Disney Legend Fulton Burley

Disney Legend Fulton Burley, June 12, 1922 – May 7, 2007, performed as an Irish tenor at Disneyland’s Golden Horseshoe Revue from 1962 to 1987. His is also the voice of “Michael,” one of the macaw hosts of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room.

Burley was born in Tipperary and raised in Ontario, coming to the United States in 1943 after landing a singing lead in the Broadway musical, Diamond Horseshoe Revue. He continued to tour the United States after World War Two, performing primarily in musical comedies. It was during this time that Burley honed what would become a near-legendary repertoire of jokes.

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May 1977 – Space Mountain Opened in Disneyland

Attention space travelers: It was on this day in 1977 that Space Mountain first blasted off guests at Disneyland, rocketing them into a simulation of outer space aboard a roller coaster dark ride. But this attraction, still as popular as ever today, actually has a history that goes back to the 1960s. Disney Legend John Hench designed the attraction years before the technology needed to make it come to life was readily available. The first Space Mountain opened in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in 1975, and, proving successful, it landed at Disneyland two years later, with the first American men in space — U.S. Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald “Deke” Slayton and Betty Grissom (widow of Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom) — on hand for the opening ceremonies. Over the years, the attraction has seen improvements with all-new visual effects and a fully synchronized onboard audio soundtrack. The next time you walk thru the queue for the attraction, take a look around at the symbol for “Space Station 77,” paying homage to the year Space Mountain first took flight.

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