Today I am posting a video from the last day of Magic Kingdom’s Country Bear Jamboree. I was joined with a whole theater of super fans, and it was WILD! Here’s some facts about the show’s 52 year history: . In the backstory Ursus H. Bear gathered up his friends and family to present a musical hoedown at Grizzly Hall, established in 1898. Ursus (Latin for bear) lived from 1848-1928 according to his portrait above the stage. . The theater has 5 stages and features 18 bears. . Several minutes were cut out of the show in 2012, but if you want to see the original show, it is on my channel. . “My Woman Ain’t Pretty (But She Don’t Swear None)” is a 1953 Tex Ritter song, who voiced Big Al, and is John Ritter’s dad. . The piano playing bear Gomer has no speaking lines. . “Fractured Folk Song” and “Pretty Little Devilish Mary” were cut in 2012, but oddly not “Mama, Don’t Whip Little Buford”. Haha. . If you love old Disney park footage and trivia then subscribe to my channel. New videos are posted weekly. . #CountryBearJamboree #MagicKingdom #MarcDavis #UrsusHBear #GrizzlyHall #Pianjo #FracturedFolkSong #MamaDontWhipLittleBuford #AlltheGuysThatTurnMeOnTurnMeDown #BloodontheSaddle #DavyCrockett #ThurlRavenscroft #PeteRenaday #FiveBearRugs #TennesseeBear #LiverLipsMcGrowl #TrixieBear #SunBonnetTrio #TeddiBarra #BigAl #AlBertino #TexRitter #SammyRacoon #GeorgeBruns #WDW
But enough of this chit-chat, yik-yak, and flim-flam…here’s a sneak peek of something. #fracturedfolksong #soonasigetaladder #nowboys #andwesodedicate
On this day in 2005 Thurl Ravenscroft, voice of Tony the Tiger, passed away at age 91. Today I am posting my 2002 home video of the Country Bear Jamboree featuring Thurl as the voice of Buff the bison on the wall. In 2012 the show was refurbished and cut down to 10 minutes, so in this video you will see the full 16 minute original show. I made notes of everything cut in the video description. The Country Bear Jamboree was an opening day attraction at the Magic Kingdom, which was originally planned for the Mineral King Ski Resort in California in the 1960s. Walt Disney had the idea of a bear band that would entertain restaurant guests. The resort was never built and the concept was later placed in the Magic Kingdom as a stage show with animatronic bears. Imagineer Marc Davis designed the show and made Walt laugh out loud with his concept art. This show was very popular and one year later it opened in Disneyland with two theaters instead of just one. The Disneyland version ran until 2001, but the original at Magic Kingdom is still going strong after 50 years. It was the first attraction to open at WDW first and then duplicated on the West Coast. The theater has 5 stages and features 18 bears. . Here is the link to my 2002 home video of the Country Bear Jamboree: https://youtu.be/NliqR0Eg_xg . If you love Disney park footage from the early 2000s then check out my channel at Share a Dream Come True. New videos are posted every few days if you like to subscribe. The link is in my bio. . . . #CountryBearJamboree #MagicKingdom #MarcDavis #UrsusHBear #GrizzlyHall #Pianjo #FracturedFolkSong #MamaDontWhipLittleBuford #AlltheGuysThatTurnMeOnTurnMeDown #BloodontheSaddle #DavyCrockett #ThurlRavenscroft #PeteRenaday #FiveBearRugs #TennesseeBear #LiverLipsMcGrowl #TrixieBear #DevilishMary #SunBonnetTrio #TeddiBerra #BigAl #AlBertino #TexRitter #Sammyracoon #GeorgeBruns
The chords are very simple, in fact, huh, there’s only three. First there’s G then C and D...and then go back to G. But you gotta be quick! 😎 . . . #countrybearjamboree #wendell #frontierland #fracturedfolksong #disneyworld #disneyland #backwoods
DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!! Meet Wendell!!!!!! First comes G, then C, and D then back to G but you gotta be really quick!As you can tell Arakita's mommy was excited!!!!! #waltdisneyworld #disneyworld #magickingdom #countrybearjamboree #wendell #fracturedfolksong #dreamscometrue
"We wrote these lousy lyrics and we also wrote the words!" #countrybearjamboree #magickingdom #waltdisneyworld #animatronics #animatronic #wendell #fracturedfolksong