The New Mickey Mouse Club

The New Mickey Mouse Club is part of The Mickey Mouse Club and a music/song television show.

History
The New Mickey Mouse Club aired on CBS in 1977-1979.

Mousketeers
The cast had a more diverse ethnic background than the 1950s version. Several 1970s cast members went on to become TV stars and other notable icons.

The show's most notable alumnus was Lisa Whelchel, who later starred in the NBC television sitcom The Facts of Life before becoming a well-known Christian author and, most recently, overall runner-up, and winner of the $100,000 viewers' choice award, on the fall 2012 season of the CBS television reality series Survivor. Mouseketeer Julie Piekarski (born St. Louis, 1963) also appeared with Lisa Whelchel on the first season of The Facts of Life. Kelly Parsons (born Coral Gables, Fla., 1964) went on to become a beauty queen and runner-up to Miss USA. Shawnte Northcutte(born Los Angeles, 1965) appeared then too. Billy 'Pop' Attmore (born at US military base in Landstuhl, West Germany, 1965) appeared in a few movies before and after the series, a fifth-season episode of The Brady Bunch ("Kelly's Kids"), and as a streetwise hood in the short-lived Eischied crime drama. Nita Dee appeared at the tail end of an episode of Fantasy Island.

Other Mouseketeers from the 1970s show:[7] Disney voice actor and sound effects editor Wayne Allwine voiced Mickey Mouse in the animated lead-ins for the show, replacing both Jimmy MacDonald, who in 1947 had replaced Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey for theatrical cartoons, and Walt Disney himself, who had been the original voice of Mickey and once again provided the voice for animated introductions to the original TV show but had passed away in 1966. Allwine would keep providing the voice for the character up to his death in 2009.
 * Scott Craig: born in Van Nuys, California, in 1964; lived in Las Vegas, died December 30, 2003.
 * Nita Dee (Benita DiGiampaolo): born in Long Beach, California, 1966
 * Mindy Feldman: born in Burbank, California, 1968, and sister of Corey Feldman.
 * Angel Florez: born in Stockton, California, 1963; died April 25, 1995.
 * Allison Fonte: born in Anaheim, California, 1964
 * Todd Turquand: born in Hollywood, California, 1964
 * Curtis Wong: born in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1962

Future rock musician Courtney Love claims to have auditioned for a part on the show, reading a poem by Sylvia Plath; she was not selected.