Firehouse Five Plus Two At Disneyland

 

Tiger Rag

Firehouse Five Plus Two At Disneyland

Cover and Liner Photos by Roger Marshutz

Cover Design by Kershaw, Guidi/Tri-Arts

Album Cover and Liner by Contemporary Records, Inc.

Recorded "live" at The Golden Horseshoe, Disneyland, U.S.A. July 27 & 28, 1962

Sound by Howard Holzer

Produced by Lester Koenig

Good Time Jazz S10049

1962

From the back cover: In their latest excursion, the famous Firehouse Five Plus Town tased you to Disneyland, U.S.A. for a typical outing on "Date Night," any Friday or Saturday during the summer of 1962. In their pervious GTJ albums, the FH5 have gone South, to sea, crashed a party, even made it around the world, but nowhere have they found a happier place, or one more appropriate for their relaxed, carefree music.

As most everyone knows, the FH5, since 1949 has been the spare-time hobby of a group of writers, animators, producers and directors at the Walt Disney Studios. Chief Ward Kimball has also been close to Disneyland's development and the continuing creation of new attractions in the park. The Disneyland setting is perfect for the happy brand of jazz for which the FH5 is justly world-renowned. On Date Nights from June through September, all kinds of people – all ages, sizes, shapes; in all kinds of dress or undress, from shorts, sweaters, and sandals to shirts, ties and formals (you name it!) – enjoy themselves in this city with a "population" of thirty thousand or more, a living argument for the possibility of a Utopia.

Everywhere throughout the park, there is music and dancing. If you were promenading in Frontierland, near the Mark Twain landing, you'd hear the steamboat whistle as the side-wheeler came round the bend. And from across the square you'd hear the siren song of a Dixieland band luring the crowds to the plush old-fashioned "opera house" known as The Golden Horseshoe. Inside the handsome, high ceilinged room, along one wall, is a bat, at which bartenders dispense that old Western drink, Pepsi-Cola. On the main floor, people dance, or sit at tables tapping their feet, broad grins on their faces; overflow crowds cheer from the horseshoe-shaped balcony – for on stage,  behind the footlights, is the red shirted, fire hatted, fabulous Firehouse Five Plus Two. – Lester Koenig - November 12, 1962

Anvil Stomp

Muskrat Ramble

You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night Or You Can't See Mamma At All

Lassus Trombone

Coney Island Washboard

Ja-Da

Baby Won't You Please Come Home

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