A third season skit from the Mickey Mouse Club features Cubby, Bobby, Karen, Annette, Don, Cheryl, Doreen, Darlene, Sharon, Tommy, Lonnie, Bonnie, and Linda.
I used to watch this stuff in the mid 1950s when I was 8 to 10 years old. I never appreciated how much talent these kids had. In fact, I found their singing and dancing rather tedious, and wanted the show to get to the "entertainment" segments. Now, decades later, thanks to youtube, I can appreciate what I overlooked as a kid.
I know I am replying years later but I have just found this and have to agree with you - Annette was my favourite also - I even named my doll after her. Fifty five years later I still have her, my doll that is, and she sits proudly on my bedroom chair and my granddaughters love her as much as I do. Can't wait to show them who she was named after!
i remember running home from school in the 70's also to watch the reruns of the mouseketeer clyb also. this was one of the best shows on tv back then besides soul train and american band stand.
I loved to death those pleated skirts and learned to tap because of this show. My name is Bonnie, and yes...I loved it that there was a Mousketeer names Bonnie too.
Dear Ms. Speeg - there were 2 Bonnies on our series. First season, Bonni Kern first season only, the late Bonnie Lynn Fields [later known as Lynn Fields; we worked together for Bob Fosse on his first film vs. Broadway: "Sweet Charity". Mouseketeer Lonnie - site since 2000: google my name!
Wow wow ,,,,, I'm soooo jealous. Wanted to learn tap. Get those black patent tappers!! Was desperate to enroll in dancing school. Mom said NO. 😢 Too expensive in 56-57. Baahh. Still mad to this day.
Same thing with me too! I too was born in the 1960's, and watched the original Mickey Mouse Club when it aired again in the 1970's. I arrived home in the afternoons coming from school, but I got home just in time to watch reruns of this original Mickey Mouse Club with Annette Funicello. It's a pity what happened to Annette with her illness, and the fact that she just died today on Monday April 8, 2013. She will be remembered as a mouseketeer from the original Mickey Mouse Club.
Thanks for this! My fave, Darlene, gets a solo, singing “I wonder what I’ll be when I grow up….” Unfortunately she later did some check-kiting scheme and did hard time in the big house.
I Love The Mickey Mouse Club. So glad my Mom showed this show. My Moms Favorite is Bobby and Lonnie. Darlene and Annette are mine. . I wish I could dance like them and play drums like Cubby.
I always thought these kids were great. I wanted to be just like them, But I was lucky enough to have a best friend that was a child perfomer. I love The Mickey Mouse Club and may the love for the show go on.
@Nashcountryboy Don Grady's sister, Lani O'Grady, played Mary on Eight is Enough', and tragically died of drug-related issues in 2001, around the time of the World Trade Center disaster. (The family name, incidentally, is Agrati).
Thank you for sharing these wonderful childhood memories! I wasn't around when it aired in the '50s (I was born in 1963). I first watched the original Mickey Mouse Club when it aired again in the '70's. I remember racing home (a good mile or so) just so I could make it in time for Roll Call! :) Darlene was (and always will be) my favorite as well as Tommy.
I read that Cheryl Hodges died last year. I was so sorry to hear that. Karen was my favorite. She was in a car accident years ago and has been in a wheel chair ever since. She became a psychologist. Darlene became a very good country singer. Don went on to star in My Three Sons in the 60's. He played Robbie. Cubby became a successful drummer. Annette is very nice, but straight-laced. She wrote an autobiography that didn't sell because there was nothing naughty in it.
3:54 Darlene Gillespie...from Montreal Canada !! ..On the shows, she was seriously Green Jealous of Annette... !! Later in life... Darlene was busted in a shoplifting charge and bad checks with her husband in the 90's. Did some jail time.... However, through it all, she was very talented musically.
@@libertyann439 I'm 62 days older than Doreen, 39 days younger than Mary Sartori, met Annette, Cheryl, Bonnie and "Moochie"(!) at the studios in 1957, dined with Annette, Joe and her manager in Allentown PA of all places in 1959 ... and I wouldn't trade places with you.
Wondering 😔,,,,, Has anyone written a book on the kids ,,,,, cute stories of Mouseketters? Would surely read. Just basic things. Like how long were rehearsals, what about schooling, did everyone make same salary?
Since the people who originally watched this are now truly "old and gray", I wonder how many never forgot the day of the Mouseketeer Matinee? As the lyrics of the song say will happen...
You're absolutey right! Darleen was by far the MOST TALENTED of all the Mouseketeers! Even, far more talented than Annette. However, luck was NEVER on her side! What a SAD SCENARIO!
Darlene made her parents proud all right ... she served two years for defrauding legitimate parties to a class-action lawsuit ... unlike Dana Plato her nemesis wasn't drugs, it was a guy called Jerry!
I, too,am an original viewer. Came home from school, sat down, and watched . Sang along with the cast, and wished I could tap along too. We went to Disneyland and saw the Mousekateers, live, and in person . Couldn't get to meet any of them. Fast forward to the 80s and sitting with my young daughter watching MMC with new eyes..
Quinnsutube4friends Your an original viewer and your not old? I'm an original viewer and I'm 71 yrs. old and my nieces were also original viewers they are 4 yrs. younger than me. We color our hair. Gee how old were you when you watched?
@Snookiebutt : I agree Darleen was the most talented but who knows what went on behind the scenes? In later years she was in and out of jail so her stage persona may have been much different than she was in real life. Sad, really.
Bobby is most definitely gay. Lawrence Welk told him to at least TRY and make an attempt at the straight life or he was gonna get kicked off the Lawrence Welk show, so, Bobby made an arrangement with Myron Floren to marry Myron's daughter, Christie. They had 4 kids, and then Bobby said enough is enough and has been leading a very gay life ever since. How do I know? I was Bobby's very first boyfriend when he decided to come out of the closet almost 30 years ago now.
Even though I loved the show as a small child, I can see now how vapid it really was-it was Disney's deflavourizing influences that sucked the humanity out of everything he did.
+none sense I'm not certain you know what you're talking about. Walt Disney himself favored good ole American values and the importance of children and young people. It is the corporation that bears his name that has done so much damage to these values. I honor Mr. Disney. He did so much that was good and upright.
Jim Porter American values according to his strict interpretation of them as he like to mind control his employees. He was almost Soviet in the way he designed their work space and living quarters and micro managed every aspect of his employees lives. His wage scale was bizarre and draconian-some people got excellent pay while others got wages that were subsistence. He fought the introduction of unions and ratted out his colleagues to McCarthy Committee on UnAmerican Activities as "Communist" just because they disagreed with him. He kept a record of people who displeased him so he could fire them. I don't imagine Afro Americans ever came to Disneyland in the 1950's. The fantasy of his American values were restricted to white Middle class Euro Americans. The star of his film "Song of the South" was barred from it's premier in Georgia because he was black. Disney's' insipid vapid depiction of America was so sanitized that it removed the real context of America-it's rich diversity, it's rebellious activism, it's often incendiary creativity in all the arts, the charisma of it's people-the stuff the world admires and replaced it with a propaganda of compliance Puritan morality and holographic depictions of human beings. America was and is much more then the two dimensional rendering provided by the Disney machine
I used to watch this stuff in the mid 1950s when I was 8 to 10 years old. I never appreciated how much talent these kids had. In fact, I found their singing and dancing rather tedious, and wanted the show to get to the "entertainment" segments. Now, decades later, thanks to youtube, I can appreciate what I overlooked as a kid.
I don't think kids today would be into this high caliber of entertainment.
Darlene was surely the best singer.
MAN, Darline could really really sing. She really had a great gift.
R.I.P. Don Grady & Bonnie Lynn Fields: Both 1944 - 2012.
So sweet. A bit before my time so I never actually watched a clip before.
I know I am replying years later but I have just found this and have to agree with you - Annette was my favourite also - I even named my doll after her. Fifty five years later I still have her, my doll that is, and she sits proudly on my bedroom chair and my granddaughters love her as much as I do. Can't wait to show them who she was named after!
i remember running home from school in the 70's also to watch the reruns of the mouseketeer clyb also. this was one of the best shows on tv back then besides soul train and american band stand.
Would you choose tap dancing as a hobby?
I loved to death those pleated skirts and learned to tap because of this show. My name is Bonnie, and yes...I loved it that there was a Mousketeer names Bonnie too.
Those patent leather tap shoes are still cool to this day. Pitta tappa tap
Dear Ms. Speeg - there were 2 Bonnies on our series. First season, Bonni Kern first season only, the late Bonnie Lynn Fields [later known as Lynn Fields; we worked together for Bob Fosse on his first film vs. Broadway: "Sweet Charity". Mouseketeer Lonnie - site since 2000: google my name!
Wow wow ,,,,, I'm soooo jealous. Wanted to learn tap. Get those black patent tappers!! Was desperate to enroll in dancing school. Mom said NO. 😢
Too expensive in 56-57.
Baahh. Still mad to this day.
@@lonnieburr very interesting doing research on MMC and seeing your comments pop up in all sorts of places. hope you're doing well mouseketeer lonnie!
Same thing with me too! I too was born in the 1960's, and watched the original Mickey Mouse Club when it aired again in the 1970's. I arrived home in the afternoons coming from school, but I got home just in time to watch reruns of this original Mickey Mouse Club with Annette Funicello. It's a pity what happened to Annette with her illness, and the fact that she just died today on Monday April 8, 2013. She will be remembered as a mouseketeer from the original Mickey Mouse Club.
Benito Aparicio The original show aired in 1955 to 1959.
Tommy always seemed to have the look of a 1920's Brooklyn gangster
Very cute :) this would be the closest Bonnie, Lynn, Don & Linda would get to be included in the Season 3 Roll Call. 👍🏻
Don from My 3 Sons.
R.I.P., Bonnie: 1944-2012.
I have to agree Bonnie was one of the best and should have had more screen time! So much Talent not shown!!
Thanks for this! My fave, Darlene, gets a solo, singing “I wonder what I’ll be when I grow up….” Unfortunately she later did some check-kiting scheme and did hard time in the big house.
I Love The Mickey Mouse Club. So glad my Mom showed this show. My Moms Favorite is Bobby and Lonnie. Darlene and Annette are mine. . I wish I could dance like them and play drums like Cubby.
Love seeing Don Grady (Agrati) from My Three Sons!
I always thought these kids were great. I wanted to be just like them, But I was lucky enough to have a best friend that was a child perfomer. I love The Mickey Mouse Club and may the love for the show go on.
They really were good!
Great cast. Great casting! The talent of the kids made up for the limited budget of this classic series.
@Nashcountryboy Don Grady's sister, Lani O'Grady, played Mary on Eight is Enough', and tragically died of drug-related issues in 2001, around the time of the World Trade Center disaster.
(The family name, incidentally, is Agrati).
Though I was in elementary school in the 70's I ran home to watch the reruns. Bobby Burgess is my Favorite.
Bobby Burgess went on to dance on the Lawrence well we'll show
I love the way Cubby moves his head when he dances haha. He and Bonnie were my favorites.
This was entertaining .. The Mouseketeers probably enjoyed doing these routines especially when they showcased their talent
Tap dancing still fun to do.
Disney needs to release all the seasons of this show on dvd.
I second that, and I am duly obsessed with a capital O.
There are thousands of us who really wants to see this happen. We grew up watching MMC.🎈🎈
R.I.P Don Grady.
I used to watch this show in early mid 60s as a kid !
Thank you for sharing these wonderful childhood memories! I wasn't around when it aired in the '50s (I was born in 1963). I first watched the original Mickey Mouse Club when it aired again in the '70's. I remember racing home (a good mile or so) just so I could make it in time for Roll Call! :) Darlene was (and always will be) my favorite as well as Tommy.
Yes I was born in '57 and watched reruns throughout the 60s but I never got all that much into it. Making up for it now I guess.
R.I.P. Annette :(
I had a crush on Lynn after Dennis left the show. Even though I was 3 years older than him I still liked him.
Wonder whatever became of my Mouseketeer ears I got about 52 years ago....
I read that Cheryl Hodges died last year. I was so sorry to hear that.
Karen was my favorite. She was in a car accident years ago and has been in a wheel chair ever since. She became a psychologist.
Darlene became a very good country singer.
Don went on to star in My Three Sons in the 60's. He played Robbie.
Cubby became a successful drummer.
Annette is very nice, but straight-laced. She wrote an autobiography that didn't sell because there was nothing naughty in it.
LindaDooWop Cheryl was born Cheryl Lynn Phelps. In 1953 she was Adopted by her stepfather and became Cheryl Lynn Holdridge.
@@mikehodges5612 Not to put too fine a point on it, it's Cheryl Lynn Phelps Holdridge (Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-) Reventlow Skarda Post.
Karen has passed away now, circa 2018.
Darlene, I took for granted your gorgeous voice watching as a kid. Tommy became a makeup artist, is living in California. Hooray.
i love cubby's head shaking when he dancing its so cute:)
Sharon Baird was by far the best dancer.
I love this show
Tap dancing is fun.
RIP Don Grady (1944 - 2012)
Annette play a part on Make Room For Daddy starring Danny Thomas, she was real good in that show, Love the Mickey Mouse Club
That was not Annette. That was Angela Cartwright who went on to be in Lost in Space with Billy Mumy.
I always had a crush on Lonnie...he had a cool, mature style for his age.
Wow. This is really great choreography and execution! These kids were phenomenal, and they had a great teacher in Curly.
Yeh, one of the classic classics, right up there with Basketball Ballet (Season 2). Time capsule material.
Oh Darlene :D
Great talent! 👍❤️❤️❤️
3:54 Darlene Gillespie...from Montreal Canada !! ..On the shows, she was seriously Green Jealous of Annette... !! Later in life... Darlene was busted in a shoplifting charge and bad checks with her husband in the 90's. Did some jail time.... However, through it all, she was very talented musically.
Mickey Mouse will always be Forever around.
I wish I could've been alive to see this show but I wasn't born till 2001
But you're younger than those who were!!
@@libertyann439 I'm 62 days older than Doreen, 39 days younger than Mary Sartori, met Annette, Cheryl, Bonnie and "Moochie"(!) at the studios in 1957, dined with Annette, Joe and her manager in Allentown PA of all places in 1959 ... and I wouldn't trade places with you.
Wondering 😔,,,,,
Has anyone written a book on the kids ,,,,, cute stories of Mouseketters?
Would surely read.
Just basic things.
Like how long were rehearsals, what about schooling, did everyone make same salary?
@jwibbie I actually have a copy of the Merry Mouseketeers. I'll upload today if I have time.
best dancers ever
Great fun!!
Cheryl and Doreen are both taller then Don
Thanks I liked being a kid then!!
@Snookiebutt You said it. This show was a strong part of my childhood. (Uh-uh, don't figure out my age, LOLOLOL).
Since the people who originally watched this are now truly "old and gray", I wonder how many never forgot the day of the Mouseketeer Matinee? As the lyrics of the song say will happen...
You're absolutey right! Darleen was by far the MOST TALENTED of all the Mouseketeers! Even, far more talented than Annette. However, luck was NEVER on her side! What a SAD SCENARIO!
Don Louis Agrati (June 8, 1944 - June 27, 2012) Lynn Ready was born on December 3, 1944
It saddens me to inform you that Lynn Ready passed away a year or two ago.
Steeped in the 1950s world of media, but it still holds up (unlike "Lawrence Welk"!).
OMGOSH! which tap school?? I took tap lessons in Columbus Oh TOO!
Bonita Lynn Fields, AKA Bonnie, was a contestant on the November 17, 2012 episode of Celebrity Bucket Kickers.
I had a huge boycrush on Cubby when I was seven.
Don Grady from My Three Sons
Para los que eran del grupo Menudo fueran aprendido
Darlene made her parents proud all right ... she served two years for defrauding legitimate parties to a class-action lawsuit ... unlike Dana Plato her nemesis wasn't drugs, it was a guy called Jerry!
Though they are very talented, could they dance something besides tap! All the routines looked the same.
i love cubby's head shaking when he dancing its so cute:)
I am all team Darlene i think annete is way to stuck up fo rmy taste
This is fucked.
Its like watching the bad guys in Batman.
Its like crooks in castles.
Its like Disney is the joker...
Well, I am an original viewer, but I'm not actually "old" yet and only partially gray!
I guess you are older than I am; I am an original viewer, also.
I, too,am an original viewer. Came home from school, sat down, and watched . Sang along with the cast, and wished I could tap along too. We went to Disneyland and saw the Mousekateers, live, and in person . Couldn't get to meet any of them. Fast forward to the 80s and sitting with my young daughter watching MMC with new eyes..
Quinnsutube4friends Your an original viewer and your not old? I'm an original viewer and I'm 71 yrs. old and my nieces were also original viewers they are 4 yrs. younger than me. We color our hair. Gee how old were you when you watched?
Mouska...Russian.
@Snookiebutt : I agree Darleen was the most talented but who knows what went on behind the scenes? In later years she was in and out of jail so her stage persona may have been much different than she was in real life. Sad, really.
Walt Disney is probably spinning in his grave right now seeing his wholesome empire crumble into the woke trash it is now.
Darlene was the one convicted of fraud and Doreen did a porno movies
Bobby is most definitely gay. Lawrence Welk told him to at least TRY and make an attempt at the straight life or he was gonna get kicked off the Lawrence Welk show, so, Bobby made an arrangement with Myron Floren to marry Myron's daughter, Christie. They had 4 kids, and then Bobby said enough is enough and has been leading a very gay life ever since. How do I know? I was Bobby's very first boyfriend when he decided to come out of the closet almost 30 years ago now.
Like, do we really care?
Even though I loved the show as a small child, I can see now how vapid it really was-it was Disney's deflavourizing influences that sucked the humanity out of everything he did.
+none sense I'm not certain you know what you're talking about. Walt Disney himself favored good ole American values and the importance of children and young people. It is the corporation that bears his name that has done so much damage to these values. I honor Mr. Disney. He did so much that was good and upright.
Jim Porter
American values according to his strict interpretation of them as he like to mind control his employees. He was almost Soviet in the way he designed their work space and living quarters and micro managed every aspect of his employees lives. His wage scale was bizarre and draconian-some people got excellent pay while others got wages that were subsistence. He fought the introduction of unions and ratted out his colleagues to McCarthy Committee on UnAmerican Activities as "Communist" just because they disagreed with him. He kept a record of people who displeased him so he could fire them. I don't imagine Afro Americans ever came to Disneyland in the 1950's. The fantasy of his American values were restricted to white Middle class Euro Americans. The star of his film "Song of the South" was barred from it's premier in Georgia because he was black.
Disney's' insipid vapid depiction of America was so sanitized that it removed the real context of America-it's rich diversity, it's rebellious activism, it's often incendiary creativity in all the arts, the charisma of it's people-the stuff the world admires and replaced it with a propaganda of compliance
Puritan morality and holographic depictions of
human beings. America was and is much more then the two dimensional rendering provided by the Disney machine
no black kids, no latino kids, no asian kids, no native kids... just really marshmallow white...
none sense You are wrong, don't muddy the memory of mr. Disney, if you don't have anything nice to say just go somewhere else.
Larry Aleshire It was a different time, I didn't even think of that I just liked the show. Just Americans like me.
This is next to banned by woke.
i love cubby's head shaking when he dancing its so cute:)