First Year at Disney World 2006 - Photo Slideshow

This may be slightly boring to everyone but me and my immediate family. ;)
Collected all the photos of my 2006 working (www.HotelCal.com) vacation at Disney World and put them in a (15 minute!) musical slide show. There are some blurry photos, but I don't care, I used every one - my kids took'em okay! Great memories. Less hair (Less gray!). I get a little teary-eyed every time I watch this.

First Year at Disney World 2006 - Photo Slideshow

Attention Disney Fans: Feast Your "Ears" on a My New Song!

(Photo: Ellen Auld)

Okay, so got this idea for a song quite a while ago. Song title came first ("I'm Going To Disneyland") and I persisted to chip away at it until the finished form posted here.

I get a personal kick out of this myself , but I have my misgivings about it when we're talking marketabilty in the world of serious songwriting.

1. Trademark/legal (obvious?) issues in the hook.  And, would someone besides me want to sing this (my main goal for writing songs in the first place)?

2. I wonder too if the lyric really "works" well enough to get it placed somewhere.

Check out the photo of yours truly during some R&R (but is it really in the extreme June humidity, seriously!?) at Disney "World" as opposed to Disney"Land", the subject of our inspired song.  I think the majority of the celebratory "celeb" commercials are aimed toward Disney World.

But there ya have it.

Click on player below to hear "I'm Going To Disneyland"

free music download from Steve Probst

What it all has come down to for me at this point is to just not think about it too hard, finish it and move on to other songs.  Just get it out there and show that yes, I may have some songwriting ability in this genre. 

I hope you enjoy it.  Should I make it a free download?  Feel free to speak your mind.  Love it, hate it, "keep your day job"?  Oh, and thanks reading all this! 

sp


Here are the lyrics for those who care to read along:


"I'm Going To Disneyland"

© 2010 Steve Probst

I'm rounding third, I'm almost home

Her smile is sayin', "Go, man, go!"

I take her hand and hold it tight

I pop the question, let it fly

Can you believe it?

I major-league it

There's never been a happier man      

Hey, I'm going to Disneyland

She's so mine, and I'm so proud

We go together

Like sunny weather 

And pictures with Mickey Mouse

I get the goofies just holdin' hands

I'm going to Disneyland

In front of friends and family

Gave that girl a diamond ring

Had us a daughter, then a son

Should be a crime having so much fun

Hey, alligator  

I'll see ya later

There's never been a happier man

Hey, I'm going to Disneyland

They're so mine, and I'm so proud

We go together

Like sunny weather 

And pictures with Mickey Mouse

I've got the goofies, I'm makin' plans

I'm going to Disneyland

SOLO

Life's so amazin'

That's why I'm sayin'

CHORUS

Attention Disney Fans: Feast Your "Ears" on a My New Song!

Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?

Big news on the large-screen downstairs in the band house today.  The anniversary of Michael Jackson's death.

I remember where I was when I learned of his passing because I happen to be working this week at the same exact place as last year when I heard the news - backstage at Disney World - EPCOT.  We get 30, 15, 10, and 5 minutes calls to show time and it was during one of these we heard something like, "Gentlemen, 10 minutes to show, 10 minutes to show....and Michael Jackson has died."

That was a little jarring!

Just finished recently during our run with the "New Kid in Town" show an insightful book of interviews Michael Jackson did some eight years ago with the hopes of eventually publishing in book form.



Rabbi Shmuley Boteach makes a case that a spiritual healing was in order to keep Michael from walking down the path that his over-powering fame was taking him.  I would agree.  I highly admire his talent.  It's heart-breaking he chose the path he did.

Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?

The Different Aspects of "Blessing"

Photo by Ellen Auld

I hear this question quite often: "Did you guys need to get approval from the Eagles to do their music in a "tribute" fashion?

Well, especially for playing at Disney, we do! Here's a snippet from an article in the Orlando Sentinel about our upcoming shows at EPCOT this month (as well as all the rest of the happenings at the Florida Disney Parks):

"...Getting a slightly later launch will be the Sounds Like Summer tribute-band concerts at Epcot. The rock lineup begins June 12 and runs through July 31. Disney insists these groups be up to snuff in their styling.

“They must be approved by the bands they are paying tribute to,” says Alan Braun, associate creative director. Therefore, when the group called “Stayin’ Alive” kicks off the event, it has the blessing of the Bee Gees.

Concert times will be 5:45 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. except on July 4, when the times will be 5:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 9 p.m."

Of course, the other "blessing" is being able to do this for a living. :)

The Different Aspects of "Blessing"