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Firehouse Five Plus Two: Twenty Years Later

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1998

One look at the cover will lead most people to say “You've got to be kidding. And you'd be right - sort of.

There are many reasons to think the Firehouse Five are not worthy of your attention. They were amateur musicians, most of whom worked for Walt Disney. (Two members, Ward Kimball and Frank Thomas, were part of Disney's famous “Nine Old Men", the key animators on Disney films for close to 40 years.) They wore ridiculous uniforms, including ...