At Disneyland

Artist: Firehouse Five Plus Two
Label: Good Time Jazz
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218104920
EAN: 0025218104920
ASIN: B000000XOF

Release Date: 1991-11-13

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General

| Jazz | Styles | Music

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Dixieland

| Jazz | Styles | Music

Listmania:

Rare music from Disneyland for Disney fans
The music of Walt Disney CD, books
Great Traditional Jazz Revival Recordings

Tracks:

Anvil Stomp
Muskrat Ramble
You've Got To See Mamma Ev'ry Night Or You Can't See Mamma At All
Lassus Trombone
Coney Island Washboard
Ja-Da
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Tiger Rag

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Customer Reviews:

Fun Album!.......2007-02-05

This is a great album to have on with family, during a dinner party, on a weekend drive or when spring cleaning around the house. It is sure to please a lot of people!

A great album!.......2002-08-08

This is a GREAT album for anyone who loves Dixieland!It's a great family album,and it's also great for parties,too!For kids,it's a great alternative to the drug,violence and sex-promoting profanity-filled heavy metal [stuff] that kids listen to.Kids may like this album so much that they toss thier heavy metal CDs into the fireplace.

Just a fun, classic CD.......2001-10-02

Makes for mighty enjoyable listening.

I would give anything to go back in time to this night.......2001-04-27

"Fire Chief" Ward Kimball as band leader and the "Firehouse Five Plus Two" a Dixieland jazz band that made at least 10 albums. They performed on the Bing Crosby radio show, were featured in a 1950's Walt Disney TV special called "One Hour in Wonderland" that predated the weekly show. They appeared on "Dateline Disneyland" (ABC's Opening Day live television broadcast) in front of the firehouse on Main Street USA, in the parade, and finally performing at the now extinct Plantation House resteraunt in Frontierland. They also appeared on the original Mickey Mouse Club's "Anything Can Happen Day" on and performed two numbers, "I Want to be a Fireman" and the "Tiger Rag". This appearance is available on the DVD "The Best of the Mickey Mouse Club" here at Amazon.com. It is mislabeled on the DVD as November 12, 1964 which was actually a re-run of the original episode that almost 10 years earlier; the footage of the second song reappeared in a "Wonderful World of Disney" episode called "At Home with Donald Duck", although the footage was edited out for a 1976 re-run. On January 3, 1964 they appeared on another episode,
They Disneyland 10th Anniversary". They had other appearances in non-Disney fare.

The amazing thing is that they did all of this while working as busy top Walt Disney Studio animators. Truth is that they liked to blow off steam on breaks and after work. They played in the studio offices or on a studio soundstage in the early days. Their jam sessions caused animators, storymen, and inbetweeners to dance with the ladies from the color and ink crew right in the soundstage. As members of the group were some of his best studio animators, Walt Disney liked them and let them do their own thing on the side. But he also loved their music and onstage antics. He even invited them to play in the Disneyland park on Opening Day in 1955 and regularly after that, and later to even appear on his TV show.

The band was not owned or controlled by the Disney Company in any way. They moonlighted, recorded albums, played in nightclubs, and had alot of fun along the way. The FF5+2 was not some polished studio band with tight engineering, but an exercise in spontaneity and improvisation. They truly didn't even believe in practicing, just havin' fun. Maybe that is the best part of listening to them, because they sound great and are very full of life and laughter. They still make you want to dance along. Interestingly, as animators they were used to creative sound effects and included this art in their music too. For example they used an anvil on one track, sirens, bells and whistles.... and it works. This album is great for Disney history buffs since it was recorded at the nostalgic Golden Horsehoe Saloon in Disneyland and you can hear them bantering with the audience, who is going nuts over their music. The voice you hear introducing each song is none other than Ward Kimball himself. They played at different spots throughout the Disneyland park throughout the '60's. This album is one of the shortest produced by the band, but very unique due to its LIVE status. You can hear the gang joking and hamming it up with each other during tracks and inbetween. I only wish I had a video of this performance. Very clean sound on this re-release, high quality CD. The Good Time Jazz label was kind enough to reproduce not only the original cover but even the liner notes. The actual number of musicians in the group changed from time to time, but at this time it was truly 7.

Start your FF+2 collection with this recording and you will want more, they are just great fun!! Two of Disney's famous 9 Old Men are in the group, Frank Thomas (on piano) and the irrepresible band leader Ward Kimball (trombone). The cover art is a photo of the band at Disneyland in the Firetruck. Check out the cover artwork from band member and animator Ward Kimball on some of their other recordings.

Live performance by a lively group!.......1999-12-05

In their early live performances, the Firehouse Five Plus Two mixed their music with lots of slapstick humor, so much so that their genuine musicianship was often overlooked. Most of their recordings were done in studio, and the clowning which was an essential part of the Firehouse Five experience was largely filtered out. But this album is a live performance, recorded at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe restaurant. Leader Ward Kimball's crazy introductions, some of the asides with band members, and famous bits like dropping the anvil on somebody's foot, are all perserved here, along with some really marvelous Dixieland music. The tunes are classic Dixieland numbers, the musicianship is exceptional. More than any of their other recordings, this disk presents the whole Firehouse Five Plus Two.

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