Disney Productions). She is in two of the three black-and-white stills from the movie that are on the back cover, however, which also contains the following text:

Nikky Ferris (HAYLEY MILLS) runs into two kinds of romance, love, plus a fabulous adventure, when she visits the storied island of Crete with her musicologist aunt (JOAN GREENWOOD). The elder Miss Ferris is hunting down a legendary tune called "The Moon-Spinners." The pair are given a cold and ominous reception by Stratos (ELI WALLACH), a mysterious, violent man whose sister (IRENE PAPAS) operates The Moon-Spinners hotel on the Bay of Douphins. Nikky meets and falls in love with Mark Camford (PETER McENERY), a handsome young Englishman who has come to seek out the thug who in London robbed him of priceless jewels he had been charged with keeping safe, ruining Camford's reputation for honesty. When Mark fails to keep a swimming date with Nikky, she finds and follows a trail of blood. It leads her to a crypt of an ancient church, and to Mark, who has been shot. Nikky binds up the wound, then returns to the hotel for clothes and food. Stratos intercepts her, tricks her into giving her mission away, and imprisons her after finding and disposing of the injured Camford. But Camford fights his way to Nikky's rescue and together they make their way to San Nicolas and the British consul, Anthony Gamble (JOHN LeMESURIER). Gamble proves to be a phony, and a co-conspirator of Stratos'. In a further series of adventures both Nikky and Mark make their way aboard the huge yacht of a wealthy but unscrupulous jewel fancier, Madam Habib (POLA NEGRI), who has been set up as a fence for the jewels that Stratos had indeed taken from Camford. In a climatic struggle aboard ship, with a cheetah taking part, Camford recovers the priceless loot, and wins Nikky.

The soundtrack from That Darn Cat was released in 1965 on the Buena Vista label (BV-3334).

The soundtrack from The Daydreamer, with her voice as 'The Little Mermaid', was released in 1965 on the Columbia label (OL-6540).

The original soundtrack recording of The Trouble With Angels starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills, music by Jerry Goldsmith, was released on the Mainstream label (mono; 56073) in 1966.

The original soundtrack recording of Hayley Mills co-starring with Ian McShane in Gypsy Girl, a movie directed by John Mills, written by Mary Hayley Bell & John Prebble, music & lyrics by Milton & Anne DeLugg, produced by Jack Hanbury was released on the Mainstream label (stereo; 56090) in 1966.

The soundtrack from The Family Way was released in 1967 on the Decca label (SKLA-4847). The music was written by Paul McCartney.

Music from Three Walt Disney Motion Pictures: The Parent Trap, Summer Magic, In Search of the Castaways was released in 1968 on the Disneyland label (DQ-1318).

The original music soundtrack from the 1968 movie A Matter of Innocence was available in stereo on the Decca label (DL-79160).

A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was read by Sir John Mills and Hayley Mills on the EMI / Music for Pleasure LP (MFP 50413) © 1978.

Hayley Mills reads 'Black Beauty' by Anna Sewell, abridged by Sam Curtis; Listen for Pleasure Ltd., Ontario, Canada; #7026; 1978; 2 cassettes; mono; Dolby System; approximate playing time 2 hours; ISBN 0-88646-018-2.

Hayley Mills reads 'Whistle Down the Wind': Listen for Pleasure Ltd., Ontario, Canada; 1981; ISBN 0-88646-095-6.

Bedtime Stories read by Hayley Mills: Hamlyn; 1988; 1 hour cassette.

Emmy: Written by Ruth Boswell, Told by Hayley Mills; ©1994 Biscuit Music Ltd; Cat No: JKNY110; Original Recordings ©BBC 1981 taken from the BBC Television Series 'Jackanory'; released 31 December 1994; £4.99; ISBN: 1 899264094.  It was available from amazon.co.uk for £4.49 in mid-July, 2001.

Whistle Down The Wind by Mary Hayley Bell, Hayley Mills (Narrator); Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books; February 1997; £8.99; ISBN: 185998617X.  It was available from amazon.co.uk for £8.09 in mid-July, 2001.

Whistle Down The Wind, Abridged Edition; Mary Hayley Bell, Hayley Mills; High Bridge; May, 1998; $16.95; ISBN 1-5651-1204-0.

Classic Disney CD series - each CD contains 25 songs from both recent and prior Disney features. There have been five so far, three of which contain music from Hayley's films (Prices and availability may have changed since I compiled this list):

• Volume 1 (#60865; released 3/28/95) contains "Let's Get Together" from The Parent Trap and "The Ugly Bug Ball" from Summer Magic. Available from amazon.com for $12.99 in early June, 2000.
• Volume 2 (#60866; released 3/28/95) contains "On the Front Porch" from Summer Magic. Available from amazon.com for $12.99 in early June, 2000.
• Volume 4 (#60909; released 7/16/97) contains "Femininity" from Summer Magic and "Enjoy It" from In Search of the Castaways. Available from amazon.com for $13.49 in early June, 2000.

The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song: Disk 3, track 6 is Enjoy It, performed by Maurice Chevalier / Hayley Mills - 2:06; Disney #60957-2; released September 17, 1996; ISBN 1-55723-248-2; 3CDs; 78 songs (6 never before released); 60-page collector's book.

Hayley's 1961 album, Let's Get Together, was re-released on CD: Disney; #60407; February 10, 1998.

The Card (1994 London Touring Cast) [CAST RECORDING] released May 5, 1998 on First Night Records; OCR CD6045; digital audio.  It was available from amazon.com for $13.99 in late September, 2000.

Skip Griparis' Love in Lincoln Park CD from 1999 has one track entitled Hayley Girl (3:09), which is a song he wrote about Hayley.  According to Skip: "I received two nice letters from Hayley, who loved the CD and her song.  It's a beautiful ballad that I think says it all."

According to Hunboldt-Universität, in 1981 Hayley Mills and her father (Sir John Mills) did a reading of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young.

Last revised: May 16, 2002