Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, this is Doug Gray for Norman, Oklahoma, and
you're listening to the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcasts
with Jason Colevin and Dee Graves.
Speaker 2: They didn't start the fire. No, they didn't light it,
but they'll try to fight it. Hello everybody, and welcome
back to the Sureley You Can't Be Serious Podcast Special
Edition five Minutes of Fire. We are here talking about
the lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel.
We're covering only five minutes at a time, which is
about to link with the song, so it works out
kind of nicely. So please join us as we dive
into some new lyrics today.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're
going to be covering today.
Speaker 2: Davy Crockett's, Peter Pan, Elvis.
Speaker 1: Presley, Disneyland, Davy Bucket. All right, d what can you
tell me about Davy Crockett?
Speaker 2: Okay, Davy Crockett is a historical figure, but not one
from nineteen fifty five. But what happened in nineteen fifty five?
It was that Disney aired a five part series called
Davy Crockett. The series starred Fest Parker as real life
frontiersman Davy Crockett, and Buddy Ebsen from Beverly Hillbilly's Fame
as his friend George Russell. The first three and the
last two episodes were then made into theatrical films, the
first one called Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier,
second one called Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. The
series really had a big hit with the catchy theme
the Ballot of Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett, King of the
Wild Frontier.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the end of those three shows, fest Parker was
very well known and the power of television was fully
recognized because Davy Crockett was the most famous frontiersman in
American history. By the end of nineteen fifty five, Americans
had purchased over three hundred million dollars worth of Davy
Crockett merchandise, including coonskin caps and bubblegum cards. Reminder, Lorraine's
little brother in Back to the Future is wearing a
coup skin cap because when did he go back? November fifth,
nineteen fifty five. West Parker later claimed that he lost
millions of dollars because his contract that gave him a
percentage of the merchandising sales was with Walt Disney instead
of with the Walt Disney Productions. That sounds to me
like he gets screwed the lawyers. He gets screwed hard
by the lawyers, no doubt. Okay, tell me about Peter Pan. Okay.
Speaker 1: The Peter Pan we're talking about is the nineteen fifty
three animated movie from Walt Disney Productions. This had been
in development as early as nineteen thirty eight, but due
to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Disney had to switch
to government training films and propaganda films. Peter Pan is
the last film that includes all nine of the quote
unquote Disney's Nine Old Men. That's the same Disney animators
that worked on all those movies together. The plot surrounds
Wendy Darling and her two brothers joining Peter Pan in
Neverland to battle Captain hook TikTok and mister Smeeth. This
has developed from the Jam Barry's play and includes the
songs never Smile Out of Crocodile following the lead or
the lead, and you can Fly.
Speaker 2: You can Fly, you can Fly, you can Fly. Get This.
Speaker 1: It was released in theaters in nineteen fifty three, nineteen
fifty eight, nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy six, nineteen eighty two,
In nineteen eighty nine, it is a Walt Disney classic.
All right, d what can you tell me about this
guy I've never heard of called Elvis Presley.
Speaker 2: If you do not know who Elvis Presley is, you
must be from some foreign land I've never heard of.
He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. His family moved him
to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was thirteen years old, and
then as a very young man, he decided to record
some songs for his mama. But there was a guy
named Sam Phillips who worked at the recording studio that
Elvis had recorded at, and he thought this kid probably
could do well with this song. And Sam had this idea,
I want to bring the African American style music into
the white music world. And so he said, hey, Elvis,
why don't you come do some songs with me? Recorded
a few songs. One of those you might have heard of.
It's called Heartbreak, Hotel is My.
Speaker 1: Bed lovel whoa.
Speaker 2: By March of that year, they had released an entire
album of songs called Elvis Presley and It included some
song I just came across called Blue Suede Shoes. His
stardom was big. By the end of the year, he
was already starring in a movie called Love Meat Tender.
But then just less than two years later he got
drafted into the Army and his follow up album after
the Christmas album, we had Elvis Presley Elvis Christmas Album,
and then nothing for four years, and then he came
back from the Army and made it big again. Okay,
tell me about Disneyland, Okay.
Speaker 1: Disneyland is a theme park located in Anaheim, California.
Speaker 2: Vin to Disneyland, I have me too.
Speaker 1: It's the first park opened by the Walt Disney Company.
It opened on July seventeenth, nineteen fifty five. Walt Disney
actually has a quote says laughter is America's greatest export.
Originally wanted to build the park adjacent to the studios
in Burbank, but they settled in Anaheim because some demographics
experts predicted that southern California would become a major population center,
and too bad that didn't happen. Disney originally envisioned a
quote Mickey Mouse Park while visiting Griffith Park in La
watching his daughters ride the Merry Go Round. Listen to
this opening day. You had twenty eight thousand people show up,
only fourteen thousand of which were invited. Fourteen thousand got
in with fake tickets or climbed the fence. Wow attractions
include Main Street USA, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland. Now they have
the Star Wars Galaxy's Edge there. It's closed very few times,
including the assassination of JFK in December nineteen eighty seven,
they had a big winter storm, and then in two
thousand and one after the September eleventh attack on the
World Trade Center. And for a long time when you
won the Super Bowl, everybody asked you what you're doing next.
You said, I'm going to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, that does it for today's episode. Join us
next time for five minutes of fire