Main Street Electrical Parade - Walt Disney World 1977 - LP Picture Disc
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Published 2019-01-20
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The new Walt Disney World "Main Street Electrical Parade" is one of the most unusual parades presented anywhere in the world. Everything in it is made of lights . . . over a half million colorful, twinkling lights . . . that re-create scenes from many of Disney's best loved film classics. A staff of 85 artists and craftsmen created this sparkling moving panorama including the giant glowing butterflies, Cinderella's Pumpkin Coach, Dumbo's Circus and the neon-lighted Mickey Mouse and Pluto. Each summer night, magic comes to "light" as gigantic, luminous parade stages and figures wind their way through a darkened Walt Disney World.
During the parade, each unit features its own musical theme. The fully synchronized melodies and rhythms, produced by an electronic Moog synthesizer, are "on the air." They are transmitted from Cinderella Castle via seven individual FM radio channels to each electrical unit's powerful amplifier/receivers. These delightful musical themes are broadcast to the Walt Disney World guests viewing this dazzling musical procession of fantasy in lights -- the new "Main Street Electrical Parade."
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All songs on this record are property of their creators. The MSEP arrangements and performances are property of Don Dorsey and Jack Wagner.
(C) 1977 Walt Disney Productions
The audio is from the original record, played on my Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB and recorded using a TASCAM DR-40X.
All Comments (21)
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Remastered version in WAV & MP3: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u1RLwNRCgfzwGdAkAi… (YouTube deleted all of my comments after switching to a personal account)
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0:19 summer is here, you know what that means? Summer nights and summer lights, millions and millions of them shining and sparkling through the street of disneyland. Just the main street electrical parade is back, bigger and brighter than ever. Every night beginning may 27 at disneyland.
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It’s time to bring back the classic music of the Main Street Electrical Parade…
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Happiest song to hear when we were kids at Disney World back in 1978. The music sure is magical still. Cinderella carriage rolling past was very cool.
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5:58 i was expecting the 1978 off key auld lang syne version but i was imagining it
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It's cool that I found this. My parents had this record (the California version, I believe), and I used to listen to it a lot as a child. This sounds just like I remember, and the audio quality is so good for being now more than 40 years old.
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4:55 was looking all over YouTube for a version with this part, I remember hearing it years ago :D
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Love this, I was a dancing daisy in ‘ 74, loved the parade, night after night, so much fun.
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My brother purchased this short playing record back in 1978 at Disney World thank you YouTube for the upload of this classical Disney soundtrack
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ironically the way the soundtrack fades out at the end is how Don Dorsey envisioned the soundtrack ending, he felt the closing fanfare concept didn't fit the theme=park setting, thus it was someone higher up in the company (Bob Jani) that convinced him to incorporate the closing fanfare from the Orange Bowl version into the Theme park version, that element would be added in Summer of '78 and the vocoder opening and closing followed the summer of '79.
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I remember staring at the red circle as it went around and around. I love it!
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I love this parade Main Street Disneyland
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I have this record somewhere. Each time I hear it I am transported back to that warm summer night in Anaheim, standing with my brother next to our parents, watching this otherworldly show. I hope I can share this with my own son someday. The memory brings me to tears.
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I was actually in this parade at Disneyland in 1977 in the Cinderella Unit and as wonderful as the soundtrack was I can’t tell you how sick I was hearing it over and over again. 2 parades each day in the blistering heat. Starting at Small World to end of Main Street and then from Main Street back to Small World. Everyone was a sweaty mess!! First professional performing job right out of High School. Great memories.
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Yes this should definitely be authentic. I had bought a picture disc from Disneyland California in the 70s and listening to the soundtrack here it sounds exactly like the one I had. I did buy it on Main Street at Disneyland!
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Hearing this from my late father’s turntable was astonishing… I felt like i was in a trance.
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We had Classic Disney Vol. 1-2 which we listened to frequently when I was a kid. Going to see the Main St. Electrical Parade when I was 10, we all almost cried. It was more wonderful than anything we’d conjured up in our minds on the way to school.
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0:17 all goes quiet for the buildup
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I was looking for it too. Finally found it brings back some really good memories!
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Ummm.... this is why i got into electro disco funk in 80s and then the electro bass later in the mid 90s . Its been implanted in my DNA as a kid witnessing this live and direct. I blame this not all the acid. HAHA
