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...
 
you can right-click on this link:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/bbdp/comedy4cast.mp3 and choose SAVE TARGET AS to save the file to your hard drive, or choose open in new tab or new window.

 

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

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• 1. unknown
• 2. pub Medley

• It’s A Long, long way to Tipperary
• I want a rotten song
• Roll out the Barrel
• I’m Henry the Eighth I am

• 3. I can’t see me lovin nobody but you
• 4. Last Train to Clarksville
• 5. Hello, Dolly!
• 6. Somewhere Beyond the Sea
• 7. Sweet Caroline
• 8. Piano Man
• 9. Knock Three Times
• 10. Don’t let the Sun go Down on Me
• 11. The Sunny Side of the Street
• 12. Lady Madonna
• 13. I love you just the way you are
• 14. unknown pub song
• 15. Me and Bobby McGee
• 16. King of the Road
• 17. Oh Mandy
• 18. Reelin’ in the Years
• 19. House of the Rising Sun
• 20. That’ll be the Day
• 21. Spinning Wheel
• 22. I Write The Songs

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