No, this is not Main Street Electrical Parade music, this is original for the water show. I remember going every night to the water to see it when my family used to camp over the weekend at Fort Wild. [This was before the Wilderness Lodge and you could only camp there.] Thanks for bringing back the memories. Great post.
@1983horizons1 I was there in 1976, and as I recall, they did not have the other Disney tunes mixed in with the show. It was Baroque Hoedown and To Honour America. However, there was a record (you know, one of those discs that you played on a record player?) that they sold at the park that had this version. I remember when we got home and played it, I thought- "what's the rest of this stuff?". That year BH did not appear in the Main Street Parade. Maybe because it was the Bicentennial?
Absolutely wonderful! You know, I wonder if there were matches to the musical pieces of the original soundtrack in the EWP back in the early days. I've never seen footage of the pageant prior to 1987. I couldn't help but to notice that It's A Small World was cut out of the track. ;) Ran out of time, huh? lol. I guess this is where Jack Wagner got the word "pageant" from for his classic announcement for the Main Street Electrical Parade.
I definitely remember them using this music for the Electrical Water Pageant, the first time I saw it was in 1976 looking out from my balcony at the Contemporary Resort Hotel as it made its way from Seven Seas Lagoon to Bay Lake. I had my audio tape recorder with me and will have to find the tape with the original music on it.
It was still there when I went in October of 2008. I don't think they have any intention of taking it away, but if they do, I'm sure they'll at least replace it with something. It had been close to 15 years since I had seen it, and it was pretty neat seeing it again. :)
Was this the original water pageant music? This is the music used for the original '72 Main Street Electrical Parade. The music being played here is tied to Blue Fairy (Baroque Hoedown), All In The Golden Afternoon, The Angry Dragon, Casey Jr., Cinderella, a cut Small World, and To Honour America. And yes, EWP was a precursor to Light Magic, but we're going to pretend that never happened. Hahahaha
@Disneydanny Good to also know. But there have been several musical modifications between 1977 and 2010 according to Don. Thanks for the added information!!
Sorry, but that IS the Main Street Electrical Parade music - it's called "Baroque Hoedown." However, I understand that they used it for both...but still, how cool!!
If I'm not mistaken, the order runs like this -Original music (Baroque Hoedown) by Jean-Jacques Perry and Gershon Kingsley -Discovered by Disney show designer Bob Jani -"Remixed" with new synth by Paul Beaver (of "Beaver and Krause" fame) -For MSEP (Main St. Elec. Parade) in '78, the show was again remixed with new compositions by show designer Don Dorsey, a long time Disney vendor. -The show has been re-arranged several times since that time, the latest being the version running at DCA -THX
Great combination of the current EWP and the old EWP music. I was actually thinking about making a video like this using the old music, myself. BTW, love Handel's Water Music. I am considering making a video of EWP set to the Hornpipe (Water Music)).
@bigblanc99 In my opinion Disneyland is a way better park when it comes to dreativity and the fact they care about the smiles on everyones more then the money. I hope they get their Electrical Parade back. I have never heard screaming over the music any where else other then Disneyland.
@DefconWarningSystem I'm actually not sure if the original Electrical Water Pageant ever used the Disney tunes mixed in or if it simply used Jean-Jacques Perrey's original version.
@1983horizons1 if it only usded the original Barqque Hoedown track, it must've incluuded the disney tunes at some point as a record of the EWP sountrack was released w/ Disney tunes mixed in. idk if that record & the '72-'74 MSEP soundtrack were released simultaneously but both DID have the EXACT same content
So the 2nd version of the Electrical Water Pageant, post Baroque Hoedown, had Handel's Water Music in the beginning, ending, and also during the Sea King part? Is that right? It's interesting to note that Handel's Water Music is also Baroque Music. I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Pretty cool, huh? ^_^
