| Walt and Me Mouseketearyeyed In My Heart |
| Very protected was the Mickey Mouse Club - no adults allowed, except staff. Me, Walt said: "You are ok to go in because you are a kid-maybe. A wise old man in disguise maybe". I had taught him a few things already. I behaved myself well in there, despite that there were many temptations to stray away from Walt- the Mousketeers themselves. They were as curious about me as I was about them especially Kutie Karen >> Karen The Flirt Lots of smiles and eye contact. But, sigh, no big romance. A little young to run off to get married- still nice to remember Karen. Plenty of other girls Annette and Cheryl and Doreen and Darlene>>>>>> Pretty Girl That is what I called her, right to her. And I called Bobby Big Bobby- friendly and sure took advantage of Walt letting any of the Mousekateers and me to actual talk to each other. I called Walt Big Boss and me Little Bobby with Pretty Girl and Big Bobby in front of me. I saw them trying to learn a new routine dancing and thought they were good at learning it. I was better at learning complex combinations because for than a year at school, every week, a group of 8 in my class watched 2 minutes of a dance from a new country(different dancer with new music), then we had 10 minutes to talk about it and practice(no music)- then not even a word was allowed until show time at the end of the school year. In class, I was often used as the example for pitch in singing(mostly religious music(Catholic school)). I thought the pitch pipes of 2 nuns was off but so was the nuns' hearing and nobody said anything to them, so everybody was happy. Most of the time I received as homework to learn a song overnight and sing it as example for the class the next day. I remember the Mouseketeers singing their end-of-the-show song one day, with the camera. Right at the end of the song I looked up at Walt and saw a big smile and a big teardrop run down his left. A proud papa and his kids. |
