Lady and the Tramp (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Lady and the Tramp, released in 1955 in theaters by Buena Vista Distribution, is the 15th Disney animated feature film and was the first animated film to be filmed in CinemaScope widescreen. The story is based on the 1940s story “Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog” by Ward Greene which was published in Cosmopolitan magazine.

Set in the early 1900s in a small Midwestern town, the story begins on the Christmas morning of 1909. Jim Dear gives his wife Darling an American cocker spaniel that she decides to name Lady. Lady lives contentedly with her owners and befriends two neighborhood dogs: Jock the Scottish terrier and Trusty the bloodhound. Across town, a mongrel named Tramp lives on the streets eating scraps from Tony’s Italian restaurant and saving his friends from the dogcatcher.
One day, Lady finds herself no longer the center of attention in her owners' lives and Jock and Trusty explain that it’s because Darling and Jim Dear are going to have a baby. Tramp appears and states, rather matter-of-factly, that “when the baby moves in, the dog moves out.” However, when the baby arrives Lady becomes very fond of it.
When Darling and Jim Dear go on a trip and leave Lady and the baby in the charge of dog-hating Aunt Sarah and her two Siamese cats Si and Am, Lady finds herself falsely accused of attacking the baby while trying to protect it from Si and Am. Lady flees onto the streets where Tramp rescues her and introduces her to the street dog life.

The soundtrack was a collaborative effort between Oliver Wallace, Peggy Lee, and Sonny Burke. Lee also helped to promote the movie.
The remastered version of the soundtrack was released on CD on September 9, 1997 and as a digital download on September 26, 2006.