"America Sings" Full Show at Disneyland 1987 in Tomorrowland’s Carousel Theater - HQ with Close-Ups
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"America Sings" was a beloved attraction that ran at Disneyland from 1974 - 1988. It featured a Masters of Ceremonies called Sam the Eagle (voiced by Burl Ives) and a wide variety of audio-animatronic characters that eventually ended up populating Splash Mountain. This was shot by a friend of ours in December 1987 and has never been posted before. America Sings was written and designed by Marc Davis & Al Bertino (their first show without input from Walt Disney).
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Video shot by BL and edited by Jeff Lange.
I was working as a Cast Member on July 8, 1974 at The Main Street Emporium. We didn't hear about the tragedy until the next day. I never met Debbie but it broke all of our hearts.
You know how Debbie died? Or at least you saw her body?
@luanloud9454 Why ask such a thing? It seems pretty rude and insensitive
@@Imbigdead no im not being rude im just curious
@@luanloud9454 you replied to me on a video I am sad she died
@@susanallanos2650 yep
One year later, I send another flower and a prayer to our dearest Debbi. She will never be forgotten 🌷💙
R.I.P Debbi Stone
Sadly yes….
1974
I just came to this video because I saw Mr. Ballen's latest video. My god.
@Andy White same here
@Andy White True 😔
I love seeing retro Disney videos but its hard watching this knowing its history.
What history?
KemoSaby LoL that happened years prior to this recording
Almost every Disney Ride has a death. The Peoplemover has more deaths!
@@XxXSniperG0DXxX Hmm. People have died on many Disney rides, even ones that are still open.
@@TECfan1 it’s just crazy if you have read the details of her death, she was basically pancaked between the moving platform walls and could be heard screaming. It took several days to clean up the mess. All while Yankee Doodle dandee is blaring in the background
Prayers and flowers for Debbie 😢❤🌷
And a lot of joy 🎉
Debbie was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
@@Disneyfan82 she slipped and falled or jumped from one stage from other one when she got crushed
@@luanloud9454 still at the wrong place or wrong time, We dont, and never will know what exactly she was doing
@@personal9146 maybe was one of the mentioned things
I’m always amazed watching this and recognizing all the animatronics in Splash Mountain. I hope some of them survive to The Princess and the Frog
Probably. That movie has scenes with swamp and forest animals.
@@TECfan1 I would guarantee the smaller animals like the frogs and possums will be saved, and probably the gators in the water, but I'm not sure about the humanoid animals. They'll likely either be archived, or their parts will be reused- I 100% see Br'er Bear's skeleton being used for Louis.
@Garbage Guy let’s hope they’re archived, not destroyed. They have a lot of history and it’d be awful to destroy them.
i guess it is kind of off topic but do anyone know a good site to watch newly released series online ?
@Brantley Bradley I watch on FlixZone. You can find it by googling =)
This show is honestly really cute, it's a shame the attraction's reputation is tainted by what happened. RIP Debbie Stone
Not blaming her, but having long hair can be dangerous if you're in the wrong place and not careful with it.
@@Disneyfan82 long hair is dangerous but she wasn't told to put her hair up. no attractions cast members put their hair up because they are fully aware of any potential dangers at their specific attractions and Disney should not have to require attractions cast members to tie their hair up in order to not get crushed to death. This was a complete fuckup and something as bad at this has not happened in a Disney park since.
@@ZoeAlexa11 No, I am pretty sure they should be required to tie their hair up for their own safety, not let it flow around without thinking it could get caught in something.
@@Disneyfan82 I have worked in attractions at Disney. No attraction should be so harmful that our hair needs to be tied up. This was a freak accident caused by her stepping too far backward. Her hair didn’t result in her death. If it was her hair that had been caught between the walls, she wouldn’t have been crushed to death she just would’ve been scalped.
@@ZoeAlexa11 Well whatever it is, long hair is still dangerous if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were not even there when it happened so we can't know for sure how it all went.
Love that we can see the version where one of the geese was already removed from the first two scenes and sent to Star Tours.
Most footage of the ride has only 3 geese. I have only seen about 2 recordings with all the geese
You can sure pick out a lot of iconic voice actors' talents in there!
Wow, this is probably the highest quality video of the show that I've seen! Thanks for uploading
Miss this ride I hope they one day bring this old attraction it was such a good one hopefully American sings makes it's comeback soon
Man, I wish I could time travel back to 70s to experience this ride in person!
Or the early 80’s.
I experienced this ride in the ‘80s.
Sadly i was born in 2005 and never went on this ride
@@randomelephant9077 goodinos what are you doing here
Me too! Like 1974, July 8 to be exact.
the song: 🗣️🔥
the backstory: 😢
Actually is: 😊
Debbie never died, she just got married the next day and left the job, the corpse they found only was a fake zombie corpse from terror attraction that was left there accidentally
@@FiveFurys5 that was a corpse all the time😐 (truly a backstory of all time)
@@Henrydeaths at least it was a fake one after all
@@Henrydeaths One of my subscribers told me when he got recently to Disneyland and heared that from a conversation of two veteran Innovations Emplooyees
Knowing that Splash Mountain will soon close, I hope these animatronics find homes in the new attraction or elsewhere in the parks.
I hope they turn the old innoventions building into a rotating theatre again and bring AS back
They will probably repurpose some of them for the retheme of Splash Mountain.
Some also might end up in the disney archives! Hopefully they keep most of them since some of them were both in america sings and splash mountain!
I mean, it’s still a New Orleans theme. They might still be able to use them.
@@kristin6351 I don't think those animals will go well with the Princess and the Frog as they too anthropomorphic and many of the animals don't fit in with the movie's background. Even if you strip their clothes off they would stick out like a sore thumb in the attraction. They worked for Splash Mountain but not for Princess and the Frog.
I do hope the animatronics gets to be used in some way but hopefully restore America Sings as it's a celeberation for America (despite the fact that the US is not in best shape thanks to Tronald Dump, who I hope lose the election, gets arrested and throw in jail for what little life he has left that bastard) and that can NEVER get out of style as long as you make small updates like The Carousel of Progress.
I really love America Sings. I love how the animals sing it in a humorous way.
This bro dont know the backstory💀
@@sprout8935 No its ok! One of my subscribers went to Disneyland recently and he heared a conversation of two Innovations veteran emplooyees and they said Debbie left the job after July 8 cuz she was engaged and was going to college, and the body that was found was a fake zombie corpse from a terror attraction that was left in America Sings recently
@@FiveFurys5 oh... sorry I didnt know about that... i shocked. really.
@@sprout8935 no problem
Be in peace Deborah
peace*
@@deryogurthe spelled it correctly
@@luanloud9454yeah
The imagineer’s were so creative with making this show and it is astounding how they repurposed them to the amazing ride we know as Splash Mountain 🐻🐰🦊
This is a great document. It's wonderful to be able to see this show again after all this time. I have such a fondness for these show attractions (also Carousel of Progress, Country Bear Jamboree, The Tiki Room, and Mickey Mouse Review), but I understand how dated they seem now. I guess we're lucky any of them have survived.
Thanks.
@@1ROCKET- I think he means that the attractions that are still open have survived. Such as Country Bears and Tiki Room.
I've watched the country bear jamboree and the carousel of progress in person a few years back, the bears freaked me out but the carousel was pretty cool
@@1ROCKET- and?
@@SlushysSecret I have no idea
@@1ROCKET- so hoax?
Wow, this is incredible footage.
Даже после смерти работницы этого Диснейленда? Кто не знает, одна из работниц поручили проверить механизм, но она застряла, и началось представление. _. Её перетерли на части... Ну я думаю вы это знаете, к вам же это ближе относится
@@sofisentare6445 Фнаф
So great to see this. Best version I've seen of it online. It was my favorite attraction, and I so sad when it went away....
So many memories unlocked watching this.
I had forgotten how adorable this was! Thank you!
I can’t tell you how we geeked out at this as kids. When the stars flickered as we moved, we clapped like
Idiots
I mean to be fair I would do the same if i got to see it.
Living in SoCal as a kid we went to Disneyland constantly. America Sings was one of our favourites and as I'm 54yrs old now I still have fond memories with my family.
So many great memories from this video. Thank you for sharing it.
Oh my God I had this album when I was a kid and I listened to it all the time!
I remember watching this show and wishing they would bring Carousel of Progress back, lol. Thank you for posting. Good times.
i went to the carousel of progress in july this year so its open:)
@@lanagrace1113 that's in Walt Disney world my dude, he wants it back here in disneyland :/
@@SlushysSecretso I
@@luanloud9454 …
OMG, thank you so much for sharing this with us. This was one of my favorites when I was a child. It brought back so many memories watching this.
That's cool you got to see them! I would love to have been able to see them.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybearsame
Thank you for sharing this. I grew up with this show at Disneyland and love it. It really was the best show animatronic attraction Disneyland ever had. Disneyland has never had a show like this again and the old theatre where it was shown is and has been a waste of space since the show closed.
Yeah I wish this still operating
What a classic. Thanks for the share
Thank you for posting this gem! I remember going on this dozens of times as a kid, between 1980 and 1988
Barely Early 1988 since it closed in april 10 that same year
I know they don’t like people filming these kind of things but isn’t it great that we can enjoy this show long after it has ended.
Never had the pleasure of seeing this in full, thanks for sharing.
I've seen this in person when I was a kid...brings back my childhood memories...I didn't know Burl Ives ( Sam the eagle) could rap
Lol
Thank you for posting this! I love this attraction! Wish it were still around...
Most of the puppets were repurposed to Splash mountain and Star Tours. So it is still around in a way.
It shut due to the death of a worker names Debbi stone, she got caught in the turning stages and was found dead 2 hours later I'm pretty sure
@@JKBowdenWasTaken no it was shut down for being outdated and that's why it closed and you Debbi Stone thing just spoils the fun of this attraction but people can on a ride sometimes.
@@cjpwolf2436 While you're right on the outdated part, this feels like a really bad take over all. Let's have some respect for her passing please. It was truly an awful way to die.
@@marsrambles7569I agree, but also I don't think that is all this ride should be known for.
thank you for posting this. I remember going to the park as a child/adolescent and this was always the last ride that we would do before heading home. lots of good memories with this ride.
Вы слышали там крики?
@@MAKSIM_ZAVyou don't have to bring that up.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybear
Debbie unfortunely died, yes, but it wasn't recorded, this is just a simple video of the attraction
@@luanloud9454 i know.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybear russians love making fun of the dead. its a part of their humor :/
I was 7 in 1987 and lived in L.A. County, so we went to Disneyland all the time. This was one of my favorite rides back then. Thank you for this video ❤ the quality is amazing for 87!
Same Here!
I was negative 10 yrs old when this came out good times
@@dLw920 I was negative 20
@@bumblbesss I was negative 22
I cant tell which part of the ride is rotating, is it the seats or the middle section with the displays?
I remember seeing this when I was little, but it was mostly just remembering animal animatronics and music. I don't remember details. Revisiting it again here on youtube, it really is quite an intricate and elaborate attraction. I recognize many of the musicians thanks to my dad lol! I know a lot of these went to Splash Mountain, and some to Star Tours and other attractions.
The idea of being crushed in that is terrifying and sad rip debbie
Its Carousel of Progress now
I probably went on this ride at least 25+ times as a kid and had the record as well. Here it is, 40 years later, and I'm realizing I still have the entire show memorized...
That's cool you got to go on it! I'd love to be able to see these guys in person.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybearso I
Wow! I wish I could have had the chance to experience this in person. I grew up in the “Innoventions” era at Disney, which still makes me sad that it’s gone today. Even though I wasn’t there for America Sings, it still fills me with nostalgia,
So I
I grew up with the carousel of progress. It only played for six years. It was a great show. It inspired people to dream about the future. I don’t mind if Disney closes a great attraction as long as they replace it with one that is as good or better. That did not happen with America sings, and that did not happen with Inoventions. Sorry, my perspective. And how does America sings fit in with Tomorrowland.
@@aviduser1961My uncle Johnny went there as a kid, he is 57 years old so he was born in 1966 and he go to America Sings at 10 in 1976
I got to see this show before it closed
Nice little show
Thank you so much for sharing this. These are such fond membories I have. RIP Debbie, I'm sorry for what happened to you.
Actually Debbie stills alive and kicking at 67 years old almost 68! My friend told me when got entered when he went to Disneyland and heared a conversation of two veteran emplooyees in Innovations and they said that she only left the job after july 8 cuz she got married, the body they found was confused as Debbie's body since Debbie leaved the place quickly, but that body was actually a fake zombie corpse of a terror Disneyland attraction and was buried and honored as Debbie but actually all this time it was a zombie 😂
Thanks for posting this. It was always my favorite disneyland show.
Man I wish I could time travel back to 1980 to early 1988 to experience this in person
The smart move would be to bring this back with new songs like they are doing with Country Bears, esp. now that Splash Mountain is gone.
I love this!
I love youtube, thank you so much for posting this!
I saw this in person many times. It was great and a favorite.
Rip America Sings (1974-1988) 😭😢
😢
A lot of these Animatronics were moved to splash mountain now Splash mountain is no more being re themed and animatronics being removed RIP Splash mountain 1989 - 2023
While this is my first time seeing this thanks to "MrBallen" sharing the heartbreaking story of "Debbie Stone" may she RIP. It is sad that something that was so well made and put together and looked so life like had to be torn down. This is a classic just as Mickey Mouse is, most ppl don't go to Disney to see Mickey but to see all the other attractions. I doubt most children of the 2000s era probably have ever seen a Mickey mouse cartoon. It would be splendid if it ere brought back for a short time as other extinct attractions.
Mickey mouse is low tier trash. Fudge that rich greedy rodent.
I’d love to see that too, however I doubt it since setting such a large attraction up only for temporary use is probably very time and cost consuming. Disney also removed it for the reason that it didn’t fit the style of Tommorrowland/The park as a whole, and I doubt they think it will now. Still I’d love to see it though
Rip Debbie Stone
Classic! This is the Disneyland of my childhood.
This is one of the best quality videos of this attraction I’ve seen so far!!!
Thanks! Our friend shot this and wanted to share it with everyone, we have a lot of vintage to sift through that Jeff has shot through the years but not "America Sings". Our friend did an amazing job for 1987.
MouseSteps / JWL Media they definitely did! It’s too bad there’s not a whole lot of content of this show.
@@MouseStepsWeekly And the truth is that that woman of 18 years caught on something and yelled.
@@MouseStepsWeekly Should had night vision turned on your iphone
@@akero_3417 That video’s fake. No footage of her death, second, it happened at night
This is truly beautiful work.. like all the detail to make this? And the animatronics are absolutely stunning. Animatronics absolutely freaking terrify me but I gotta give them credit for how real.. and scary they are! 😅
And Rest In Peace sweet Debbie. Taken WAY too soon. Truly wishing her and her family love and peace. 🤍
Yes Rip
Ikr. I love when people who are usually scared of animarronics actually appreciate them and aren't like "EW BURN IT" cause ngl it's annoying cause those comments are everywhere on animatronic videos.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybear yes right
Actually she is alive, she only left the job after she got married, the body that was found was a fake zombie corpse of a terror attraction
Interesting note: in the first and second scenes with the singing geese - they were originally a quartet - one of them is missing in each of those scenes, and were already being prepped to be droids in the soon to open 'Star Tours.'
This is extremely impressive, even by today's standards. What a shame it no longer operates.
At least you can still see most of the animatronics in Splash Mountain (At least for now)
@@JavaCake most will probably be reused in the new Re theme
@@funecheeseofficial3576 Let's just hope they don't do another "creative" stage.
They closed it because a worker died in the show. She got crushed by the rotating wall
@@BoogerRR That did happen, but it wasn’t closed for that. It was closed because it was past it’s prime and overdue. That might have been a contributing factor though.
Nostalgia never dies if you're an American citizen, LOL.
I first saw this show in 1987 which was my first trip to Disneyland at the age of eleven. boy was this show great!
Good for you
Thank you for sharing this. Wonderful memories from my childhood. You allowed me to clap along with my grand kids.
That's cool that you got to go! I would love to be able to see these guys in person.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybearsame here
What a great flash back!
one of my fav things they used to have
I always liked this ride.
Awesome! Really wish I could've experienced this attraction. If you have any vintage Haunted Mansion videos, I'd love to see those!
The longer this goes, the more vintage will go up because we will have the time to post. Haunted Mansion would be very dark so I'm not sure how that would be. And thanks!
@@MouseStepsWeekly id love to see the old haunted mansion too!
Thank you
(Esa sera la cancion te que acompañara hasta la muerte) 🌹😞
Feel Bad For Debbie Stone That Died In The 70s When She Works In Atracttion Of American Sing 🕊
Yeah
She is ok
look at how fluid the anamatromics were
I very love this place and the music is amaizing ☆
quite a presentation !! good video form over 23 years ago !
Debbie stones death aside, these animatronics are well made
She is ok
I miss it
Used to looooove this attraction!!🇺🇸🧨🎆🎶🎷🎺
Oh gawd how I miss this ride. I would give anything to ride on it again.
These characters are so cute! I wish we saw more of this style. The foxes are especially adorable.
Ikr, I especially like the duck, goose ones? Idk what they are ngl.
It would be interesting to see this attraction again considering that at this time the animatronics would have more realistic movements ...
I was not born at the time of this show, but I really would have liked to see it.
Came a long way. Bet back in the day was cool as well!
What's funny are the reasons it were shut. 1. It was in Tommorowland but celebrated America's bicentennial. Themeing? What's that? And 2, as it celebrated the 200th anniversary of America, it was becoming very outdated and Disney already had some patriotic celebrations active which were much less expensive than a whole rotating ride. Even if we ignore that the building where this was housed is now the queue for Galaxy's Edge, it being based upon an outdated celebration pretty much kills it at least in Disney's eyes. The death of Debbi Stone probably didn't help matters given how infamous this ride became as a result but the last past is merely speculation whereas the other two are confirmed.
@@lorddrayvon1426yup
LOVE AMERICA SING FULL SHOW
sue!
Happy 4th of July, rip Debbie stone
Since Splash Mountain closed, it would be cool if they used the animatronics to recreate America Sings and put it in Epcot
I second this!
Happy 4th
Exactly what I was looking for 👍
Yall that have experience this ride are so lucky really want to try this
I recognize a lot of these animatronics from splash mountain. I wish this attraction was still at Disney
I wish I went on this ride. I wasn't even born at the time, but by then when I was it had already been taken away. Splash Mountain's now being remodeled which sucks but hopefully the animatronics will still be on the ride.
I didn't know about this show but I do remember some of these famous songs.
Still my favorite ride
Fun Fact: After the Show Closed Down. The Animatronics Where Retrofited and moved into Splash Mountain.
Some were retrofitted.
And 2 of the geese were stripped down and became droids in Star Tours
Now sadly Splash mountain is now being re themed to Tiana's Bayou Adventure and animatronics are now all removed and interior completely gutted. These Animatronics are 50 years old and have no future purpose probably going to all be scrapped.
@@briancalifornia1 yes it hurts. They were beautiful animatronics designed by Marc Davis
@@PrimeStoneToons except the weasel, he was extremely annoying
RIP Deborah Stone
When did she scream tho???
@@ananya.jha999 There is no recording of the performance that happened when she passed away
@@marylove8240every "video of her death" are fake
@@luanloud9454 isn't the scream very clearly edited? It's super loud. If it was recorded. Wouldn't it also be super muffled? And you could only slightly hear it? And ye I agree with you on that.
@@Sadie_the_bordercollie Hey I got even better news! One of my subscribers went to Disneyland recently and heared a conversation in Innovations of two Disneyland's veteran emplooyees and he heared they said that Debbie Stone only left the job after July 8 1974 cuz she got married and got enough money to college, the body that was found was actually a fake zombie corpse of a terror attraction that was accidentally left there and the screams people heard in the show was a emplooyee who saw the fake zombie corpse, after that they closed the attraction for 3 days as they buried the fake zombie corpse which was confused a Debbie Stone's, but no, Debbie stills alive!
Its horrifying knowing what happened to Debbie Stone on this ride. Rest In Piece, Debbie.
Yeah
I wasn't alive around this time period but respect the 80s really well so this would've been a must do if I ever went to Disneyland in the 80s. This is pretty cool how you can see the entire theater from afar, I still wonder why the lights are always turned off as the theater rotates.
You can't see it in the videos, but there was a really cool light effect- so everything was kind of outlined in lights until the show lights came up after the theater had revolved. It was a neat transition.
80s Disneyland was AWESOME!
@@xxxblasted77sonicpressure The 80s in general were awesome! And this is someone who was born in 1990 saying that. Not that the 1990s weren't also awesome of course.
what I would give to have been alive in the 80s.. to be able to go to showbiz, see these guys, and just be alive in that time. it seems so cool, plus pretty much all of my interests are from the 80s-90s.
@@thecoolestbeaniebabybearand me on 70s to save Debbie Stone
I want one of those fox animatronics.
I hope they auction one off, I’d pay anything.
@Alexandra Pierce; Garner Holt can make any audioanimatronic you desire. You got the green Garner Holt has your audioanimatronic solution at hand.
@@josephsharp8081 I highly recommend going to Garner Holt’s website and taking a look for yourself. They literally can do it all from the Robin in Mary Poppins to the Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park.
@@josephsharp8081 knowing people that are clients of Garner Holt, yes Garner Holt can make it happen, however it’s certainly costly due to the level of detail, the materials and naturally the electronics and hydraulic systems to animate the desired figures. Price quotes of over $300k are common when dealing with Disney level audioanimatronics.
@@josephsharp8081 they barely made the figures 😂😂 and they cost more than your the money you have in your wallet 😂😂😂
Fox 🦊 and the Rabbit 🐇 animatronics are soo good.
😊💕
Makes me really want one.
My mom went in 87 of June for her graduation loved this ride she does not like splash mountain and wish this ride could reopen maybe it could with same characters and princes and the frog stays where splash mountain use to be.
Same
Singing chickens, and the theme song for not only splash mountain but Wdw riverside resort (originally Dixie landings).
Been a Disnerd my whole life and had never seen this, mainly because I’ve only been to Disney World, and until now have never been able to find the whole show posted anywhere. I know such footage is rare.
It’s sad that this master is forever haunted by a horrific tragedy
Nope
They either need to bring back animatronics shows like this and Kitchen Karabaret or make some hybrid combination of animatronics and modern technology
i remember this 1980s
Me too
Was just about to say that I never saw this show, until that weasel popped out. I've definitely seen it. ^^
Rip Deborah Stone. You were the best Disney worker ever!
And the best California student
Shes alive actually, one subscriber told me he went to Disneyland recently and heared a conversation of two veteran emplooyees in Innovations and they said Debbie left the job cuz she got money to college and was engaged to get married after college, the body that was found was actually a fake zombie corpse of a terror attraction that was confused and left in America Sings accidentally
She is ok, the body was from a zombie
Burl Ives. What a career. Big daddy in cat on a hot tin roof. Quite a range for a balladeer.
And the funniest thing of all is that he absolutely hated children
I didn't know that this show was in Disneyland but I remember some of these songs.
OMG!! I saw this sooo many times. Loved it!! Was sad when I went around ‘92 and it was gone. 😢
Some one name gabbi died here she died from getting crushed by the stage rotateing
@@Curtisthebritishkid debbie
ok thx
@@luanloud9454
@@luanloud9454😢 my cousin
@@luanloud9454 my cousin