Firehouse Five Plus Two

The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department.

Later, other Disney artists joined in; Jimmy MacDonald (drums), George Probert (clarinet and soprano sax), Dick Roberts(banjo), Ralph Ball and George Bruns (trombone, substituting for Kimball). The band was active from 1949 to 1972, playing and recording while never giving up their day jobs as animators and artists with the Walt Disney Studios.

The band appeared in several Disney television specials, including the very first special in 1950, One Hour In Wonderland. They also appeared on the early Mickey Mouse Club television shows and appeared in animated form in the 1953 Goofy animated short, "How to Dance" and the 1999 direct to video Christmas film Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas in the Gift of the Magi sequence.

Besides appearing in Disney productions, the band also appeared with Teresa Brewer in the 1951 Universal short "Teresa Brewer and the Firehouse Five Plus Two" and appeared as themselves in the 1951 Kathryn Grayson film Grounds for Marriage

In 1958-59 blues singer Barbara Dane made several appearances with the Firehouse Five plus Two on Bobby Troup's ABC television series "Stars of Jazz." In her last appearance with them she performed the trad jazz standard "Old Fashioned Love." It was her live performance at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium with the Firehouse Five opposite Louis Armstrong and his band that led to her performance on the Timex Jazz Spectacular with Armstrong singing the same song.

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