Gordon Goodwin

This attraction, this overlay, has actually two scores.

It has the debut premiere score, which was done, no actually, this was done by, oh my goodness, did I write the name? I think it's Gordon Goodwin.

He was a Disney Parks composer.

He did a version that was all based on holiday music and contained very little of the Nightmare Tim Burton score.

And so my favorite technology is my phone.

I have over eight hours downloaded of a particular artist's big band songs His name is Gordon Goodwin, by the way.

Love his music.

It's just a great way for me to relax after the end of the day.

He's, he's, uh, he's not the only famous person from the original film.

Be- besides for George Clooney in the second film, Gordon Goodwin, who wrote the soundtrack, eventually, you know, became a full-time professional composer and w- has won, won Emmys and Grammy awards, um, for his, uh, um, arrangements mostly, including The Incredibles.

And, um, had his own band.

Uh, he unfort- we had him working on this film, and unfortunately he passed away right in the middle of the film.

All six of these guys have a special meaning to my heart, and we- I talk about that with them in the episode, so I'm not gonna waste the time now.

But I feel so honored and blessed that they agreed to sit down with me and talk about their history with Gordon and the arrangements Gordon wrote for them.

Uh, we cut it up a little bit concerning... or about their recording sessions, and then I got to talk about some of my experiences and history with each one of them, especially one of them.

Can you guess who I'm the closest to? [laughs] Who's been my...

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Um, and then Dave, who's not with us, Dave Thomas, he did my very, very first session for Gordon with me.

So it was Dave, Randy Crenshaw, and myself, and we did a, um, a Disney demo, this kinda New Orleans fun, you know, funky thing, and that was the first time I had worked with Dave and first time I'd worked with Gordon, so that's kinda cool.

um and so i kind of just stop again and go knock it off and just look at the gift so anyway that's kind of the serious stuff and uh but other than that okay let's think about the fun stuff um since june i've had two live gigs And so we did the Little Fat Band.

I sing with Gordon Goodwin's Little Fat and Big Fat Band, which is amazing.

And so we did a drive-in concert.

I'm pretty sure it was after June.

Definitely.

A gift.

So I am engaged to the incredible Gordon Goodwin.

And we got engaged about, let's see, February 22nd.

And I couldn't do it without my team.

Man, David, Amaia, all the way, man.

I could not do it without you.

And, uh, of course, Andrew, and then my, the rest of my team, Geo Washington Wright and Nick Mondello and Cindy Garon.

We never ...

But I think that's the one thing that I think Gordon, uh ...

Man, I don't know if it's a, for marketing purposes or for whatever, but he, he had so many great swing tunes that he did, but he, he kind of, he kind of went through like, like l- avant-garde, like, like, you know-

Mm-hmm

So for the next two weeks, you're going to get the extras, the fun insider interviews with each of these sections.

And it's stuff like their favorites or their memories with Gordon, all that kind of stuff.

It's pretty great stuff.

So stay tuned.

Hopefully it's good.

No, I think I owe you money.

But just how, before we get into the nuts and bolts of the songs and the album and everything, but your friendship with Gordon, you're an OG of the Fat Band.

We want to hear about that.