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I'm sure most of us weren't even conceived when one of the most popular children's television series of all time, the original "Mickey Mouse Club" aired on ABC on October 3, 1955. The "Club" featured a group of talented, outgoing, and friendly kids, who sang, danced, and performed skits for an audience who craved more as they tuned in each day at 5pm to catch a glimpse of the hit show. Each show began with an animated segment of Donald Duck striking the Mickey Mouse Club gong and ended with Mousekartoon Time. On September 25, 1959, the show went kaput and never made a combat until the the early '70s featuring an entirely new cast. As its success eventually grew but not to the standards it had once achieved in the 50s, "The Mickey Mouse Club" made their recording debut on September 14, 1993 with the release of their self-titled album "MMC." The album featured R&B, funk, hip-hop, and the group's smooth harmonious grooves. Recorded during the hiatus of the popular television series, MMC featured 12 songs and 13 members of The Disney Channel's hit "Mickey Mouse Club" show.

It's now the '90s, and the once-hit show has spawned off many well known performers into the entertainment world, most of them making a pile o' cash and livin' large on the cover of Teen Beat. Read on to see who they are and what they've accomplished after the great cheese years.

Britney Spears was born in Kentwood Louisiana on December 2, 1981. She joined the "Mickey Mouse Club" at age eleven in Orlando, Florida and after two seasons, left the show to go back to her hometown. Britney has since sky rocketed to super stardom with the realease of her hit single "Baby One More Time." Learn more about her and the early years on the season premiere of MTV's BIOrhythm on Wednesday, October 13th at 10:30pm.

Many know her as the quirky, analytical star of the hit WB show, Felicity, but before the college years, there was Mickey. Keri Russell became a mousekeeter on the Disney Channel's "All New Mickey Mouse Club" in 1991 and quit the gig in 1993. Because of MMC Keri moved to Florida. She even sang in two concerts of MMC, one in 1992 and another in 1993. She recorded an album "MMC" with her fellow castmates too. After the mouse years, Keri moved out to California to pursue her acting career. She has since appeared in several movies as well as television shows. You can catch her as she struggles through life in New York in the second season of Felicity on the WB Sunday at 8pm and in her upcoming flick, "Mad About Mambo."

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