Which Grateful Dead Song is this Bear Singing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaV3DRCq_4

Teddy Roosevelt - the Teddy Bear stuffed toy was named for him. The Dancing Bears were named for the Grateful Dead... Even though they are obviously marching... 

In the movie "Night at the Museum", Robin Williams plays the character Teddy Roosevelt... He is one of many stuffed mannequins that comes alive at night... 

Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt with Pocahontas

While this is a great movie, the sequel is even better... "Night at the Museum, Battle of the Smithsonian" ... Where the stuffed exhibit of Amelia Earhart is the Big Hero... 

She flies the Wright Brothers Airplane over to the Lincoln Memorial and convinces the Giant Statue of Abraham Lincoln to come over to the Air and Space Museum and Stomp on the Bad Guys... A truly silly plot but just the type of thing I love... And the actress who plays the part of Amelia Earhart is Very Cute... Amy Adams... She also played the mother of BJ Vance in "Hillbilly Effigy"... And the translator who was able to communicate with the aliens in "Arrival."

I think that one of the reasons I really love this movie is that I lived in Washington DC for 12 years and visited the Smithsonian Maybe 30 times... Including some traveling exhibits that only showed up once... 

A friend of mine insisted that we go look at the dollhouse made by Chippendale ... It had furniture in the Chippendale Style... I also went to see original Leonardo da Vinci drawings... Done in Silver Point... Which means that he took a bar of silver, the metal, and rubbed it on a piece of paper... And then it rusted to a lovely brown color... That's quite something!

There were a couple of paintings there that were just Epic... The Last Supper by Salvador Dali... And The Voyage of life... By Thomas Cole... 

One day I took LSD and visited the art gallery... Surprisingly, the Andy Warhol and LeRoy Neiman paintings seemed silly and trivial... But the Pablo Picasso "Blue" painting of a man woman and child on the beach in the north of France really moved me... I could feel the cold wind... Because... I was high on LSD and that's one of the things that happens to you... And then that night I went to hear Tangerine Dream in concert at the fabulous Warner Theater... 

The reason I've become so interested in Teddy Roosevelt is it recently I donated $100 to my local PBS television station... And now I've got access to what they call PBS Passport... Which allows me to watch any PBS show at any time... So I watched the biography of Benjamin Franklin and now I'm halfway through the Roosevelts... 

Teddy Roosevelt became president because he was vice president when William McKinley was assassinated... I have a little knowledge about President McKinley... First of all, there's a bronze statue in the center of Central Park in the little town of Arcata, California... Where I went to Humboldt State University for 4 years... The reason there's this statue in the center of town is it some guy who is a real big McKinley fan donated it... And the city fathers said "Okay, Thanks!" Well, the citizens of Arcata have a tendency to be liberal hippies... And they joined together as one voice and said get that thing out of here! He was a pile of sh*t! And so the statue has been removed... And now it Graces the Central Park or some place in Missouri or Kansas... 

McKinley was a big proponent of what was called "Horse and Sparrow" economics... Or what we call nowadays "Trickle Down" economics... Anyway, a man who had lost his job due to idiotic economic policy shot President McKinley... See? see? Behaving like a total a**hole in public and It gets you shot! We can only hope that Vice President BJ Vance gets a big promotion! One fact a life about BJ Vance is that he is entirely owned by the PayPal guy... He's been a puppet of every rich guy he ever met... So if he became president, we would have a true technocracy... That sounds pretty awful... 

The dancing bear design was originally created by artist Bob Thomas for use on the back of the Grateful Dead’s 1973 album The History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice). Thomas actually has a long history tied with The Dead having co-designed the band’s iconic “Lightning Bolt” logo with Owsley Stanley in 1969 as a means of keeping track of the band’s equipment while on tour. In addition to these ubiquitous graphics, Thomas also designed the art for the The Dead’s Steal Your Face and Live Dead...

Why the Bears?

The choice to create a symbol using bears as the focal point stems from Owsley Stanley’s nickname “Bear” given to him by childhood friends as a result of his excessive chest hair. There is also speculation that the moniker “Dancing Bear” was attributed to Stanley in reference to his peculiar choice of dance moves at concerts while high on acid.

The actual principal design for the style of bear we now commonly associate with the Grateful Dead was born from a 36-point lead type slug featuring a generic bear print that Thomas found and used as his primary artistic inspiration.

Dancing Bears by William H. Beard

another couple of comments about Teddy Roosevelt... He served two terms as president of the United States... A 3-year term because of McKinley's assassination and then a four-year term because he won the election... And on Election night he declared that he was not going to run for a third term... No way! Not me! I'm not going to do it! 

So after he finished his second term as president, he went to Africa on a safari for about 10 months... And killed many large animals... Something like a hundred! Rhinos, elephants, giraffes, lions, tigers... And many birds... And he had them stuffed and sent back to the United States to decorate his home... It just goes to show you that behavior of that type was considered excellent back then... Something you could do that would fill up your empty days and give you something to do... Here in the year 2025 it appears to be an Insane Hobby! Why in the hell would anyone want to kill a giraffe?

So anyway, he did not run for a third term as president While he was president... A much simpler solution to his problem would be to Simply state: "I changed my mind! I'm going to run for a third term." but he didn't do that... he went to Africa on a safari... And then 4 years later he ran for president on his own party and lost... The Bull Moose Party...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-the-teddy-bear-from-wet-and-angry-to-soft-and-cuddly-170275899/

The story of the teddy bear... The guide on a hunting trip in the American South wounded a bear by hitting him with a rifle... Then they tied the bear to a tree and got Teddy Roosevelt to come over to kill it... But Roosevelt refused because... And do I have to say it out loud? Having some guy beat up a bear just so you can shoot it with a gun while it's tied to a tree Just Sucks. And Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill the bear... So the guide killed it...