The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department; Danny Alguire — cornet Harper Goff — banjo Ward Kimball — trombone, siren, tambourine, sound effects, leader Clarke Mallery — clarinet Monte Mountjoy — drums Ed Penner — bass saxophone on early recordings, but later switched to tuba Frank Thomas — piano Later, other Disney artists joined in; George Probert, Dick Roberts, Ralph Ball and George Bruns. The band appeared in animated form in the 1953 Goofy animated short, "How to Dance&q…
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