October 11, 2007
RADP 12
Sounds recorded at the same time as the pictures on this page were
taken are in a COUPLE of episodes of my podcast...
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SHOW NOTES Episode 38 - MORE Mousin' on Main Street
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SHOW NOTES Episode 39 - The Notorious Banjo Brothers and Bob
Coming out of the alley where I had visited Pluto I noticed the Tuners
were back out and already playing Under the Sea, the councilman
was with them, interacting with
guests and as they completed that song the Mayor walked up prompting them
to play a few bars of Hail To the Chief before launching into
Down on old Main Street for which the mayor provided the singing, then
there was yet another Happy birthday (Maya), during this set there was actually a
castle stage show going on, but with the volume level the sax quartet provide,
it didn't really seem to cause a problem and the Mayor and Councilmen
continued (mostly the Mayor, but the councilmen chimed in for emphasis)
by singing (you've got the cutest little) Baby Face after that the
Toontown Tunes went into an instrumental of Belle during which the
stage show at the castle finally came to its conclusion since this song
has some quieter passages in it I can hear the ending of the stage show
a bit in the background of my recording of it. Next up was
Supercalifrgilisticexpialidocious during which assistant to the
Mayor "Andy" did a verse of the singing in addition to the Mayor. Within a
minute or so of that ending, and the Tuners heading in, a trolley show
was coming down Main Street, Main Street really stays hopping
with entertainment!
I made it up to Caseys Corner in time to catch Jims 11:15 AM set
- I met a Million dollar Baby in a 5 and 10¢ store
-
I want to be loved by You (some things Jim talked about after the song are at this link)
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Coney Island washboard/ Goodbye My Coney Island Baby
- Twinkle Twinkle ragtime variations/ When You Wish Upon A Star
- Down Yonder
- When I take My Sugar to Tea (snippet)
As Jim left the piano it was already getting really close to time
for the Notorious Banjo Brothers set, so I headed that way...
- Ghost riders in the Sky
- notorious shuffle (they move a bit between songs)
- Bugle Call Blues
- Happy Birthday (Aiden)
- I'm An Old Cowhand
- notorious shuffle (they move a bit between songs)
- Happy Birthday (Christian)
- notorious shuffle (end of set heading off-stage)
Continuing my Tour of WDW music acts, after seeing the Notorious Banjo
Brothers perform, I returned to Main Street for the noon set of the
Main Street Philharmonic. On the way I passed Casey's Corner and Jim,
who I had just seen playing right before I went to catch the Banjo brothers,
was already back out,
Heres the set list from the Main Street Philharmonic set:
- Strike up the Band
- Lassus Trombone
- South
Rampart Street Town Square Street parade
- Hold That Tiger
...after the Main Street Philharmonic finished
their set I went back up Main and Piano Man Jim was Still going!
He played a song I recognized from hearing Alan Thompson play it on my
2005 trip to Disneyland, but I didn't know the title so I asked Jim
and he told me that it is called Spanish Eyes but when he started
to play again another guest started to talk to me (and talked through
most of the song) and listening back to the
audio now I realize that I have no idea what the name
of the next song he played was, but after that he played the
St. Louis bluesbefore ending his set. I hadn't planned on catching
Jim again before going to see the Tuners in Fantasyland, but it
just seems like perhaps he likes to play so much that he gets out to do his
sets early, his set was scheduled to start at noon the same as the Main Street
Philharmonic, yet he was playing several minutes before they came out.
once I got into Fantasyland I had a much better idea of just how to find
the tuners there then I did the first time I went to look for them there,
you see back during Mousefest 2006 I tried to find them but didn't know
exactly where in Fantasyland they came out this time I caught them as
they were marching out playing a medley of Pinocchio Songs,
they marched out to the Dumbo Queue, the same place I caught them in 2006 but in
this case they were still wearing their Toontown Tuners outfits rather
than being in their "Cinderella's Royal Saxaphonists garb.
here's what they played:
Pinocchio Medley (marching out to
I've got no strings/Hi-Didddle-dee-dee/Give a little Whistle
Friend like Me
Happy Birthday
Belle
Whistle while you work (marching off-stage)
The area near the Dumbo queue was
VERY congested and is NOT a great place to record, the saxaphones sound good,
but the guy introducing the songs is hard to hear.
Continuing to use my live entertainment schedule to plan my day
I headed towards Liberty Square, this time I had plenty of time before
the Banjo Brothers came out, so I took my time through Fantasyland and
Liberty Square just enjoying the sights. In fact when I got to
Frontierland a set of Woody's roundup was just starting, so I knew I had the
whole time that would run at least before the Banjo brothers came out. I
sat down near the show but behind most of the crowd and took care of some
minor business like changing batteries in the camera (requiring resetting
the time too) and touching base with my wife to see if she had been able to
check in early and take a nap like I knew she wanted to she was checked in,
but when I inquired about the nap I lost the call, apparently she had been
trying to call me though and so I looked through the phones settings and
saw the ringer had been turned off and fixed that (just to vibrate though
I'd hate for it to ring while I was recording something). After the roundup I
headed over to the porch of the Diamond Horseshoe which is where the Notorious
Banjo Brothers and Bob typically come out. They performed the songs of this
set over on the Mainland dock for the rafts that go over to Tom Sawyers Island,
keeping the guests waiting for the next raft entertained.
- Notorious shuffle (marching out - interrupted by Happy birthday to Nathan)
- Unknown Rag
- Jambalaya
- Woody's Roundup
- "notorious Shuffle" (marching off stage)
Just as the Banjo Brothers were marching off-stage the "in just a few
minutes" announcement came over the loudspeakers for the NEXT Woody's Roundup,
so even in Frontierland they keep the schedule pretty full with various
live entertainment.
above: I took this picture in hopes that I would be later able to
find out just what was up with the Liberty Square bridge, since then
I've heard that years of these wooden pilings in the Florida humidity
being crossed by multi-ton parade floats every day has them seriously trying
to figure out how to replace it without taking the
parade out of service every day.
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