America Sings Cast
Wingert
Well, to make a long story short, my love in America Sings has been
refueled by the DL Forever CD I recently made. But, I have a really
hard time remembering exactly who sang what in the show. I've made of
list of every song in the show. I'd like any help providing me with
what character/animal sang each song. I've filled in the ones I know.
Also, if I dont' know the exact name of a song, I marked it with a * and
called it by it's first line of text. Also, sometimes Sam, the
narrator, introduces the next song and says who is singing it (so I've
listed the name), but I want to know what animal it is.
I don't expect one person to know all of these, but maybe between the
bunch of us, we could fill up this list.
OPENING
Yankee Doodle - Sam the Eagle (narrator/Burl Ives)
I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Sam
Pop Goes the Weasel - originally sung by Sam's friend (???), sung in
every other scene by the weasel
OLD SOUTH
Dixie
* I Got a Gal, and You Got None
Camptown Ladies
Old Kentucky Home
Polly Wolly Doodle- The Swamp Boys
* Lord, I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again - Mom possum with kids
Burmingham Jail
Pop Goes the Weasel- Weasel
Ain't Gonna Study War No More
GOIN' WEST
* Drill, ye tarriors, Drill
I've Been Working on the Railroad
* Here She Comes, Look at her Go
Old Chism Trail - Saddlesore Swanson
Who Shot the Hole in my Sombrero?
Pop Goes the Weasel - Weasel
Tail End of Billy the Kid - Boothill Boys Vultures, I believe
Home on the Range
GAY '90s
*She May be Somebody's Mother
* The Bowry
* After the Ball is Over
Where is my Wondering Boy Tonight?
Bill Bailey
Pop Goes the Weasel- Weasel
Sweet Adaline - Blossom Nose Murphy
The Old Grey Mare Just Ain't What She Used to Be
She's Only a Bird in a Guilded Cage
Ta Ra Ra Boom De A
Pop Goes the Weasel - Weasel
MODERN
Chatta Chatta Ching Ching Ching
Singin' in the Rain
A Tisket, A Tasket
You've Got Me Cryin' for You
* The People Gathered 'Round
Pop Goes the Weasel- Weasel
Ain't Nothing but a Houndog
See 'ya Later Alligator
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Twistin' Round and Round and Round
Joy to the World (Joy to you and me)
CLOSING
Yankee Doodle- Sam
Auld Lang Syne- Sam and all
"Goodbye Goes the Weasel" - Weasel
EXIT MUSIC
Bring back any good memories? ;-)
Chris "Disneyguy"
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Altoona
> Well, to make a long story short, my love in America Sings has been
> refueled by the DL Forever CD I recently made. But, I have a really
> hard time remembering exactly who sang what in the show. I've made of
> list of every song in the show. I'd like any help providing me with
> what character/animal sang each song.
<snip>
> Bring back any good memories? ;-)
Sure did--I only wish they were more specific! I read through your list
and found my "answers" full of question marks--
> Who Shot the Hole in my Sombrero? --that dog! You know, that dog on the mule (or was it a horse?)--that *dog*!
> The Old Grey Mare Just Ain't What She Used to Be --that old gray mare in the flivver, you know?
> A Tisket, A Tasket --wasn't this that quartet (?) of foxes? and they were in a roadster?
> Ain't Nothing but a Houndog --is this that *dog* again? you know--*that* dog! 8-]
I don't know how right or helpful any of these are, but I thought I'd
give it a whirl (that pun might have been intended--spinning
building--yeah--well). I *do* remember, though, that the finale scenes
used most if not all of the characters from each act.
<sigh> I miss this attraction. I wanna go on America Sings *now*!
Lisa
Paul Barrie, Jr.
> Bring back any good memories? ;-)
Yes, many. I will have to get my friend to pull out his old
America Sings LP, and see what it says about the cast.
I can also watch the America Sings video that I own, and
give a rundown of the animals for you.
Anyone who is in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wants to see
the video should attend the next BA-ADD old attraction video & pizza meet.
The Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland video will be the featured video
this time....in additon to ATIS, Mission to Mars, and (of course) America
Sings.
The last meet was a blast, and the consensus was that another should
happen soon.
I'll keep you all posted.
--
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The Christmas Special is online!!
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Ross Plesset
Hole in My Sombrero" and the dog who sang "Home on the Range" sounds
like Thurl Ravenscroft to me but I'm not sure.
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Masselin D'Isigny
>
> In article <36A549BE...@dakotacom.net>, win...@dakotacom.net wrote:
>
> > Bring back any good memories? ;-)
>
> Yes, many. I will have to get my friend to pull out his old
> America Sings LP, and see what it says about the cast.
Do you mean the voice cast? The only voice credited on the LP was Burl
Ives as Sam, the Eagle.
Masselin
"Mind the music and the words
And with the songs be handy."
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> I believe Rex Allen did the voice of the dog who sang "Who Shot That
> Hole in My Sombrero" and the dog who sang "Home on the Range" sounds
> like Thurl Ravenscroft to me but I'm not sure.
>
the voice of Tangaroa and the DL Railroad Conductor. This man is a basso
profundo.
Masselin
who learned from that show a verse of "Home on the Range" that nobody
else knew
Masselin D'Isigny
book that came w/ the record. I don't know if those were considered
official names, or if they were just concocted for the record book.
> Yankee Doodle - Sam the Eagle (narrator/Burl Ives)
> I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Sam
> Pop Goes the Weasel - originally sung by Sam's friend
That's Ollie the owl.
> OLD SOUTH
> Dixie
> * I Got a Gal, and You Got None
> Camptown Ladies
> Old Kentucky Home
This is the Goose Quartet (at least that's what I always called them).
They had a different name in every scene; it was meant to reflect the
change in eras. This scene called them the "Dixie Quartet." The dog is
named Col. Houndstoothe.
BTW, do you know where two of the AA geese went?
> Polly Wolly Doodle- The Swamp Boys
3 alligators and a raccoon
> * Lord, I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again - Mom possum with kids
> Burmingham Jail
This was done by an unnamed fox. There's no mention of him in the book.
> Pop Goes the Weasel- Weasel
> Ain't Gonna Study War No More
"River Belle Chorus" An eclectic mix of foxes and chickens
> GOIN' WEST
> * Drill, ye tarriors, Drill
> I've Been Working on the Railroad
> * Here She Comes, Look at her Go
This song is called "Fire Ball Mail." The geese are now known as the
"Frontier Four."
> Old Chisolm Trail - Saddlesore Swanson
a turkey buzzard
> Who Shot the Hole in my Sombrero?
An old terrier dog, originally Mexican. An early victim of Disney PC.
> Pop Goes the Weasel - Weasel
> Tail End of Billy the Kid - Boothill Boys Vultures, I believe
> Home on the Range
A dog, Cowboy Tex.
> GAY '90s
> *She May be Somebody's Mother
> * The Bowry
> * After the Ball is Over
> Where is my Wondering Boy Tonight?
The geese again, called just a "Barber Shop Quartet."
> Bill Bailey
a very fat pig (seriously!)
> Pop Goes the Weasel- Weasel
> Sweet Adaline - Blossom Nose Murphy
another goose, backed up by the quartet
> The Old Grey Mare Just Ain't What She Used to Be
This is just "The Old Gray Mare," and it's sung by--an old gray mare
driving a car.
> She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage
A bird in a gilded cage! The Irish tenor is a fox.
> Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay
two storks, four can-can chicks, the bird and fox, a pig waiter
> Chatta Chatta Ching Ching Ching
It's called "Ja Da", sung by the geese again, as The Beep-Bop Boys
> Singin' in the Rain
> A Tisket, A Tasket
two foxes and two kittens in a Model T (college kids)
> You've Got Me Cryin' for You
"Boo Hoo"
> * The People Gathered 'Round
"Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" done by a pig pianist
> Ain't Nothing but a Houndog
"Hound Dog" (remember Elvis?) This was done by a hippie stork, a
chicken, and a porcupine.
> See 'ya Later Alligator
> Shake, Rattle and Roll
a flower child stork and a frog
> Twistin' Round and Round and Round
"Twistin' USA" two storks on a real motorcycle
> Joy to the World (Joy to you and me)
Just "Joy to the World" (aka Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog) The big company
finish!
>
> CLOSING
> Yankee Doodle- Sam
> Auld Lang Syne- Sam and all
This was just a recorded chorus.
> "Goodbye Goes the Weasel" - Weasel
>
> EXIT MUSIC
John Phillip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever"
> Bring back any good memories? ;-)
Always love to remember America Sings. That's one Disney'll never top!
If you want more info, there's a complete script w/ stage directions and
everything on the web. Check the Bertino Disney Archives. I think
Operation: Preserve DL also has it.
Masselin
"Yankee Doodle always says
The past is just a start."
DLoriso
Little Liza Jane
>Camptown Ladies
>Old Kentucky Home
above sung by the STORKS
>Burmingham Jail
sung by FOX>Ain't Gonna Study War No More
Down by the Riverside
sung by FOX and CHICKEN revivalists
>Drill, ye tarriors, Drill
>I've Been Working on the Railroad
> Here She Comes, Look at her Go
The Cannonball Rail
above sung by the STORKS
>Who Shot the Hole in my Sombrero?
sung by DOG
>Home on the Range
sung by DOG
>*She May be Somebody's Mother
>* The Bowry
>* After the Ball is Over
>Where is my Wondering Boy Tonight?
The Liscensed Saloon
above sung by the STORKS
>Bill Bailey
sung by PIG
>The Old Grey Mare Just Ain't What She Used to Be
sung by OLD GREY MARE
>She's Only a Bird in a Guilded Cage
>Ta Ra Ra Boom De A
Sung by FOX and BIRD IN GILDED CAGE and the animal chorus
>Chatta Chatta Ching Ching Ching
>Singin' in the Rain
sung by the STORKS
>A Tisket, A Tasket
>You've Got Me Cryin' for You
sung by FOX and CATS in car
> The People Gathered 'Round
Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
sung by PIG
Ross Plesset
General Houndstooth (I may not have the name exactly right--I don't have
the record album in front of me).
Ever notice how the record album shows the alligator in act 4 holding a
suitcase that says "Florida or bust"? He didn't have that in the show
but it would have been funny.
Karen O'Mara
>
> Anyone who is in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wants to see
> the video should attend the next BA-ADD old attraction video & pizza meet.
So... when is it?
Anchovy lovers rule, btw.
--
Karen O'
37:23:10 N
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blus...@my-dejanews.com
Masselin D'Isigny <rya...@cwnet.com> wrote:
> None of the characters are named in the show. They were named in the
> book that came w/ the record. I don't know if those were considered
> official names, or if they were just concocted for the record book.
> > Yankee Doodle - Sam the Eagle (narrator/Burl Ives)
> > I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Sam
> > Pop Goes the Weasel - originally sung by Sam's friend
>
> That's Ollie the owl.
Is he now the photographer owl in Splash?
>
> > OLD SOUTH
> > Dixie
> > * I Got a Gal, and You Got None
> > Camptown Ladies
> > Old Kentucky Home
>
> This is the Goose Quartet (at least that's what I always called them).
> They had a different name in every scene; it was meant to reflect the
> change in eras. This scene called them the "Dixie Quartet." The dog is
> named Col. Houndstoothe.
> BTW, do you know where two of the AA geese went?
Would they be camping out in the Star Tours queue? ;)
<snippage>
>
> > Bring back any good memories? ;-)
> Always love to remember America Sings. That's one Disney'll never top!
Yep. :) It was cornball early-70s Disney at it's best. Although, I really
did miss CoP - I just loved that show as a kid. Too bad that even though the
building is now finally being utilized, I have no reason ever to go inside of
it again.
You know, all this talk about AS had me pondering the difference between the
concept behind it and the concept behind the new home to many of these
characters. America Sings was a *production*, something dazzling and amazing
that could be enjoyed by the entire family. Splash Mountain is a thrill
ride. I had to *drag* my mother on it a few months back when we went
together for the first time in well over a decade. She didn't want to get
wet, but I wanted her to see what they had done with the AAs. She had really
liked America Sings and I would have really hated for her not to see where
they are now "performing". Unfortunately, she spent most of the ride trying
unsuccessfully to stay dry. When we got off she said "you are never talking
me into that again." It made me sad that she really didn't enjoy it...used
to be that she could enjoy everything in the Park.
So we went to see the Country Bears.
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Ross Plesset
actually used an original AA figure! I am told that some of the America
Sings figures are in storage below the "Pirates" fort.
Dave Smith of the Disney Archives tells me that the only artifacts from
America Sings that are in the Archives are Sam the Eagle's hat and the
weather vane atop General Houndstooth's house. I wanted to go down and
look at them but they are thoroughly stashed away and are not accessible
to every day people like me.
In the 1988 "E" Ticket Annual, Smith said it was a big dilema choosing
artifacts from America Sings that tell you "I am from America Sings."
This problem was compound by the Archives' limited space.
Wingert
Masselin D'Isigny wrote:
> None of the characters are named in the show. They were named in the
> book that came w/ the record. I don't know if those were considered
> official names, or if they were just concocted for the record book.
Well, some like Sam, Saddlesore Swanson, the Swamp Boys, Blossom-Nose Murphy
etc. were actually sort of "introuduced" by their names in the show. Sam
would say something like "And now....Saddlesore Swanson!"
> BTW, do you know where two of the AA geese went?
Yup. You know those two robots in the Star Tours line? ;-)
> "Yankee Doodle always says
> The past is just a start."
and...."Everything is better now, 'cause someone wrote a song!"
Chris "Disneyguy"
P.S. Masselin, you were right, I meant "cast" as in the animals they were,
not the singing voices. That'd be tough! Burl Ives is the only one I
know....
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> And the dog in the rocking chair ("it's the good life!" was named
> General Houndstooth (I may not have the name exactly right--I don't have
> the record album in front of me).
>
<checking the LP>
Yep, Col. it is.
> Ever notice how the record album shows the alligator in act 4 holding a
> suitcase that says "Florida or bust"? He didn't have that in the show
> but it would have been funny.
>
Masselin
"Look at your life through Heaven's eyes."
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> Thank god that show is gone.
But isn't it better than Splash?
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> > That's Ollie the owl.
>
> Is he now the photographer owl in Splash?
>
them) and the Old Grey Mare. Sam and Ollie were considered too closely
connected w/ America Sings to work anywhere else. The Grey Mare--who
knows why?
> >
> > BTW, do you know where two of the AA geese went?
>
>
> You know, all this talk about AS had me pondering the difference between the
> concept behind it and the concept behind the new home to many of these
> characters. America Sings was a *production*, something dazzling and amazing
> that could be enjoyed by the entire family. Splash Mountain is a thrill
> ride. I had to *drag* my mother on it a few months back when we went
> together for the first time in well over a decade. She didn't want to get
> wet, but I wanted her to see what they had done with the AAs. She had really
> liked America Sings and I would have really hated for her not to see where
> they are now "performing". Unfortunately, she spent most of the ride trying
> unsuccessfully to stay dry. When we got off she said "you are never talking
> me into that again." It made me sad that she really didn't enjoy it...used
> to be that she could enjoy everything in the Park.
>
So sad. Of course, if Plectu's had gotten the green light, an equally
spectacular "production" would have gone in AS's place. Something to
make up for not being able to enjoy SM together. Now, well...
> So we went to see the Country Bears.
>
No comment. :(
Masselin
"So let's travel on through history and hear America sing!"
Wingert
Jon Nadelberg wrote:
> <snip of mine and Masselin's conversation>
>
> Thank god that show is gone.
Oh well. Can't please them all...... :)
Chris "Disneyguy"
Jon Nadelberg
Wingert <win...@dakotacom.net> wrote:
>
>
>Masselin D'Isigny wrote:
>
>> None of the characters are named in the show. They were named in the
>> book that came w/ the record. I don't know if those were considered
>> official names, or if they were just concocted for the record book.
>
>Well, some like Sam, Saddlesore Swanson, the Swamp Boys, Blossom-Nose Murphy
>etc. were actually sort of "introuduced" by their names in the show. Sam
>would say something like "And now....Saddlesore Swanson!"
>
>
>
>> "Yankee Doodle always says
>> The past is just a start."
>
>and...."Everything is better now, 'cause someone wrote a song!"
>
Thank god that show is gone.
blus...@my-dejanews.com
RPle...@webtv.net (Ross Plesset) wrote:
> Ollie the Owl is not the barker bird at the end of "Splash." They
> actually used an original AA figure! I am told that some of the America
> Sings figures are in storage below the "Pirates" fort.
Hee! It figures they would spend the money to create an AA so they could use
it to rip of....er.....encourage the tourists to buy such lovely souvenier
pictures and frames. :)
>
> Dave Smith of the Disney Archives tells me that the only artifacts from
> America Sings that are in the Archives are Sam the Eagle's hat and the
> weather vane atop General Houndstooth's house. I wanted to go down and
> look at them but they are thoroughly stashed away and are not accessible
> to every day people like me.
That kind of sucks. You know, I bet people would pay money to get into a
place and see such stuff. Hey.......
Ross Plesset
which I DON'T BELIEVE is in Splash Mountain either (perhaps it's in
Tokyo's "Splash") and there were three birds in act four which I never
spotted in SM. Now that I think about it, I don't think the storks on
the motorcycles made it to "Splash" either...or the dog-cop arresting
Blossom-nosed Murphy. The Old Grey Mare was one of my favorite
characters. I always tried to sit on the left hand side of the
auditorium so I could see her face (you could barely see her face on the
auditorium's opposite side. Hopefully she's in storage.
BTW, a friend of mine remembers seeing G.E.'s logo on the ride
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Jon Nadelberg
>>
>> Thank god that show is gone.
>
No...I thought America Sings was truly awful. Splash Mountain is
merely not very good. It's ok, but not great. On the other hand,
America Sings made me want to buy an uzi and go on a rampage. It
was that bad. When I read of people on this newsgroup who actually
liked that show, I was absolutely astonished. I guess it has to do
with what you saw when you were a youngster. I grew up with Carousel
of Progress and the City of Tomorrow upstairs. America Sings doesn't
come close to that show in quality, and I've been pissed about it since 1975.
Ross Plesset
Progress. America Sings was my favorite ride when I was little-- once I
could convinced my friends to go on a ride called "America Sings" they
loved it too and immediately wanted to do it again (that was a universal
reaction).
I didn't go on "Progress" until it was in Florida in 1977. I thought it
was very neat and went on it multiple times but it seemed like a
glorified commercial for GE, which it was ("Rover, mind you're manners!
They could be good customers of GE"). I sure wish I could have seen the
Progress City model up close!! I only saw it from the People Mover after
"Progress" left DL. The People Mover went by it so quickly I never
noticed the little monorails or People Movers. I thought "Big deal. Some
skyscrapers with a carnival nearby. Why is this a 'dream city?'"
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> There was a snake wearing a derby in the "Home on the Range" number
> which I DON'T BELIEVE is in Splash Mountain either (perhaps it's in
> Tokyo's "Splash") and there were three birds in act four which I never
> spotted in SM.
Which ones? The hippie band that sang "Hound Dog"? Come to think of it,
I doubt many of the Act 4 figures were used. Too--well, modern-looking.
Strangely enough, the Imagineering book states that the Sam/Ollie sets
were the only ones not included in SM. I heard about the Ol' Grey Mare
from somebody else.
Don Bertino
>Wingert wrote:
>
><sigh> I miss this attraction. I wanna go on America Sings *now*!
Hi Lisa
Enjoy...
A fantastic script done by Matthew Yates <rya...@cwnet.com>
A NOTE ON STAGING: America Sings remains the most technical Audio
Animatronics show Disney ever produced, from a staging standpoint. Each
of the six scenes contained a large amount of characters singing various
classic American songs. To accomodate all of these characters, the
characters were put on hydraulic platforms. Each platform was raised
into view at the appropriate time, the characters sang their song, and
the platform was lowered again. Much of the moving of scenery was also
accomplished this way. Sort of a high-tech fly system. The quartet of
singing geese which opened each scene used the same rotating platform as
the Carousel of Progress.
Dates: America Sings opened June 29, 1974 and closed April 10, 1988.
There was a soft opening on June 28, where a technician fell into one of
the onstage pits and broke one of the AA characters.
Death: On July 8, Deborah Gail Stone was killed on her first day as a
Cast Member when she got too close to the wall connecting the audience
seating area to the stage. The theater began to move and literally
pulled her body apart. The audience walls were rebuilt in two pieces to
give way should this happen again. For more details, consult David
Koenig's "Mouse Tales."
Voices: Burl Ives was the voice of Sam the Eagle. This was the only
celebrity voice used.
Staff: Marc Davis designed the characters. Story was by Marc Davis and
Al Bertino.
Sponsor: America Sings was sponsored for several years by Del Monte.
Where are they now?: Most of the characters from AS now reside in Splash
Mountain. The exceptions are the six pairs of Sams and Ollies, the "Old
Gray Mare," and two of the geese. The geese were stripped down and used
as R-4 repair droids in Star Tours (the chatty ones which cause a
shutdown of Sector 2). If you look, you can see what remains of their
webbed feet and tails. They were taken out of AS early for the Star
Tours opening. For its last 6 months, two of the goose quartets were
trios.
Merchandising: Disney did not merchandise AS at all. (If they had, I
would have everything.) They released the LP, Disneyland Record 3812, a
33. The B side had Burl Ives singing some songs, including "Ugly Bug
Ball" (his hit from "Summer Magic") and two songs from "Mary Poppins."
The album was illustrated w/ Marc Davis' conceptual sketches.
Tickets: When it first opened, AS cost one E ticket. In the early 80's,
it dropped to a D.
THE SCRIPT
PROLOGUE
Onstage is a small, white, curtained gazebo. The backdrop shows a
typical American park. There is a bright fanfare and the curtains open
to reveal an eagle, Sam, holding an arrow. He has a red, white and blue
striped and starred shield on his chest. Beside him is an owl w/ a
tricornered hat who for some reason I want to call Ollie, but I don't
know if he had an actual name. We hear a few bars of "Yankee Doodle" and
Sam begins to sing along.
SAM: Yankee Doodle went to town
Riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle keep it up.
Yankee Doodle dandy.
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.
(music finishes; Sam chuckles)
"Yankee Doodle." (music continues as underscore) Yes, folks, that was
America's first popular song. And that's what this show is all about:
America's music.
OLLIE: Where'd the songs come from, Sam?
SAM: Why, they were the songs people brought from their native
countries.
OLLIE: They did? What kind of music was it?
SAM: Sometimes it was happy, (bright riff) sometimes it was sad. (somber
passage) And sometimes it just spoke of love, like (sings)
I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair.
OLLIE: Ooh, very nice. But frankly, I prefer...
All around the cobbler's bench
The monkey chased the weasel
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun...
(Blackout. A single spot comes up on a tiny "house" at the top of the
gazebo. A smiling weasel pops out.)
WEASEL: (Pop! sound) Goes the weasel! (He laughs mischeviously, pops
back in and the doors slam shut. Lights back up on Sam and Ollie, who
laugh.)
SAM: And now, let's travel on through history and hear America sing!
OLLIE: Sing it, Sam!
(Now comes the grooviest effect in the show. The lights black out and a
hidden mirror ball comes on. In all my years, I could never figure out
where the ball was. The audience seating bank begins to rotate.)
SAM: Yankee Doodle travelled south,
A-riding on a riverboat
Played a tune and sang it out
It sounded like a billygoat
Yankee Doodle like the South
And sang their songs so dear
Thought they were most elegant for everyone to hear. (curtains
close on gazebo)
SAM, OLLIE: Yankee Doodle sing it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the words
And with the songs be handy.
(Another chorus of "Yankee Doodle" plays in a dixieland arrangement.)
ACT I
GOING SOUTH (All act titles taken from the LP book.)
(The mirror ball turns off and the lights come up. We are in a southern
bayou. At the left side of the stage is a group of frogs. A grove of
trees opens, revealing 4 geese.)
GEESE: Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away
Dixieland.
1 Goose: I got a gal and you got none.
GEESE: (unintelligible after all these years; they had bad enunciation)
Another goose: I gotta go and you gotta run.
GEESE: (*********)
HIGH TENOR GOOSE: Doo-dah.
BASS GOOSE: Doo-dah.
GEESE: (*********)...those old doo-dah days.
(The trees close and lights down on geese. Lights up on the porch of an
old plantation house swinging into view on the right. An old bloodhound
is relaxing in a rocking chair smoking a pipe.)
CHORUS: (not onstage) The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home.
'Tis summer, the old folks are gay. (I didn't write it!)
DOG (Col. Houndstoothe): (spoken) It's the good life.
CHORUS: The corn tips ripe (Several ears of corn pop open.)
And the meadows in the bloom. (A patch of flowers comes up.)
And the birds make music all the day. (Blackout. Spot up on the
Col.'s weather vane, which depicts a bird. The vane turns as we hear a
bird sing. A grove of trees opens to the right of the Col, and we see
Sam and Ollie on a donkey.)
SAM: Now, the Swamp Boys.
(Lights up on a group of 4 alligators playing instruments and a raccoon
on harmonica. The frogs croak in rhythym.)
SWAMP BOYS: Oh, I went down south
For to see my Sal
Singing polly wolly doodle all the day
My Sally is a spunky gal
Singing polly wolly doodle all the day
Fare thee well
Fare thee well
Fare thee well my fairy fay
I'm off to Louisiana for to see my Suzy-anna
Singing polly wolly doodle all the day.
SAM: (chuckles) And now, a tender complaint.
OLLIE: Sung from the heart.
(Lights up on a mother possum bathing her brood in a washtub. She is
using a washboard and hanging them out to dry by their tails.)
MOTHER: When I was single
Dressed all so fine
Now I am married, go ragged all the time.
Lord, I wish I was a single girl again.
FROGS: Aaaaaaaw.
(Bubbling sounds. Lights up on a fox in a rocking chair w/ a distiller
nearby.)
FOX: Down in the valley,
The valley so low (distiller bubbles)
Late in the evening
Hear the train blow. (train whistle)
Write me a letter
Send it by mail
Send it in care of
The Birmingham Jail (A jail backdrop comes up behind him. Suddenly
the weasel pops out of the distiller.)
WEASEL: (pop sound)...goes the weasel! Hee, hee!
(Lights up on a chorus of foxes and hens, about 12 in all, filling the
stage.)
1 HEN: Well, I'm gonna lay down my burden.
ALL: Down!
HEN: Down by the riverside.
ALL: Down!
HEN: Down by the riverside...
ALL: Down!
HEN: Down by the riverside
Gonna lay down my burden.
ALL: Down!
HEN: Down by the riverside, and
ALL: Study war no more. No, no!
HEN: Ain't gonna study
ALL: War no more.
HEN: Ooooooh, study.
ALL: War no more.
HEN: Ain't gonna study.
ALL: War no more.
HEN: Oooooh, study.
ALL: War no more.
Ain't gonna study war no more, no more.
No more, no more!
FROGS: Bum, bum.
SAM: And now, let's journey on. (tugs donkey's reins) Tug away!
OLLIE: Giddyap, you all! (Theater begins to turn.)
SAM: Well, Yankee Doodle headed west
A-working on the railroad
Crossing them rivers, over hills
And moving w/ a big load
Onward west the trains rolled
Where cattle were a-grazin'
The tales and songs that people sang
Were really quite amazin'
(Blackout. Mirror ball on.)
CHORUS: Yankee doodle, sing it up.
Yankee doodle dandy
Mind the music and the words
And w/ the songs be handy.
("Yankee Doodle" plays in a country arrangement.)
ACT II
HEADING WEST
(Lights up and mirror ball off. We are in a desert somewhere out west.
There are tall buttes on either side of the stage. Near the left side of
the stage stands a long-dead tree w/ a cow skull at its base. Sitting on
what's left of the tree are two evil-looking vultures in top hats. NOTE:
In case you're wondering, yes, these are the same vultures who taunt
Splash Mountain guests about "lookin' fer a laughin' place." They wore
their hats in Splash for a year or so. Early Splash merch shows them in
the hats.
The 4 geese are in the same place as before, only now they are in an
old, run-down saloon.)
GEESE: Drill, ye tarriers, drill
Drill, ye tarriers, drill
Oh, it's work all day with no sugar in your tea
When you meet me on the ****** Way
And drill, ye tarriers, drill.
(A handcart being operated by a fox and a rabbit emerges from behind the
butte on the left, travels across the stage during the next song and
disappears behind the butte on the right.)
I've been workin' on the railroad
All the live long day.
I've been workin' on the railroad
To pass the time away.
(Music picks up. The handcart comes back out on the right and proceeds
back across the stage twice as fast.)
Here she comes,
Look at 'er roll
There she goes
Keep it cool
Watch 'er fly
Look at 'er sail
Let 'er by, by, by
The Fireball Mail
(Handcart crashes offstage. There is an explosion effect like the one in
the Mr. Toad and Roger Rabbit rides. A Goofy-like scream is also heard.
The saloon twirls around, hiding the geese. Lights up on Sam and Ollie,
in an old wagon stuck in quicksand.)
SAM: My, my, my. Ahem. And now, Saddle Sore Swanson!
OLLIE: Who? (remember, he's an owl ;) )
(Lights up on Saddle Sore, a turkey buzzard wearing spurs and 10-gallon
hat and strumming a guitar.)
SADDLESORE: Yee-hah!
Well, come along boys and listen to my tale
And I'll tell y'all my troubles on the Old Chisholm Trail
Come-a-ty-yi, yippi-yippi-ay
Come-a-ty-yi, yippi-yippi-ay
Well, I went to the boss to draw my roll, and--(music breaks)
(spoken) He had me figured nine dollars in the hole.
(as his platform descends and the spot goes out) Ay-yi-yi-yi...
(Another platform begins to ascend on the opposite side of the stage.
Gunshot. Lights up on an old dog, a terrier, dressed as a prospector. He
rides a donkey carrying barrels marked "EXPLOSIVES." His 10-gallon hat
has a bullet hole through the center.)
MINER: Who shot that hole in my sombrero?
Who put that bullet through my hy-at?
Who shot that hole in my sombrero?
Who would do a turrible thang like thy-at?
I cain't figger
Who'd pull that trigger.
(spoken) You don't reckin mah *wife* could be back in ty-own? (music
finishes and our friend the weasel emerges from the barrel of blasting
powder.)
WEASEL: (pop sound)...goes the weasel. Hee, hee.
SAM: The tail end of Billy the Kid.
OLLIE: Sung by the Boothill Boys.
(These are the two vultures who have been eyeing us menacingly all this
time. They don't actually sing the song, just talk it.)
VULTURE 1: (sounding remarkably like the hangman in "Blazing
Saddles") Billy was a bad guy, and carried a big gun.
VULTURE 2: (sounding like Peter Lorre crossed w/ Paul Lynde) He was
always after lawmen, and kept them on the run. (evil chuckle)
(funereal music)
VULTURE 1: One day he met a bandit.
VULTURE 2: Who was a whole lot badder.
BOTH: Now Billy's dead and gone
And we ain't none the sadder. (more evil chuckles; musical finish)
(Lights up behind the backdrop which we now discover to be a scrim
curtain. Another terrier prospector is strumming a guitar on top of a
small butte. As "Tex Ranger" sings this little-known verse of "Home on
the Range," other creatures--a rattlesnake, a roadrunner, 2 prairie
dogs, a desert tortoise, and an owl, most of them in hats--rise from
below to listen.)
TEX: Oh, give me a land
Where the bright diamond sand
Flows leisurely down the stream
Where the graceful white swan
Goes glidin' along
Like a maid in a heavenly dream.
Home, home on the range. (coyote howls off in the distance)
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudly all day.
(Scrim solidifies. Lights up on Sam and Ollie. Theater starts to move.)
SAM: The Gay 90's were upon us now
The country was in full swing
People headin' for the cities
Had to do their own thing
Each time the people sang a song
The tunesmiths wrote another
'Bout love, marriage, moon in June
And always one about Mother.
(Blackout. Mirror ball on.)
SAM, OLLIE: Yankee Doodle, sing it up
Oh, Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the words
And w/ the songs be handy.
("Yankee Doodle" plays in a soft-shoe arrangement.)
ACT III
THE GAY 90'S
(Lights up and mirror ball off. We are in an elaborate ballroom straight
out of the gay 90's. There are gaslights, "gingerbread" architecture,
and two velvet-curtained stages, one at each side. The left stage opens
up to reveal the now-familiar geese.)
A SOLO GOOSE: She may be somebody's mother
Come, let her go her way.
GEESE: The Bowery, the Bowery
They sing strange things and they do strange things
After the ball is over
After the break of morn.
SOLO: Where is my wand'ring boy tonight?
Down in the licensed saloon.
(Curtains close. Lights up on a mother rabbit w/ her bunnies standing in
front of a full length window. She is holding a candle.)
MA RABBIT: Learning new vices all the night long.
Tempted to all that's sinful and wrong.
(An animated silhouette of her son, looking for all the world like Bugs
Bunny, appears in the window.)
Lis'ning to the siren's old song.
Down in the licensed saloon.
(Lights up on a pig dressed in a showgirl outfit w/ a big plume and
holding a hanky. There is a potted plant next to her. Sam and Ollie are
seated at a table nearby.)
PIG: Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?
Won't you c'mon home?
She moans the whole night long. Boo hoo hoo!
I'll do the cookin', darlin'
I'll pay the rent
I know I've done you wrong. Boo hoo hoo!
Remember that rainy evenin'
I threw you out
With nothin' but a fine tooth comb?
I know I'se to blame, well,
Ain't that a shame?
Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
(spoken) C'mon home, Bill. (Weasel pops out of plant.)
WEASEL: (pop sound)...goes the weasel! (giggle)
SAM: And now, Blossom Nose Murphy.
(Both curtained boxes open. The one on the right shows a fifth goose,
clinging to a bottle of cheap liquor. His nose has a distinct red tinge
to it. A gruff terrier policeman holds him by the collar.)
MURPHY: (drunkenly) Sweeeeeet Aaaaaaaaduuuuuuhliiiiine.
GEESE: (echo) Sweet Adeline.
MURPHY: Mmmmmmmmy Aaaaaaduuuhliiiiiiiiiine.
GEESE: My Adeline.
MURPHY: Aaaaat niiiiiiiight, dear heaaaaaaaart.
GEESE: At night, dear heart.
MURPHY: Ffffffffffforrrrrrrr youuuuuuu I piiiiiiiine.
GEESE: For you I pine.
(Suddenly the song is interrupted by the sound of an auto horn. Lights
up on the Ol' Gray Mare, in a period jalopy which seems to have a mind
of its own. The trunk and hood open and slam in time w/ the music.)
MARE: (exclaims proudly) I'm the Old Gray Mare!
CHORUS: (sung) She ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be,
ain't what she used to be.
MARE: (spoken) The Old Gray Mare!
CHORUS: (sung) She ain't what she used to be, many long years ago.
MARE: (chuckles) Don't you believe it, sonny!
(The trunk gives a final decisive slam. Part of the back wall opens up
to allow an ornate birdcage to pass through. There is a champagne bucket
attached to the cage.)
BIRD: She's only a bird in a gilded cage.
(Lights up on a fox at floor level.)
FOX: (in a fine Irish tenor) A beautiful sight to see.
BIRD: You may think she is happy and free from care.
FOX: She's not, though she seems to be.
BIRD: (yells) Ta ra ra BOOM de ay!
(It's very difficult to describe what happens now. Basically, the entire
set opens up and turns into a vaudeville showroom. There are can can
chicks--literally--kicking, a pig waiter dancing while precariously
balancing a tray of glasses, most of the characters we have already seen
in this act, and a true credit to WDI--storks riding velocipedes along
the walls of the set! Everyone joins in.)
ALL: Ta ra (ta ra) ra boom de ay!
Ta ra (ta ra) ra boom de ay!
Ta ra ra boom de ay!
BIRD: Ta ra ra BOOM de ay!
ALL: Ta ra (ta ra) ra boom de ay!
Ta ra (ta ra) ra boom de ay!
Ta ra ra boom de ay!
Ta ra ra boom de ay, boom de ay,
Boom ta ra ra boom
Boom ta ra ra
Boom ta ra ra
BOOM DE AYYYYYYY!
WEASEL: Pop goes the weasel. Hiccup! (he actually said "hiccup")
(Theater starts to turn.)
SAM: Next came ragtime, blues and jazz
The nation was a-jumpin'!
Fox trots and the bunny hug had everyone a-stompin'
Then swing and big bands were the rage
The songs they were most pleasin'
Rock and roll soon took its toll
The dancers stopped a-squeezin'.
(Blackout. Mirror ball on.)
SAM, OLLIE: Yankee Doodle sing it up
Oh, Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the words
And w/ the songs be handy.
("Yankee Doodle" plays in a rock arrangment.)
ACT IV
MODERN TIMES
(Lights up and mirror ball off. We are in a back alley of a large city.
There are multistory apartment buildings all around. There is a cafe
nearby. A house twirls around at the left side of the stage and we see
our friends the geese.)
GEESE: Ja da, ja da
Ja da ja da jing jing jing
Ja da, ja da
Ja da ja da jing jing jing
I'll be down to catch you in a taxi, honey
You better be ready round a half past eight
Now, dearie, don't be late
I wanna be there when the band starts playin'
Singin' in the rain
Just singin' in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
I'm laughin' at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love
(A car horn beeps twice. A garage door opens and a model T pulls out.
Two kittens, holding a college pennant, are riding w/ their dates, who
are foxes. All are dressed in the "jitterbug" fashion.)
GROUP: A tisket, a tasket
A green and yellow basket
I sent a letter to my mommy
On the way I dropped it.
Boo hoo
You've got me cryin' for you
KITTENS: And as I sit here and sigh.
Say, I...
ALL: I can't believe it's true.
(The horn honks three times and the car backs into the garage. Lights up
on the cafe. A pig is out in front playing jazz piano. He actually
entered through the door of the cafe, rather than just up through the
floor. Good attention to detail.)
PIG: The people gather 'round
When he gets on the stand
Then when he plays
He gets a hand.
The rhythm he plays puts the cats in a trance
Nobody there.
Bob is through dancin' when he plays with the bass guitar
They holler, "Oooh, beat me Daddy
Eight to the bar"
A-blink, a-blank.
(Weasel pops out of piano.)
WEASEL: (pop noise)...goes the weasel! (giggle)
(Lights up on Sam and Ollie, on a rooftop.)
SAM: Okay, boys, act alive and *jive!*
(Lights up on a rock band consisting of a hippie stork w/ dreadlocks,
love beads, and granny glasses, a porcupine on drums, and a rooster w/
his crest teased into a fright wig.)
STORK: You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
ROOSTER: Yeaaaaaah!
STORK: You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time.
(An alligator, also wearing love beads, appears at right carrying a
valise that says "Florida or Bust.")
Weeeeeeeell,
See you later, alligator.
GATOR: (spoken) Goin' uptown.
STORK: After a while, crocodile.
GATOR: (spoken) Movin' out.
STORK: See you later, alligator.
GATOR: (spoken) Feelin' good.
STORK: After a while, crocodile.
(An upper-level apartment twirls to reveal a flower child band, this one
a stork and frog. The stork is wearing a daisy crown. They are in a
diner, w/ pots hanging all around.)
STORK: Get outta that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans!
VOICE: Coming up!
STORK: And roll my bread because I'm a hungry man.
VOICE: ????????????(says something else)
STORK: Let's shake, rattle and roll.
FROG: (in a very low bass) Yeeeeeeeeeah.
STORK: Let's shake, rattle, and roll.
FROG: Oh, ba-by.
STORK: Let's shake, rattle, and roll.
FROG: Yeeeeeeeeeah.
STORK: Let's shake, rattle, and roll.
(Diner twirls back around. A pair of storks on a motorcycle--yes, a real
one--enters on the left side, balancing along a wall. The girl has a
guitar on her back. Even though this is only the 60's, they have
helmets.)
GUY: Yeah, twistin'.
GIRL: (spoken, effervescently) Twistin'!
GUY: New York.
GIRL: (spoken) New York!
GUY: And old Chicago town.
GIRL: Oooooooooh! (By now you should have guessed, she's a ditz.)
GUY: In Hartford.
GIRL: Hartford!
GUY: And Frisco.
GIRL: Frisco!!
BOTH: They all go round and round.
Up and down and around and around and around.
(Production number!! All characters in this scene come out again for the
finale. There are multicolored lights and the music goes up 100
decibels.)
ALL: Joy to the world.
All the boys and girls.
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
Joy to the world (Sing out!)
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue seeeeeea. (big slowdown for
finish)
Joy
To you
And me!
(Sam does a little scat solo. Song finishes. The characters retreat.
Theater starts to turn.)
SAM: Yes, folks,
Yankee Doodle remembers when
To make these songs ring true
People came from every land
To mix these tunes for you.
So we should all remember
As hist'ry moves along
That everything is better now
'Cause someone knows the song.
(Blackout. Mirror ball on.)
SAM AND OLLIE: Yankee Doodle, sing it up
Oh, Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the words
And w/ the songs be handy.
("Yankee Doodle" continues in a splashy contemporary arrangment w/ lots
of brass.)
EPILOGUE
(Lights up and mirror ball off. We are back where we started, in the
same sleepy little park. One minor difference: there is a tiny zoo on
the left hand side of the backdrop. I always thought this practically
unnoticeable change was to symbolize the "progress" of the area. Since
it's so small, though, it's more likely there just to give AS CM's a
reference so they can tell the unload theater from the load. Sam and
Ollie are in their little bandstand, in the same costumes as before.)
SAM: (singing as music continues quietly behind him)
Yankee Doodle always says
The past is just a start.
Tomorrow will bring songs to you
That comes straight from the heart
Another thing he had to say
Was life is just a song
So everybody get in tune
And let's all sing along.
CHORUS: (At this point, a stereo effect was used, similar to the Tiki
Room, to make it sound as if the audience were singing.)
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne.
(Blackout. Spot up on weasel's house at top of bandstand.)
WEASEL: Goodbye goes the weasel! (giggle)
(House doors slam shut. House lights up immediately. The CM gives us the
standard cheerful goodbye spiel as we exit into Tomorrowland, to an
upbeat rendition of "Stars and Stripes Forever.")
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Can't get to Disneyland? Don's site is damn close!
Masselin noted:
>A NOTE ON STAGING: America Sings remains the most technical Audio
>Animatronics show Disney ever produced, from a staging standpoint.
What about The American Adventure's "war wagon" setup?
Fab
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Warrior Goddess of a.d.d.
"Ismay, I'm just in the business of building; it's God who sinks
ships.."~Thomas Andrews, 'Titanic The Musical'
Kevin Yee
Don Bertino wrote:
MINER: Who shot that hole in my sombrero? Who put that bullet through my hy-at? Who shot that hole in my sombrero? Who would do a turrible thang like thy-at? I cain't figger Who'd pull that trigger. (spoken) You don't reckin mah *wife* could be back in ty-own? (music finishes and our friend the weasel emerges from the barrel of blasting powder.) WEASEL: (pop sound)...goes the weasel. Hee, hee.
If memory serves, the DL Forever song is different right here... I can't remember the specifics, but the one on the CD track is somehow less PC.
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Gwen Smith
>If memory serves, the DL Forever song is different right here... I can't
>remember the specifics, but the one on the CD track is somehow less >PC.
I do not recall if they changed the audioamantronic, but here is the script
change. Also note that the accept changed from a hispanic one to the more
"twang western" accent.
Original (non-PC) Version
(over a more spanish-sounding version of the song)
> Who shot the hole in my sombrero?
> Who put the bullet through the hat?
> Who shot the hole in my sombrero?
> Who would do a terrible thing like that?
> Was it Pancho
> 'round the rancho?
> (spoken) Did he do this because I kiss his wife?
Second (PC) Version
> Who shot that hole in my sombrero?
> Who put that bullet through my hy-at?
> Who shot that hole in my sombrero?
> Who would do a turrible thang like thy-at?
> I cain't figger
> Who'd pull that trigger.
> (spoken) You don't reckin mah *wife* could be back in ty-own?
Cheers,
Gwen Smith
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Masselin D'Isigny
>
> >A NOTE ON STAGING: America Sings remains the most technical Audio
> >Animatronics show Disney ever produced, from a staging standpoint.
>
>
Sings'. Same principles, bigger application.
Masselin
who went grape nuts over American Adventure--American history, Audio
Animatronics, and Disney all together!
Toddster42
Masselin wrote:
> Masselin
>who went grape nuts over American Adventure--American history, Audio
>Animatronics, and Disney all together!
I have nothing to add to this except to say that I will now be using the phrase
"going grape nuts" far too often. Thanks, Masselin.
To bring this slightly back on topic, when is the next ba-add meet? I'd love to
go. I hear about a pizza/old attractions video night, but I'd like some more
details!
Todd
Master Of The Late Night Spell Check
"Macintosh. We may not get everything right,
but at least we knew the century was going to end."
- Douglas Adams
Altoona
>
> Previously alt...@concentric.net wrote:
> >Wingert wrote:
> >
> ><sigh> I miss this attraction. I wanna go on America Sings *now*!
>
> Hi Lisa
>
> Enjoy...
Aw, golly-gee-jiminy, Don! You made me have a flashback! 8-)
Yeah, it was great! Thanks so much for posting the script! Reading it
*was* the next best thing to actually being there! (Boy, what a lot of
exclamation points! Look! Another! And another! STOP. Whew! Aw, rats...)
> From www.bertino.com/disney
It *is* a fabulous site!
Lisa
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> Burl Ives, as Don Betino said did the voice of the eagle, who were the others?
I think that was the only voice anybody's bothered to keep track of. It
was the only celebrity voice used.
> "Hello, I'll be your serving wench Melinda, May I taketh the order?"-Janeane
> Garofalo
That was Janene Garofalo? Sorry, but given the choice between her and a
*real* serving wench at faire, I know which one I'd take.
(You might have been working faire too long if you'd ignore Garofalo.
Right, Lynn?)
Masselin
who has the entire list printed out
Masselin D'Isigny
>
> Did Sterling Holloway do any audio animatronic voices..I wodner why i have
> never hearsd his,.
I don't think he did anything for the parks.
> Paul Frees is a basso [profuno somewhat lighter-(he has done
> somwhat higher voices.
>
He's the narrator of Mr. Lincoln (Lincoln himself is Royal Dano), and
the Ghost Host.
Ross Plesset
both versions). I'm not 100% certain but that's what an Imagineer told
me. As far as Thurl Ravenscroft singing Home on the Range, that was
sheer speculation on my part.
I never realized this until recently but some of the songs were written
especially for America Sings, including "The Tale End of Billy the Kid
sung by Billy, the Kid sung by the Boot Hill Boys." (I LOVED how the
vultures kept looking around even when the spot light wasn't on them. I
believe they even moved during the dark sequences: Home on the Range and
the time travelling parts.)
GCarras
GCarras
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>Paul Barrie, Jr. wrote:
>>
>> Anyone who is in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wants to see
>> the video should attend the next BA-ADD old attraction video & pizza meet.
>
>So... when is it?
>
>Anchovy lovers rule, btw.
>
Thanks! I love anchovies.:)
GCarras
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>Ross Plesset wrote:
>>
>> I believe Rex Allen did the voice of the dog who sang "Who Shot That
>> Hole in My Sombrero" and the dog who sang "Home on the Range" sounds
>> like Thurl Ravenscroft to me but I'm not sure.
>>
>Sounds about an octave too high to be Thurl. Remember, Thurl also did
>the voice of Tangaroa and the DL Railroad Conductor. This man is a basso
>profundo.
>
And,to quote his famed tiger, GREEEAT!
Anotehr basso profundo, perhaps the deepest I ever heard is Candy Candido, the
voice of Cheif in Peter Pan. He's been in coutnless Disney films, both shoprts
and cartoons, and even was in Ralph Pakshi's Coonskin and Mighty Mouse, and was
in big band leadr ted Fio Rito's novleties,and Jimmy DUrante radio show and
acts, with that Mighjty low/mighhjty high voice..he might be the voice you are
thinking of...
Dr.Horatio Q>Birdbath featured withcomci bandleaders ben Bernei and Spike
Jones, was used in TITKI ROOM, (real name": A.Purves Pullens), and Wally
Boag's heard in that attraction too.Paul Frees is in a number of attractions,
and in 1974 he was still alvie (he died in November of 1986,age 66).
Did Sterling Holloway do any audio animatronic voices..I wodner why i have
never hearsd his,. Paul Frees is a basso [profuno somewhat lighter-(he has done
somwhat higher voices.
A Disney example is the little mouse in the 1960 short GOLIATH II/.Poppin Fresh
theP illsbury doughbiy was anotiher semi high Paul frees voice.:)
Dan Young
wrote:
I just wanted to thank you for the excellent summary of the America
Sings attraction. It's been, obviously, over 20 years since I've seen
it, and your descriptions and lyrics brought it all back fresh. I
especially remember how out of place the whole weasel gag was - like
they just threw in in once or twice per scene with no real purpose
other than to be cute. Didn't buy it, then or now. AS was never a
favorite, mostly because I was such a big Carousel of Progress fan,
but I still managed to enjoy the show. Thanks again!
GCarras
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>GCarras wrote:
>>
>> Burl Ives, as Don Betino said did the voice of the eagle, who were the
>others?
>
>was the only celebrity voice used.
>
>order?"-Janeane
>> Garofalo
>
>*real* serving wench at faire, I know which one I'd take.
>(You might have been working faire too long if you'd ignore Garofalo.
>Right, Lynn?)
>
> Masselin
That ws my CABLE GUY (Jim Carrey's hilarious 1996 Columbia movie) quote until
recently.:)(Garlofalo WOUDL be a good park attraction voice if only she'd make
another West coast pilgramage.But as she said in the latest Celebrity
Style,mag,not to beconfused with Harris Publications CELEBRITY HAIRSTYLES,she
doesn't p,lay the Hollywood game.Here's hoping she gets a Hollywood
star,though.:)
"There were no utensils IN Medieval Times, hence there are no utensils AT
Medieval Times."-Janeane Garofalo