Jimmie Dodd
Jimmie Dodd was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States on March 28th, 1910 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 54, Jimmie Dodd biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jimmie Dodd (born James Wesley Dodd) was an American actor, singer, and songwriter best known as the master of ceremonies for the popular 1950s Walt Disney television show "The Mickey Mouse Club," as well as the author of its well-known theme song "The Mickey Mouse Club March." This march, although slower in pace and with different lyrics, became the alma mater that closed each episode.
Career
Dodd went from Cincinnati to Florida, where he worked in radio before heading to California to become a songwriter. Of the estimated 400 songs he wrote, his most well-known are Amarillo, He Was There, I Love Girls, Nashville Blues, and Rosemary, although not all were released.
In The Three Mestreers series of westerns, Dodd appeared in the early film roles. He appeared in two unrelated series whose names were based on "musketeers" as a result of coincidence. He made his first screen appearance in the 1940 William Holden film Those Were the Days! In a minor role. He appeared in several theatrical films in the 1940s and 1950s, some of whom were uncredited. He appeared in the Flying Tigers (1942), Janie (1944), in which he sings a little of Keep Your Powder Dry with actor Joyce Reynolds, and in China's Little Devils (1945), another film involving the Flying Tigers. He appeared in the MGM film Easter Parade (1948), starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Dodd played a small but significant role in the Mickey Rooney's hit Quicksand (1950). Two of his films were biographies of baseball players: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), in which Jackie Robinson played himself, and The Winning Team (1952), in which future president Ronald Reagan portrayed pitcher Cleveland Alexander Alexander. In Phfffft (1954), he was a taxi driver again.
Dodd appeared as a deputy in the 1955 episode "Sontag and Evans," a serialized television series Stories of the Century, in addition to his small part in an early episode of Adventures of Superman titled "Double Trouble." The segment was based on the robbery of California train robbers Chris Evans and John Sontag.
After submitting a song for the occasion, Dodddd attracted Walt Disney's notice. Dodd's outgoing personality and rapport with the younger members of the cast captivated Disney, who was hired to a seven-year contract.
Each week, the Mickey Mouse Club appeared on television. Dodd wore "Mouse-ears," performed his "Mouse-guitar," and performed self-composed songs. His songs contained encouraging messages for children. Among his other musical contributions is a song that a generation of children used for almost a half-century to spell "encyclopedia." He hosted "Proverbs, proverbs, they're so true" and then proceeded to exemplify a Proverb from the Bible and give an example of how it can be helpful in everyday life. He created some Zorro-themed scripts and performed songs in several of his films. He also wrote "Lonely Guitar," a Billboard Top 50 charted smash for fellow Mouseketeer Annette Funicello in 1959. Dodd treated the original Mouseketeers as part of his extended family, according to the original Mouseketeers, who were frequent guests at the Dodd home for backyard barbecues and sing-alongs. Rabbit, Run, John Updike's book Rabbit, Run, makes a reference to Dodd and his appearance on a Mickey Mouse Club episode.