The Leader of the Club
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If they’d only paid to replace the animatronics while keeping the same show, they would have been spending a bunch for no return.
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News Country Bear Jamboree is getting new songs and acts
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splah
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Well I’ve gone a rabbit hole. And found precedent.
Some songs work countrified but a lot are jarring. It slaps you in the face because you know what it “should” sound like.
One I now hope is included is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious its zany and this bluegrass cover is fun. It fits the bears
others that seem to work
Heigh ho
Oh de lally
I can even see cruella de vil. It’s got that over the top story telling of a good country song
Almost there
Hakuna matata
Rockabilly Casey jr
I’ve decided after listening to a bunch from these playlist that it’s a mistake to do ballads unless they’re grounded. New world and beauty and the beast don’t work and I can’t put my finger on why. Perhaps they don’t have that “Everyman” feel
Here’s even a whole new world - the lyrics are too high brow for this show
But then somehow from hunchback does
All the playlists
Some songs work countrified but a lot are jarring. It slaps you in the face because you know what it “should” sound like.
One I now hope is included is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious its zany and this bluegrass cover is fun. It fits the bears
others that seem to work
Heigh ho
Oh de lally
I can even see cruella de vil. It’s got that over the top story telling of a good country song
Almost there
Hakuna matata
Rockabilly Casey jr
I’ve decided after listening to a bunch from these playlist that it’s a mistake to do ballads unless they’re grounded. New world and beauty and the beast don’t work and I can’t put my finger on why. Perhaps they don’t have that “Everyman” feel
Here’s even a whole new world - the lyrics are too high brow for this show
But then somehow from hunchback does
All the playlists
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Haymarket2008
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EPCOTCenterLover
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I'm glad they're re-doing the show. I don't need another shop selling plush or additional seating for Pecos Bill.
Rich T
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The return would have been long-term: maintaining Disney’s reputation for keeping their attractions in top form and making sure people want to return to experience that level of quality.
But the classic show (which I love) did need a content refresh (Vacation Hoedown—which I also love—was 38 years ago). IF the new show is good, this two-birds-with-one-stone solution will be a win-win for everyone. I’m trying to stay optimistic.
ToTBellHop
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I want to hear a country bear singing “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat”
ToTBellHop
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What I want to know is: will they finally fix the bears who look like Big Thunder isn’t the only line they did before the show?
Cmdr_Crimson
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Yeah, and see if they add the new hairstyle and Name change to Romeo (LiverLips) Mcgrowl...
I'm sure everyone will still call him Liver Lips..It's like us Chicagoians still calling Willis Tower The Sears tower no matter what it was called.
Mireille
Premium Member
I liked the original Country Bears a lot but when they announced they were updating them instead of shutting them down as they did in DLR, I was pretty happy. Country versions of Disney songs aren't the greatest, but I don't understand people getting mad about hearing Disney songs in Disney World. Seems weird. I'm just upset they didn't change the country bears to rapping bears from the 80s.
"My name's Big Al and I'm here to say
There was blood on the saddle in a major way!
Now wave your hands in the air!
And wave 'em like you're just a bear!
Everybody say heeeeyyy! (Heeeeyyyy!)
Everybody say hooooo! (Hoooo!)
There was blood on the saddle, there was blood all around
There was a great big puddle of blood on the ground!
(Beatboxing fade out)"
Now it's not that, so can we stop catastrophizing before anyone has seen it?
"My name's Big Al and I'm here to say
There was blood on the saddle in a major way!
Now wave your hands in the air!
And wave 'em like you're just a bear!
Everybody say heeeeyyy! (Heeeeyyyy!)
Everybody say hooooo! (Hoooo!)
There was blood on the saddle, there was blood all around
There was a great big puddle of blood on the ground!
(Beatboxing fade out)"
Now it's not that, so can we stop catastrophizing before anyone has seen it?
ToTBellHop
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Would you care if the Pirates of the Caribbean were singing “We Don’t Talk about Bruno” while burning the town?
Haunted Mansion singing busts giving their best rendition of “Into the Unknown”?
They already have a show in MK that (appropriately) features Disney’s greatest hits in Mickey’s PhilharMagic.
Mireille
Premium Member
I mean... fair point. But Pirates already sorta did it by adding Captain Jack, which I was not a fan of but it's whatever, I'm used to it now. And Country Bears is a musical variety show and they needed to, at the very least, re-record the soundtrack because it sounded old and bad. I liked Bear Band Serenade and Blood on the Saddle and aside from those I really don't have strong feelings about the rest of them. (I never got to see Vacation Hoedown but I have CDs with those songs on them and I loved Great Outdoors.) I dunno, I'm just happy they're not disappearing so I'm less concerned about the songs. And it doesn't seem outrageous to update the songs in a variety show that had been running for 50 years with minimal changes other than being shortened. I guess I'm looking at it from the point of view that I'm just happy it wasn't closed so I'm actually excited to see them in a new show.
ToTBellHop
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Oh, I agree that we are lucky the bears are saved. I’m just a bit let-down if these song choices are accurate but maybe it’ll work. I similarly do not have a strong connection to the old songs. An update was necessary but I’m not yet convinced this is the right update.
Mireille
Premium Member
Part of my optimism might be that I haven't paid particularly close attention to any announced songs so I'm not really sure what they'll be using and the one that's been making the rounds in the comments "Try Everything," I'm sure I've heard it but I have no idea what this song is or which movie it's in.
I just googled it and saw it's the Shakira song in Zootopia. Can't remember what it sounds like and I'll just wait to hear it in the show.
pigglewiggle
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WaluigiTime
Active Member
Dang this stuff is good
If this happened 30 years ago, it would have been jazz bears as the new overhaul. And it almost certainly would have being better because Disney has a robust history of jazz versions of its hits, thanks particularly to having a robust history of live jazz in the parks for decades. Country music not so much.
Rich T
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Fun idea but…no. “Country Bears” is the act. It’s the whole idea. It’s about country… bears.
And country/bluegrass music in Frontierland has been a robust part of Disney castle parks since 1955.
Jazz in Frontierland…. Well, as long as it’s in a Dixieland style, yes because of the riverboats. But not for this show. Big Al wouldn’t be caught dead playing jazz.
FigmentFan82
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One of my favorite Christmas albums is a Smoky Mountain rendition of classics by Craig Duncan. This stuff is great, had no idea he did a Disney album!
Rich T
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What I really want to see from this show is (Spoiler Alert just in case I’m accidentally right)
Big Al comes on near the end and starts singing the first couple lines of “Part of Your World” or “Let it Go”, then stops, drawls, “Ta hell with this,” and then just sings “Blood on the Saddle” again.