South - Firehouse Five Plus Two 1951

South - Firehouse Five plus Two 1951
In the early period of the Firehouse Plus Two a number of fimclips were issued. We see the band perform the classic jazz standard "South"
The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Westcoast style Dixieland band, more or less based on the revival style set by Lu Watters, Turk Murphy and Bob Scobey in the 1940s. This band was popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department; Danny Alguire, cornet, Harper Goff, banjo, Ward Kimball, trombone, Clarke Mallery, clarinet, Monte Mountjoy, drums, Ed Penner, tuba and Frank Thomas, piano.
Later, other Disney artists joined in; George Probert, Dick Roberts, Ralph Ball and George Bruns.
The band recorded at least thirteen LP albums, starting in 1955. The last album, "Live at Earthquake McGoon's" was recorded in 1970 in San Francisco.

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• classic
• jazz
• firehouse
• five
• plus
• two

[noiangel]

best music of the world

[Baridan]

'51, I was a 20 yr old in San Francisco; knew nothing about music. Several music students invited me to catch the Firehouse 5 playing on a Sun. night at the Hangover Club (the bluenoses made the radio ads call it the "Hanover Club". I grabbed my fake id and entered the club. The moment I heard them I knew I'd found my favorite kind of music...still love it.

[50sMusicMan]

...love that old "88" piano with the missing front panel! I haven't seen anything like that since JoAnn Castle played one on the old Lawrence Welk Show. Every tune that F.F.+T ever did were genuine toe-tappers and "tuchus" twisters! Thanks for the post!

[charredbeloved]

is that ward kimball on trombone?

[Huckabeezer]

Bands of this kind are notoriously difficult to record. Guys are moving around, pointing in different directions, raising and lowering their volume, etc. The quality of these recordings, esp. coming from ca. 1951, is just astonishing.