Your favorite Disney characters brought down the house in San Diego Friday night -- with the help of Questlove.
When Disney throws a disco dance party, it’s easy to start imagining a potential playlist. Surely a remix of “I Wanna Be Like You” from “The Jungle Book.” No doubt a revamp of “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat.” And ifAt the Disney-themed disco dance party Friday evening at San Diego’s House of Blues, however, the Roots’ Questlove drifted away from the Disney songbook.
The $50 disco party — and a follow-up Saturday morning panel — were hosted by Disney’s fan club arm D23 and designed to honor the 40th anniversary of the album “Mickey Mouse Disco,” which gifted the world with “Macho Duck” and a groove-based take on the Sherman Brothers’ “It’s a Small World.” The album, reissued this year as part of Record Store Day, a marketing event designed to spur sales at indie music outlets, was, said Questlove on social media, one of the first LPs he owned.
The panel, hosted by Mickey Mouse voice actor Bret Iwan, was curiously light on details pertaining to the creation of “Mickey Mouse Disco,” but it did provide a crash course in the mouse’s musical adventures, from early jazz and blues-focused shorts such as 1931’s “Blue Rhythm” to the dip into classical that was “Fantasia” and even to working with local experimental pop act Sparks in the early ‘80s.
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