Posted on 01/12/2018 7:53:37 AM PST by Morgana
Doreen Tracey, one of the original Mouseketeers on Disney’s popular after-school program “The Mickey Mouse Club” and later an associate of avante-garde composer and musician Frank Zappa, has died. She was 74.
Tracey, who long described herself as the “black sheep” of the 1950s children’s show, died Wednesday while being treated for pneumonia at a hospital in Thousand Oaks.
A bubbly child and Type A personality, Tracey was featured on “The Mickey Mouse Club” during the entirety of its original 1955-59 run on ABC. The show lived on in syndication and she maintained a lifelong association with Disney, appearing in a spinoff with Annette Funicello, the actress and singer, as well as films such as “Westward Ho the Wagons!” with Fess Parker.
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She was my favorite Mouseketeer.
Did Frank Z. make her Dynamo-Humm?
M..I..C.........See you real soon
I’d westward ho her wagons...
That’s no mouse. Meow.
I’m sure they did it till they were unconcho
On a Sears poncho
Or not
God love her RIP
1955-59 and the “MM Club” is so far from 2018 it may as well be from another planet.
Very pretty lady.
True. Too true.
Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me?
R-I-C, K-E-Y,
R-A-T-(two drumbeats)
Rickey Rat-
Stinky: Sammy Slug!
Rat-Keteers: (singing) Rickey Rat-
Stinky: Sammy Slug!
Rat-Keteers: (singing)
Forever let us hang our rat (???) high,
HIGH! HIGH! HIGH!
Come along and sing our song and join the jamboree,
R-I-C, K-E-Y,
R-A-T- (two drumbeats)
YAAAAAY!
Bucky: Hey, hey! OK! Rat-keteer roll call, count off now!
[RAT-KETEERS march in a line and call off their names in turn]
Willard: Willard!
Ben: Ben!
Stinky: Stinky!
slezeball: Slezeball!
Phlegma: Phlegma!
Scumbo: Scumbo!
Annette: Annette!
Bucky: And Bucky!... Hiya, Rat-keteers!
Rat-Keteers: HIYA, BUCKY!
Bucky: Do you all know what today is?
Rat-Keteers: ANYTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN DAY!
Bucky: That’s right, Rat-keteers, and why do we have Anything Bad Can Happen Day?
Rat-Keteers: SO SOMETHING BAD CAN HAPPEN!
Bucky: Thaaat’s right! And why is it good for something bad to happen?
Phlegma: ‘Cause real life is full of horrible things and the faster we learn to like it, the better!
Bucky: That’s right, Phlegm-o[sic], it’s a dog-eat-dog jungle out there, and I’m training you kids to come out on the top of the heap, just like Rickey did!
Stinky: Oh, Bucky? Some of us who’ve never been Rat-keteers before were wondering what happened to the Rat-keteers from last year!
Bucky: Well, Stinky, remember when we helped science by confining all the Rat-keteers in a small, dark closet to see if they’d turn homosexual?
slezeball: Ohhh... You mean on, uh, Overcrowding Day!
Bucky: That’s right, Slezeball! Well, the experiment was a big success, and almost all of them came out of the closet!
Rat-Keteers: YAAAAYYY!
Phlegma: Anyway, it’s FUN being a Rat-keteer!
Annette: Yeah, we love Rickey, ‘cause he’s not some cute, stupid cartoon mouse like Mickey!
Ben: We love Rickey ‘cause he’s a rat, and he’s real, and he’s from Harlem!
slezeball: Yeah! Well, we love him ‘cause he came up the hard way, just like Rocky, y’know?
Rat-Keteers: Yeah!
Stinky: Hey! Where IS Rickey?
Rat-Keteers: Yeah! We wanna see Rickey!
Bucky: Okay, Scumbo, Bring out Rickey!
[SCUMBO hands BUCKY a small cage containing a live rat]
Bucky: [attempting to make the rat talk via ventriloquism] “Hiii, Rat-keteers!”
Rat-Keteers: HI, RICKEY!
Scumbo: Wait a minute, Bucky! This isn’t the same Rickey from last week!
Stinky: Yeah, this doesn’t look like Rickey!
Willard: Well, this ISN’T Rickey! Our Rickey had progressive tail mange!
Bucky: (groping for an alibi) Uh... well! Uh... yeah, that’s right! Uh, this is... This is Rickey’s twin brother, DICKEY! This is DICKEY Rat!
Rat-Keteers: Ohhhhh...
Scumbo: What happened to Rickey, Bucky?
Bucky: Uh, this week Rickey’s been helping science!
Scumbo: Doing what?
Bucky: Testing cyclamates!
Ben: Is that where he is now?
Bucky: No, actually, he’s... he’s in rat hospital. And he says to say hello, and that you should all make Dickey here feel welcome!
slezeball: Wait a minute, what’s wrong with, uhhh, Rickey?
Bucky: Well, he’s got this... he’s got this sort of little cyst on his little rat liver.
Rat-Keteers: Ohhhhh...
Annette: Well, Bucky, can we visit him?
Bucky: Not today, Annette. He’s having some tests done.
Stinky: Well, can we see him tomorrow?
Bucky: It’s really not a good idea.
Ben: Well, how about next week?
Bucky: That’s doubtful. That’s doubtful.
Stinky: Well, will he ever be able to come back to the show again?
Bucky: We’ll know on Monday!
Rat-Keteers: “Ohhh,” “that’s horrible,” etc.
Bucky: Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, what did you expect on Anything Bad Can Happen Day? Come on! Snap out of it, Rat-keteers! Is... Hey, is anyone hungry for rat-snacks? Hmm? We’ve got eggshells, coffee grounds, glass shards, and tick larvae! How about you, Slezeball?
slezeball: Nah, I ate before the show.
Bucky: OK... then are we all set to play “Cheese or Electric Shock?” Phlegma?
Phlegma: No... it hurts too much.
Bucky: (making one last try) OK... who’s ready to be exposed to Mister Atomic Waste? Annette?
Annette: Not me, I hate games that make my hair fall out!
Bucky: (exasperated) You know, I had you kids all wrong? I thought you were tough, I thought you could take it! You know, Rickey’s gonna be watching this show from his little Rat-ke-hospital bed. And he’s sure gonna be disappointed in you.
Rat-Keteers: (ashamed) Ohhh...
Scumbo: We didn’t know Rickey’d be watching! Is it too late to help?
Bucky: Well, are you all with me, Rat-keteers?
Rat-Keteers: YEAHHH!
Bucky: Good! Then after the show, WE can help science and test children’s flammable sleepwear!
Rat-Keteers: YAAAYYY!
Bucky: And in the meantime, why don’t we sing our goodbye song, to DICKEY?
Rat-Keteers: “OK!” “Sure!” etc.
(singing)
Now it’s time to say goodbye
To all our family...
D-I-C...
Bucky: See you in the sewer, suckers!
Rat-Keteers: (singing) ...K-E-Y...
Why? Because we’re vermin!
Rat-Keteers: (singing) R... A... T!
Bucky: Hey! Why don’t we take Dickey out of his cage and give him a big Rat-ke-cheer?
Rat-Keteers: “OK!” “Yeah!” etc.
[They place Dickey on a small trampoline and toss him in the air twice as they cheer]
Yaaaaay, DICKEY!
Yaaaaay, DICKEY!
Yaaaaay, DICKEY RAT CLUB!
What on earth is that all about?
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SNL skit back in the 70s
Black sheep she said? Heck, she was one of my favorite Mouseketeers. RIP Doreen.............;(
Only the warped mind of Michael O’Donoghue could come up with that.
As far as FZ goes, it's a pretty straightforward rocker about a girl.
I often wondered what compelled Frank to do such a "normal" song: while I doubt Frank fooled around with Ms. Tracey/his employee, I wouldn't be surprised if the song was a tribute to her.
Requiescat in pace.
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