ONE NIGHT ONLY.

(He said that last time too.)

Big Al has had at least ten separate farewell performances — and has never actually retired. His most recent farewell tour hit Paris (Texas), Hollywood (Florida), and London (Ohio). He keeps coming back. Nobody is complaining.

On opening day of Walt Disney World — October 1, 1971 — Big Al took the Grizzly Hall stage and sang "Blood on the Saddle." The next day, a reporter wrote that Big Al had stolen the show. He has been stealing it ever since.

Born in a cave near the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho. There was music in his blood from the start. He was the resident bard and balladeer of the Florida swamp before Disney World was even built. The man — the bear — was here first. 

The Big Al in Concert tee is designed like the tour poster he absolutely deserves: for the Disney adults who have always known that Big Al is the real headliner, the Country Bear Jamboree is just the venue, and "one night only" is the most optimistic phrase in Frontierland.

He'll be back. He always comes back.