The rest of the interview would have covered his other work for Disney, from special events over the years to the original music he composed for several Disney projects-including three original "Princess" albums.īorn in San Diego, California, on June 8,1944, Don Grady (born Don Agrati) grew up in Lafayette, California, and was selected in 1957 as a Mouseketeer on the third season of the original Mickey Mouse Club television show. However, the first part of the interview about his time as a Mouseketeer was finished and I have edited it here. Since he was to be a guest of honor at a special banquet for the Orlando World Chapter of the Disneyana Fan Club in December 2012-along with other former Mouseketeers like Tommy, Doreen, Sherry and Cubby-it was arranged that I would do the rest of the interview in person with him at the event.ĭon Grady died June 27, 2012, at the age of 68 after a battle with cancer, so that interview will never be completed. Several months ago, Grady wrote that he was sorry but that he would be unable to complete the interview. However, despite Grady’s enthusiasm in his e-mail communications about wanting to be interviewed, he was slow in responding and there would be long gaps between sending answers to follow up questions to previous answers.ĭidier and I have both learned to be patient in such situations but every few months to gently prod again since the request may have slipped under the radar. Some of the people I have interviewed over the years prefer being interviewed by e-mail because they have difficulty hearing over the phone or want to take time to research their answers or just want to be careful about how they respond.
Grady said that he preferred to do it that way rather than by phone because of his schedule and because he wanted time to think about his answers.
Early last year, Didier Ghez (editor of the Walt’s People series of interviews) and I were interviewing Don Grady by email.
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