Composer, songwriter ("Mickey Mouse March"), actor, singer, guitarist and conductor, Jimmie Dodd was educated at the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Conservatory and Vanderbilt University. He began his career in 1933 as a guitarist and singer on radio, coming to Hollywood in 1937 to play in the Louis Prima orchestra and later become an actor...See full bio »
1951G.I. Jane
(music: "Gee, I Love My G. I. Jane", "I Love Girls" / lyrics: "Gee, I Love My G. I. Jane", "I Love Girls" / performer: "Gee, I Love My G. I. Jane", "I Love Girls")
1945Penthouse Rhythm
(performer: "Peter Had a Wife and Couldn't Keep Her", "Let's Go Americana")
1944The Mystery of the Riverboat
(writer: "Rhythm Rhapsody", "I Get Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon" / performer: "Rhythm Rhapsody", "I Get Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon")
1944Twilight on the Prairie
(writer: "I Get Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon" / performer: "I Get Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon", "And Then", "Don't You Ever Be A Cowboy", "Texas Polka")
1944Moon Over Las Vegas
(writer: "Oklahoma's Oke With Me" / performer: "Oklahoma's Oke With Me")
1942Shadows on the Sage
(music: "Happy Cowboy" 1942, "The Cowboy's Voice Lesson" 1942 / lyrics: "Happy Cowboy" 1942, "The Cowboy's Voice Lesson" 1942 / performer: "Happy Cowboy" 1942, "The Cowboy's Voice Lesson" 1942)
1942Lady in a Jam
(writer: "My Darlin' Nellie's Grave" - uncredited, "I Come From a Long Line of Cowboys" - uncredited)
1942Private Snuffy Smith
(writer: "I Don't Know What To Do Blues" - uncredited / performer: "Time's a-Wastin'", "The Yard Bird", "I Don't Know What To Do Blues" - uncredited / "The Yard Bird")
"Why? Because we like you!" -- Jimmie's familiar saying at the end of every Mousketeer show.
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Trivia:
By all accounts he was just the sort of person he played on
The Mickey Mouse Club- decent, caring, deeply religious, and very much concerned for children and their welfare. All of the original Mouseketeers loved him, a love that was reciprocated, and all continue to speak well of him to this day.
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