Original Color Titles fom "The Mickey Mouse Club"

[jsnbarge150]

Yes- Walt DID come back to provide Mickey's voice for this!!!

Nobody know's more about Disney than Leonard Maltin!!!

[KartoonKompany]

At 2:38 it seems Mickey's expressions and movement seems different than what he actually said. It seems like he was forgetting something rather than continuing to introduce the show.

[TomGyroid]

1:31 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah!

[RonaldVaughan]

Can you post The Thompsons doing "Dance With The Dolly" and "Steel Guitar Rag" from

the original MMC's "Talent Roundup Day"? This must have been late 1958 or 59.

Those recordings are not available at all. Thanks.

[RonaldVaughan]

COLOR?! AMAZING!! About 5 years ago I heard the only thing in color from the

original MMC was the main title....so,stuff is surfacing all the time. I know if a color show is broadcase in black-and-white it kind of has a grayish tint all over the picture....Know that the original MMC cast did do a color short movie,in 3D,called "3D Jamboree". You'd have to have seen it at Disneyland's long-gone

"Mickey Mouse Club Theater" (I did) or a film festival.

[PunkyBear36]

So THATS what Hal King looks like!

[cimoirine]

oh wow!!!!!!!!!! I had no idea it was in color!!!!! jeeeze, this is sooooo much coooooler!!!!!

[electrictiki]

Does anyone happen to know where these can be found on DVD? Are the on the Disney Treasures Mickey Mouse club set?

[SparkyMK3]

@electrictiki These are included as an extra in Mickey Mouse in Living Color Vol. 2.

[JohnnyGNV]

I watched these shows as a Kid, but never realized it was Walt Disney at this

point as the voice of Mickey Mouse. I knew that he did the voice in the early cartoon days, but did not know it was his voice for these openings, that's pretty interesting.

Most of us back then did not have Color TV and even years later when we did of course the openings were not broadcast in color....when the show went into

reruns. Thank you for an informative You Tube post.

[boilerbob7]

Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering where the color versions came from. At first I thought they were "colorized", but the truth is a lot better. Walt was definitly way ahead of the times.

[ilikethecoke]

Now that I know that it's Walt voicing Mickey here, I feel so bad that in another vid showing these I badmouthed the VA, not knowing it was him.

Had I known otherwise i wouldn't have said anything.

[365ral]

After just watching the early Mickey cartoons, I showed this to my mom, and she's like, "Wow, THAT'S Walt?! That's so sad..."

May he rest in peace, and his glorious legacy never die.

[Flapples987]

1:57 - 215: OMG,Sorcerer Mickey<3 But in Purple,so hot :D<3

I miss Mickey Mouse club<3

When my parents showed it,it blowed me away<3

~Flapples~

[NP4Mayans]

Walt Disney really was a visionary; not only did he think someday we would watch this in color, he even predicted we would all be speaking Spanish and added subtitles. "Bienvenidos a la casa de Mickey!"

[ztslovebird]

Mickey was so charming back in his hayday!! It's a good thing Walt isn't around today to see what they have done to his greatest creation :(

[ztslovebird]

lol, now I get it when Roy E. Disney said he and Mickey were related!

[markstn41]

i really miss him

[lifestream85]

his voice is different, what's wrong?

[Airboy15]

Walt was smoking at the time this was in production.

[iscreamer1]

which of Walt and Jimmy McDonald's lines for Mickey were used in the KH series as archive recordings? because with Brent Irwin next line Wayne Allwine's archive dialog for Mickey will most likely be in BBS

[NightmareOzLuffy]

@iscreamer1

They never used archive recordings , just people who sound like them tro assure new dialogue

[missmental]

"Following the Leader"? What year was this made?

[kingplatypus3rd]

Wow, Walt really was losin' his voice! He sounded so much better in the earlier years. Shame he died 'cause of smoking. Just another example of what smoking does to ya.

[ztslovebird]

@kingplatypus3rd He died of lung cancer?

[DJC1x42]

@kingplatypus3rd Actullay the voice actor is not Walt Disney its his friend Jimmy Macdonald he was the new voice actor in 1946

[DJC1x42]

@kingplatypus3rd Its not Walt Disney its his friend Jimmy Macdonald

[xDaXAFImoshmonkey]

@DJC1x42 0:17

LEONARD MALTIN IS A LIARRRR

[Leaipenguin]

I love Mickey Mouse!!!!!!

[horlicious]

Hey Grizabella, This opening was for the Friday show which was themed the "Talent Round-Up" hence the cowboy drag.

[grizabella626]

The cowboy Mickey threw me off quite a bit. It seemed a little random especially since he hadn't done anything significant that featured him as a cowboy. And not to mention, Mickey and guns just don't seem to mix.

[Choscabella69]

hello? it was roundup fridays?! thats why he was a cowboy!

[NightmareOzLuffy]

@grizabella626

Actually he was a cowboy in " Two Gun Mickey" form 1934

[MarioGirl03]

O_o woah I understand that Walt was Walt was the original voice actor but compared to Donald and Wayne, Walt didn't sound much enthusiastic as the others. In fact, it kinda sound more low

[lilcrazy09]

well if you look at the early mickey sound cartoons, walts voice is a little higher, smoking and age had lowered the pitch of his mickey voice by the time these were made.

[143AC]

Sorry,Lenny! But.."Mickey Mouse"was never one of my

favorite characters and the real stars of"The MMC"were

"The Mouseketeers".

[ilikethecoke]

Aw, man, it was Walt doing Mickey here?!

Now I feel awful about my last comment!

[ilikethecoke]

I do not like this Mickey voice.

Apologies to who did his voice at the time, but I don't like it.

It makes me miss Wayne Allwine all the more.

[brutusmuerto]

OMG! Irresponsible gun flinging. Ban! Censor! Edit ! Think of the children!!!!

What grim times we live in.... =/

[Pooleman96]

I wouldn't say grim, per se, but these times ARE quite touchy and overreactive!

[sorryosaurusrex]

Thursdays with Mickey playing a trombone were circus days! I learned that from a book.

[Choscabella69]

walt was so antisipated for mickey it makes me cry that they don't show mickey's cartoons any more except Mickey Mouse Clubhouse which is the only show i watch, coz its the only show WITH mickey and i'm a SERIOUSLY huge fan of mickey. Wouldn't every one agree with me on this one?

[Dragonrider1227]

I agree with you. Disney Channel needs more Mickey!

[arod12234]

@Dragonrider1227 i shall make them have more mickey when i work for them one day.

all though i read it in a book that walt said we shouldn't dwell in the past put push on through the future discovering better and bigger things.

[SuperSonic68]

@Dragonrider1227 If you can even CALL it the "Disney Channel" anymore...

[billyguns2]

This is great; many thanks for uploading this. I wish you or someone would share the first WHAT I WANT TO BE: AIRLINE PILOT/AIRLINE HOSTESS story, which aired on the first few Original Mickey Mouse Club shows. I'm something of a classic airliner fan, and it would be great to see that terrific TWA Super-G Constellation, IMO the most beautiful airplane ever built.

[9aspengold5]

Oh! how I miss the original Mickey Mouse club of my youth.

[Dragonrider1227]

3:14 OH SNAP! MICKEY'S PACKIN'!!

[ChuChu353]

Sorry guys :-( The original color opening to the MMC wasn't this :-( The first 2 minutes were the lead-in to the "Who's The Leader Of The Club" sequence.

[Deleanredtiger]

I think that came later in the late 50s and the early 60s while the above came on the first season.

[Kiyorocket]

Ah, this is amazing.

I think it's so dedicated that Walt did Mickey's voice. I didn't know that when I was a little kid.

Mickey Mouse Club. <3

[Elera]

Ollie Johnston's Mickey sequences were my favorite. Love the choreography in the Lounsbery one, though. 8)

And...it never ceases to make me sad and mournful when I hear Walt's last performance as Mickey ever because he was so AWESOME at it before his voice was shot. Still, there's a sweetness to it, and it's so wonderful and respectful that he got to bond with that character one last time.

[LFirstbasema]

Walt Disney did Mickey's voice for the Mickey Mouse Club. It doesn't even sound like Mickey.

[jccw227]

Years of smoking will do that to you, not to mention Walt was getting on in years by this point

[BenjaminTapia1]

walts last time doing mickeys voice. this is rare for sure.

[BrooklynMouse]

I remember the episode intro, but it was animated in a UPA style form.

[MICKEYSMONKEY]

Funny...In my minds eye..I remember ALL the shows as being in color...amazing.

[sanadabri]

i love the first and last ones. I WANT SHOWS LIKE THESE! not shows with all the kiss and dates or baby crap. some i like, but it gets boring. i want shows like these on nowadays. i wish i was 12 in the 1950s.

[Hannahbell1000]

Exactly. Everything was so magical and interesting back then. All the cartoons were just innocent and FUN. =( I like the cartoons I grew up with, but I wish Mickey Mouse Clubhouse could have been apart of it. Something like this would have been so awesome to watch =)

[fromthesidelines]

Some of Mickey's dialogue in the Tuesday, Weednesday and Thursday openings was "redubbed" for the 1957-'58 season, when most of the "Theme Days" were eliminated in a half-hour format. At 2:06, Mickey originally declared, "Wednesday is 'Stunt Day', Mouseketeers, so hang on...". At 2:36, he orginally said, "Today is, uh-uh-uh.."/"CIRCUS DAY!"/"Right!"...these bumpers (and the title) were filmed in color because Walt believed the series would eventually be in color during its original run.

[jasobres]

Ollie Johnston RIP

[b3d]

I love the first one of mickey playing the piano.

[Teresa01]

WOot. Walt truly was a visionary. It was good to hear him doing mickey one last time.

[Taydar]

Yes it certainly is.