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Don Dorsey Sights and Sounds || Design and Production

Challenge & response

Overheard, and on the record.

What people say

“Performance: A travesty. Recording: Fine.” · Stereo Review, July 1986

What Don says

“Fourteen weeks at number one. Not that anyone was counting. (I was counting.)”

What people say

“What ever happened to Don Dorsey?” · WDWMagic forums, 2021

What Don says

“You've heard me. Nightly. Around nine.”

What people say

“You naughty person. Are you related to Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey? And how dare you use a drum machine!” · from the fan mail

What Don says

“No relation. And carefully.”

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The Year Machine

Pick a year. Any year.

Fifty years is a lot of nights. Dial one in and see what was on the console.

Standing by. The board is warm.
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The other rooms

Three more frames on the wall.

Behind the Scenes

The Scoop stories: the millennium, Fantasmic!, SpectroMagic, the Parade and Telarc, finally as readable text instead of thirty image tiles.

Step into the booth

Gallery of Projects

The shows, the records, the patents, the parks, and the paper to prove it: charts, reviews, clients, fan mail.

Walk the wing

The DorseyCard

The legacy corner returns as a slot machine. The house always wins; the house is Don.

 See the full machine

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"We're gonna need a bigger sky."

Don Dorsey

Turn your phone sideways.