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In Episode 14, the guys welcome a special guest; Ziggy from Ziggy Knows Disney on Facebook and www.ziggyknowsdisney.com. The guys discuss Epcot’s 35th Anniversary and all of the exclusive events and merchandise Disney is offering in celebration. One of the special items is a park exclusive Pop Vinyl Figment figure, which Tom talks about trying to obtain while not being in the park.
Ziggy gives his reviews of the booths at the Epcot Food & Wine festival and makes Tom and Damon extremely hungry. The guys talk about an upcoming DVC Thanksgiving feast and a new way for families on a budget to eat dinner while at WDW. The guys also talk about some new rumors including the end of one of Damon’s favorite’s, Stitch’s Great Escape and the Jingle Cruise. Damon discusses his upcoming Disney cruise.
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In Episode 17, the guys welcome Damon back from his Disney Cruise and hear all about his experiences. DVC dues are released and Top of the World is renewed for another year. Paradise Pier at Disneyland is becoming Pixar Pier and the guys discuss how this change will benefit the park. There are rumors that Disney will purchase Fox and gain back the rights to make X-Men movies. The guys discuss how that could effect the Disney parks.
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DVC has announced 2018 Moonlight Magic dates, all 14 of them! The guys discuss their thoughts on these events and answer a listener question about Moonlight Magic. A new DVC Member exclusive paid lounge has been announced. The WDW Skyliner project is coming along and the guys discuss newly released concept art. Is there a new hotel coming to the entrance gates of Epcot? Will Guardians of the Galaxy in Epcot have no inversions? The guys discuss the latest Epcot rumors.
The guys discuss their Disney Holiday traditions and read listener submissions. The guys also discuss the recent updates to Star Wars Land, the theater in Magic Kingdom, and a few attraction closures. Happy Holidays everyone!
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Recording: Rick And Renault
Artist: Original Cast
Album: Music From The Original Motion Picture
Recording: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Artist: Judy Garland
Album: The Wizard of Oz Original Soundtrack
Recording: California Here I Come
Artist: Al Jolson
Album: 20th Century Masters
Recording: City Of Stars
Artist: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone
Album: La La Land Original Soundtrack
Academy Award Winners for Best Original Song (2017). Wait… Yes!
Recording: May Jean Goes To Hollywood
Artist: The Byrds
Album: Ballad of Easy Rider
Written by a 21-year-old Jackson Browne. Played by the Clarence White Byrds. What could be better?
Recording: Blue Money
Artist: Van Morrison
Album: His Band & The Street Choir
An Irish sage visits the San Fernando Valley.
Recording: Tara’s Theme
Artist: John Williams & The Boston Pops
Album: A Celebration
Recording: Look At Me
Artist: Bobbie Darin
Album: Bless You California

Recording: Act Naturally
Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Album: 21st Century Hits
Recording: Malkovich
Artist: Dweezil Zappa
Album: Via Zammata
Son of Mr Green Jeans? Son of Frank Zappa meets Malkovich.
Recording: The Raven
Artist: Jeff Bridges
Album: Sleeping Tapes
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Recording: New Kid In Town
Artist: JD Souther
Album: Natural History
The four most dreaded words in Hollywood.
Recording: Theme From “A Summer Place”
Artist: Percy Faith
Album: Percy Faith Plays Movie Themes
Composer Max Steiner strikes again!

Recording: Big Rock Candy Mountain
Artist: Burl Ives
Album: Greatest Hits
Recording: Which Side Are You On?
Artist: The Almanac Singers
Album: Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music
They look like friends. Photo © Time/Life
Two disparate show business figures seemed to fall into a concentric orbit during a unique period of Hollywood history.
One, was a man of the dusty road who brought the sensibility of depression era America to the mainstream.
The other, became thought of as one of the country’s homegrown geniuses. His name began to embody a brand of American commercial artistic creativity.
One man was Burl Ives, the other was Walt Disney.
Both exuded Americana. Both made personal political decisions that somewhat singed their historical images. The choices they made involved their testimony before The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Each individual that was called had a difficult decision to made. These two men made essentially the same choice.
Burl Ives began as an itinerant singer and banjo player. By 1940, he had his own radio show where he performed the versions “of record” of hobo and road songs.
He popularized the Irish war ballad ’Foggy Dew”, the minstrel tune ”The Blue Tail Fly” and “Big Rock Candy Mountain” a song celebrating an idealized version of the Hobo life.
Ives also performed with the Almanac Singers a folk group which at different times included Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger.
By most measures, his biggest hit over time is version of the 17th-century English song “Lavender Blue.” The song became a hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its use in the 1949 Disney film So Dear To My Heart. The film is thought to be Walt Disney’s most personal films, and a point where he came into his own as a producer of live action films. The remains well known today due to its’ inclusion on various Disney music anthologies.
Just after the song’s initial success, Ives was identified as an entertainer with Communist ties by HUAC. Despite the pain of naming “fellow travelers” it was the path Ives took, thus allowing him to continue film and music work.
It also led to a rift between Ives and many folk singers.
Disney’s appearance before HUAC had come earlier in 1947. It centered on his belief that the Disney Studio strike in 1941 was a communist inspired event.
HUAC ripped apart many Hollywood friendships and working relationships. Walt continued to support Ives career with a later feature role in “Summer Magic” and an ongoing record deal with the fledgling Disneyland Records label. Like his former folkie friend, Woody Guthrie, Burl made Children’s Folk Music for the Burbank based label.
Ives motion picture path took him pretty far from his folksy early typing. He played Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and won a a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in A Big Country.
In later years, after Walt’s death, Ives voiced attraction host Sam the Eagle for Disneyland’s America Sings attraction.
Were they kindred spirits. Fellow Travelers of a different sort? Or, were they indeed friends?
It sure seemed that way, from the time they both “sang” at the HUAC hearings.
Recording: So Dear My Heart: Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
Artist: Voices of Ascension Chorus
Album: Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach
Recording: The Ugly Bug Ball
Artist: Los Lobos
Album: Los Lobos Goes Disney
Los Lobos rocks the Sherman Bros. tune that Burl Ives made famous in Walt Disney’s Summer Magic.
Recording: Celluloid Heros
Artist: Ray Davies and the Crouch End Festival Chorus
Album: The Kinks Choral Collection
Recording: Hooray For Hollywood (Cha Cha)
Artist: Don Swan
Album: Ultra Lounge/Mambo Fever Vol. 2
Recording: We’ll Meet Again
Artist: She & Him
Album: Classics
Zooey Deschanel and M Ward bid us a fond farewell.
Who is truly The President of Disneyland? CV Wood? Lindquist? Kalogridis? Mr. Lincoln? Colglazier or Nixon?
Author Todd James Pierce on the Yippie Invasion.
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Recording: The Star Spangled Banner
Artist: U.S. Marine Band
Album: Hail To The Chief
Recording: 26 Seconds
Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Album: The Kennedy Suite
With added news copy of the “patsy” statement.
Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy thought that Disneyland would be a good place for a talk with the President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré. Kennedy became the President of the United States. Touré became a dictator.
Recording: First We Take Manhattan
Artist: Jennifer Warnes
Album: Famous Blue Raincoat
Jenny Sings Lenny. Sounds like a plan for revolution. Maybe it’s already happened.
Stevie Ray Vaughn holding down the guitar slot.
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Recording: You Were On My Mind
Artist: Colvin & Earle
Album: Colvin & Earle
Colvin & Earle cover We Five from ’65.
It is not unusual for an American Presidency to end with a visit to the Southern California Disney facility known as Disneyland. Generalisimo Eisenhower brought the Family. Reagan was involved in a major milestone celebration at the Park. Jimmy Carter took a jog before opening while still in office.
Recording: Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Artist: Petra Haden & Jesse Harris
Album: The Kennedy Suite
Petra and Jesse take on Pete Seeger’s circular plea for peace.
Recording: Woodstock
Artist: Joni Mitchell with The L.A. Express
Album: Miles of Aisles
One of Joni’s first forays toward Jazz. Recorded live at the now departed Universal Amphitheatre.
Recording: Milestones
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Milestones
The track listing on the first release of this tune calls the song “Miles.”
Recording: Milestones (Alternate Take)
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Milestones
The rendition used in the program is a combination of the two versions.
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Recording: Lonely At The Top
Artist: Randy Newman
Album: Sail Away
Ain’t it the truth?
Recording: Trust In Me
Artist: Siouxie & The Banshees
Album: Trust In Me
Did you ever think The Shermans could sound this edgy? The brothers’ song has conjured images of the 37th President for much of its’ tenure.
DHI Podcasts 29, 30, 31
Artist: Disney History Institute/Todd James Pierce
Link: http://disneyhistoryinstitute.com
Recording: Earth Saw
Artist: 75 Dollar Bill
Album: Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
DOSSIER: We are continually impressed by the writing and podcasting of Todd James Pierce. His research is exhaustive. Thoroughness would be his middle name if he wasn’t already showing three cards. But it’s not digging for the sake of digging. Specifically, in his Disney Historical Institute podcasts, and his recent book, Three Years In Wonderland, his fact mastery cuts to the heart of, and the true motivation for the events he depicts. He leaves out uncorroborated “legend” in an area of study that is rife with fable, fantasy, and mythology. While chronicling those who were creating fable, fantasy, and mythology. No small task.
Here’s his personal bio…
Todd James Pierce lives in a town called Orcutt, California, which is in the northern portion of Santa Barbara County. He is the author or co-author of eight books, including Newsworld, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His work has been published in over 80 magazines and literary journals, including The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, North American Review, VQR, and Willow Springs. His most recent book is Three Years in Wonderland, which tells the story of Walt Disney and the birth of the American theme park industry. Here is his Amazon page. And you can find him his own self, online at http://www.toddjamespierce.com.
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Recording: Legenda
Artist: Zemfira/Angelo Badalamenti
Album: Stalingrad (Original Soundtrack)
Recording: The Star Spangled Banner (Piano)
Artist: Jaqueline Schwab
Album: Ken Burns’ Baseball (Original Soundtrack)
No matter your politics, it’s sad when America fails.
Recording: House Of Cards Main Title
Artist: Jeff Beal
Album: House Of Cards: Season 4
Recording: Put A Little Love In Your Heart
Artist: Jackie De Shannon
Album: The Definitive Collection
The healing sound of Blue-Eyed Soul.
Image © Lebowski Fest
Deejay Middlebrow
Our Theme and bumpers… (are made of)
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Recording: Overture- M. Gustave H
Artist: Alexandre Desplat
Album: Grand Budapest Hotel OST
Includes:
Recording: Overture- M. Gustave H
Artist: Alexandre Desplat
Album: Grand Budapest Hotel OST
