The instrumental score for Oliver & Company was composed by J.A.C. Redford, and the film's music was supervised by Carole Childs. The first song heard in the film, "Once Upon a Time in New York City", was co-written by lyricist Howard Ashman, who, with Alan Menken, would write the songs for the next three Disney films. Billy Joel, in addition to voicing Dodger, performed the character's song in the film "Why Should I Worry?" as a single from the film's soundtrack.
This is also notable for being the final soundtrack album to a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature to be released on vinyl record (in addition to CD and cassette), until the soundtrack album to Frozen was released on the format in 2014 (and some Disney film soundtrack CDs have been reissued on vinyl record since then).
The track list below represents the 1996 re-release of the Oliver & Company soundtrack. The original 1988 release featured the same songs, but with the instrumental cues placed in between the songs in the order in which they appeared in the film. Using the numbering system in the list below, the order the tracks on the 1988 release would be: 1, 2, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Notably, the reprise of "Why Should I Worry?", performed by the entire cast, remains unreleased on CD.
