Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. Episode 5 of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to not one but two Disney Legends in Imagineering, Bob Gurr and Tony Baxter, following thei...
Aug 04, 2025
For this installment of the Best of Jiminy Crickets we revisit an episode from 2020, created in honor of Cinderella's 70th Anniversary. This year being the film's 75th Anniversary, we thought it timely to open up the vault on this 2020 episode March 2020 - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!!! In celebration of the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney's 12th full-length animated motion picture classic, DisneyChris and Ruthie bring you a true "Cinderella" story. As they go through all the magical, frighting, funny a...
Jul 31, 2025
This episode, Chris and Ruthie welcome special guest Shawn Deganhart to discuss his professionally engraved full Cinderella score, in which he painstakingly transcribed from the original, late 1940s, handwritten film score manuscripts. We not only discuss his beautiful 400 plus page complete score to a true Disney classic, sure to fascinate Disney fans and music lovers alike, but we also recount the fascinating history and origins of this beloved music. Keeping with the theme of Cinderella, we a...
Jul 21, 2025
In honor of Disneyland's 70th anniversary, DisneyChris presents his version of what would be the ultimate area music loop for the Disneyland main entrance. His idea of a perfect area loop would consist of instrumentals representing the park's currant roster of attractions, as well as many nods to the past legacy of the Happiest Place on Earth. Download (right click / Save as) 1. Disneyland Theme 0:00 2. Mickey Mouse March 3:07 3. Happy Rag 5:19 4. Raider’s March 7:39 5. Heigh Ho /Whistle While Y...
Jul 14, 2025
For this installment of the Best of Jiminy Crickets we welcome back out former co-host, Brain Crawford, to revisit part 2 of our extensive look at Tokyo DisneySea during it's 20th anniversary year in 2001. December 2021 - In this episode, Brian and Chris return to continue their celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Tokyo Disneyland Resort's second gated park, Tokyo DisneySea, regarded by many as the best theme park the world over. On this episode they continue their guided tour of the park...
Jul 01, 2025
Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. Episode four of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to not one but two Disney Legend in animation, Glen Keane and Pete Docter, following the...
Jun 16, 2025
This episode, Chris and Ruthie discuss three favorite musically themed classic Walt Disney animated shorts, "Melody (1953), "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" (1953) and "A Symposium on Popular Songs" (1962) and as per usual bring you tons of fun facts and archival audio. Download (right click / save as) Visit our on-line store for exclusive Jiminy Crickets and DisneyChris Website Merch!!!! https://jcpodcast.threadless.com/ If you would like to help support the Jiminy Crickets podcasts and DisneyC...
Jun 04, 2025
Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their career highlights. This special BONUS of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to Disney Legend George Lucas. We will follow his storied film career as an innovative creator...
May 04, 2025
This episode of Dateline, we welcome back our former co-host, Brian Crawford, for a special guest appearance. Brain shares with us all the details of his recent trip to Tokyo Disneyland, including the all-new Disney Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea. We also share out top 10 Tokyo favorites, and discuss attractions coming soon to Tokyo! Download (right click / save as) THE OPTIMAL WAY TO EXPERIENCE THIS PODCAST EPISODE IS VIA YOUTUBE Dateline Jiminy Crickets is first and foremost a video experi...
Apr 28, 2025
For this installment of the Best of Jiminy Crickets we welcome back out former co-host, Brain Crawford, to revisit part 1 of our extensive look at Tokyo DisneySea during it's 20th anniversary year in 2001. November 2001 - In this episode, Brian and Chris celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Tokyo Disneyland Resort's second gated park, Tokyo DisneySea, regarded by many as the best theme park the world over. After a brief history of the origin of this unique Disney destination, they take you on a...
Apr 20, 2025
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our March 2025 episode. we will revisit an episode from Janaury of 2020, where we raid tribute to the classic Disney attraction, Space Mountain, during its 45th anniversary. January 2020 - On January 15th, 1975, the world famous 'E' Ticket Disney attraction, Space Mountain, began launching guests into the outer stratosphere, so it...
Mar 31, 2025
Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. Episode three of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to Disney Legend Ward Kimball. We will follow his career as an animator, character desi...
Mar 31, 2025
This special episode of Dateline Jiminy Cricket's is all about our host, DisneyChris! Chris explains his own personal Disney fandom, sharing his passion for Disney including his favorite his favorite films, animated features, art, music and more. Download (right click / save as) THE OPTIMAL WAY TO EXPERIENCE THIS PODCAST EPISODE IS VIA YOUTUBE Dateline Jiminy Crickets is first and foremost a video experience. We post an audio version for those who prefer it that way, but to get he most out of th...
Mar 17, 2025
Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. Episode two of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to Disney Legend Ken Anderson. We will follow his career as a lead animator and productio...
Feb 28, 2025
This episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast marks the beginning of an ongoing series where we will revisit Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony animated shorts of the 1930's. Each episode will cover the best and most fondly remembered cartoons of a particular year. Our first episode of this series will cover the milestone year of 1935. regarded by Disney historians as the apex year of the series. We will discuss our top six shorts of the year, from its origin, to the behind the scenes production...
Feb 26, 2025
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our February 2025 episode, we will revisit episode 123 from May of 2020, where we continued our extensive look at the classic Disney attraction, "The Country Bear Jamboree" May 2020 - Howdy Y'all! Jiminy Crickets is proud to present part two of a special two part tribute to the classic Disney Audio Animatronic attraction, Country ...
Feb 15, 2025
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our Janaury 2025 episode, we will revisit episode 122 from April of 2020, where we took an extensive look at the classic Disney attraction, "The Country Bear Jamboree" April 2020 - Howdy Y'all! Jiminy Crickets is proud to present part one of a special two part tribute to the classic Disney Audio Animatronic attraction, Country Bea...
Jan 29, 2025
Our 2025 Music Series will pay tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. We kick off our 2025 Music Series in a big way with Disney legend Marc Davis. We follow his career from animation in-betweener, to char...
Jan 20, 2025
For their first show of 2025, Ruthie and DisneyChris review all the major Disney events of 2024, including movies, streaming, Disney parks, and more. Then they do a top 10 list of the best events of the past year, a memoriam to those we lost in 2024, and some predictions for the year ahead. Download (right click / save as) Visit our on-line store for exclusive Jiminy Crickets and DisneyChris Website Merch!!!! https://jcpodcast.threadless.com/ If you would like to help support the Jiminy Crickets...
Jan 13, 2025
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our December 2024 episode, we will revisit episode 101 from September of 2018, where we took an extinsive look at the Walt Disney animated classic, "101 Dalmatians" September 2018 - For their 101st episode, what else would the Jiminy Crickets duo talk about other than 101 of the most adorable furry friends of all time, who star in...
Dec 27, 2024
Welcome to the eleventh episode of our music series for 2024. Throughout the year, we took you on an audio tour of Disneyland spanning 11 episodes. Each episode featured one of the many themed areas found within the happiest place on earth. Our eleventh and final episode of this series will represent Christmas in Disneyland. Your audio tour will include performances by live Disneyland musical groups, original show and attraction soundtracks, background music, rare archival audio, and exclusive a...
Dec 05, 2024
This episode. Chris and Ruthie honor one of the most prolific actors in Disney live-action films, Disney Legend: Tommy Kirk. As they chronicle the life story and childhood to adult movie career of this beloved star and featured performer of no less than twelve classic Disney films, Ruthie and Chris will also share their personal connections to Kirk's work for Disney, several personal anecdotes, and their own personal memories from his many unforgettable motion picture moments. Download (right cl...
Nov 30, 2024
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our November 2024 episode. we will revisit an episode from mid December of 2017, where we looked back at the New Tomorrowland of 1967, during its 50th anniversary. December 2017 - This week we discuss the amazing "New Tomorrowland." which premiered at Disneyland in 1967, making this the 50th anniversary of this incredible leap for...
Nov 14, 2024
Welcome to the tenth episode of our music series for 2024. Throughout the year, we have been taking you on an audio tour of Disneyland spanning 11 episodes. Each episode will feature one of the many themed areas found within the happiest place on earth. Our tenth episode of this series will represent Disneyland parades and fireworks spectaculars. Your audio tour will include performances by live Disneyland musical groups, original show and attraction soundtracks, background music, rare archival ...
Nov 09, 2024
This episode Ruthie and Chris pay tribute to the late Disney Legend, Richard M Sherman, with a Supercalifragilistic Top (30) countdown, and an extensive look back upon the life and storied career of this acclaimed Disney tunesmith. Download (right click / save as) Visit our on-line store for exclusive Jiminy Crickets and DisneyChris Website Merch!!!! https://jcpodcast.threadless.com/ If you would like to help support the Jiminy Crickets podcasts and DisneyChris.com - Please consider becoming a ...
Nov 09, 2024
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our October 2024 episode. we will revisit our October 2019 episode, where we celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Haunted Mansion October 2019 - This very special Halloween episode is in tribute to perhaps the greatest Disney attraction of all time, The Haunted Mansion, which celebrated 50 years of frightful fun this past August...
Oct 03, 2024
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our August 2024 episode, we revisit a show first released in September of 2019, which was in honor of the 55th anniversary of Mary Poppins. This now being the 60th anniversary, we felt it was timely to present, yet again, the second half of our tribute to Walt Disney's live-action musical masterpiece. September 2019 - In part two ...
Sep 22, 2024
Due to technical issues. This is a re-upload of episode 186. Welcome to the 9th episode of our music series for 2024. Throughout the year, we have been taking you on an audio tour of Disneyland spanning 11 episodes. Each episode will feature one of the many themed areas found within the happiest place on earth. Our 9th episode of this series will represent Tomorrowland from the years 1974-2024. Your audio tour will include performances by live Disneyland musical groups, original show and attract...
Sep 18, 2024
Join Ruthie and Chris as they go over all the major announcements made at the parks and movies panels at this year's D23 convention, and share their opinions. Download (right click / save as) Visit our on-line store for exclusive Jiminy Crickets and DisneyChris Website Merch!!!! https://jcpodcast.threadless.com/ If you would like to help support the Jiminy Crickets podcasts and DisneyChris.com - Please consider becoming a Patreon Subscriber and receive exclusive rewards every month. https://www...
Aug 19, 2024
Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our August 2024 episode, we revisit a show first released in September of 2019, which was in honor of the 55th anniversary of Mary Poppins. This now being the 60th anniversary, we felt it was timely to present, yet again, our tribute to Walt Disney's live-action musical masterpiece. September 2019 - In part one of a very special t...
Aug 15, 2024
