1. Cubby O'Brien is known as one of the original Mouseketeers on the weekday ABC television program The Mickey Mouse Club from 1955 to 1958.
15 Facts About Cubby O'Brien
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Cubby O'Brien began studying music at the Carl Babcock School of Music from age five, and later performed with the Roger Babcock Dixieland Band at charity events and for local television.
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Cubby O'Brien quickly picked up enough dance skills to perform in musical numbers, though his solo performances remained centered around his drums.
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Cubby O'Brien remained with the show for all three seasons of original programming.
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Cubby O'Brien performed with the "Little Band", doing guest bits on the maestro's show, as well as other television series.
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Cubby O'Brien then played for Ann-Margret in her live performances, and in the late Sixties returned to television as the sometime on-camera drummer for CBS's The Carol Burnett Show.
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Cubby O'Brien was a contestant on the ABC game show The Big Showdown in the mid-1970s, winning $5,000 for rolling "Show Down" during the timed dice roll round.
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In 1980, Cubby O'Brien reunited with his fellow Mouseketeers for a television special, in which he sang, danced and played drums.
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Cubby O'Brien joined some of these same Mouseketeers for live shows on fall weekends at Disneyland during the early 1980s.
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Since the eighties, Cubby O'Brien's career has predominated around performing for Broadway productions, as well as for live shows by performers like Bernadette Peters.
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Cubby O'Brien was based in New York City instead of the West Coast for many years, though he has since moved back.
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Cubby O'Brien met his first wife, Marilyn Miller, while touring with Spike Jones.
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In 1978, Cubby O'Brien married Terry Wilemon, whom he met in Las Vegas while touring with the Carpenters.
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Cubby O'Brien married for the third time in 2002, to Holly Sims, a Portland-based flight attendant.
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Cubby O'Brien has taken part in many of the Mouseketeer Reunion shows, including the 50th Anniversary in 2005, but usually is too busy drumming to make personal appearances.