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I figured out how to change my podcasts name in i tunes, the thing that threw me is that the page to do it was actually a page of my libsyn account that feeds information to Itunes... DOH!This episode features American Vybe, it may be a bit shorter than recent episodes, it released two weeks to the day from the previous episode, I'm going to try to make that my regular schedule.

Some of the audio from this episode is from that same WDW-friend who supplied the American Vybe Christmas audio. I finally was able to get in touch with him and found out he has his own web site now at http://www.wdw-memories.net (yes .net instead of .com) he has a link to his podcast right there on his beautiful main page, but if you want to go directly to his podcast first the address for that is http://wdw-memories.podomatic.com/ he's been taking MD into the parks for some years now,and he has some great stuff there, The Future Corps, Spaceship Earth, Alien Encounter, Stitch, Tower of Terror, American Adventure, Soarin', a Christmas episode with the Main Street Philharmonic, the second group sounds like the Notorious Banjo Brothers and Bob, Four for a Dollar, and a World Showcase Story teller form Norway, and (since podcasters think alike) a nice finish by the Voices of Liberty! his latest episode features audio from It's Tough To Be A Bug.

Notes

links

• Big thanks go out to Lou of the WDW-memories podcast for sharing these great early recordings of American Vybe.
• There are oodles of pictures of American Vybe (well oodles by film camera era definition) on one page of my 2002 trip report, since The Voices of Liberty were alternating sets with Vybe that day there will be a few pictures of one group first then the other:
  http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/moon/b4.htm
• their Buena Vista Records page:
  http://buenavistarecords.go.com/americanvybe/
• Steve Soares (the guy with the great live Entertainment Schedules site) has a nice page with photos of an outdoor performance by American Vybe: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevesoares/vybe.htm
• Heres a guy with 257 photos of them! and in their later Epcot Vybe incarnation at that!:
  http://tcpstudios.com/Gallery/vybe
• Two Movies of Epcot Vybe can be found at Our Laughing Place:
  http://www.ourlaughingplace.com/asp/movie.asp?request=listMovies&cat=park&location=E
• Apparently one of the Vybe members was a former (1990's) Mousekateer:
  http://www.jennifermcgill.com/February%202005/eyesandears.htm
• and heres the page of another alum of the group:
  http://www.nicole-pryor.com/id11.html
• a blogger at http://parkhopper.blogspot.com/2006/09/911-almost-five-years-later.html wrote: There are two singing groups that perform in the Rotunda of the building. On that day, American Vybe, whose sets were mostly jazzy renditions of songs like "Fever" and "Just a Gigalo," ended their first set of the day with the most passionate rendition of God Bless America I'd ever heard. The soloist at the end had tears streaming down her face, and I don't think there was a dry eye in the house. It's a moment that still gives me goose bumps. Probably because it was the moment where I thought maybe everything was going to be ok after all.
• Not much about them On Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke_Sharon

Photos

A few weeks after posting this episode originally I ran across some photos my good friend Peter Schouten took on the trip we took to WDW in 2000.

Music

October 30,2002 The first set I recorded of American Vybe I Missed the opener "Seasons of Love" then, the recorder stopped for some reason as the song Honeysuckle Rose was introduced. The Second set is a nice complete set that, despite the poor recording quality initially, I am quite pleased to have at all!

Late December 1998 or 1999? Lou recorded a couple of sets that included not only the three songs he contributed to this episode (Seasons of Love, 1960's Medley, and Ridin' The Chariot), but also those songs that appeared in the Christmas episode Santa Baby, and Santa Claus is Back in Town.

• It Don't Mean A Thing if It Aint got That Swing (recorded by Brian oct. 2002)
• Seasons of Love (recorded by WDW Friend/Lou Dec. of 98 or 99)
• 60's medley (recorded by WDW Friend/Lou Dec. of 98 or 99)
• Rosie (recorded by Brian oct. 2002)
• Just A Giggalo (recorded by Brian oct. 2002)
• His Eye is on the Sparrow (recorded by Brian oct. 2002)
• Lean on Me (recorded by Brian oct. 2002)
• Ridin the Chariot (recorded by WDW Friend/Lou Dec. of 98 or 99)

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