Everybody Wants to Be a Cat - Claude Bolling Big Band

After Walt died in 1966 the Walt Disney Company realized that they still needed to carry on with his work. So they continued to work on a story about a group of wealthy cats in France who get kidnapped by a greedy butler who is jealous that his boss left her inheritance to her cats rather than him. When the film, The Aristocats was finished it was released on this day in 1970, thirty-seven years ago.

What a great tribute to Everybody Wants to Be a Cat to have CLAUDE BOLLING, the famous French composer and jazz pianist, arrange an excellent big band version of this song. Bolling, a child prodigy (he was a professional jazz pianist at 14 years old!), has been recording albums with his big band since the late fifties. He has also scored over a hundred movies and has several albums on which he plays with famous classical musicians.

In 2004, he released CINEMA HITS, a disc full of movie themes in that big band style that he is so good at. Although this is the only Disney track on the disc, there are some other classic movie themes that are worth taking a listen to.

Everybody Wants to Be a Cat Claude Bolling Big Band 2004