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In "Mr. Lincoln", a five-part TV episode appearing in 1952-53 on Omnibus, Royal Dano very convincingly portrayed Lincoln.
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In 1971, Dano's voice was also used for a revised Lincoln speech in the new "Hall Of Presidents" program at Walt Disney World in Florida, which ran to 1993.
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So, there must be a ton of Dano Lincoln recordings.
I met Royal Dano once when I was working as an usher at the Beverly Center Cineplex Odious. I struck up a conversation with a patron, the conversation took a turn for the Disney (as it will), and he told me he'd done some work for Disney. "Cool, I was a sweeper at the park, what did you do?" "I did the voice of Mr. Lincoln." Needless to say, he won the conversation. I asked for and received his autograph, which resided for years in the sleeve of my "Official Album of Disneyland and Walt Disney World." Alas, that album and many others is gone forever, a victim of a hurried move from an apartment with just a touch too much crack use going on. Pete Renaday also covered Mr. Lincoln's voice, in a respectable impersonation of Royal Dano, for the Florida attraction. His autograph lived in my Haunted Mansion Story Record. Also lost in the great purge.