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Tue, 25 November 2008 Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
In July of 2007 I put out an Independence Day show using the patriotic songs the Voices of Liberty did during my trip in June of that year, I knew at the time that I wanted to put the other songs from those sets into some kind of a show, and here it FINALLY is! 
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songsThe Voices of LibertyThese songs were all recorded on June 16 and 17 of 2007, if you would like to see the original line up of the sets you can check the lists of the sets in the trip report, http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/trindex.htm#06.07 as the list here will be of the ones in the episode. The photos and song lists for the sets are on pages 18,19,and 20 for the date of the 16th, and the those related to the sets I heard on the 17th are on pages 32, 33, and 35...man I took a lot of pictures that trip!
SELECTED PHOTOSBelow: I don't have a perfect photo that caught the whole group on the 16th but this one comes close, Krista was conducting this day. 
Below: While on the 17th Dirk was conducting (one gentleman is not visable in this veiw, but it was the closest I had to the whole group in one shot that day. 
Ray had the the solo on Rockytop, Tennessee (also on Black Is The Color Of My True Loves Hair) 
Dirk, the conductor on sunday the 17th, ( pictured above )did the solo on the version of Oh Susanah that played in this episode, yet that was the only one of the three soloists who did this song where I did not get a "Susanah picture" where the soloist picks a lady out of the audience to be his Susanah, so here are the other two. First heres JC 
actually I got TWO photos when Ray did his... 
...it's too bad that the third shot didn't fire that would have been "the tug". 
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Tue, 4 November 2008 For full details on this short episode please head over to the Mousin it up Blog: http://bigbrian-nc.livejournal.com/#entry_8075 Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 November 2008 Mousin' It Up!
Big Brians Disney Podcast
Continuing the Oct 11, 2007 trip report, we take in one last set by the Toontown Tuners (this time in Fantasyland) before moseying over to Frontierland and seeing Woody's Cowboy Camp. 
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songsThe Toontown TunersEven though they were performing in Fantasyland the Tuners were wearing their normal overalls, as opposed to their Cinderellas Royal Saxophonists garb.
Woody's Cowboy Camp
Selected photosOctober 13, 2007I only took a few pictures during the hour or so this episode takes place within the 40 minutes of this episode. 
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Fri, 10 October 2008 I listen to A LOT of Disney podcasts, and usually a podcast that "occasioanlly" talks about Disney just won't stay on my plylist for very long, there is ONE notable exception to that though, I've been listening to Comedy4Cast for a long time now, since back in the low double digits, (he recently published episode 151 ) and recently I had the opportunity to finish something his show inspired me to start a while back. It all goes back to a running gag about milestones in podasting and how a lot of folks make a big deal about episode 50 or episode 100 well Clinton didn't make a milestone out of episode 100, he celebrated a TRUE milestone instead...episode 103, well my mind tends to think in musical terms and the mention of episode 103 triggered an idea for me and in fairly short order I had some lyrics written down, and even took a couple of stabs at recording, BUT I kept flubbing the lyrics AND it occurred to me as I was recording that Clinton only uses POD SAFE MUSIC, royalty free stuff, so as I ran out of time to record that day that project went to the back burner, and it stayed there a LOOOOONG time, several episodes back Clinton introduced a new concept the virtual table of random things, which has been a GREAT way of getting fun, interesting, humorous feedback from his audience BOTH via email AND by the Super Secret Phone Line (360) 515-0004 (But DON'T tell anyone shhh! it's a secret), well it finally dawned on me that I could leave a virtual CD of this tribute to Clinton show on the Virtual table and host the audio in my libsyn account (but without publishing it to my podcast feed, since it's not an episode of my podcast) so without further adieu...
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Wed, 1 October 2008 If you want to download the show manually (instead of using a podcast aggregater such as Itunes) then right-click on this link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/bbdp/bbdp42.mp3 and choose SAVE TARGET AS to save the file to your hard drive.  In this time of economic downturn with Walt Disney World seemingly, battening down the hatches for a slow down in business by cutting back on some of its live entertainment groups, it is nice to hear that some folks from the Adventurers Club and Comedy Warehouse may have other jobs on property, I recently leaned that Carol, a talented keyboardist who worked at the Comedy Warehouse, got a job at Rose & Crown Pub, while I was quite pleased to hear this my next thought was, "Does that mean that Pam Brodie has went into full retirement? (she works two days a week in a sort of semi-retirement position), or are they getting rid of Leon Gregory?", it then occurred to me that perhaps there was another option too perhaps they would add some earlier sets, I then realized in the current economic climate that was quite unlikely, and when I got the opportunity to chat with some other fans asked if any of them had heard what the story was, unfortunately it turns out they are getting rid of Leon, in fact his last day has come and gone. Unfortunately times of unemployment seem to be an unavoidable fact of life for most musicians. You know, when you think about it Walt Disney World allows an almost unheard of opportunity for musicians to have regular work without having to travel. I'll miss Leon and hope he lands on his feet, and with his talent and experience, think that he may have a better chace at that than most folks would in his situation, with some luck I may get to hear him play again someday. As for Carol I only caught her once, as for me I only made my first trip to the Comedy Warehouse for the first time last December (and decided I needed to visit it more on future trips, oh well, so much for that!) even from that brief exposure it was clear she is one talented individual. So the next time I'm at the pub in the Great Brittan Pavilion I'll enjoy Carol (or Pam Brodie if it is one of her days) but I'll pause and think of Leon Gregory in a silent toast to him. As I recounted on this episode I first saw Leon perform on the "Trip without a camera" (Celebration 25), but the set in this episode was recorded a few weeks later when I was on a trip where I was able to stop and listen for a full set (RADP 12). links The Let's Talk About Disney Forums: http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/index.php The Mousin it up! subsection of LTAD http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/forumdisplay.php?f=64 The Yahoo group for the bigbrian-nc.com site and NC Disney news is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneypodcast/ Steve Soares fine site of WDW entertainment schedules: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevesoares/ songs The Extraordinary Leon Gregory
Selected photos October 13, 2007       Video After the first verse of "knock three times" I knew I wanted a video on the next go around of the "knocking". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtm_t2XToiA feedback? Questions? Please.... E-mail Me martsolf@mindspring.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 28 September 2008 This long overdue episode is a return to the Magic Kingdom trip report of 11 Oct. 2007. Picking up right where we left off in Episode 39, we quickly head back down Main Street to Town square near the Emporium where we take in a set of the Main Street Philharmonic, and then spend a little time chatting with and listening to Jim on what ended up being one of his "40 minute plus" sets. 
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songsMain Street Philharmonic
Piano Man Jim
Selected photosOctober 11, 2007a few pictures taken during this episode can be found in the middle of the folowing page.
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Thu, 21 August 2008  This episode is a bit of a DETOUR from the trip report I've been covering. In honor of the Olympic games, now being held in Bejing, China, we'll take a listen to Si Xian, which is a performance on an instrument used in Chinese classical music. The itunes and Libsyn image for this episode this is cobbled together from 2 WDW postcards of the China pavilion. links
songsSi Xian performer playing aERHU / Chinese Violin (link to Wikipedia where you can see one)
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Thu, 7 August 2008  This episode STARTS as a continuation of the audio "trip report" from the morning of October 11, 2007, though I finally get OFF of Main Street U.S.A. this time, heading to Frontierland where I find The Notorious Banjo Brothers and Bob...If that set is not enough for you, then GOOD, because after that we travel back in time to play TWO MORE sets by the guys, first from the December 2006 (Mousefest trip), and THEN from June 2007. In the first two sets all the players are the full time players, the Sousaphone player in the June 2007 set appeared to be a back up player filling in for the regular sousaphonists day off. links The Let's Talk About Disney Forums: http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/index.php The Mousin it up! subsection of LTAD http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/forumdisplay.php?f=64 The Yahoo group for the bigbrian-nc.com site and NC Disney news is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneypodcast/ The link to THIS trip report in the trip reports section: http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/trindex.htm#rad12 Steve Soares fine site of WDW entertainment schedules: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevesoares/ songs set 1 - October 11, 2007 Ghost Riders in the Sky Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Bugle Call Rag Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Happy Birthday (hayden) I'm an old Cowhand Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Happy Birthday set 2 - December 7, 2006 Foggy Mountain Breakdown Zip A Dee Doo Dah We Three Kings Jingle Bell rock medley including old joe clark (other songs unknown) Sweet Georgia Browne set 3 - June 16, 2007 Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) Ole Slue Foot Never Smile at a crocodile (snippet for a joke about a nearby gator) Bugle Call Rag Lover please come Home Notorious shuffle (song they play as they walk) pictures taken during this episode can be found in the bottom half on these pages, from Oct 11, 2007 http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/2007tr/oct/radp12/11th-e.htm from December 7, 2006 http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/mfst2006/7th-f.htm and from June 16, 2007 (with a substitute Sousaphonist) http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/2007tr/june/16th-h.htm feedback? Questions? Please.... E-mail Me martsolf@mindspring.com Comments[0] |
Sat, 2 August 2008  August 2, 2008 Lou Mongello of WDW radio, and the Walt Disney,World trivia books and web site turns 40. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOU! Comments[1] |
Wed, 16 July 2008  This episode is a continuation of the audio from the morning of October 11,
2007,the Toontown Tuners, and the "political characters" of the Mayor, his
assistant (and son-in-law), and the councilman, followed up by a set of Piano
Man Jim . libsyn blog image: just havin fun with Pluto links
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Sun, 6 July 2008  In this episode we travel to Pleasure Island and Visit the Adventurers Club in a recording from December 2007 featuring both the new member induction ceremony and Balderdash cup competition. libsyn blog image: Samantha and Pamelia perform the NEW member introduction ceremony. links
As Always FULL Show Notes (including more photos) are on my site: http://bigbrian-nc.com/sn37.htm
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Wed, 11 June 2008  Sometimes music sets a nice mood, of course if you are listening to my podcast you then have a voice coming in possibly breaking that mood, I'm aware of this, and as such, I offered at the end of episode 29, which featured the musicians of the Grand Floridian, to provide the episode WITHOUT my naration for anyone who wanted it. I recently had such a request but when I tried to send the files to the guy first they were too big for my email, then when i broke them down for that his email bounced them as they were to large for his to accept, so from this seeming setback I found an opportunity to share it as a download here:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/bbdp/bbdp29-no-naration.mp3
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Wed, 11 June 2008 This episode is a continuation of the audio from the morning of October 11, 2007, and features some a bit more of the Dans, the Toontown Tuners, and the "political characters" of the Mayor, his assistant (and son-in-law), and the councilman, and the "Trolley show" as delivered from the Fire Engine, this audio picked up withing minutes of where the last episode ended. 
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Thu, 29 May 2008  <br /> <br /> <br /> This episode is a sort of audio introduction to my trip report for the first day of the RADP 12 trip, the audio in this episode is from the morning of October 11, 2007, and consists of, the gate opening for non resort guests at the TTC, a cruise on the General Joe Potter, through the turnstiles and onto Main Street where we catch a ride on the fire engine before joining the Dapper Dans during thier first set of the morning. links
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Fri, 16 May 2008  In this episode we visit Epcot's Norway and celbrate Norwegian Constitution Day by taking in the sounds of Spelmann's Gledge. This audio was recorded on September 30th and Oct 1 2007 when I visited Epcot on the occasion of its 25thh anniversary.
Since this was "the trip without a camera" finding an appropriate photo was a bit tougher than usual but thanks to the gereosity of a flickr user by the name of Gator-Chris http://www.flickr.com/photos/gator-chris/ I have this photo taken BY HIM on Sept. 30, just a few sets before the set I recorded. View his original version of it at this link: links
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Thu, 8 May 2008  In this episode we head back to Disney's Animal Kingdom for the links
PhotosThe full selection of my photos for this tour can be found as a set on Flickr...
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Mon, 28 April 2008  In this episode we head back to Disney's Animal Kingdom http://www.distantcreations.com/insidethemagic/ for sharing that Joe Rohde Audio with all of us!. Still, I think this audio is quite a bit different from the other great DAK audio I've been hearing the past month, see what you think. As always you can comment on this podcast in several ways you can comment in the forums at or the email group... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneypodcast/ or email me directly martsolf@mindspring.com
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Wed, 9 April 2008  In this episode we take in some of the great ragtime style Piano music http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/sn31.htm as well as on the forums at LTAD: http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/showthread.php?p=26164 Comments[0] |
Thu, 13 March 2008  In this episode we take in some of the "Safari people Band" also known as Mor Thaim before heading over to Kilimanjaro safaris for a
Additionally FULL show notes can be found in two places either on my site at http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/sn30.htm
and on the lets Talk About Disney Forums:
http://letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/forumdisplay.php?f=65
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Thu, 14 February 2008
In this episode we take in some of the talented musicians who perform every night at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, along the way we touch on Resort "free with stay" postcards, Disney Shopping opportunities in the Carolinas, and "thank yous" to a few friends. .
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Tue, 1 January 2008  In this episode we start with some audio recorded on the Mousefest 2007 trip with the ToonTown Tuners before hopping back in time to 2002 for a Rootin' Tootin' good time in the old west, then return to Main Street for a very fun ensemble performance of the Citizens of Main Street USA backed up by the Toontown Tuners. Full show notes for this are available om my site at: http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/sn28.htm
Theres a great disscussion forum for the Mousin It Up! podcast over at the Let's Talk About Disney Forums: http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/forumdisplay.php?f=64
and if you want to get occasion emails from me when the site is updated hers a link to yahoo group for the site:
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Sun, 23 December 2007  Over two hours of Christmas music from WDW with the Dapper Dans, piano men Jim and Mark, The Main Street Philharmonic, The Harlem Gospel Choir, The Notorious Banjo Brothers and Bob, and cameo appearances of various of Mousefest attendees.Comments[0] |
