Mouseketeers

MOUSEKETEERS
  
 
The Mickey Mouse Club  is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996.  Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 to 1960 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of child performers.  The main cast members were called Mouseketeers, and they performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers, as well as some informational segments.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
And who was responsible for the distinctive growling vocals in “Dirty Water” by the Standells that prefigured the snarling, snotty singing in so many 1970’s and 1980’s punk rock bands?  His name is Dick Dodd, who handled lead vocalist duties on most of the Standells’ records; and he had been one of the original Mouseketeers (and no relation to “Head MouseketeerJimmie Dodd).  You just never know where someone’s life is going to go no matter how they start out, do you?
 
(October 2010)
 
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