AWOL Airwaves

**AWOL Airwaves** is a fictional business from the Jungle Cruise.

## Description

AWOL Airwaves is a Jungle Navigation Company run radio-broadcast headed by employee Albert Awol. The purpose of the service is to bring entertainment and information to skippers while also relaying messages for them. The service is broadcast from the company's Amazon River Base with assistance from the Disney Broadcasting Company and sponsorship from Aero-Casablanca. The service received a musical assortment Headmaster at the *Library of Lost American Melodies* in Manaus.

## History

### Background

AWOL Airwaves was operated in the late 1930s by Albert Awol.

### Development history

Albert Awol was created in a 1991 refurbishment of the Jungle Cruise. He specifically occurs in the Walt Disney World version of the Jungle Cruise, being replaced in Disneyland by Nigel Greenwater. In the Jungle Cruise's 2021 refurbishment, the broadcasters were switched the Disneyland's *Global Broadcasting Service* hosted by Albert Awol's sister, Skipper Missy.

## Appearances

### Jungle Cruise

Albert Awol can be heard in the queue for the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise. He is the host of AWOL Airwaves which relays music, entertainment and messages for employees of the Jungle Navigation Company. The songs played by Awol include:

* *Jeepers, Creepers* (instrumental)- Louis Armstrong (1938)
* *Yes, Yes! My Baby Said Yes, Yes*- Sam Browne & The Carlyle Cousins (1932)
* *The Mooche*- Duke Ellington (1928)
* *Song of India* (instrumental)- Paul Whiteman (1926)
* *Love is Good for Anything that Ails You*- Ida Sue McCune (1981)
* *With Plenty of Money and You*- Dick Powel (1936)
* *I get a Kick out of You*- Artist Unknown (1934)
* *Let's Misbehave*- Irving Aaronson, Phil Saxe (1928)
* The King's Horses (And the Kings Men) -Jack Hylton and Orchestra (1931)
* *Diga Diga Doo* (instrumental)- Duke Ellington (1928)
* *Here Come's my Ball and Chain*- Coon Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (1928)
* *(Listen to the) Rhythm King*- The Coon Sanders Nighthawks (1928)
* *It's the Girl*- The Boswell Sisters and Dorsey Brothers (1931)
* *What a Girl, What a Night*- The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (1928)
* *Painting the Clouds with Sunshine*- Jack Hylton and Orchestra (1929)
* *Harlem River Quiver* (instrumental)- Duke Ellington and Orchestra (1927)
* *You're the Top*- Unknown artist 1934)

### Skipper Canteen

A book by Awol titled, "Illustrated Guide to Radio Broadcasting" is located within the canteen's library.

## Trivia

* Awol makes various references in his audio-loop. These references include:
	+ Aero-Casablanca being a reference to the film Casablanca. This is due to an (allegedly authentic) airplane prop from the film being located in the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise. It might also be due to how Jungle Cruise imagineer Harper Goff worked as a set-designer on Casablanca.
	+ While advertising tours in the Amazon river, Awol references the film *Raiders of the Lost Ark* (1981). This occurs when he brings up golden idols being located on the river, alluding to the *Chachapoyan Fertility Idol* which Indiana Jones attempted to claim.
	+ He relays a message from historic explorers Sir Morton Stanley to David Livingstone to meet at the falls. Before relaying the message, he says, "Dr. Livingston I presume" which is a famous quote that Stanley is affiliated with having said to Livingstone when they met on the Zambezi river in 1874.
	+ Albert's quote, "Join the Elephant Safari Company as they search for lions, tigers, and bears.  Oh, my" references the 1939 musical *The Wizard of Oz* where the main characters have a scene where they repeat, "Lions, tigers, and bears.  Oh, my" in fear while passing through a forest.
	+ Awol advertises excursions to, "The Land that time forgot" in reference to the novel *The Land That Time Forgot* by Edgar Rice Burroughs, set on the island of Caprona which is inhabited by dinosaurs.
* The song *Love is Good for Anything that Ails You* might be somewhat anachronistic as it was recorded in 1981. However, the song itself was first recorded in 1937 and taken from the film *Pennies from Heaven* (1981), a film set in 1934 Chicago.

## References

1. ↑ http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-jungle-cruise-and-awol-airwaves.html