Mickey Mouse Club: "Guest Star Day"

[fressen]

ROY!!  NO PURPOSE!

[MrJohnnyx8]

im just in love with the roll call!

[MegaEvalee]

cant see little sharon!lonnie is way to tall to be in the front,they should of put him in back,or fanned them out so each of them could be seen..

[shortliner68]

Really enjoying these old show clips to bring back childhood memories. As a 6 or 7 year old boy at the time, I had a crush on Mouseketeer Cheryl. She had the prettiest smile that melted this little boy's heart back then. I was saddened when just recently finding out about her untimely passing over two years ago from cancer. Wish I could have been to one of the Disney conventions when she, and other Mouseketeers, were autographing photos from when they were on the show. Cheryl, you are missed. :(

[johnny14773]

I'm glad i was born in the 90s, because that version was like an SNl for kids!

[bl184999]

I had a record of this song; had no idea what it was until now :).

[MegaEvalee]

i remember corky and white shadow too,loved darlene in it,wish that it was on dvd or on you tube,watched mmc in the 70s as a child,and still adore it.

[MegaEvalee]

my favorite is the talent round-up with karen and cubby sitting on a horse singing saddle your pony here we go,down to the talent rodeo!do you have that one?

[tman12563]

So who was the guest star?

[pwells01]

Do you have "Fun With Music" clip?

[JoseCarioca101]

I wonder who the speacil guest was?

[noland628]

AT ONE TIME, DISNEY WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE NORM! TOO BAD THINGS WILL NEVER BE LIKE THE ORIGNAL DISNEY WAS!

TODAYS GENERATION JUST DON'T HAVE IT IN THEM TO BE LIKE THESE KIDS WERE! IT WOULD BE A POLITICALLY CORRECT PRODUCTION!

[SpencerCaroline]

man i want to know who the guest star was

[SweetSue4]

Who was the guest star?

[marley2113]

.....So who was the guest star? Lol!

[aaronb825]

yes I know I was just being funny, if walt disney had a black youngster on the show at that time in history, the show would have cancelled in the southern states, the way the nat king cole variety show was in 1956

[rentatrip1]

@aaronb825 NOT FUNNY - shameful & distracting from the pure nostalga of this video - you should be ashamed of yourself for , stirring up racial bias & biggotry issues , with your hate motivated comment- on this cherished video presentation- simply shameful of you ! NOT FUNNY AT ALL

[aaronb825]

I guess they didn't have  any black people or any people of color back in

the 50's.

[storyjan]

@aaronb825 In the 1950s, America was still segregated, and if you put this show into historical context, the Mickey Mouse Club began the same year as the Civil Rights movement. To Disney's credit, several African-Americans were made honorary Mouseketeers on Talent Round-up Day, and later, they were included in the both the 1970s and 1990s version of the Mickey Mouse Club.

[etbella3]

@storyjan Jay Jay is Honorary Mousketeer Number One -- The Honorable Jay Edgar Hoover. The second Jay is for Clyde Tolleson, the loyal kemosabe of "The Lone Ranger" FBI Director.

[etbella3]

@aaronb825 Annette has a nose broad and wide -- good for smellin' trouble and prison food. Plus she is the color of Mooooooohhhhh---laaaaasssses. I cannot tell a lie, even though George Washington and Abe Lincoln did. I plagiarized the above from Jack Nicholson in the movie As Good As It Gets.

[rentatrip1]

@aaronb825 That is e4xactly the reason the 50's were the most abundant , successful & productive of the history of the USA - please explain why the color of a persons skin must be an issue with you ? You must be one of those racist biased , biggot , narrowwminded people who feel it is your duty to label everyhing with "race" , you are the reason the world is all F$#ked up -

[searchanddiscover]

@rentatrip1

Wow can you be anymore racist, ignorant, and bad at spelling and grammar??

[pardyhardly]

@aaronb825 No they were around, it's just that Disney didn't want the show banned in the south.

[NicaMom3]

I remember sitting in front of our TV with the rabbit ear antennae wearing my mouse ears watching the Mickey Mouse Club. I was too young to remember much detail but I'm glad you're all posting your memories. What happened to Cheryl? I know Annette was very ill and that Bobby was a dancer on the Lawrence Welk show (which I also watched religiously).  I thought I saw Cubby on that show once also.

[alliopozx]

ALL of them (minus Roy) have two sylable names!!!

[whitekitty62]

To this day, whenever someone says "Today is Tuesday" I always sing the rest of this in my head.

[RoyFive]

R.I.P. Cheryl.

[frankd1965]

Jimmy Dodd passed away in 1964 and Roy died in 1976

[RoyFive]

Both much too soon.

[cocostar100]

was disney (the person) still alive back then?? and was this the first show w/real ppl ever made/???

[storyjan]

Yes, Walt Disney was still alive in the 1950s, and no, this was not the first tv show to feature real people. TV sitcoms have been around since the late 1940s, although television itself is much older, dating back to the 1920s and 1930s.

[maliwyoming]

These routines from the second and third seasons are so crude in comparison to the elaborate tap dance numbers they did in the first season. Just compare this to the "Roll Call no. 1" segment which is just great. Not sure what happened, but any kid off the street could have done this number or most of the others from the later seasons. In tha first year the Mouseketeers had a chance to show off their talent, and they did with flying colors.

[143AC]

One of the special gusts on this segment of "The Mickey

Mouse Club"is one of my favorite funnymen..Mr.Jerry

Collona..the voice of"The March Hare"in "Alice In

Wonderland!".

[ohdreamon]

yea she rocks!!!!! thanxs for sharing the facts!!!

[dlpine71]

cheryl was always my favorite mouseketeer, too! i always had the biggest crush on her. she went on to guest star in several tv sitcoms such as dick van dyke, leave it to beaver and more.

thanks for posting, storyjan!! 5 *****'s!!

david

[xoxoxoblondie96]

thx so much! i had to do a short presentation on the mickey mouse club for my class (we were studying the 1950's) and i used this. i got a laugh from my class when they said their names but other than that they loved it. it really demonstrates the mickey mouse club well

[midnightcaller200]

What was the purpose of Roy and Jimmy? they seam to be out of place

[visor109]

Well, Jimmy wrote most of the MMC's songs, including the title theme.

As for Roy, well, I know he was an animator at Disney, but for the reason he was on the MMC, I don't know.

[paypay305]

He was on the show to show that anyone sizes big or small old or young can be a mouseketeer.

[visor109]

Ahh! Thanks much!

[paypay305]

your welcome :D

[tzkelley]

@midnightcaller200

I've heard he was there to help "protect" the kids from the public, crew, etc. Make sure people didn't smoke or swear and such around them. Walt specifically wanted him to do that sort of thing with the kids.

[dreemfinder]

Corky and White Shadow was a live action serial starring Darlene Gillespie and her dog. They lived with Gramps in a cabin in the woods...

[DrakeGrad]

Jimmie Dodd this and other songs like this for the Teers

[80117556]

Peace be with Cheryl

[7NTM61Ic]

I always waited for Tuesday, as I loved this song!

[inkey2]

hey anyone recognize CHERYL. She was "Walley Cleaver's" girlfriend on Leave it to Beaver. I think her name in the show was Julie Foster

[JG12739]

really!!! wow thats funny :-) ty for sharing :-)

[lustre5]

Cheryl was also a date of Ricky's on Ozzie & Harriet. I loved these Mouseketeer opening numbers--of course I always kept my eye on the best one--I'll give you one guess: Yep, Annette. :)

[fromthesidelines]

Some of the famous "Guest Stars" that appeared on Tuesdays during the first two seasons were Morey Amsterdam, Fess Parker & Buddy Ebsen {from "Davy Crockett"}, George Givot (a famous "Greek" comedian of his day and Disney voice actor), Disneyland "balloonist" Wally Boag, Jerry Colonna {a boisterous comic who was the "March Hare" in Disney's "Alice In Wonderland"}, The Firehouse Five Plus Two {Disney animator Ward Kimball's Dixieland band}, Judy Canova, and Cliff "Jiminy Cricket" Edwards...

[7NTM61Ic]

There were also some unknowns--I remember once a kid who was a magician.

[cookidoh093]

i woder who the guest stars were? i hope they were famous stars

[tighmalone66]

This is awesome! I used to watch this in reruns when I was a kid in the early 70s and I LOVED this song! LOL! Somehow it got stuck in my head and I remembered most of it. It was AWESOME to see and hear it again! Thanks!!

[thbeatgozon]

I remember watching these reruns as a kid in the early 70s too. I wish I could get it on DVD. Is this out on DVD? I remember Jimmie's Mouseguitar. :) I also remember them showing episodes of a "corky" in their live action mini stories. Anyone remember that?

[wseabuck]

I would love to see who the guest was...They were usually awarded an "honorary" mousketeer

set of ears that were white and fuzzy, I thought them odd looking.

[musikview]

Actually the "Honorary Mouseketeer" ears were awarded only on Fridays to the "Talent Round Up" winners, who were always kids. "Guest Star Day" guests were almost always adults.

[fromthesidelines]

This was the 1956-'57 opening sequence for "Guest Star Day", and the one usually seen in the later syndicated reissues of the series. This is the "short" version, minus the extended dance sequence originally presented in the middle....

[sunwestmovies]

Pure GENIUS... Thanks