Don Robertson : PIANJO/ I DREAMED I LOST YOU

Don Robertson : PIANJO/ I DREAMED I LOST YOU

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Monument, 1966.

vinyl condition: G (some surface noise)

In 1972, Country Bear Jamboree opened in Disneyland as the centerpiece of the park’s newest land Bear Country. It was the first Disneyland attraction to be cloned from a Walt Disney World attraction. Here’s how Disney News introduced an article about the attraction:

One of the most popular attractions at Walt Disney World in Florida is the country-western musical mish-mash known as Country Bear Jamboree. It stars the wildest bunch of foot-stompin’, knee-slappin’ rip-snorters ever to lumber out of the north woods. And this spring, the “rip-snorters” are coming to Disneyland, bringing with them, along with their lack of talent, a whole new land to the “happiest place of earth”: Bear Country.

Don Robertson, the inventor of the "slip note" piano style made famous by Floyd Cramer, lent his ivory-playing skills to the Jamboree. A version of this song, PIANJO, is played by the audio-animatronic bear Gomer as the ride’s opening number.

And although it’s called the Country Bear Jamboree, in addition to 17 bears, there’s a raccoon, a bison, a moose, and a deer.