THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB 1960's INTRO

[moontail333]

I have a snowglobe that shows mickey from steamboat willie to now and it plays this song

[pardyhardly]

I never used to understand the thing at the end with Donald Duck and the gong. I now know that in vaudeville they used to bang a gong to let the audience know that the show was starting.

[ErisTheFairest5]

So was this before or after Disney turned into an evil entity controlling most of the media? Oh who am I kidding.

If ol' Walter saw Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and Selena Gomez he'd be spinning in his cryogenic chamber. (Yes, I know that's a myth)

[2cat007]

Miss the old Disney..

[idm0nkey2pt0]

notin gets yer blood up for commie killin like the mickey mouse march!

[crooklynsince1983]

@idm0nkey2pt0 I Got my M16. ! lets get em

[mickeymousebiker1]

Good grief! Sprite, the Coca Cola mascot! I remember this as if it were yesterday! I'm getting along, but, I still have a good memory! This has always reminded me of the cartoon version of "Seventy-six Trombones" from the musical, "The Music Man." Robert Preston -- forgive me! Merry Christmas 2011 and a Hopeful New Year 2012 to all (including Mickey Mouse)! To My Eternal Love -- My Heavenly-Resplendent Wife, Barbra -- I love you ad finitum!

[LitLBirdLitLBird]

@mickeymousebiker1 I love your message--I just thought you might want to start saying "ad infinitum", cos "ad finitum" probably means "ending" (not "never-ending" which is probably what you wanted)... and I'm a little superstitious, lol.

<3!

[mickeymousebiker1]

@LitLBirdLitLBird You are correct regarding my improper use of that Latin phrase. I should be red-faced (I'm a scholar of sorts). Cheers and all the best to you in 2012!

[alextaker19]

And from this club came Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears

[jasobres]

I want to see the many different endings of when Donald tried to hit the gong! It was similar to seeing Gonzo try to blow the final trumpet note on The Muppet Show!

[PlanitReality]

Wow, this was SO interesting! I grew up to reruns of this in the '70s, and I only ever saw the truncated version of the opening song -- the one for syndication. Thx so much for uploading!

[PrinceAndrea9]

Full Metal Jacket bring me here ahahah

[1929jazz]

I saw the show when it went into syndication in the early 60's as a little kid and haven't seen it since. This really brought back memories I thought were gone! It's amazing how it all (well, maybe not all) comes back when you start watching this opening sequence.

[docambra]

SEPTEMBER 1955, I was 10 and right after the 5th grade school session we had this Club Song opening. This music planted into our memories and I carried it right into Boot Camp in the Navy...1964 in San Diego..Where our Company enjoyed a whistle (from the intro Fife melody). The cadence was marching perfect and even a few bars of come along, join the song etc. Immeasurable humor for young guys taunting all our discipline with the Mickey Mouse Club Anthem. Hey, why no more IPANA toothpaste?

[AngelintheNight92]

I remeber watching this when I was little before everything changed

[HeyRuka]

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E I'm a kid again!

[12345sovereign]

Wow i was born in 2000 but one thing I remember was Mickey and the one were he was a wizard and he was in this room cleaning and all of a sudden this weird music started to play and all the broom and mops starting to dance and he slipped down the stares into this basement like thing.

[LitLBirdLitLBird]

@12345sovereign I think that was a movie--Fantasia?

<3.

[Pyrothingy]

I am 18 years old and I am watching this with my two and a half year old sister.

[Scottwilkie18]

no wonder why kids like coca cola

[ZeksNighmare]

M-i-c-k-e-y M-o-u-s-e! Thanks Madam Cronin! Its stuck in my head! XD

[ElNingyou]

I want whatever the storyboard artist was on. 

[joluis42]

I have this theme in spanish version. Dubbing in Mexico.

[wseabuck]

I used to get very excited when I heard the trumpet fanfare and crashing cymbals in the opening. Still gets my blood going a little bit...

[HaiDoggie]

Why is it, that always when I turn on the Disney Channel

they never show anything else then the teen show hannah montana/non cartoon thing.

I turn on TV1000, and what do they have? Tom And Jerry, Alladin...

[Gotistinger]

See 00:00. Coca Cola always had a deal with Disney!!!

[getsomelead]

Great now I want to watch Full Metal Jacket

[djcizme]

Very cool. I remember looking forward to watching the Mickey Mouse Club as a little boy. Thanks.

[TwilightLink77]

They should make a new Mickey Mouse club with the original intro.

[Paigeshusband]

Disney just wants to show the same old crap, they very rarely ever put out old cartoons. The hope is when everyone is dead, they'll release it from the "Vault" and it'll be wildly popular again.

[SGR1000]

Brilliant love this :)

[definitionofunstable]

kingdom hearts 2

disney castle

this song plays in the backround

ah the good ol' days

[Vanhallen5150]

Full metal Jacket :)

[apackmember2]

OMGoodness! I so remember this:))) so coooool!!!

[shinubu]

donald duck !

[howardkevinm]

how do u have a micky Mouse club in 1960s if it was canceled in 1958?

[powergamer113]

New cartoons SUCK! 3D models are ugly!

[BlueEnjy93]

its a shame they dont show this anymor..I FREAKIN LOVED THIS SHOW!!!

[yuzukirules]

way better than the new song!

[irishguy313]

one person is a communist!

[canadianbaconbro]

i cant get over how cute and funny mickey's little march is at the beginning

[forevergamergirl]

This video makes me sad to have been born in the 90's.

[Hperman09]

This is a cool awesome.

[Chibiicap]

this is pretty spectacular for it's time ^^

[FortyxFive]

MICKEY MOUSE LIKKKE SHIIIIII

[Mrwufpac]

The ultimate flashback !!!...great post...

[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.

[Lainer1]

Pretty good for a racist cartoon where the mouse represented Al Jolsen back in the day.

[menslady125]

This needs to be back on TV.

[massivecrown]

..."I am in a world of shit...yes...But I am alive, and i am not afraid." M I C...KEY...MOUSE, mickey mooooouse, MICKEY MOUSE!!!! ^.^

[jdollinter]

So glad I got the chance to watch the Mickey Mouse Club when it first went into syndication (reruns) from 1961 to '63 when my Sister and I were little.

[1952kid]

IF i could pick any time to go to in a time machine, i'd go back to my time, as a child again, 1950's and 1960's , this stuff was great ! Id put my Keds on , have some Bosco, and run free once again.

[joraider08]

A truly American Children's TV Classic!!

[menslady125]

Oh, great! Miley Cyrus disliked this video, too?!

[fromthesidelines]

This is a mix of the Australian and ABC opening titles and sponsor I.D. (for Coca-Cola, one of the show's biggest sponsors on both continents). The Australia repeats continued into the early '70s. The full two and a half minute opening "club song" was never seen during the 1957-'58 season, and the 1962-'65 syndicated repeats [an edited version was used].

[fromthesidelines]

Actually, the series was in production during the first three seasons, 1955 through early '58 [cut to a half-hour in the fall of '57]- the last season (1958-'59) consisted of segments from previous seasons on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and "WALT DISNEY'S ADVENTURE TIME" {the serials and other "material"} on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

[tvdays]

my youth

[tvtimetravel]

From October 3, 1955 to September 25, 1959

[loyaltubist]

It's from the 1950s. Not the '60s. I watched reruns in the '60s but it wasn't on the ABC network nor did it have embedded Coca-Cola commercials. This series ceased production in 1957 although reruns would air on the network for the next two years.

[kiaralouisee]

Mickey Mouse, DONALD DUCK, Mickey Mouse, DONALD DUCK!

[cenasgay9111]

is that trey parkers dad at the beginning?

[lilbeatlesfangirl4]

Yeah! Mickey!

[Deathjaw41]

How did this go to Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brother, Selena Gomez, and the other crap now Disney?

[bigman1171]

@Deathjaw41 lets face it. disney channel is now run by communists who control everything

[LitLBirdLitLBird]

@bigman1171 If they're communists, I want my cut! lol.

<3!

[suspekt29]

@Deathjaw41 By pandering to the lowest common denominator. I am glad I am not a child today.

[ZanaBonanza]

Screw Mickey. DONALD DUCK!

[katesgram]

Wow-an intro that lasted over 3 minutes!

[scottfwtx]

Love the post, but this is the 50s, not the 60s.

[DoctorScuba]

Yaaaaaaay MICKEY!

[666jj9]

the new micky mouse is not even better than the old one

[bella1197]

I bet the person who clicked this is from the new generation. Example: Hannah Montana, Jonas, and all that other crap. I bet...

[TheLexiMinute]

=)

[rbratcherjr]

How many of you watched this show just for Annette? I did during the 1970's reruns every day after school!!

[jailegg]

WHY DID THEY HAVE TO CHANGE THE THEME TO SOME BALLS MODERN STYLE CRAP SONG??? I love this one.

[crystaldratini]

@jailegg

I kind of liked the remix for the 90's version (Though it might be nostalgia since I was kid when the 90's version aired) along with some of the modern band covers of the song like the one by Beat Crusaders despite how full of Engrish it is. Can't stand the version from the 70's series though.

[WachannEwe]

@CraigTehAwesome, yeah I noticed that too. How sad for the bitter, deprived person who clicked "Dislike". 

[1952kid]

Try putting this on full screen at night , and turn the lights out . That will give you the 1960's effect , its just as we viewed it back then, laying on the floor will really help .

[MizCathly]

@1952kid LOL! Yeah, I remember!

[LifeDestroysPeople]

Love how Donald shouts his own name inbetween the chorus! He really is the true star of all Disney Characters :)

[1952kid]

If they showed this opening today on tv , it would be a big hit. just like in the 1960's we kids were fasinated with the silent Farmer Grey cartoons .

[CadillacL]

I was born in '71 but, I did see the 70s version of MMC, i was bout 6..When Disney Channel came out, the day after i turn 12, I got to ee the original. THIS Is what should be on DIsney Channel. Not Hannah Montana,a High School Music, Zack & Cody, etc.I want my nieces (who are 9 & 5) to see TRUE Disney, not the stuff they see today.

[ivegotalongdong]

sound???

[stadalberts]

Ahhh, the memories. What the hell happened to the Disney channel. It's all garbage now.

[PrincessJasmine06]

@stadalberts totally agree! lol i can't stand this finiase and ferb or how ever the hell u spell it or like suit life on deck crap! lol i miss like so weird mmc! old and britney christina one and i miss like smart guy on there and shit i feel it! tears! lol

[fromthesidelines]

Incidentally, the Club's "Alma Mater" (from :36 on) WAS filmed in color, in anticipation of the day when the entire series would be telecast in color; that never happened, but the edited version of that color sequence was used in the 1977-'79 edition of "THE NEW MICKEY MOUSE CLUB".

[fromthesidelines]

CBS ceased color telecasts between 1959 and '65 because of their rivalry with RCA/NBC {Bill Paley, CBS chairman, said he wasn't going to schedule color shows just so RCA could sell more of their color sets}. Not until the fall of '65 did CBS finally schedule about half of its prime-time schedule in color; ABC, 40%; and NBC, 95% (only "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" and "CONVOY" were in black and white on their evening schedule). Not until the fall of '66 did all three schedule 100% color in prime-time.

[fromthesidelines]

Color TV had been available on two of the three major U.S. networks since the early '50s, 'OldSchool' [CBS on an experimental basis in 1951-'52, before they joined NBC in several "compatible" color programs after 1953]. But color sets were a luxury in the '50s and early '60s {about $1000-$2500}, and NBC was virtually the only network carrying a handful of color shows on their schedule- ABC didn't have the money or technology to "colorcast" until 1962 [only two or three shows a season]....

[babyycat]

i actually watch this mess. didnt know better then. Not one black kid not one.

[1948PontiusPilot]

@babyycat Walt had to fight to get Annette on the show - Network thot she was too dark as an Italian - Just try to remember Civil Rights was just around the corner and Walt did his best to beat the system.

[TherealRNO]

@1948PontiusPilot: He hand-picked her, so naturally, he wanted her to be on the series.

[maniac989]

@nkBuddy321 yeah. but how much longer will we have to put up with her stupid singing and persistent falsified talents??

[pandalover55555]

Nothin like good old fashon Disney long live for ever Disney

[OldSchoolRasslin]

When did colour TV start in the US?

[yesrussia]

Why do americans love such stupid songs and always put them in intros?

[kristell9]

Who directed this? Lini Rethenstall?

[nkBuddy321]

stupid hanna montana put mickey mouse back NOW OR ELSE SEW LAWSUIT I SMELL!!!

[silverthehedgielover]

@nkBuddy321 lol you tell them!

[thebradybunchlover]

RIP Walt, a TRUE animator!

[silverthehedgielover]

@thebradybunchlover yah... too bad he smoked [or had cancer i forget which] anbd died around when my mom was in 2nd grade

[fromthesidelines]

This is the second season opening title (1956-'57), as ABC is "sustaining" the first quarter-hour segment [a sponsor I.D. for Coca-Cola in Australia is seen before the American opening title]. The complete version of the club song (as seen here) was never shown in syndication in the 1960's [the edited version, seen from 1957-'59, was used for those episodes].

[diomondring716]

This is a long intro. I like it!

[cricketandbuddy]

This is great!!! Thanks for posting this. I was 6 in 1960. I remember this so well. I love Disney!!! This was back when cartoons were GOOD!!!!!

[rizzlecat]

I'm a kid and I see this and I am amazed to see how things were in like 1960 cause I never saw this stuff in my life! thx for posting this, this really shows the past for me, AMAZING!!!!!!!

[DerMetzgermeisterF]

Oldskool ^^

[tzkelley]

I don't think I've ever seen the full version of this intro.

[purplengold28]

this is so awesome thanx 4 the post!

[tinkerbruzer]

Hi Howdy! just showed my neices this Mickkey Mouse Intro from back in the days of my kiddom. They asked me why they don't show it on the Disney Channel any more or play it on Mickey's House. I said; I don't know, I think people want to see new things in cartoons. They asked me to show them more of the old Disney Stuff. Thanks for posting this intro, you've sparked the interest of a new generation to watch something old to us but new to them:

TB:

[omgwhatafag]

@tinkerbruzer

i wish disney would see we all do...i still watch howdy doody!

[etbella3]

@tinkerbruzer Uncle Walt has a master plan for the universe. And the universe is unfolding exactly as it should.

[classicsguy626]

@tinkerbruzer Actually, there is still a HUGE audience for this type of stuff, as shown here on youtube. The problem with the channel in a nutshell, they only focus their attention on the pre-teen group instead of the whole family. Because of that, they only cater to what THEY want, and ratings showed them that the pre-teens tuned in to their contemporary garbage much more than their classic material, so all the old shows got the ax sadly.

[DarkridesDisney]

@tinkerbruzer It's not that people want to see new things.. it's the executives who are completely blind as to how to run an entertainment company... after all.. your young nieces liked this and asked why it is not shown anymore... I think that speaks for itself...

[awesomecdiperson]

I kinda wish Oswald the lucky rabbit had appeared in this show. I always liked him better than mickey

[dogtherock]

Not possible. Disney acquired the rights to Oswald last year.

[Shoknifeman]

@dogtherock - Only the rights to the Disney Oswalds, not the Lanz version (Probably a good thing)

[Burromovie]

@dogtherock and disney had lost his rights in 1928.

imagine history's turn if he hadnt lost his rights....

wow

[1952kid]

This is the one we all watched in the early 1960's . In the living room with one tv , b/w of course. it was a special night when this came on. Warm and safe memories as a child watching this, but it sure looks old now. i guess i do too!

[MrFAB4]

LOVE THE OLD SHOWS..I REMEMBER THIS.