Originally Posted By cape cod joe I love their movie, which we own, their music, but their disney show just doesn't make it. The xmas show is the best but the others
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo It would be great to hear them sing: "There's a town, down the road, Where nobody knows my name..." Or kick into Gear I'm only in it for the Honey Can love stand the test and so on!!!!
Originally Posted By cape cod joe One of my all time favorites Dave, which the fam hates, especially Rachel, because I "scream," not sing the song along with our cd. She says "Dad Why don't you go on American Idol?" as a chop buster.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo The album totally rocks, and I really like the movie too! "Straight to the heart of love" Luckily my 2 year old loves it, as does my wife.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo It's a family friendly Blues Brothers. With Bears and country music instead!
Originally Posted By cape cod joe I get up at 3 dave every day EXCEPT disney getaway days and I get up at 11:30 THAT night so I can workout early as we leave for the airport at 3 to catch our usual 6 A.M. flight. Well, me being the human alarm clock, blast that cd around 2 or so to wake up fam, and I DO have tears in my eyes, sunglasses on, the whole stoked thing getting ready for WDW! The Bears ARE WDW incarnate.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo With that sort of approach, it's no wonder your family have gone off it! ;-) It seems to live in my car. A classic. Funny thing is, everytime my son here's country music he now yells "ya! Bears!"
Originally Posted By cape cod joe You are a weirdo Dave as Rachel, my daughter, calls me. Is your son embarrassed about you yet Dave or is he too young to understand how wacked out you are The bears really did get me into enjoying country (when I'm in the mood)-Not good lifting music though. Too mellow.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech J_E_Smith, COmparing your two photos, it looks like the only sculptural difference on Tenessee is the eyes. Looks like they are sculpted in a perpetual squint. But that could just be my interpretation. Other than the eyes though, it just looks like variations in fur and paint.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Jim in Merced CA: By the way, Kar2oonMan and I can recite the original Country Bear Jamboree from memory. Ask us sometime, ya hear?>> You duo might become a trio, Jim. Ever since I bought the Musical History CD set, I've been more into the Bears than ever before. Someone also sent me videos of all 3 WDW shows (including Tokyo's summer show) and I won a sealed (not anymore though, lol) LP of the CBJ. I've got Bears on the Brain, yes I do. I've even thought of other shows for the CBJ, such as a 70s show, an 80s show, an Elvis show, a Beatles show, a Halloween and an updated show as well. I tried starting a new catchphrase, "Anything can be Country Bearized". Simply put, the next time you watch American Idol or listening to the Stones or 50 Cent... imagine Terrence, Big Al, Ernest, The Sun Bonnets and the others in their place. I also imagined a CBJ sequel featuring all the bears, this time the 4BR look for Teddi, Zeke and their son Oscar or something to that extent. Wendell, and the Moose Heads hang out with Big Al and Henry, and Ernest is portrayed as a macho ladies' man, self-absorbed in himself. He tours with the Sun Bonnets and gets extremely jealous when the girls flock over to Liver Lips. Anyway, the finale would have all the bears in... of course if I made Ernest and Trixie villains and had them arrested or something, then the finale would be aligned with the endings of the actual show. Then CBJ III would just be a simple fun country-stereotyped movie in the same vein as The Great Race or Smokey and the Bandit. Ahem. Thanks for clearing up the Tennessee Scandal, je. You know, for the longest time, I always thought that DL was running all three shows, until I found out that the summer show ran from '86 to '01, with the holiday show in between. I figured that each of the shows would get a four month run: Holiday in Oct/Nov/Dec/Jan, Original in Feb/Mar/April/May and Summer in June/July/August/September. Oy...Beary Barrington... they couldn't spell it 'Barry', no, they had to make sure people knew that it was a bear, lol. Really... Oscar Barrington would have been better. And the slimmed-down Trixie? And only FOUR of the FIVE Bear Rugs?
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith Well...Zeke's name was on the bus in the movie. Zeke was a part of the movie bear band, but he left, so they named the tour bus after him. I always thought of the movie's Trixie as a weird Teddi/Trixie hybrid myself. Of course, they could have given Liver Lips a cameo by running through an Elvis convention or something. Also, SIR, I aplogize for last statement. When I said "WDW Tenn looked like DL Tenn", I was referring to both having fur on the cheeks instead of the mask sculptures. I've seen other 70s pics of WDW Tenn, and around the mid or late 70s they changed that weird squint in Tenn's eyes and he looks like he does today. The only difference was the fur placement, he still had fur on his cheeks. Take a look here: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/70s_Tenn.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/70s_Tenn.jpg</a> I guess they made his mask extend out to his cheeks following the Vacation change back, because he was still like that during the VH's WDW run: <a href="http://www.burnsland.com/wdw/mk_country_bears_88.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.burnsland.com/wdw/m k_country_bears_88.shtml</a>
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Hey JE... do you have any other comparison pics, mainly of Ernest and LiverLips? I've noticed that the WDW version is really shaggy whereas DL's and the mascot character is 'clean-cut'. Ernest has seemed to go through some facial changes too.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh Hi there 5BR! I got a question for you since you also listen obsessively to that "Musical History of Disneyland" cd set. Any reason you are aware of that the performer voicing Zeke in the original show is *not* the same one I hear on my WDW video version? Did they wind up recasting that particular character for the DL CBJ for some strange reason? Just seems odd...
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith WDW LiverLips: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_LiverLips.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_LiverLips.jpg</a> DL LiverLips: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_LiverLips.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_LiverLips.jpg</a> WDW Ernest(Has thick black eyebrows): <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Ernest2.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Ernest2.jpg</a> DL Ernest(Has thin brown eyebrows): <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Ernest.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Ernest.jpg</a> ...while I'm at it, here's comparison shots of the others. Note that the color in the WDW photos will be off because they're screengrabs from the video I shot back in December. WDW Buff: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW2005045.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW2005045.jpg</a> DL Buff: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/0100-230.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/0100-230.jpg</a> WDW Max: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW2005047.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW2005047.jpg</a> DL Max: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/0100-229.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/0100-229.jpg</a> WDW Melvin: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW2005048.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW2005048.jpg</a> DL Melvin: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/0100-231.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/0100-231.jpg</a> WDW Gomer: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Gomer.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Gomer.png</a> DL Gomer: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Gomer.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Gomer.png</a> WDW Stage 4 Henry: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_S4Henry.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_S4Henry.png</a> DL Stage 4 Henry: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_S4Henry.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_S4Henry.png</a> WDW Zeke: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Zeke.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Zeke.png</a> DL Zeke: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Zeke.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Zeke.png</a> WDW Zeb: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Zeb.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/WDW_Zeb.png</a> DL Zeb: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Zeb.png" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/DL_Zeb.png</a> It's getting late as I do this, so I'll finish the rest tomorrow afternoon.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith ** Any reason you are aware of that the performer voicing Zeke in the original show is *not* the same one I hear on my WDW video version? Did they wind up recasting that particular character for the DL CBJ for some strange reason?** Zeke was originally voiced by Dal McKennon when the attraction first opened, but due to some unknown reason(Licensing issues I guess) they changed his voice in 1975.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech The main difference I always noticed was that the DL bears as I remember them always had simple one tone fur, whereas in older photos (which could have been WDW photos) and at WDW in person, they had more multishaded fur. Disneyland got cheap when it came to fur apparently.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Okay Dave--With the new car I just got yesterday, I'm packed with the Bears CD, ready to slide the moon roof back, and rip the knob off!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stoked City! The rockin roll country bears, as I call them, will be rockin down Country Club Rd. this morning!!!!!!!
