![]() Jack was visiting Disneyland in the early days of his career with Disney and noticed that the music he heard on Main Street clashed with its turn of the century theme. This was in the days before ITunes, when finding just the right song was a daunting task. Jack had an exceptional knack for finding the right music for the right purpose. At that time, many music studios produced albums of instrumental music that could be rented out for commercial use. Jack had been a prolific radio announcer, but he was also well versed in the inner workings of production music libraries through his work in recording advertising announcements for TV and radio. This all changed in the early 1970's when Disneyland hired an official announcer named Jack Wagner. It was mostly contemporary, easily listening music.įor more than two decades, Jack Wagner’s cheerful, friendly tone vocally captured the Disney spirit, making announcements at the Disney Parks, in touring ice and arena shows, and doing voice-over for television programs, commercials, and audio-visual presentations. However, the music was oddly not themed to the specific time period of Main Street. One of the first areas to do this was Main Street USA. Little by little, in the late 60's Disney finally began to add some area music to specific areas of the park. Several attraction queue areas did have music loops, but again these were on average about three minutes long, located within such E Ticket attractions as It's a Small World, and Pirates of the Caribbean. No hour long prerecorded loops could be heard within an entire large area like you hear today. ![]() There were bandstands located literally around every corner of Disneyland. Oddly, Tomorrowland had no such loop.Īll of the music heard in the park in the 50's and 60's was provided by live musicians. Frontierland had a old time banjo song that repeated over and over, and Adventureland had sounds of jungle animals and native warrior drums. This loop was meant to set the mood as guests entered Fantasyland, and in the early days, both the Frontierland and Adventureland entry portals had a very similar loop used to set the mood for entering those lands. This one song repeated over and over all day long, and still does. ![]() One of these, that remains in Disneyland to this day, is the original soundtrack version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" heard as you pass through Sleeping Beauty Castle. There were a few short music loops as well. ![]()
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