The Florida Band was much more prone to jazz licks than their more concert-oriented California brothers, and I think this breakdown is particularly “hot”. This selection is from their self-titled LP release. “The Old Home Guard”, from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, here represents the Walt Disney World Band, a marching band act from the earliest years. It was selected to liven up the front of the track. This track began playing on Magic Kingdom’s Main Street in the mid-1970s and was removed in the early 1990s. The first BGM track is “‘Lasses’ Trombone” by Albert White & the Gaslight Orchestra, from the album “Your Father’s Moustache, Vol. Generally, the morning selections were leisurely paced waltzes and the evening tracks were briskly paced and often jazz inflected. The selections which appear in this track accurately reflect the Main Street “Morning” music. The incorrect music loop correctly identified two of the seven (!) albums the Main Street music originates from, but the order and selections is almost entirely wrong.įor one thing, there were definitely two Main Street tracks used from 1976 onwards, one for morning and one for evening, although Disney was not always reliable in switching them punctually. This list itself seems to have originated with cassette tape mixes circulated at Disneyana Conventions in the 1990s. Version 1 used “Saxema”, from a track collection downloaded from MouseBits.Com based on an inaccurate track listing originating on an early park music resource. In Version 1 of this project, the Main Street, USA BGM (music loop/area music) was one of the major inaccuracies I sought to fix in the second version. This recording was sourced from the Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland, Secrets, Stories, and Magic” DVD video release. This 1955 Wallace track is blended with another Wallace recording of the music, for the 1956 “People and Places: Disneyland USA”. “Crazy Over Daisy” was based on songs of the 1890’s era such as “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” and “Daisy Bell”, making it an appropriate fit for Main Street. Wallace was adapting a tune he had already written in 1950 for the animated short “Crazy Over Daisy”, slowing the tempo slightly to allow him to score it as a leisurely carriage ride down Main Street. So there is a good deal of historical precedent for its inclusion.īuddy Baker conducted the piece many times in his career for Walt Disney Productions, but no fine, complete recording of such sessions is publicly available, so for this set I have used the “Walt Disney Takes You to Disneyland” version of the recording, created by Oliver Wallace in 1955. Yet I felt justified in including it not only for the superior atmosphere setting it provides, but because it recurs over and over again in early Walt Disney World promotion – from “Project Florida” (1970) and “The Magic of Walt Disney World” (1972) to “A Dream Called Walt Disney World” (1980). “Meet Me Down on Main Street” is a piece more strongly associated with the Disneyland Main Street than anything in Florida, and in fact the inclusion of this piece is the single biggest departure from my “target era” in the entire audio mix. Returning from Version One is “Meet Me Down on Main Street”. I ended up combining multiple sources of DL train audio with live sections provided by Dave McCormick’s live recording of the Main Street Station in 1983 to create a “composite” version which accurately recreates Wagner’s original station announcements. The Disneyland station announcements have always been available, but differ in wording and pace compared to the Magic Kingdom versions. One major project was an attempt to find the authentic 70s Wagner station announcements. Version 1 of the project incorrectly used the 1990s DLP train station announcements by Eddie Sotto. The train sounds which begin this track are live, recorded in 2011 at Magic Kingdom. Here are Foxx’s notes on the creation of Track 2 – Main Street, USA:
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