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The Magic Kingdom – Country Bear Jamboree Re-opens

Having been in darkness for the previous 6 months a corner of the Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland is due to re-open on 17 July 2024. The popular Country Bear Jamboree has had a make over and is now called the Country Bear Musical Jamboree. 

The well loved bear characters are singing interpretations of well known Disney songs including ‘A Whole New World’ from Aladdin and ‘The Bear Necessities’ from The Jungle Book.

Here is a full list of the playlist at the updated attraction.

  1. ‘Country Bear Musical Jamboree’ – an original song written for the attraction
  2. ‘Try Everything’ from Zootopia
  3. ‘Kiss the Girl’ from The Little Mermaid
  4. ‘A Whole New World’ from Aladdin
  5. ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ from Mary Poppins
  6. ‘Fixer-Upper’ from Frozen
  7. ‘Remember Me’ from Coco
  8. ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’ from Toy Story
  9. ‘Bare Necessities’ from The Jungle Book
  10. ‘Come Again’ debuted in the Country Bear Jamboree in 1974

The updates don’t stop with the new songs and all the bears have new costumes as well. 

One of the voices is that of Mac McAnally a veteran of Country Music and a 10 time CMA musician of the year. He is singing Bear Necessities and Fixer-Upper. 

Mac McAnally
Country Bear Musical Jamboree and Mac McAnally

I met Mac McAnally in London at C2C at the O2. I was on a Grand Ole Opry background  set to promote the Tour Operator I was working for at the time in conjunction with the Tennessee CVB. We were offering free entry to a draw for a tour that included Nashville and Memphis and on the stage nearby there were short sets by performers that included Mac McAnally. Visitors were invited to line up for autographs and the line was behind our area and Mac McAnally was going to be

on the set of the Grand Ole Opry to meet and greet his fans. 

Except the organisers hadn’t told us that was the plan.

So after following the lead of the stewards we were directing fans to go behind the set and line up. All of a sudden there was a bearded man in front of me with a lady who was talking for him. She just said ‘Mac McAnally’ and I said that he had to join the line with the others and wouldn’t let them passed me. She repeated herself and I insisted that they follow the others. Then the bearded man said that he is Mac McAnally I paused a moment for the penny to drop and extended my hand to him to say hello. How embarrassing!. He then climbed up to the backdrop of the Grand Ole Opry and patiently greeted his fans and waited until everyone had had the opportunity to meet their hero.