so....wandering thoughts wander to more distant places as time goes by...
and i'm curious...
anyone here a member of the Micky Mouse Club in the mid to late 50's??...

you know, get the ears and put 'em on and sing the song with the Mousketeers???...

just wonderin...

Busts out singing...M, I, C...

i lived for the adventures of Spin & Marty.

I'd get home from school, put on my ears and watch the show, trying to dance but obviously not doing well, singing all the songs (some of which will pop up even today when doing something).

Spin and Marty, The Annette Series and the Hardy Boys were faves of mine. I bought the Spin and Marty dvd set when it came out. Even my eldest daughter (she's the same age as Jack Benny claimed) wanted to watch Spin and Marty disks.

Living in So. Cal until 5 years ago, I'd been to D'land the first year it opened and yearly for many years after-I still think life is an 'E' ticket ride.

I loved Spin & Marty! I'll always remember the episode where they broke in a pair of new jeans. And then there was some story or other about a girl with long braids who liked to make hushpuppies. And a Western story with Fess Parker, who I had a major crush on. Not Davy Crockett, but something else, and I think Cubby and Karen were in it.

Oh? I saw the title of this thread and I thought it was about the Bush administration........nevermind.





Well, While I'm here anyway...... I was born in 1957, and do remember watching some of the shows. I was a fan of Fess Parker too, more for his later role as Daniel Boone, although unlike Judy, I didn't have a crush on him.
Of course those early Disney shows did teach me and other kids in my neighborhood some usefull life skills, like how to kill Indians. I mean somebody besides me in New Jersey must have learned something, because we never had any Indians around, and I don't recall killing any myself.
As the 60's rolled around, and things got more progressive of course, you could see the progress being made even in tv shows. By the time Fess Parker was playing Daniel Boone, he was still killing Indians, but he took the politically correct course by having another Indian help him to kill Indians. I suppose that George the 1st and George the 2nd fit the Fess mold as well, since George the 1st had us killing Iraqis by ourselves, and George the 2nd has Iraqis helping us kill other Iraqis. I suppose that might be considered progress by some people.
Then of course later generations of the Mickey Mouse club gave us such icons as Britney Spears, whom, to the best of my knowledge has not killed any Indians or Iraqis, BUT, has been personally responsible for the deaths of billions of brain cells. Progress??? I leave to to the reader to decide.

... How does one follow Larry's apt analysis?

Yes, Spin and Marty ... I had a crush on Spin... Wonder if he became a "spin doctor" in later life...

i'd suggest a good stiff shot of bourbon.......or three.

The whole thing was wrong wrong wrong
It should have been

The Donald Duck Show with The Duckateers
Sing it
D-O-N-A-L-D -D-U-C-K
Donald Duck
Donald Duck

Y? Because we love you.

I bought the Spin and Marty set when it came out..it was amazing what I DID remember. I also remember another series.."Corky and White Shadow" with one of the female Mouseketeers as the lead, and a white German Shepherd as her dog...who would "save " her every week by biting and attacking someone ,and the "Adventures in Dairyland" where Kevin Corcoran's character Moochie (who was in Spin and Marty) had a bigger part than he did in S&M; Annette and the crew were also in that one. Wasn't there also a Hardy Boys mystery series? I remember Tommy Kirk and a couple of other kids in there. I think there was also some kind of pirate series.
In between American Bandstand and Mickey Mouse Club, I guess we all watched the same things after school! I remember my mom kind of encouraged us to watch Mickey Mouse Club...it gave her a little time where the 4 of us were occupied, and she could make dinner!
I didn't have any MM "ears" when I was a kid...hard to come by in Indiana, and with 4 kids in the family, we were lucky we got fed and had decent clothes and a roof over our heads.

I've never heard of Spin & Marty. Must've been a few yrs before my time. Sounds interesting. I used to watch Micky Mouse Club re-runs as a kid. Also watched Davy Crockett & Daniel Boone too...

Just looked it up online:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_and_Marty

It was part of the Micky Mouse club so I must've seen it as a kid in re-runs & have forgotten about it...

Corky was the one who liked to make hushpuppies! Thanks, Sue!

M-I-C - See you real soon! K-E-Y Why? Because we like you! M-O-U-S-E....

But of course. Mickey, Donald, Jim and Roy (who I now suspect of being pedophiles) Annette - Wanted to be Annette - Spin and Marty, White Shadow and didn't they have Hardy Boy mysteries sometimes, too? I know there were other things besides just the two.

Have you seen what's happened to Mickey, though? It's gone to his head. He's got a show on the Disney channel and it's all Mickey this, Mouse that. Everything's named after him. He's like Donald Trump, except that he IS a rodent instead of wearing one on his head.

While we're on the subject, how come, everyone in Mickey's entourage is an animal, but only poor Pluto is limited to barking like a dog and in general being treated as a pet? Goofy's a dog, too. Why the discrimination?

are you sayin' that Corky was doin' Hushpuppy???
Where was Lamb Chop????