WALT DISNEY WORLD "COUNTRY BEAR JAMBOREE" 1972 W/10 PG INSERT VG+/VG OOP RARE LP

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ARTIST: V/A

TITLE: “WALT DISNEY WORLD'S COUNTRY BEAR JAMBOREE"

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS/BELOW:

A1

Piano

A2

The Bear Band Serenade

A3

My Woman Ain't Pretty (But She Don't Swear None)

A4

Mama, Don't Whip Little Buford

A5

Tears Will Be The Chaser For My Wine

A6

Pretty Little Devilish Mary

A7

How Long WIll My Baby Be Gone

A8

All The Guys That Turn Me On Turn Me Down

A9

If Ya Can't Bite, Don't Growl

A10

Heart, We Did All That We Could

A11

Blood On The Saddle

A12

The Ballad Of Davy Crockett

A13

Ole Slew-Foot

A14

Come Again (Come On In)

B1

Bile 'Em Cabbage Down

B2

Polly Wolly Doodle

B3

Wabash Cannonball

B4

Bearless Love

B5

Red River Valley

B6

Bang! Goes Old Betsy

• “Pianjo” (Don Robertson ) – Gomer and Henry

• “Bear Band Serenade” (Lyrics: Xavier Atencio, Music: George Bruns) – The Five Bear Rugs, Gomer, and Henry

• “Fractured Folk Song” (Kenneth C. Burns & Henry D. Haynes) – Henry and Wendell

• “My Woman Ain’t Pretty (But She Don’t Sware None)” (Frankie Starr & Paul E. Miller) – Liver Lips McGrowl

• “Mama, Don’t Whip Little Buford” (Burns & Haynes) – Henry and Wendell

• “Tears Will Be the Chaser For Your Wine” (Dale Davis & Leroy Goates) – Trixie

• “Devilish Mary” (Bradley Kincaid) – The Five Bear Rugs

• “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Buck Owens) – Terrence

• “All the Guys That Turn Me On Turn Me Down” (Plot & Powell) – The Sun Bonnet Trio

• “If Ya Can’t Bite, Don’t Growl” (Tommy Collins) – Ernest and the Five Bear Rugs

• “Heart, We Did All We Could” (Ned Miller) – Teddi Barra

• “Blood on the Saddle” (Everett Cheetham) – Big Al

• “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (Tom Blackburn and George Bruns) – Henry and Sammy

• “Ole Slew Foot” (Howard Hausey) – Cast (minus Ernest and Trixie, who do not appear onstage, and Big Al, who reprises “Blood on the Saddle”)

• “Come Again” (Tom Adair & George Bruns) – Henry, Sammy, Max, Buff, and Melvin

RECORD LABEL: DISNEYLAND RECORDS

CAT.#: 3994

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1972

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG+ CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS, SCRATCHES, BLEMS OR FINGERPRINTS. BOTH LABELS IN NM CONDITION. THIS LOOKS AND PLAYS BRAND NEW, THIS LOOKS AND PLAYS GREAT. VERY, VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND IN A FEW PLACES, SEE ON VERY LIGHT PAPER SCUFF ON SIDE 1 ABOUT 1/2” FROM THE RIM.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO WRITING, SEAM SPLITS, BENDS, RIPS ETC. THERE'S VERY, VERY LIGHT EDGEWEAR IN A COUPLE PLACES, ALL OF THE PAGES OF THE STORYBOOK ARE INTACT, NO TEARS, THE FIRST ONE HAS A SMALL DOGEAR FOLD IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER (SEE PHOTO), THETE'S NO WRITNG, OR TEARS, CRAYON MARKS, I DID NOTICE A SMALL APPRX. 3” SEAM SPLIT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BACK OF THE JACKET, OTHER THAN THAT LOOKS TO BE IN GREAT SHAPE FOR A CHILDRENS RECORD AND IT'S AGE. COMES WITH 11 PAGE FULL COLOR BOOKLET.

MORE ARTIST INFO:

On October 1, 1971, The Country Bear Jamboree opened its doors in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. It received so much good feedback that Imagineers immediately planned to make a replica of the show to be placed in Disneyland. In 1986, the Vacation Hoedown debuted at both Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.

As plans progressed, it was decided to give the bears a country-western persona and feature them in the Mineral King Resort’s Bear Band Restaurant Show. The names of the ursine characters were slightly different in the beginning, with monikers such as Lil’ Lemonade Bear, Big Fred, Old Zeke, Cousin Ted, and Brother Zeb.

While the Mineral King Project was mired in legal red tape, Disney was also hard at work planning and building Walt Disney World in Florida. Sensing the inevitable outcome, the Imagineers shifted gears and took a new look at the singing bears and felt that Frontierland would be the perfect home for these stars, perhaps in protest of the fact that Roy Disney would allow very few original, new concepts to be built for the park.

The Country Bear Jamboree ended up being an opening day attraction at the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola and Frito Lay. The presentation is housed in Grizzly Hall and the theater can hold approximately 350 guests. The first version of the show used to run just shy of 16 minutes. Watch our video of the original show:

A little information on the characters in the show: Henry is the Master of Ceremonies for Country Bear Jamboree. He wears a dickey, a high-starched collar, a bow tie, and a top hat. This gives him a formal look appropriate for hosting such a “classy” to-do. The backstory for Henry indicates that he was a football player who found music and changed careers. Henry is voiced by Pete Renoudet (a name you will hear a lot more about).

Hanging on the wall we have (from left to right) Melvin, Buff, and Max. Buff is a buffalo and the leader of the three talking heads. He’s voiced by Disney Legend Thurl Ravenscroft who co-founded the Mellomen with Max Smith. This group lent their talents to such Disney films as “Alice in Wonderland,” “Peter Pan,” and “Lady and the Tramp.” Max is a stag and is also voiced by Pete Renoudet. Melvin is a dimwitted moose and voiced by Bill Lee. Lee voiced many Disney characters including Roger’s singing voice in “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” and the Father in “Cinderella.” Lee was also a member of the Mellomen singing group.

Melvin has occasionally been portrayed as a full-bodied moose. A comic appearance in 1971 showed Melvin as merely peeking into the theater through a hole in the wall, while a full-bodied bipedal Melvin wearing a plaid bathrobe appeared in seasonal Christmas shows in the 1980s and 1990s such as Christmas Follies at Disneyland and Miss Minnie’s Country Christmas at the Magic Kingdom.

For whatever reason, in 1986, Melvin the Moose from the Country Bear Jamboree was chosen as a host for a character breakfast at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground. The show and breakfast were staged at the home of the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue, Pioneer Hall, to make use of the space in the early morning hours. The puppet was used on the stage for various vignettes while guests dined and met Chip and Dale. This breakfast and show ran under various names until it was discontinued in 1991.

Gomer is the piano player of Country Bear Jamboree, but he didn’t always play country and Western music. His training was classical. He began pawing the ivories while a cub and practiced days and nights for many years. Finally, he went to New York, much to the relief of his neighbors. There he studied Bearlioz, and his favorite composition was “Night on Bear Mountain.” When he heard himself referred to as the “lard of Juilliard,” he quit the concert stage and went home to the hills. He is highly regarded by the other musicians because he can play in a key other than C.

Zeke is the leader of the group. He plays a banjo made out of an old frying pan and a chicken bone. With his left foot, he bangs on a dishpan to create “a real ol’ country beat.” Zeke is an old codger and wears a collar, hat, and spectacles. Dallas McKennon provided the voice for Zeke from October 1971 to July 1975. McKennon’s distinctive voice can also be heard on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and as Ben Franklin in The American Adventure. Randy Sparks took over the role of Zeke following McKennon. Zeb plays a homemade fiddle with a hickory bow. He wears a miner’s hat and a red polka-dot bandanna. 

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