FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO

The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department; Danny Alguire — cornet  Harper Goff — banjo  Ward Kimball — trombone, siren, tambourine, sound effects, leader  Clarke Mallery — clarinet  Monte Mountjoy — drums  Ed Penner — bass saxophone on early recordings, but later switched to tuba  Frank Thomas — piano Later, other Disney artists joined in; George Probert, Dick Roberts, Ralph Ball and George Bruns. The band appeared in animated form in the 1953 Goofy animated short, "How to Dance". The band recorded at least thirteen LP albums, starting in 1955. The last album, "Live at Earthquake McGoon's" was recorded in 1970 in San Francisco.      User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.