America Sings

America Sings was an Audio-Animatronic salute to the great American songbook. It opened on June 29, 1974 in the Carousel Theater (former home to the Carousel of Progress) in Tomorrowland at Disneyland.

The show was hosted by Sam the Eagle, voiced by Burl Ives, who sang the attraction's theme song, Yankee Doodle, and Ollie the Owl, voiced by Sam Edwards. The rotating theater took park guests through four different eras of music: Going South, Heading West, Gay Nineties and Modern Times.

Musical selections included Dixie, Camptown Races, Polly Wally Doodle, Home on the Range, Sweet Adeline, Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay, Hound Dog, Shake, Rattle and Roll, and Joy to the World.

When the attraction closed in 1988, most of the audio-animatronics were moved to Splash Mountain and two long-necked geese were made into the robots in the queue area for Star Tours. and the rock and roll stork is now used to train new animatronic ideas The building remained empty until Innoventions opened in 1998.



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Reference: Gordon, Bruce and Tim O'Day. Disneyland: Then, Now, and Forever. Disney Editions. New York, 2008.