Ludwig von Drake might like you to think he wrote all of his own songs, but they were actually ghostwritten for him by the songwriting team Robert and Richard Sherman, or The Sherman Brothers.
Songwriters are pretty difficult to tally up for the purposes of the Tour but the Sherman Brothers' songs tend to double as soundtracks, so they'll be organized as composers by the films on which they worked. In 1961, they contributed songs to three Disney films (as well as holding songwriting duties for some of The Mouseketeers). For The Absent-Minded Professor and Greyfriars Bobby, they contributed a song or two for each that would play over the opening credits or be saved for the Disney Story Album of those movies. The Parent Trap marked the first time the Shermans' songs made their way into the actual narrative structure of a Disney film. They wrote a handful of songs for The Parent Trap, but its score was written by Paul J. Smith and performed by the Camarata Chorus and Orchestra on the record release.
Here is the discography surrounding The Sherman Brothers's debut album:
The Flubber Song / Medfield Fight Song (1961 songs for The Absent-Minded Professor)
The Parent Trap
Greyfriars Bobby (1961 song for Greyfriars Bobby)
"Let's Get Together" by Hayley Mills & Hayley Mills
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