Dan Bullock, 63, has always liked the musical sound of the name Chattanooga.
Indeed, “Chattanooga” tumbles off the tongue like a trill from a piccolo. And then it ends with your mouth slightly agape – Chattanoo-“GAH.” Open up, now, let’s see those tonsils.
As a member of the Dapper Dans barbershop quartet at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, Bullock sang Glenn Miller’s 1941 hit “Chattanooga Choo Choo” thousands of times.
His claim to fame is that he was the first actual “Dan” to perform in the Dapper Dans quartet, which dates to 1959 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
Some of the Dapper Dans sang together for decades. Often seen near the entrance to the Magic Kingdom on Main Street at Disney World, someone once called them a “speed bump” on the road to Space Mountain.