Hi everyone. I have been keeping this journal here on DisneyChris.com since 2013, so that anyone interesting in tracking my audio editing and web design adventures will have an easy means to do so. In 2017 I began doing these updates in video format on my YouTube channel "DisneyChrisDotCom" and Melonie Bush has been providing show notes for these videos. On this blog and in these videos, I discusss all the changes and additions I am making to the website, including an insider's look into all that goes into my audio editing work. I will provide insight on the process of editing my audio tracks, the reasoning behind my artistic choices and the work involved in creating this audio for your listening pleasure. I may also share with you some personal antecdotes along the way. In general, this is to be a "sort-of" look inside my thoughts and the inner workings of how DisneyChris.com is being developed over time. I am also interested in your thoughts and opinions. You are welcome to respond to my blog by contacting me via email at DCLyndon@gmail.com. I will respond to any of your emailed questions or comments either within the blog or in a private email response. Just let me know if you choose to be anynomous. You can scroll to the bottom of this page to go back in time to read up on what you may have missed in the past, or you can just start with today's blog post and read or watch the videos from here forward. The choice is yours. Enjoy!
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6/1/19 Vlog Update
5/1/19 Vlog Update Show Notes by Ryan Komitor
4/1/19 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Ryan Komitor
No this not an April Fool’s Joke! ;) Hello everybody, and happy April! It’s time for another monthly update on DisneyChris and the Magical Audio Tour. It’s the month of Easter so we’ll be showing how you can participate in the festivities through the site. Also we’re going to give you a sneak peek into a brand new chapter being added for the Magical Audio Tour.
Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge The new land will be opening at Disneyland Resort on May 31st, and to coincide with this the intention is to have the newest chapter of the Magical Audio Tour available on May 31st, regardless of whether the audio is fully done. If the audio is not finished by then the unfinished tracks will be added at a later date. Keep in mind that it can take a while to work on each track due to strict but necessary quality control measures.
Special Announcement We are pleased to announce that the Jiminy Crickets! Podcast has become a member of Roarbots. Roarbots is a podcast and article network that is “a celebration of geek culture, representing a diversity of voices that covers a broad swath of the nerdy landscape. Fair warning: Our working definition of “geek culture” is constantly evolving, so you’ll likely see us geek out about everything from movies, games, and toys to food and travel destinations.” Both the normal Jiminy Crickets! Podcast and its news based sister show Dateline Jiminy Crickets! are included. An episode will be posted every Thursday, but rest assured that this will not involve a lowering of the quality and standard that Chris and Ruthie have strived for. Rather, during weeks when new podcasts are not released (one week a month) an archival release from the ever growing archive of past releases will be released onto their site. If you want to look more into Roarbots you can check them out at https://theroarbots.com/. The podcasts will of course still be available via https://jcricketspodcast.blogspot.com/ as well as iTunes and Stitcher.
Easter Fun! Throughout the month of April we will be having Easter related content on the site as well as Chris’ social media. Check him out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisneyChris73 and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyChrisDotCom for this and lots more content. Chris also has two Facebook groups: Disney Music Fans and the Jiminy Crickets Podcast, so if you have any interest in either (and aren’t trying to sell something ;)) please make sure to contact Chris and he’ll get you set up. Between April 10-21 the Disney Song of the Day will have a “Countdown to Easter” event, where each day has Easter themed songs. And of course the remainder of the month will have a normal Disney Song of the Day. On Facebook and Twitter Chris will also be sharing vintage Disney Easter photos throughout this time. Chris wants to point out that he has a decade long backlog of Easter images available, and while he gives credit where it is due, 99% of the time he does not know who created the original images
Holiday Time in Disneyland – Happy Easter Being that time of year, Chris has moved the Easter tracks up on the Holiday Time in Disneyland chapter, and the St. Patrick’s Day tracks have been moved down. 10 hopping tracks for your enjoyment!
Disneyland Magical Audio Tour April 2019 Updates Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Yes it’s that time. Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge promises to be a major addition to the park(s), and it only seems appropriate that such a big new chapter in Disneyland necessitates a new chapter of the Magical Audio Tour! Chris began work on this chapter around mid-February, and work has steadily progressed behind the scenes to get it ready in time for the launch of the new land itself. Originally Chris was simply doing preliminary work on it, however when Disney announced the land’s opening for late-May, Chris decided to pause all other work and focus exclusively on the new chapter. This chapter is a one-stop station; a celebration of Star Wars, of both the films as well as the association between Disney and Star Wars that long predates the 2012 buyout of Lucasfilm. The page itself is currently up, but the actual content will be launched later so please be patient. And with that, it’s time for an exclusive sneak peak of what is to come…
Section 1: A Long Time Ago… 1977-1985 This section is devoted to pre-Star Tours era content, and shows how Disney became affiliated with the franchise and George Lucas Star Wars: A New Hope - Musical Score Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Musical Score Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Musical Score Highlights from the now classic scores for the original trilogy films, composed by John Williams. The Space Stage: Meco The Space Stage: Halyx Two performers who were inspired by the music of Star Wars who played at Disneyland in the 1970’s and the 1980’s. Meco had a hit disco style cover of the Star Wars theme. Buena Vista Records - The Story of Star Wars Buena Vista Records - The Story of The Empire Strikes Back Buena Vista Records - Star Wars: Rebel Mission to Ord Mandell Buena Vista Records - The Story of Return of the Jedi Disneyland Records - Star Wars Disneyland Records - The Empire Strikes Back Disneyland Records - Droid World Disneyland Records - Planet of the Hoojibs Disneyland Records - Return of the Jedi Disneyland Records - The Ewoks Join the Fight Disneyland Records - The Ewok Adventure Disneyland Records - Ewoks: The Battle for Endor Disneyland Records - Star Wars: Adventures in ABC Disneyland Records - Star Wars: Adventures in Colors and Shapes It all began with the above albums. These represent the earliest collaborations between Disney and Lucasfilm and thus are included here for posterity. The first 4 are long playing records (about 35 minutes each) whereas the remainder are “read-alongs” which are about 10 minutes each. The Sounds of Outerspace This is a 1981 sound effects album inspired by the sounds of Star Wars. This also concluded a 17 year run of sound effects albums on Disneyland Records that began with “Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House” in 1964 (also included elsewhere on the DisneyChris site). America Sings - Geese Quartet Included here as two of the Geese later became droids in Star Tours. Tough way to make a living.
Section 2: The Adventure is Real 1986-2011 This section (named after the publicity tagline) covers the period between the creation of Star Tours and the last years of the George Lucas era of Star Wars/Lucasfilm and the original Star Tours. Included is rare promotional and press material, background music, musical scores, sound effects, ride-throughs and more! Mickey’s Space Fantasy: Tomorrowland / Star Wars Theme George Lucas’ Star Wars TV Special Star Tours Press Package Interviews Star Tours Press Conference Star Tours Interplanetary Launch Preview Party Star Tours Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Star Tours TV Commercial Star Tours Spaceport - PeopleMover Preview Star Tours - Tomorrowland Spaceport K-DROID Radio The Droid Rooms Star Tours Loading Dock Star Tours StarSpeeder 3000 Flight to Endor Star Tours Exit Corridor Star Tours Musical Score The Star Trader - Area Background Music Jedi Training Academy - Area Background Music Jedi Training Academy All-American College Band - Star Wars Theme
Section 3: The Adventures Continue 2011-2018 In 2011 a new version of Star Tours called “Star Tours: The Adventures Continue” was introduced, serving as a prequel to the original and likewise including material from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Just a year later in 2012 Star Wars/Lucasfilm was sold to The Walt Disney Corporation, officially making them members of the Disney family. Star Tours: The Adventure Continues - Grand Opening Ceremony Inside Star Wars: The Adventure Continues Darth Vader Visits Disneyland - TV Commercial Star Tours: The Adventure Continues - TV Commercial Star Tours: The Adventure Continues - Area Background Music Star Tours: The Adventure Continues - Travel & Tourism Ads Star Tours: The Adventure Continues - Spaceport Music Droid Repair Bay RX-24 Pilot Droid Droid Sector G2-9T Luggage Scanner Droid Star Tours: The Adventure Continues - In-Flight Musical Score Stormtrooper Guest Introduction When You Wish Upon a Death Star RunDisney - Star Wars Half Marathon Rare promotional and press material, background music, musical scores, sound effects, ride-throughs and more! Season of the Force - TV Commercial Season of the Force - Area Background Music This was a special overlay of Tomorrowland with a Star Wars theme. Star Wars: Launch Bay - Area Background Music Star Wars: Launch Bay - Cantina Bar Dark Side Gallery: Commander on the Bridge - Darth Vader Dark Side Gallery: Commander on the Bridge - Kylo Ren Light Side Gallery: Wookie on the Bridge - Chewbacca Star Wars: Launch Bay - Rogue One Preview In 2015 the Innoventions attraction was replaced by the new “Star Wars: Launch Bay” attraction. Tomorrowland Theater - Path of the Jedi Hyperspace Mountain Jedi Training Academy - Trials of the Temple March of the First Order Disneyland After Dark: Star Wars Nite
Section 4: Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge 2019 In 2019 Disney launched a brand new land many years in the making, promising one of the most immersive experiences yet experienced in a theme park. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge - John Williams Theme Aye, there’s the rub. Galaxy’s Edge has not opened yet so the content that can be provided for it is, shall we say, limited and that’s why Chris is putting a call out to those who may have any audio material that they would like to share with the site. Contact info can be found near the top of the Audio Editor’s Blog. Setting up the chapter was more difficult than it would seem, as it involved tedious work renumbering and rearranging everything to facilitate the placement of a new chapter. Chris would like to give a shoutout to an anonymous friend of his who helps him in situations such as these. It is greatly appreciated! In addition, there will be a continuous play feature at the bottom, just like all the other chapters. We’re excited to bring this new chapter to you. Please be patient as Chris continues to work on this new content for a late May launch. In the meantime there are many other chapters that you can check out if you need a Disney park music fix. Thank you for joining us for the April 1st update. Chris was nice and decided to not play an April Fool’s joke on you all, everything that’s here is actually happening. It’s going to be an exciting couple of months coming up so make sure to tune-in to the next audio editor’s blog on May 1st. Have a wonderful Easter and/or related holidays, and we’ll see you soon! TTFN!
3/1/19 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Ryan Komitor
Hello everybody, and happy March! It’s time for another monthly update on DisneyChris and the Magical Audio Tour. Just a quick reminder that updates are now being released at the start of each month. It’s the month of St. Patrick’s Day so as a result that is the theme of the month! Chris even decided to make a special title card for this month’s update with this theme. We’ll be going over some of the fun things that you can do to get into the spirit, as well as the going’s on with the site in general.
Special Announcement We are pleased to announce that the Jiminy Crickets! Podcast has become a member of Roarbots. Roarbots is a podcast and article network that is “a celebration of geek culture, representing a diversity of voices that covers a broad swath of the nerdy landscape. Fair warning: Our working definition of “geek culture” is constantly evolving, so you’ll likely see us geek out about everything from movies, games, and toys to food and travel destinations.” Both the normal Jiminy Crickets! Podcast and its news based sister show Dateline Jiminy Crickets! are included. An episode will be posted every Thursday, but rest assured that this will not involve a lowering of the quality and standard that Chris and Ruthie have strived for. Rather, during weeks when new podcasts are not released (one week a month) an archival release from the ever growing archive of past releases will be released onto their site. If you want to look more into Roarbots you can check them out at https://theroarbots.com/. The podcasts will of course still be available via https://jcricketspodcast.blogspot.com/ as well as iTunes and Stitcher.
St. Patrick’s Day Fun! Holiday Time in Disneyland – Happy St. Patrick’s Day Being that time of year Chris has moved the St. Patrick’s Day tracks up on the Holiday Time in Disneyland chapter, and the Valentine’s Day tracks have been moved down. Admittedly not all of the tracks are purely St. Patrick’s Day related and those are more a general Irish theme, but we hope you enjoy them! 8 tracks from end to end of the rainbow.
Song of the Day Archive Between March 11-17 the Song of the Day will be either Irish or St. Patrick’s Day themed with a Disney connection. The rest of the month will be a standard Disney song as usual.
Jiminy Crickets! Podcast – From the Archives If you want to further get into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit Chris recommends Episode 62 of the Jiminy Crickets! Podcast: “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” which can be found here as well as the other usual places, and make sure to check out some of the other legacy episodes too: https://jcricketspodcast.blogspot.com/2017/03/episode-62-darby-ogill-and-little-people.html
Disneyland Magical Audio Tour cont. March 2019 Updates Chris has been quite busy the last month and has made great headway in finishing the Welcome to Disneyland chapter. Out of 40 odd tracks 17 are now done, with more on the way.* The finished tracks include:
Meanwhile the list of tracks that are still being worked on are as follows
For more detail on these tracks make sure to read the February 2019 show notes. Chris hopes to be done with the vast majority of these tracks by the end of March, but has said that realistically he knows this could change at a moment’s notice, since he is incredibly busy with the podcast and his social media presence. *A quick update. Since the March video went out Disney unveiled the whole hoo-ha surrounding the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge expansion at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Since the opening dates were officially announced, and they are much earlier than originally rumored, he decided to immediately pause work on the “Welcome to Disneyland” chapter. and work on his new chapter exclusively devoted to Star Wars in order to have it ready in time for the grand opening on May 31st. We hope to provide more info on what this entails in April at the earliest so please stay tuned! We hope that everybody has a very happy and wonderful St. Patrick’s Day and we hope that these additions will help get you into the Irish spirit. The next update will be at the start of April so we hope to see you then. TTFN!
2/1/19 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Ryan Komitor
Hello everybody, and happy February! It’s been a while, and there’s a reason for that. As of the last update back in January, Chris will be doing something a little different for 2019 where, rather than posting audio blogs bi-weekly, they will now be done at the start of each month! You probably guessed based on the special banner for this episode but February means Valentine’s Day, so a lot of this month’s audio blog will be about the new Valentine’s Day content Chris will be adding to the site. Things have been incredibly busy the past month for both the Magical Audio Tour and the site as a whole, so there are lots of updates to share. Let’s cut right to the chase and talk about the new Valentine’s content.
Song of the Day Archive For February, the Song of the Day entries will be devoted to Disney Love Songs to fit into the Valentine’s spirit! This is the 5th year of Song of the Day and the month begins with Barbra Streisand’s cover of “Someday My Prince Will Come” from the 2005 Disney themed Make A Wish Foundation album “Wishes”, inspired by the fireworks show of the same name. Barbra being such a legendary singer made her a perfect choice to kickstart the month, and of course each day a new love song will be added throughout the month. Impatient for a love song fix? DisneyChris also has an archive of the past couple years’ (2017-2018) worth of February Song of the Day entries so be sure to check those out as well. Clicking on those pages gives you a continual play option as well as selecting individual tracks. Great for a boring day at work, but perhaps best to use headphones if it’s allowed, just in case the boss walks in. ;)
Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Holiday Time in Disneyland – Happy Valentine’s Day Another option for Valentine’s Day music is on the Magical Audio Tour. Since Valentine’s Day is the most current holiday these entries have been moved up on the Holiday Time in Disneyland chapter to near the top. 7 tracks of park related Valentine’s goodness. Like chocolate but without the potential toothache. Like Song of the Day each chapter has a continual play option in addition to the individual track selections.
Jiminy Crickets! Podcast In time for Valentine’s Day is Episode 105 of the Jiminy Crickets! Podcast, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Sleeping Beauty. Chris and Ruthie go over everything you would want to know about the making of this classic animated love story. Check out this and many more podcasts on https://jcricketspodcast.blogspot.com/ as well as iTunes and Stitcher.
Disneyland Magical Audio Tour February 2019 Updates Lots of things are in the works here at DisneyChris. Focus has largely been on Chapter One, Welcome to Disneyland, for the past few months, and things are ready to be unleashed. You may have noticed since the end of last year that there were a lot of “Coming Soon” entries on that page in particular because of this, and now Chris’ work in restoring and editing the audio has nearly been finalized. What this means is that over the next month or so the new (or in some cases, updates of existing entries) tracks will be added. Chris will let you know on both his Facebook and Twitter when tracks are uploaded. The reason why it can take months between a Coming Soon spot and final upload is not merely the volume of tracks, but Chris’ thorough quality control procedures which ends with a final listen-through of each edited track to check for any remaining glitches should they exist. In all 41 tracks are to be added; 35 brand new and 6 updates of previously existing tracks. Here is a full list of the tracks as well as more details on selected tracks
This one required a lot of work and fun editing to sound good, as it was a live broadcast. The results should be worth it however.
There was a version of Disneyland ’59 in theaters called “Gala Day at Disneyland”, however it was a bit too perfectly edited and presented so Chris wanted to use the Kodak sponsored ABC TV special instead. Chris spent a lot of time further working on the audio for the site and editing out commercials and making transitions from one section to the next. For those who would like to hear “Gala Day at Disneyland”, it’s available as Chapter 1, Track 32.
While both tracks previously existed on the site in some form, Chris has decided to go back and tackle these anew using the latest restoration tools and techniques. The original versions were already on the TV Land chapter but the difference here is not only the improved audio, but also that unlike on the TV chapter, here they will be combined into single tracks rather than in sections.
There was 1 song on this that had a truncated start, however Chris was able to locate the original uncut track so that the intro has been restored.
These 2 tracks were unearthed a couple years ago in poor quality. Originally Chris didn’t intend on including them but decided they were interesting enough to include after working to improve the sound. The Kennel Club loop is a reconstruction from the original records used at the time. The last track was truncated but luckily other tracks included on the album it was from were also used in the Main Gate Loop from around the same time, so it was able to be located.
This is going to be a fun track. It’s going to be a mix of 50’s and 60’s songs about souvenirs. While it doesn’t have much to do with Disney, Chris is a huge fan of this era of music and wanted to include context of what people were listening to at this time. Chris also included the ringing of a cash register as a transition between each track.
A short commercial from the early 1980’s about Disney’s Unlimited Passport program.
Elements of Tracks 71 & 73 were already on the site as 1 single track, but Chris decided to expand them and add a third track as well. A major reason for the change was originally what will be Track 71 ended the track, and had a film projector sound overtop to give the impression of watching a training film. Chris became increasingly unhappy with this decision so he has made the changes as seen above. Track 72 is another Jack Wagner narrated track. As the “voice of Disney” from the early 1970’s into the early 1990’s, aside from his duties as park announcer and curating music loops he was also often hired to do narrations for Disney’s internal films & slideshows for employees & cast members, and this is yet another example. It’s an almost ludicrously detailed track for new cast members so it will be a fun listen.
Early 1990’s training video for cast members.
This is actually based on a loop that plays for the Magical Express airport bus lines in Walt Disney World, however the tracks are also used in closed circuit broadcasts in the Team Disney Anaheim lobby, so Chris really wanted to include this. Think of it as “artistic license”. ;)
This is a brand new section devoted to audio from films and videos released to members of the Magic Kingdom Club national travel discount program offered to employees of large corporations. Most stuff that doesn’t involve Disneyland has been edited out, but rest assured, there’s a lot of Disneyland material here.
On “The Wonderful World of Disney” TV related chapter as well as the Anniversary chapter there’s a lot of tracks devoted to commercials and related items. This is a combination of most of them in one place. This is from 1980 to the present day.
This is a news spot issued by Disney to local TV stations to inform the public about the then new Disney Dollars program. To fill it out Chris added “We’re In The Money” as background music, which is most appropriate.
These 3 are being added to have more Main Gate material other than the Disneyland Band track which was already on the site.
This is now the authentic audio. The older version was pieced together using Walt Disney World and Disney Home video materials.
After the Magic Kingdom Club disbanded in 2001 DVD’s such as this were sent out to anyone interested in planning for their vacations.
Music only segments from the 2017 D23 Expo.
This is the most recent loop, replacing the one that played beginning in the early 2000’s.
A special loop that played in the summer of 2018 for Pixar Fest
Mix of tracks used for Annual Passholder Days. Chris decided to include it here even though the actual event was held at the Starcade in Tomorrowland.
Chris originally didn’t want to go down the proverbial rabbit hole of Downtown Disney, but as it’s such an integral part of Disneyland’s history now he decided to include some tracks from there. Another reason is that recently proper music loops have been added where before generic music was played. In the case of the 2018 World of Disney loop, Chris only has 3 songs from it currently as a full tracklist has yet to be ID’d, so unless Chris is able to find out what the other tracks are, he will just include the 3 tracks and replace it when the full loop is found.
These 2 tracks are replacements for a previous track (Chris can’t remember the name now) which combined Disney related pop songs with tracks created by Disney. Chris decided to split them into 2 tracks. “Disneyland Jukebox” is a collection of rock & pop songs by people about Disneyland, and admittedly some of the songs are negative towards the park. After some deliberation it was decided to include them anyway. Meanwhile, “Songs of Tribute” is about songs that are used in celebration and in tribute to the park, and is the concluding track for the chapter.
Whew, that’s all the updates coming through February. Hopefully everyone enjoyed this peak behind the curtain into the goings-on here at DisneyChris. Also even though these notes should go out after Valentine’s Day has occurred, Chris nevertheless recommends that those who find themselves single on that day have a fun day for themselves, and I wholeheartedly agree. It’s a day to have fun in general whether you’re freshly out of a relationship or have been happily married for decades, just have fun! Again, the next update will be at the start of March so hope to see you then! TTFN!
1/1/19 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford Happy New Year from Disney Chris! Happy New Year Disney music lovers! Chris has been hard at work all December long finishing up the Christmas chapter, but despite the feverish pace the end of the year found him three tracks shy of fully editing Chapter 22 - Christmas Time in Disneyland. Oh well, that just means something to look forward to next Christmas! We’ll get into the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour a bit later, but first let’s see what’s new with the Jiminy Crickets Podcast: Jiminy Crickets Podcast Update The live show hasn’t turned out to be what Chris and Ruthie envisioned. There have been many technical challenges, copyright issues with posting the cartoon commentary piece, and lack of participation in the live audience. There were some faithful participants and Chris and Ruthie would like to sincerely thank those dedicated Cricketeers for their support and interaction during the live show. Many listeners just preferred catching the live show after it was posted, and that’s totally OK! So going forward the live show will be eliminated and replaced with a YouTube show that will focus on Disney news and current events with one additional segment that was introduced on the live show. This segment will rotate between The Top 10, Disney book reviews, Disney Doin’s and other fun productions. The new format will be pre-recorded every other Wednesday and made available the following day on DisneyChris’s YouTube channel at 8pm Eastern Time. The first episode was recorded and uploaded on Thursday, January 10th. Go on over to the channel and catch up on all the recent events happening at the Disney parks around the world. The regular Jiminy Crickets podcast will still be released once per month and Chris and Ruthie have also planned three additional music shows. These bonus episodes will be released in February, July and September! Chris has also decided to make exclusive podcast content available for Patreon subscribers! Selected subscribers will be given a chance to participate in “The D Show”, a Disney trivia game for the consummate Disney nerd! Chris and Ruthie will also continue to record Cartoon Commentaries for subscribers as well. As these shows are recorded and posted to the Patreon site, Chris will provide a link to all subscribers. Consider this an added incentive to subscribe today! For as little as $1 per month you can get access to this exclusive content as well as special musical selections Chris will send to all of his friends who contribute. Click here to donate to this unique place of Disney music and magic! Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Let’s review all of the track updates Chris made to Chapter 22 – Christmas Time in Disneyland. Unless otherwise noted the update was essentially lengthening the track and/or cleaning up the audio. As Chris finds new audio to enhance tracks he will usually spend considerable effort adding this new material and enhancing the aural experience for the discriminating Disney audiophile! Track 38 – Charles Dickens Christmas Carolers Track 39 – The Dickens Yuletide Band Track 40 – The Holiday Brass Track 42 – The Dapper Dans – Holiday Medley; all new musical selections with improved audio quality with special assistance from a barbershop quartet loving Patreon subscriber! Track 43 – Coke Corner Pianist – Holiday Medley Track 44 – ‘Tis the Season Handbell Carolers Track 52 – The Disneyland Hotel – Holiday Area Background Music Track 55 – Jingle Cruise – Queue Area Background Music; completely redone 1.5 hour musical loop of the now “retired” holiday overlay…bring it back, bring it back! Track 57 – The Rivers of America – Holiday Area Background Music Track 58 – The Blue Bayou – Holiday Area Background Music Track 70 – Frontierland – Holiday Area Background Music Track 71 – Big Thunder Ranch – Holiday Area Background Music Track 73 – Jingle Jangle Jamboree – Billy Hill and the Hillbillies; not original music by the popular and hilarious Golden Horseshoe ensemble, but a nice compilation of holiday music in that infectious Kentucky Bluegrass style Track 74 – Bear Country – Holiday Area Background Music Track 86 – Mickey’s Night Before Christmas; this is currently the Walt Disney World version of the show. Chris is working with a former cast member who performed in the Disneyland version and will do his best to get it posted next year. Track 87 – The Magic of Christmas Track 89 – Mickey’s Nutcracker Track 94 – Sleeping Beauty Castle – Winter Castle Lighting Ceremony Lastly, Chris added five new versions of the Candlelight Processional and is now just missing two versions of the annual classic: Jack Wagner and Howard Keel. These will be available next year! To close out this update, Chris shared his “to do” list to finish up Chapter 1 so expect a lot of great new additions to that chapter in the coming weeks. As usual (and my pleasure of course!) I will summarize all of the new content and additions in the next update. Have a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
12/1/18 Vlog Update Show Notes by Brian Crawford Christmas at DisneyChris.com! Christmas and the Holiday season are now in full swing and there is a lot to celebrate on DisneyChris.com! The site has been beautifully transformed into a Winter Wonderland! Let's start with the Disney Song of the Day! Each day, Chris will post a holiday favorite so be sure to click the link and see what surprises are in store. Chris has also been busy preparing for the next episode of Jiminy Crickets Live! On December 12th at 8pm EST be sure to tune it to Chris's YouTube channel for a special episode celebrating the 35th anniversary of “Mickey's Christmas Carol.” Later in December the regular podcast will do a deep dive into “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year! Over on his social media accounts, Facebook (Chris Lyndon) and Twitter (@DisneyChris73), Chris has been posting four daily photos from December 1st continuing through December 25th for a total of 100 classic Disney Christmas pictures featuring beloved characters and vintage Disneyland glory! Lastly, before we get into the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Update, Chris is accepting votes for the 2018 Disney song of the year. Email Chris at dclyndon@gmail.com or send a message via Twitter (@DisneyChris73) with your selection today, but “Mary Poppins Returns” hasn't been released yet, so you may want to wait a few more days to decide... Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Following Christmas of course, is New Year's Day and Chris has bumped up the playlist for songs celebrating this holiday to the top of the playlist in Chapter 23 - Holiday Time in Disneyland. Go check out tracks 3 -13 including the new track: The Dapper Dans - New Year's Medley featuring "Auld Lang Syne" and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve". Now let's get into all the improvements Chris has made to Chapter 22 - Christmas Time in Disneyland: Track 6 - Parade of Many Lands: Chris made improvements to the end of this track Track 17 - Kids of the Kingdom - Christmas Medley: Improved the final song sung by this group of lively young performers. Track 22 - Christmas 1987 - Very Merry TV Commercial: Incorporated better audio Track 37 - The Disneyland Band - Christmas Concert: Full orchestrated marching band that nearly replicates the iconic Disneyland Band Track 41 - Saxophone Quintet - Holiday Medley: This is actually the quartet from Tokyo Disneyland but portrays a similar sound to these Main Street musicians Track 43, 44 - Coke Corner Pianist - Holiday Medley; 'Tis the Season Handbell Carolers: Chris is working on these tracks and will be loaded soon. Be sure to follow Chris on social media to find out the minute these two unique holiday tracks will be available. (Update: These tracks are now available) Track 45 - Plaza Gardens Big Band Christmas: Authentic two hour track of actual bands that have played at the historic pavilion Track 47 - Christmas Fanfare Trumpeters: One song, looped to extend the track and similar in sound to the actual Candlelight Processional highlight Track 53 - Downtown Disney Holiday Area Background Music: A loop unique from the Esplanade that features the vintage Christmas sound of favorites like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Burl Ives. Perfect accompaniment to holiday shopping! Track 59, 60 - (New Orleans Square) Bayou Brass Band - Holiday Medley; Side Street Strutters - Holiday Medley: Two fantastic, authentic tracks featuring our yuletide favorites with that classic New Orleans jazzy flair Track 61 - Jambalaya Jazz Band - Holiday Medley: Another sound-a-like performance of the in-house ensemble playing holiday favorites Track 66 - Haunted Mansion Holiday Scream-Along: Chris added this from the Halloween section of Chapter 23 but it fits here Track 78 - Liver Lips McGrowl - Elvis Christmas Medley: The classic Liver Lips holiday impersonation of the King plus some songs sung by the real deal Track 79 - Pooh Corner - Christmas Meet and Greet: Music to represent this popular holiday tradition at Disneyland Track 86 - Mickey's Night Before Christmas: COMING SOON - Disneyland's first Christmas themed character stage show based on the traditional poem. Chris has audio from the Magic Kingdom version of this show, but has plans to receive the actual audio from a cast member who performed in the Disneyland version Track 95 - 1962 Candlelight Processional: This track is ready, but Chris has plans to offer other years of the wonderful annual production that is celebrating its Diamond Anniversary this year Become a Supporter Today! Recently, Chris generously provided a downloadable album to all of his Patreon and PayPal subscribers and those who volunteer their time and effort to the website and/or podcast. This album, titled "A Very Vintage Christmas in Disneyland" includes Tracks 1 - 18 of Chapter 23 - Holiday Time in Disneyland, the background music that you are listening to in this vlog update, "Main Street Holiday Area Music - Disneyland 1972", and concludes with the 1962 Candlelight Processional finale - straight from the episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, "Holiday Time in Disneyland" aired in December of 1962. Become a subscriber today (at any amount) and Chris will send you a copy of this album and plenty of other surprises each month! Click here to donate to this unique place of Disney music and magic! That's all for this update! Everyone enjoy a joyous Holiday and Christmas season!
11/9/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford The Holidays are Coming to DisneyChris.com! Hopefully everyone had a great Halloween, and now that the costumes have been put away, and the candy consumed, it's time to focus on Christmas season and the other holidays that occur this time of year! Chris has a lot in store for the site during the next several weeks and we'll get to that in just a bit. First, Chris hopes all of his friends are enjoying the special Mickey Mouse 90th Birthday content on his site and social media pages. He is posting a Mickey Song of the Day on DisneyChris.com as well as three special Mickey Mouse photos daily to Facebook (Chris Lyndon) and Twitter (@DisneyChris73). So go get your Mickey Mouse birthday celebration on by diving into the content Chris has so generously put out there. Shameless plug for our family celebration: we're going to Walt Disney World and will be in the Magic Kingdom on Mickey's Birthday (Nov 18th)! I'll post some of the park celebrations to my Instagram account: @disneycaveman, so give me a follow! Let's move on to what's new in the Audio Tour.... Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Over in Chapter 1: Welcome to Disneyland Chris has added some new tracks. First is Track 5 - Griffith Park Carousel which features Band Organ music from the famous Los Angeles carousel where Walt would often take his daughters on Sunday afternoons. Chris was able to acquire a recording of songs played on a Stinson Model 87 Wurlitzer, the exact same model Walt Disney would have been listening to when dreaming up the idea for Disneyland sitting on that park bench in Griffith Park. It's this type of unique content that really makes me excited to be a friend and supporter of DisneyChris.com! Chris made some changes to "Track 7 - Disneyland Theme" by removing the instrumental portion of the Oliver Wallace composition and presenting just the goose-bump inducing vocal arrangement on this track. The instrumental portion can now be found on "Track 11 - The Disneyland Sound" which showcases the classic mid-century Disneyland sound that is sure to please any fan that enjoys the vintage sound of the Disneyland of yesteryear. The next item on Chris's agenda is to tackle all of the rest of the "Coming Soon" offerings in Chapter 1, but first.... Christmas is Coming!!! Chris has quite a bit of audio to add or update to Chapter 22: Christmas Time in Disneyland, 31 tracks in total, which he plans to finish during the season this year. The additions are the tracks that are marked "Coming Soon" and here are a few highlights (OK...these are the tracks I'm most looking forward to...lol!): The Disneyland Band - Christmas Concert Coke Corner Pianist - Holiday Medley Plaza Gardens - Big Band Christmas Jambalaya Jazz Band - Holiday Medley Several Candlelight Processionals ...and the single most noteworthy gift that will be contributed to all of the world this holiday season: Liver Lips McGrowl - Elvis Christmas Special! Among the tracks that are getting improvements are (OK...guilty again, I'm looking forward to these most!): Charles Dickens Christmas Carolers The Dapper Dans - Holiday Medley The Jingle Cruise - Queue Area Background Music (I'm listening now...and it's chocked full of 40s era classics...AWESOME!) Jingle Jangle Jamboree - Billy Hill and the Hillbillies (I've literally died twice from laughter during this show) Also, not to completely discount Thanksgiving, Chris has included a special tribute to our favorite pig out holiday in Chapter 23: Holiday Time in Disneyland. Listen to Tracks 3-7 for some gobble-gobble-riffic music! Other Happenings at DisneyChris.com Also coming in December is the Disney Song of the Day - Christmas themed! We can expect some fun Christmas content over on the Jiminy Crickets! and Jiminy Crickets Live in the coming weeks, too! Lastly, be sure to follow Chris on Facebook (Chris Lyndon) and Twitter (@DisneyChris73) for special Christmas art and park photos all season long. Chris also sends updates via social media when he loads any new audio to the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour. That's all for this update! Enjoy the season with family and friends!
10/13/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford A Navigational Tour of DisneyChris.com
I hope everyone is enjoying the Fall season and is looking forward to sharing a fun Halloween with family and friends. Chris hasn't added any new audio to the website since the last vlog update, so he decided to give us all a Grand Circle Tour of DisneyChris.com. Let's join Chris and re-familiarize ourselves with all the wonderful music and audio on the site, and maybe we'll even make some new discoveries! There is so much content that it's entirely possible you'll come across some new gems that will become your favorites! I'm not going to steal Chris's thunder as he goes through the site in wonderful detail, so I'll just provide a few highlights of the tour you can find on the home page:
Song of the Day - Currently Chris is featuring Halloween songs of the day during the month of October. Jiminy Crickets Podcast - Links are on the homepage so you can navigate to episodes of both the Live Podcast and the Regular Show. Chris is also a cohost on Sideshow Sound Theater’s “Mouse Music” and a link to that podcast is presented here as well. Chapter Links of the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour - You can navigate to any one of the 27 chapters in this section of the homepage. Song of the Year - Each year, Chris chooses a Disney song that he believes is representative of that year. Right now, Chris is looking for input as to what you think the song of 2018 should be! Email him with your choice! Disneyland Story - In this section you can navigate to a behind-the-scenes history of Disneyland Park through archival photos. Donate to the Site/Patreon Subscriber - Click here to become a Patreon subscriber or make a one- time donation to the site. Chris is very generous in supplying audio for personal use to his subscribers!
After Chris goes over the homepage he dives right into the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour. Here are a few highlights: The consistent layout of chapters How color schemes and Mickey Mouse's wardrobe is chosen Each track has corresponding photos and liner notes How to play tracks and adjust the volume The Continual Play Feature (found after the last track on each chapter) Easy navigation to other chapters by visiting the "Welcome to the Hub" or using "Previous" or "Next" navigational tools near the top of each chapter Join Chris on this fun tour and learn about all of the great audio on his site. I've been taking advantage of Chris's labor of love for a few years now, and after listening to this vlog I came across a couple of discoveries such as audio from recent parades and several versions of the Mark Twain Riverboat spiel. What will you discover? Listen to the vlog and be amazed. That's all for now!
9/25/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford Happy Halloween! Happy October DisneyChris.com fans! How do you celebrate this haunted time of year? For me, it's 31 days of Ichabod Crane! The Disney version of Legend of Sleepy Hollow is my surefire way to get in the Halloween mood! OK, enough of me and on to happenings at DisneyChris.com. Chris has a lot of spooky surprises in store for Halloween month and we'll get into those in just a bit. First let's see what's new on the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour! Disneyland Magical Audio Tour It's been three weeks since our last update and Chris has spent much of that time working on Track 6 - A Magical Musical Celebration in Chapter 1: Welcome to Disneyland. Clocking in at a nearly 5 1/2 hours, this fantastic tribute to the music of our favorite Disney park contains 150 songs, easily making it the longest track on DisneyChris.com. So sit back and relax in your favorite chair (whether that's in your car, at your desk at work, or in your living room) and enjoy this trip down memory lane. Chris provides a few samples of the track in the vlog as well as a preview of the entire playlist. Read to the end of these notes to see the entire playlist so you can follow along as you listen! By the time we return for the next update Chris will have completed many of the "Coming Soon" tracks in Chapter 1 he's talked about in past vlogs. These include Track 5 - Griffith Park Carousel; Track 11 - The Disneyland Sound; Track 22 - Dateline Disneyland; Track 29 - Disneyland 10th Anniversary; Track 30 - Disneyland Around the Seasons; Track 35 - Disneyland 10th Anniversary Banquet and many more. Be sure to subscribe to Chris's YouTube channel: DisneyChrisDotCom, and click the bell so you can receive notifications for new vlogs, updates and when to tune in to the new live podcast: Jiminy Crickets Live! Lots of new music to be added including the long awaited and much clamored for Disneyland Railroad tracks! Stay tuned! Continual Play Feature A quick plug and reminder about the Continual Play feature at the end of every chapter in the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour. With this feature you can play each track in succession as well as jump to any track and play continually from that point. Not only does each chapter have a continual play feature, but so does each month of Song of the Day Archive! Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose any month as far back as January 2016. Disneyland Song of the Day - Halloween Month and Holiday Time Chapter With the arrival of October Chris has begun featuring a daily Halloween song to give your day a little spookage (is that a word?). If one song a day isn't enough head to the Song of the Day Archive and listen to past October songs! Go ahead and continue your Halloween celebration by hitting continual play and get in the holiday spirit. Want to relive the Halloweens of Disneyland past? Check out Chapter 23 - Holiday Time in Disneyland. The Halloween tracks are numbered 3 through 35. Scroll down to Continual Play and click track 3 and enjoy! Final Thoughts Special Halloween episodes of Jiminy Crickets and Jiminy Crickets Live will be coming your way all month. The next episode of Jiminy Crickets Live is October 10th at 9pm Eastern and is sure to feature some Halloween fun. Also, be sure to follow Chris on social media for special Halloween artwork, park photos, character shots and movie reviews! On Twitter @disneychris73 and on Facebook at Chris Lyndon. That's all for now! Have a great time listening and we'll see you real soon!
Disneyland – A Magical Musical Celebration
Introduction
1 – Fantasy in the Sky Fanfare 2 – Disneyland Introduction – The Happiest Place on Earth 3 – The Disneyland Railroad – Station Call / Leaving the Station
Town Square
4 – I’m Walkin’ Right Down the Middle of Main Street USA 5 – Horse Drawn Street Car – The Trolley Song 6 – Paragon Ragtime Orchestra – Old Timer’s Waltz 7 – The Voices of Liberty – Golden Dream 8 – Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln – Battle Hymn of the Republic
Main Street USA
9 – Main Street USA Introduction – Meet Me Down on Main Street 10 – Wonderland Music Store Player Piano – Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine 11 – The Main Street Cinema – Keystone Kapers (or Custard’s Last Stand) 12 – Saxophone Quartet – Minnie’s Yoo Hoo! 13 – Coke Corner Pianist – Maple Leaf Rag 14 – Penny Arcade Orchestrion – Semper Fidelis 15 – Main Street USA Area Music – Goodbye My Coney Island Baby 16 – The Dapper Dans – Dearie
Disneyland On Parade
17 – The Disneyland Band – Seventy-Six Trombones / Strike-Up the Band / King Mickey March 18 – America on Parade – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 19 – The Disneyland Parade Song 20 – Parade of the Stars
Central Plaza
21 – Plaza Inn Character Breakfast – Mickey Mouse March 22 – Ariel’s Grotto – Under the Sea 23 – The Pearly Band – A Spoonful of Sugar / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 24 – Carnation Plaza Gardens – Fantasy Follies
Adventureland
25 – Adventureland Introduction – Adventureland Song 26 – Enchanted Tiki Garden – Moonlight Time in Old Hawaii 27 – The Enchanted Tiki Room – In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Room 28 – Hawaiian Trio – Ko'ula 29 – The Royal Tahitians – Pupure 30 – Aladdin and Jasmine's StoryTale Adventures – Arabic Celebration 31 – Aladdin’s Oasis Dinner Show – Prince Ali 32 – Steel Drum Band – Adventureland Delight 33 – The Jungle Cruise – Native War Dance 34 – Jungle Cruise Boathouse – Sentimental Journey 35 – The Chamber of Destiny – Earthly Riches / Eternal Youth / Visions of the Future 36 – Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye – Theme from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” 37– Tarzan’s Treehouse – Trashin’ the Camp 38– Swiss Family Treehouse – Swisskapolka
New Orleans Square
39 – New Orleans Square Introduction – When the Band Plays Dixie in Disneyland 40 – The Royal Street Bachelors – Swanee River 41 – The Blue Bayou – Oh Susanna 42 – Pirates of the Caribbean – Yo Ho! Yo Ho! (A Pirate’s Life for Me) 43 – The Disney Gallery – A Spoonful of Sugar 44 – Rivers of America Waterfront – Original Dixieland One-Step 45 – The French Market – Le Jig Francais 46 – Jambalaya Jazz Band – Bourbon Street Parade 47 – The Haunted Mansion – Grim Grinning Ghosts
Frontierland
48 – Frontierland Stockade – Western Saloon 49 – Davy Crockett’s Pioneer Mercantile – The Ballad of Davy Crockett 50 – Frontierland Shooting Exposition – Bang! Went Old Betsy 51 – The Golden Horseshoe Revue – Hello Everybody / Pecos Bill 52 – Billy Hill and the Hillbillies – Mama Don’t Allow 53 – Mariachis De San Marcos – Ay, Jalisco, No Te Rajes (The Three Caballeros) 54 - Rainbow Ridge Mining Town – Honky Tonk Piano Medley 55 – Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland – All Aboard the Mine Train 56 – Rainbow Caverns – Ghostly Echoes 57 – Big Thunder Ridge – A Cowboy Needs a Horse 58 – Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – The Legend of Thunder Mountain 59 – Big Thunder Ranch – Woody’s Roundup
The Rivers of America
60 – Frontierland Landing – Goober Peas / Mark Twain Deck Calls 61 – The Mark Twain Steamboat – Here Comes the Old Mark Twain 62 – The Firehouse Five Plus Two – Milenberg Joys 63 – Fort Wilderness – Bugle Call 64 – Indian Village – Taos War Dance 65 – Tom Sawyer Island – Polly Wolly Doodle 66 – Mike Fink Keel Boats – Chicken Pickin’ Reel 67 – Sailing Ship Columbia – Blow Ye Winds 68 – The Bootstrappers – The Maid of Amsterdam (A-Rovin’)
Bear Country / Critter Country
69 – Critter Country Introduction – How Do You Do 70 – Splash Mountain – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 71 – The Bluegrass Boys – Foggy Mountain Breakdown 72 – Mile Long Bar – “Bearless” Love 73 – Country Bear Jamboree – Bear Band Serenade 74 – Country Bear Vacation Hoedown – The Great Outdoors 75 – The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – Winnie the Pooh
Fantasyland
76 – Fantasyland Introduction – Fantasy is a Land Here in Disneyland 77 – Sleeping Beauty Castle – When You Wish Upon a Star 78 – Castle Courtyard – Welcome to King Arthur’s Court 79 – King Arthur Carrousel – Once Upon a Dream 80 – Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Through – Once Upon a Dream / Maliceifent’s Theme 81 – Snow White’s Wishing Well – I’m Wishing 82 – Snow White’s Scary Adventures – Heigh-Ho 83 – Peter Pan’s Flight – You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! 84 – Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride – The Merrily Song (Nowhere in Particular) 85 – Pinocchio’s Daring Journey – Little Wooden Head / Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee 86 – The Village Haus – Mitenand Gaht's Besser 87 – Casey Jr. Circus Train – Casey Jr. 88 – Dumbo Flying Elephants – Pyramid of Pachyderms 89 – Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship – A Pirate’s Life / Never Smile at a Crocodile 90 – Storybook Land Canal Boats – Fantasyland Medley 91 – Alice in Wonderland – All in the Golden Afternoon / March of the Cards 92 – Mad Tea Party – The Unbirthday Song 93 – Matterhorn Bobsleds – Climb the Mountain 94 – Disneyland Yodeler – Alpaufzug 95 – Fantasyland Polka Band – Heigh-Ho/Whistle While You Work 96 – Topiary Gardens – It’s a Small World Clock Parade 97 – It’s a Small World – It’s a Small World
Videopolis Stage / Fantasyland Theatre
98 – Videopolis Stage – One Man’s Dream 99 – Videopolis Stage – Be Our Guest 100 – Princess Fantasy Faire – Coronation Welcome
Mickey’s Toontown
101 – The Sounds of Mickey’s Toontown 102 – Toontown Introduction – Welcome to Toontown 103 – W.A.C.K.Y. – Toontown Wacky Radio 104 – Toontown Brass – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf 105– Mickey’s Movie Barn – Steamboat Willie / Turkey in the Straw 106– Toontown Ally – Valiant and Valiant 107– Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin – Toontown Spin-Around / Maroon Cartoon
Tomorrowland
108 – Tomorrowland Introduction – Tomorrowland Song 109 – Star Tours – Star Tours Commercial / Star Wars Theme 110 – Star Tours Radio – The Droid Rooms 111 – Disneyland Monorail System – The Monorail Song 112 – Tomorrowland Autopia – Autopia Song 113 – Wedway PeopleMover Loading Platform – Go Go Goodyear 114 – Wedway PeopleMover – The PeopleMover Theme 115 – America Sings – Yankee Doodle / Stars and Stripes Forever 116 – The Kids of the Kingdom – Freedom 117 – All-Star College Band – All-Star College Band Theme 118 – America the Beautiful (Circle Vision 360) – America the Beautiful 119 – Disneyland Railroad: Grand Canyon Diorama – On the Trail 120 – Disneyland Railroad: Primeval World – Prelude to Mysterious Island 121 – 20K Leagues Under the Sea Exhibit – Captain Nemo’s Theme 122 – Submarine Voyage Through Liquid Space – Sailing, Sailing 123 – The Yachtsmen – A Whale of a Tale 124 – Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage – Beyond the Sea 125 – Adventure Though Inner Space – The Mighty Microscope / Miracles from Molecules 126 – Carousel of Progress – There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 127 – Magic Eye Theatre – Magic Journeys 128 – World Premiere Circle Vision – American Jorneys 129 – Honey I Shrunk the Audience – Imagination Institute 130 – Captain EO – Just Another Part of Me 131 – Tomorrowland Terrace – Club Buzz 132 – Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters – Strange Things Are Happening to Me 133 – Rocket Rods – Born to Be Wild 134 – The Observatron – Tomorrowland 2055 Theme 135 – Rocket to the Moon – Countdown and Blastoff 136 – Tomorrowland Spaceport – World of Tomorrow Theme 137 – The Star Trader – The Little Girl from Mars 138 – Space Mountain Concourse – Control Tower Com Chat 139 – Space Mountain – Space Mountain Theme
Disneyland After Dark
140 – Flag Retreat Ceremony – The Star Spangled Banner 141 – Carnation Plaza Gardens – Let’s Dance at Disneyland 142 – Videopolis – Videopolis Theme 143 – The Main Street Electrical Parade – Baroque Hoedown 144 – Fantasmic! – Theme from Fantasmic! 145 – Pixie Hollow – Tinkerbell End Title 146 – Fantasy in the Sky – Disney Medley 147 – Wurlitzer Music Store – When You Wish Upon a Star 148 – Disneyland Forever – A Kiss Goodnight 149 – Disneyland Closing Announcements – Mickey Mouse Club Alma Matter 150 – Grand Finale – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
9/1/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford "Jiminy Crickets Live!" Hello DisneyChris.com fans! It's been nearly a month since our last update and I'm certain that's given many of us a chance to soak up and enjoy all the changes to Chapter 1: Disneyland Main Gate. Recently, Chris has spent considerable time and effort getting familiar with some new podcasting software and this vlog update is the first time he's recorded a show using it; please excuse the growing pains. The main purpose for this new software is to begin a bi-weekly live podcast of Jiminy Crickets! More to come on that later. For now, let's see what's new on the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour. Song of the Day The Song of the Day is still being updated daily and on Mondays Chris continues to share a Mickey Mouse themed song in honor of his 90th birthday. Mondays in October will feature spooky Mickey songs and Mondays in December will have a holiday theme! In November we are in for a special treat. Mickey's birthday has been adopted by the Walt Disney Company as November 18th, 1928, the day Steamboat Willie was released at Universal's Colony Theatre in New York City. All November long we will enjoy classic Mickey Mouse songs along with some Minnie Mouse songs sprinkled in! She made her debut alongside Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, and so they share the same birthday. They've been a happy couple ever since! Speaking of Mickey's birthday, you can always enjoy special 50th (tracks 3-8) and 60th (tracks 30-32) birthday celebration audio in Chapter 24: Magical Milestones. Chris is anticipating some 90th birthday audio to be released so look for some additional tracks in this chapter in the coming months! Disneyland Magical Audio Tour The only work Chris has done on the Audio Tour was on Track 6 in Chapter 1: Disneyland Main Gate (Disneyland - A Magical Musical Celebration). After repeated listening, Chris has been making edits and adding new audio to increase this incredible medley to six hours in length. This fantastic and nostalgic track takes you on a musical tour of the entire park, past to present. Chris plans to post this 150 track medley to the site in the next two weeks. Below is a listing of all the musical selections: Disneyland – A Magical Musical Celebration Introduction 1 – Fantasy in the Sky Fanfare 2 – The Happiest Place on Earth 3 – Disneyland Railroad Station Call Town Square 4 – I’m Walkin’ Right Down the Middle of Main Street USA 5 – Horse Drawn Street Car – The Trolley Song 6 – Paragon Ragtime Orchestra – Old Timer’s Waltz 7 – The Voices of Liberty – Golden Dream 8 – Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln – Battle Hymn of the Republic Main Street USA 9 – Meet Me Down on Main Street 10 – Wonderland Music Store Player Piano – Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine 11 – The Main Street Cinema – Keystone Kapers (or Custard’s Last Stand) 12 – Saxophone Quartet – Minnie’s Yoo Hoo! 13 – Coke Corner Pianist – Maple Leaf Rag 14 – Penny Arcade Orchestrion – Semper Fidelis 15 – Main Street Area Music – Goodbye My Coney Island Baby 16 – The Dapper Dans – Dearie Disneyland On Parade 17 – The Disneyland Band – Seventy-Six Trombones / Strike-Up the Band / King Mickey March 18 – America on Parade – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 19 – The Disneyland Parade Song 20 – Parade of the Stars Central Plaza 21 – Plaza Inn Character Breakfast – Mickey Mouse March 22 – Ariel’s Grotto – Under the Sea 23 – The Pearly Band – A Spoonful of Sugar / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 24 – Carnation Plaza Gardens – Fantasy Follies Adventureland 25 – Adventureland Song 26 – Enchanted Tiki Garden – Moonlight Time in Old Hawaii 27 – The Enchanted Tiki Room – In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Room 28 – Hawaiian Trio – Ko'ula 29 – The Royal Tahitians - Pupure 30 – Aladdin and Jasmine's StoryTale Adventures – Arabic Celebration 31 – Aladdin’s Oasis Dinner Show – Prince Ali 32 – Steel Drum Band – Adventureland Delight 33 – The Jungle Cruise – Sentimental Journey 34 – Temple of the Forbidden Eye – Temple Drums 35 – Indiana Jones Adventure – Theme from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” 36 – Tarzan’s Treehouse – Trashin’ the Camp 37 – Swiss Family Treehouse – Swisskapolka New Orleans Square 38 – When the Band Plays Dixie in Disneyland 39 – The Royal Street Bachelors – Swanee River 40 – The Blue Bayou – Oh Susanna 41 – Pirates of the Caribbean – Yo Ho! Yo Ho! (A Pirate’s Life for Me) 42 – The Disney Gallery – A Spoonful of Sugar 43 – The French Market – Le Jig Francais 44 – Rivers of America Waterfront – Original Dixieland One-Step 45 – Jambalaya Jazz Band – Bourbon Street Parade 46 – The Haunted Mansion – Grim Grinning Ghosts Frontierland 47 – Frontierland Stockade – Western Saloon 48 – Davy Crockett Arcade – The Ballad of Davy Crockett 49 – Frontierland Shooting Exposition – Bang! Went Old Betsy 50 – The Golden Horseshoe Revue – Hello Everybody / Pecos Bill 51 – Billy Hill and the Hillbillies – Mama Don’t Allow 52 – Mariachis De San Marcos – Ay, Jalisco, No Te Rajes (The Three Caballeros) 53 - Rainbow Ridge Mining Town – Honky Tonk Piano Medley 54 – Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland – All Aboard the Mine Train 55 – Rainbow Caverns – Ghostly Echoes 56 – Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – The Legend of Thunder Mountain 57 – Big Thunder Ranch – I’ve Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle 58 – Big Thunder Barbecue: Celebration Roundup – Woody’s Roundup The Rivers of America 59 – Frontierland Landing – Goober Peas / Mark Twain Deck Calls 60 – The Mark Twain Steamboat – Here Comes the Old Mark Twain 61 – The Firehouse Five Plus Two – Milenberg Joys 62 – Fort Wilderness – Bugle Call 63 – Indian Village – Taos War Dance 64 – Tom Sawyer Island – Polly Wolly Doodle 65 – Mike Fink Keel Boats – Chicken Pickin’ Reel 66 – Sailing Ship Columbia – Blow Ye Winds 67 – The Bootstrappers – The Maid of Amsterdam (A-Rovin’) Bear Country / Critter Country 68 – Critter Country Chorus – How Do You Do 69 – Splash Mountain – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 70 – The Bluegrass Boys – Foggy Mountain Breakdown 71 – Mile Long Bar – “Bearless” Love 72 – Country Bear Jamboree – Bear Band Serenade 73 – Country Bear Vacation Hoedown – The Great Outdoors 74 – The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – Winnie the Pooh Fantasyland 75 – Fantasy is a Land Here in Disneyland 76 – Sleeping Beauty Castle – When You Wish Upon a Star 77 – Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Through – Battle with the Forces of Evil 78 – Castle Courtyard – Welcome to King Arthur’s Court 79 – King Arthur Carrousel – Once Upon a Dream 80 – Snow White’s Wishing Well – I’m Wishing 81 – Snow White’s Scary Adventures – Heigh-Ho 82 – Peter Pan’s Flight – You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! 83 – Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride – The Merrily Song (Nowhere in Particular) 84 – Geppetto’s Workshop – Little Wooden Head 85 – Pinocchio’s Daring Journey – Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee 86 – The Village Haus – Mitenand Gaht's Besser 87 – Casey Jr. Circus Train – Casey Jr. 88 – Dumbo Flying Elephants – Pyramid of Pachyderms 89 – Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship – A Pirate’s Life 90 – Storybook Land Canal Boats – Fantasyland Medley 91 – Alice in Wonderland – All in the Golden Afternoon 92 – Mad Tea Party – The Unbirthday Song 93 – Matterhorn Bobsleds – Climb the Mountain 94 – Disneyland Yodeler – Alpaufzug 95 – Fantasyland Polka Band – Heigh-Ho/Whistle While You Work 96 – Topiary Gardens – It’s a Small World Clock Parade 97 – It’s a Small World – It’s a Small World Videopolis Stage / Fantasyland Theatre 98 – Videopolis Stage – One Man’s Dream 99 – Videopolis Stage – Be Our Guest 100 – Princess Fantasy Faire – Coronation Welcome Mickey’s Toontown 101 – The Sounds of Mickey’s Toontown 102 – Welcome to Toontown 103 – W.A.C.K.Y. – Toontown Wacky Radio 104 – Toontown Brass – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf 105 – Mickey’s Movie Barn – Steamboat Willie / Turkey in the Straw 106 – Toontown Ally – Valiant and Valiant 107 – Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin – Toontown Spin-Around / Maroon Cartoon Tomorrowland 108 – Tomorrowland Song 109 – Star Tours – Star Tours Commercial / Star Wars Theme 110 – Star Tours Radio – The Droid Rooms 111 – Disneyland Monorail System – The Monorail Song 112 – Tomorrowland Autopia – Autopia Song 113 – Wedway PeopleMover Loading Platform – Go Go Goodyear 114 – Wedway PeopleMover – The PeopleMover Theme 115 – America Sings – Yankee Doodle / Stars and Stripes Forever 116 – The Kids of the Kingdom – Freedom 117 – All-Star College Band – All-Star College Band Theme 118 – America the Beautiful (Circle Vision 360) – America the Beautiful 119 – Disneyland Railroad: Grand Canyon Diorama – On the Trail 120 – Disneyland Railroad: Primeval World – Prelude to Mysterious Island 121 – 20K Leagues Under the Sea Exhibit – Captain Nemo’s Theme 122 – Submarine Voyage Through Liquid Space – Sailing, Sailing 123 – The Yachtsmen – A Whale of a Tale 124 – Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage – Beyond the Sea 125 – Adventure Though Inner Space – The Mighty Microscope / Miracles from Molecules 126 – Carousel of Progress – There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 127 – Magic Eye Theatre – Magic Journeys 128 – World Premiere Circle Vision – American Jorneys 129 – Honey I Shrunk the Audience – Imagination Institute 130 – Captain EO – Just Another Part of Me 131 – Tomorrowland Terrace – Club Buzz 132 – Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters – Strange Things Are Happening to Me 133 – Rocket Rods – Born to Be Wild 134 – The Observatron – Tomorrowland 2055 Theme 135 – Tomorrowland Spaceport – World of Tomorrow Theme 136 – Rocket to the Moon – Countdown and Blastoff 137 – The Star Trader – The Little Girl from Mars 138 – Space Mountain Concourse – Control Tower Com Chat 139 – Space Mountain – Space Mountain Theme Disneyland After Dark 140 – Flag Retreat Ceremony – The Star Spangled Banner 141 – Carnation Plaza Gardens – Let’s Dance at Disneyland 142 – Videopolis – Videopolis Theme 143 – The Main Street Electrical Parade – Baroque Hoedown 144 – Fantasmic! – Theme from Fantasmic! 145 – Pixie Hollow – Tinkerbell End Title 146 – Fantasy in the Sky – Disney Medley 147 – Wurlitzer Music Store – When You Wish Upon a Star 148 – Disneyland Forever – A Kiss Goodnight 149 – Disneyland Closing Announcements – Mickey Mouse Club Alma Matter 150 – Grand Finale – Zip-A-Dee-Dah Jiminy Crickets! Live Podcast Mark your calendars DisneyChris.com fans! On Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 at 9pm EDT Disney Chris and Ruthie Brown will host the first ever Jiminy Crickets! live podcast on this same YouTube channel! The podcast will be presented every two weeks and run from 90 minutes to two hours. It will feature news, commentary, history, conversation, trivia, reviews and special guests. The new broadcasting software Chris is using will enable fans to interact with the podcast team as never before. There will be opportunities to watch various clips including cartoons; and using the interactive chat feature, fans can discuss and critique everything they see happening on the screen with Chris and Ruthie! Be sure to turn on notifications on Chris's YouTube channel: DisneyChrisDotCom so you can be reminded to tune in to this inaugural event (subscribe and click the little bell on the home page). It's sure to be an enjoyable time discussing Disney topics with our favorite podcast team. If you miss the live stream, don't worry! Every live podcast will be archived and presented on YouTube and the Jiminy Crickets! podcast channel. Note: The regular recorded and edited Jiminy Crickets! podcast will continue to be presented every other week, alternating with the live show. Coming in November will be a special episode celebrating Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday! Final Notes It's already Halloween time in Disney Parks around the world! Walt Disney World has even begun celebrating in August with Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party! To get in the spirit of the season be sure to check out Chapter 23: Holiday Time in Disneyland for some terrifically terrifying tracks of Disney themed Halloween music (tracks 3-35)! That's all for this update. Be sure to tune in Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 at 9pm EDT for the very first Jiminy Crickets! live podcast! Share with your friends, family and other Disney enthusiasts so we can get maximum participation! Golly, it's going to be a swell show!
8/3/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford
Hello Disneyland fans! This will be an exciting update to the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour! Join Chris as he takes you on a "Grand Circle Tour" of all the changes made to Chapter 1. Before we get to that let's briefly explore the other updates since the last vlog. Chris completed Chapter 21: Disneyland Bandstand after working on it for 18 months… just a half a year longer than it took for Walt to complete Disneyland! The last two tracks he worked on to complete this chapter were: Track 73: Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Buddy Morrow & Connie Haines Track 74: Buddy Rich & The Buddy Rich Orchestra Head on over to Chapter 21 and relive the magic of the big band era (and more) in the Plaza Gardens. One exciting note: completion of this chapter now puts the Audio Tour at an amazing 1,615 tracks of Disneyland memories! Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Let's join Chris now as he takes us on a tour of what's new in Chapter 1: Welcome to Disneyland - The Disneyland Main Gate. Chris received quite a bit of new audio, and is planning to make improvements and edits to several existing tracks. To prepare for the planned additions, he added new “Coming Soon” slots on the page with new liner notes and included some new photos as well. Of the new tracks being added, many came from other chapters that Chris felt also belonged in this "Welcome to Disneyland" chapter. Many of these tracks from other chapters have already been added to the page. Some will require additional editing. While Chris goes into entertaining detail regarding most of the tracks, these show notes will focus on what's new and what's "Coming Soon". Let's begin with our beloved Uncle Walt! Chris loosely arranged the page so that it is in segments. Some of these segments are specifically listed, other I am naming based on what is contained within these sections... "Introduction to Disneyland" Section (Tracks 1-5) Track 3: Disneyland Opening Day Dedication. Chris added a wonderful color photo of Walt on Disneyland's opening day: July 17, 1955. Although this may be a photo of Walt giving the Frontierland dedication speech, Chris photoshopped it a bit to make it look like Town Square. I love it! Track 5: Griffith Park Carousel COMING SOON. Music from the "carousel that started it all"! "The Songs and Music of Disneyland" Section (Tracks 6-17) Track 6: Disneyland - A Magical Musical Celebration COMING SOON. I'm really excited for this track as it will be a medley of songs you'd hear while walking around the park and experiencing attractions! Some examples will be "Meet Me Down on Main Street", audio from "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Haunted Mansion", "The Country Bear Jamboree" (Awl-rrright!!!) and Chris's favorite, "It's a Small World". Track 8: Disneyland Song Parade NEW. This is a re-mix of songs featuring the original four lands, taken from a 1950s Golden Records children's album. Track 11: The Disneyland Sound COMING SOON. This new track will feature goosebump inducing audio from Walt Disney's television show "Disneyland". Nostalgic fans will associate this music with the general excitement and optimistic feelings of a day at Disneyland. Track 13: It Can Only Happen in Disneyland NEW. This track was already on the page but it was moved up to this section. It is music from an ad campaign in the late 1980s that Chris enhanced with a new ending! Track 16: If You Believe in Magic NEW. This track came from Chapter 2: Town Square and features audio from the popular film, "Disneyland, The First 50 Magical Years" that played in the lobby of the Opera House in Town Square. Track 17: Disneyland, The First 50 Magical Years NEW. The score for the film composed by legendary film composer, John Debney. "Disneyland in TV Land" Section (Tracks 18-30) This section is not to be confused with the existing chapter of the same name. In fact, some tracks from that chapter will be presented here (Tracks 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26 and 28). Just as the previous section, this will encompass Disneyland as a whole over the years and will feature audio from popular episodes of his television series, "Disneyland" and "The Wonderful World of Color". The following tracks are some of the episodes Chris will be working on. How cool will it be to listen to these on road trips to the parks? I can't wait! Track 22: Dateline Disneyland - Opening Day Live Broadcast COMING SOON. Art Linkletter, Ronald Reagan and Robert Cummings bring us the action from this historical day! Track 25: Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 COMING SOON. The Matterhorn, Monorail and Submarine Voyage...a celebration of these engineering marvels! Track 29: Disneyland 10th Anniversary COMING SOON. Who doesn't absolutely love this episode and adore the Disneyland tencennial ambassador, Julie Reihm? Track 30: Disneyland Around the Seasons COMING SOON. Vintage audio from the Candlelight Processional! I'm guessing here...what will Chris surprise us with? "Disneyland at the Movies" (Tracks 31-33) These three tracks (31: Disneyland USA, 32: A Gala Day at Disneyland, 33: 40 Pounds of Trouble) are copied from Chapter 26 - Disneyland in TV Land: Your Host Walt Disney in the section "Disneyland on the Big Screen" "Disneyland Special Presentations" Section (Tracks 34-37) Track 35: Disneyland 10th Anniversary Banquet COMING SOON. This unique track will feature Walt Disney giving a wonderful "off the cuff" speech during this celebration at the Disneyland Hotel. “Traveling to Disneyland” Section (Tracks 38-43) “Entering the Park, Retro Days” Section (Tracks 44-63) Track 49: Kennel Club - Area Background Music COMING SOON. Leave it to "Chris the Completist" to find some very interesting audio of our pets hanging out with Pluto, Lady, the Tramp, Old Yeller, Big Red, Savage Sam while we enjoy the park....I could go on and on...the list of Disney dogs is a long one! Track 51: Disneyland Landscaping Presentation - Jack Wagner COMING SOON. A narration by the famed Disneyland announcer Jack Wagner describing a horticulturist's dream come true that is Disneyland's landscaping. Track 61: Main Gate Newsstand - Souvenirs Medley COMING SOON. This track features a collection of songs that reference the souvenirs you could find at the newsstand before entering the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy! Track 62: The Unlimited Passport COMING SOON. In 1982 Disneyland introduced the Unlimited Passport in place of the ticket books that contained a limited number of coupons that could be used to experience attractions. This track is a 1980s television advertisement featuring the transition from those now collectible ticket books to the Unlimited Passport! “Kodak Super 8 Disneyland Home Movies” Section (Tracks 64-70) “Meet the Disneyland Cast” Section (Tracks 71-75) Track 71: In Search of Excellence – Disney Cast Members COMING SOON. Audio from a 1980s documentary showcasing the rigorous training all cast members experience: Traditions One! Track 72: The Disney Way - Disney University Cast Member Orientation COMING SOON. A film "laden with nostalgia" shown to new cast members! Track 73: Cast Member Orientation - Main Gate / Main Street USA COMING SOON. An early 1980s slide show presented to new hires, narrated by Jack Wagner! Track 75: We Create Happiness - Cast Member Training COMING SOON. More cast member training fun this time from the 1990s! "Disneyland Home Entertainment" Section (Tracks 76-78) These tracks which are also featured on the “Wonderful World of Disney” chapter feature home video releases from the 1990s that provide audio tours and some Disneyland sing-along fun! Veterans of the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour will recognize audio from the old Kodak Making Memories Track. "Promotion, Advertising and Commercials" Section (Tracks 79-84) Track 79: And Now a Word from Our Sponsors COMING SOON. A medley of several television advertisements from the 1980s and 90s that showcase the general nostalgia of Disneyland. I'm sure to recognize many of these being a child of 1980s and completely obsessed with all things Disneyland...the clothesline in the backyard can be turned into the Skyway attraction, right? Track 82: Disney Dollars COMING SOON. Really fun audio from the Disney Dollar advertising campaign created by the first ever president of Disneyland, Jack Lindquist! "Entering the Park, Today” Section (Tracks 85-96) Track 92: The Straw Hat Strutters - Good Morning Concert COMING SOON. This is the small welcome ensemble that sets the perfect Disneyland mood as you enter the park and stroll through Town Square and Main Street U.S.A. "Planning a Disneyland Resort Vacation" Section (Tracks 97-101) Track 99: Disneyland Resort Vacation Planning DVD 2003 COMING SOON. Most of these tracks are also featured on the “Disneyland Hotel” chapter. Chris just came across another DVD and will also be adding the audio to this section. I've got a few of these stashed away somewhere! I'd order one even if I wasn't planning a vacation so I could satisfy my craving for seeing what's new at the parks! “More Disneyland Esplanade” Section (Tracks 102-104) Track 102: Disneyland Esplanade - 2017 Area Background Music COMING SOON. The 2017 version of mood setting Disney tunes you hear as you stroll between Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. Track 103: Disneyland Esplanade - Pixar Fest Area Background Music COMING SOON. During the summer of 2018 you can enjoy the familiar sounds from beloved Pixar Films in the esplanade. Chris has captured this audio so we can enjoy long after Pixar Fest has ended! Track 104: Annual Passholder Days - Welcome Center COMING SOON. Chris received a track listing from a friend who heard about this event at the Tomorrowland Starcade. While shopping for exclusive merchandise and signing up for in-park experiences, annual passholders could enjoy a nostalgic loop that featured songs from all over the park. "Downtown Disney Shopping District" Section (Tracks 105-108) These tracks feature loops from the popular shopping and dining area during the day and night. Chris collected audio loops from 2017 and 2018 to include some exclusive Pixar Fest themed music as well as the loop playing in the World of Disney store! Track 109, “Disneyland Medley,” is sort of the grand finale to the chapter. It features pop songs over the years that have had a Disneyland theme. Chris will be adding more songs to this mix in the near future. Well, we've pulled back into the Main Street U.S.A. railroad station after a whirlwind tour of Chapter 1. Lots of great new content already available and even more exciting tracks coming soon! So get to listening and don't forget to check out the 100th episode of the Jiminy Crickets! podcast while you're at it!
7/20/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford
"Feed the Birds" Things have been heating up recently at DisneyChris.com...as well as all over the country! We broke a heat index record here in San Antonio over the weekend and Providence, RI hasn't been much cooler. Luckily Chris and I have working air conditioning so he can keep working on the site and I can bring you these show notes to keep you updated! Chris has been busy since the last update so let's dive right in! Podcast Update: Chris and Ruthie finished recording the 100th episode of the Jiminy Crickets! podcast and it is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, August 1st. Be sure to tune in to this milestone episode on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or the podcast home page. While you're there catch up on the recent episodes featuring Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, America Sings and the Hayley Mills live-action film, Summer Magic. Over at Sideshow Sound Radio, Chris was a guest on Mouse Music Episode 13 featuring a look at New Orleans Square in Disneyland and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 49th feature length film, The Princess and the Frog! I really enjoyed the podcast on a recent road trip, especially Chris's historical feature on the legendary Walt Disney Studios composer, George Bruns. Well known for creating the unique "Disneyland Sound" of the 1950s and 60s, Bruns also composed a treasure trove of memorable songs for the studios' animated shorts andfeature films. Chris discusses three such beloved tunes on this fantastic episode! A live podcast? Chris is looking for a volunteer who would be willing to lend a hand in helping the Jiminy Crickets! podcast broadcast a live show airing every other Wednesday at 9pm Eastern Time. If you have any computer expertise, have experience in the technical aspect of setting up a live podcast and want to help a great podcast get even better, send Chris and email at DCLyndon@gmail.com. Become a Subscriber! As lovers of Disney music, this website provides a unique experience to relive Disneyland moments of the past and present. Chris puts a lot of effort into providing over 1600 audio tracks to his fans free of charge. However, there are costs to operating the site and although Chris has a wonderful sponsor (ConciEARS - a professional Disney vacation planning service that creates custom vacations for you...at no cost!), he still counts on Patreon subscribers to help offset the cost of maintaining DisneyChris.com. Please consider becoming a subscriber by visiting his Patreon page. You can also set up a monthly recurring donation via PayPal. As an incentive, Chris provides exclusive audio content to all of his subscribers! Every dollar helps Chris to continue this labor of love! Song of the Day Archive Mickey Mondays continue in celebration of Mickey's 90th birthday this year. Every Monday in October and December will feature special holiday versions of some classic Mickey tunes! Disneyland Magical Audio Tour Now that we got the "mousekeeping" done, let's focus on the Audio Tour! Chris will soon be adding a special new track to Chapter 2: Town Square. The Disneyland Opera House once displayed Walt Disney's working office, including the piano the Sherman Brothers would play "Feed the Birds" on Friday afternoons for Walt. Track 37, "Walt Disney's Formal Office - Grand Piano" will feature some wonderful audio that would've likely been played on this historical instrument. Let's move over to Chapter 21: Disneyland Bandstand. Chris has been extremely busy updating this chapter and is proud to announce that it is complete! A good portion of work since the last update was devoted to finishing up the Big Bands in Disneyland section (Tracks 62-74). In 1984 the Disney Channel presented a 12 episode series that featured Big Bands performing live at the Plaza Gardens. This section was a HUGE undertaking as it took an astounding 8-12 hours to edit each track! Chris was able to capture the audio, edit it and present it here for our enjoyment. For us swing band fans, we will be eternally grateful for Chris's extraordinary effort. All but one track features the actual audio as it was performed in Disneyland. The exception is Track 63: The Glenn Miller Orchestra Directed by Dick Gerhart. Chris has been unable to locate the audio from the Disney Channel series, but instead presents the audio from another television special from the same year. Rest assured that if Chris ever finds the Disneyland audio he will update this track! Track 89: 1990s Grad Nite Party is also done! This is very cool since I graduated high school in 1992 and attended one of the party nights that year...got to get my groove on and enjoy this playlist: 90’s Grad Nite Party 1 – Seduction 1990 – Two to Make it Right 2 – Jody Watley 1990 – Real Love 3 – Stevie B 1990 – Because I Love You (The Postman’s Song) 4 – Kevin Paige 1990 – Anything I Want 5 – Timmy T 1991 – One More Try 6 – En Vogue 1991 – You Don’t Have to Worry 7 – Tara Kemp 1991 – Hold You Tight 8 – C & C Music Factory 1991- Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) 9 – Classic Example 1992 – Don’t Make Me Wait 10 – MC Lyte 1992 – Cha Cha Cha 11 – Mint Condition 1992 – Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) 12 – Shanice 1992 – I Love Your Smile 13 – RTZ 1992 – Until Your Love Comes Back Around 14 – Restless Heart 1992 – Born in a High Wind 15 – Ace of Base 1992 – All That She Wants 16 – PM Dawn 1993 – Looking Through Patient Eyes 17 – Jon Secada 1993 – I’m Free 18 – Boy Krazy 1993 – That’s What Love Can Do 19 – Shai 1993 – Baby I’m Yours 20 – Hi Five 1993 – I Like the Way 21 – All 4 One 1994 – I Swear 22 – Xscape 1994 – Just Kickin’ It 23 – No Doubt with Gwen Stefani 1995 – Just a Girl That's all for this update! Remember, if you have the means please consider contributing to Chris so he can keep the site running. Use the links above to become a subscriber today! See you all real soon!
7/06/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford A Salute to Mickey! Hello Disney music lovers! I certainly hope everyone had a distinctly patriotic 4th of July! My family and I traveled to a small town in Texas to enjoy an old fashioned patriotic parade and a civic band in the quaint town square! When it came time for fireworks the weather had other plans, but that's quite all right since Texas thunderstorms can be an entertaining spectacle! I should mention that on the drive we enjoyed a few patriotic tracks from Chapter 23: Holiday Time in Disneyland which got us in a celebratory mood for the holiday. Just one of many reasons we all love and appreciate the hard work Chris puts into building this website. So, what's new this week on DisneyChris.com? Well, not much in the way of updates to the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour. Chris tackled a few other things and got them done so he can devote a huge block of time to address the "coming soons" and other track edits he discussed on the last update. So expect a big update on the next vlog! In the meantime let's chat about what Chris has been up to the last couple of weeks: During the first 10 days of July Chris uploaded a daily Disney song to celebrate America's 242nd birthday! Click the link above to enjoy these great Disney songs. Also, Mickey Mondays have been an entertaining addition to the Song of the Day Archive and the songs for July 2nd and 9th feature Mickey showing off his spirit for the good 'ole Stars and Stripes. Mickey Mondays will continue through November in celebration of his 90th birthday, and don't forget that Minnie Mouse also turns 90 as she debuted along Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie on November 18th, 1928. So be on the lookout for some Minnie Mouse songs in November, too! Yoo-hoo! Note: Mickey Mondays will preempt the annual "Supercalifragilistic September" of Sherman Brother songs since, surprisingly, the grammy winning brothers never wrote a song for Walt's best pal! In October Mickey will try to scare us each Monday and I'm sure Chris has a "spooktacular" playlist for the rest of the month we celebrate Halloween. I'd be fine with 31 days of Bing Crosby singing the Headless Horseman from the The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad! Hint hint..... I became acquainted with Chris through his podcast first and then discovered DisneyChris.com. What I love most about the podcast is the music Chris selects for each episode. You'll discover some rare treasures all edited and re-mastered for a superb aural experience. The last three podcasts are no exception! Click the title above and listen to the last three episodes: Episode 97A and 97B - Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room In this very special two part episode, Ruthie and Chris are joined by their favorite fine feathered friend from down south, Wendell Jones of the Sideshow Sound Theatre podcast network. Together these three bird brains discuss the history of Walt Disney's groundbreaking audio-animatronic attraction, The Enchanted Tiki Room, now celebrating its 55th anniversary. They will take you through the entire show, discussing the vocal cast, the amazing musical score, the show's developers, creative artists and technicians, and the very inspiration behind this tropical hideaway filled with joyous song and wondrous miracles. Episode 98 - A Tribute to America Sings This episode, in celebration of the 4th of July, Chris and Ruthie take a fabulous journey through the history of American song, discussing in detail the famous extinct Disneyland attraction, America Sings. Together they will share the history of the attraction, the many voice actors and songs from the show, and the aftermath after the attraction sadly closed in April of 1988. So climb aboard the carousel and join them on a magical, musical journey... Pop Goes the Weasel!!! Episode 99 - Walt Disney's Summer Magic This episode, Chris and Ruthie pay tribute to one of their all time favorite films, Walt Disney's classic live-action musical, "Summer Magic," which is celebrating its 55th anniversary this month. Together they share the behind-the-scenes history of the movie, discuss the cast including the adorable Hayley Mills and the legendary Burl Ives, walk you through the plot including their favorite scenes, and share all the amazing Sherman Brothers songs. So, it's time to do some "Flitterin" back to "Beautiful Beulah" for a nostalgic retrospective on a movie that truly is "The Pink of Perfection." Join us on "The Front Porch" for a little slice of Americana and a big dose of "Summer Magic." In closing, Chris did make a slight adjustment to Chapter 23: Holiday Time in Disneyland of the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour. He rearranged the tracks chronologically by holiday for our listening convenience! The only exceptions are the International Festivals and Year of Celebration tracks; those remain at the end of the chapter. Lastly, Chris had his site updated to conform with the latest security standards to keep us all safe as we surf the site. That's all for this update! We'll see ya real soon!
6/23/18 Vlog Update
Show Notes by Brian Crawford “Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing” Hello everyone! I’m excited to help Chris out with some hopefully entertaining show notes for the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour vlog updates. Chris puts his Disney heart and soul providing a truly unique product for Disney music fans, so let’s see what he has been up to since the last vlog! Chris opens up with a bit of housekeeping explaining that he was up against a deadline on another project which is why it has been a while since the last update. The deadline you ask? June 23, 2018, the 55th anniversary of the widely accepted debut of Audio-Animatronics in the tropical hideaway of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room! In celebration of the anniversary, Chris and his podcast partners Ruthie Brown and Wendell Jones have been furiously working to finish up Episode 97A, the first half of a wonderful episode explaining the history, origins and people involved with our beloved Adventureland attraction in Disneyland. This episode was released on the anniversary and is packed with wonderful rare audio which is sure to please even the most knowledgeable fan of this pioneering attraction. The second half of the podcast is also available to enjoy now! Do yourself a favor, grab a Dole Whip and head over to http://jcricketspodcast.blogspot.com or the Jiminy Crickets podcast channel on iTunes and listen. Be sure to leave a 5 star review and help promote this wonderful podcast. In my opinion it is one of the best Disney history and current event podcasts available. Chris puts a lot of time and effort into making these very entertaining and historically accurate, including relevant and fun audio clips that all of us disneychris.com fans have come to enjoy. So, don’t anger the gods by your “lack” of celebrating; listen to it today! Also in honor of the 55th anniversary of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, Chris posted in his Song of the Day archive, one of the signature songs of the attraction, “Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing”. This 1969 rendition features the Mellow Men Quartet including one of our favorite Disney voices, Thurl Ravenscroft. During the month of June Chris has been posting some very fun songs celebrating Donald Duck’s 84th birthday on June 9th, and for Father’s Day, music featuring some of our beloved Disney Dads. Chris is also honoring his favorite Disney character by introducing a feature called “Mickey Mondays”. Every Monday for the rest of 2018 Chris will post a song dedicated to the mouse that started it all Coming in November expect a jam packed month full of Mickey music as we celebrate his 90th birthday! Scroll to the top of the page and click on “Song of the Day Archive” and start enjoying the tunes. I like to listen every morning while I shave….good times. Hey, you have to make shaving fun somehow! Now that the housekeeping is all done let’s move on to the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour update. In this episode Chris lays out a game plan for the rest of 2018, addressing many of the “Coming Soon” holes in the Audio Tour (he’s talking to you, fans of the Disneyland Railroad Grand Circle Tour!!) and cleaning up the audio on several other tracks. Let’s start at the very beginning (which is usually a very good place to start...oops...not Disney, but close...). Chapter 1: The Disneyland Main Gate Track 69 – Disneyland Esplanade – Pixar Fest Area Background Music. A loop of music from Pixar Films Track 78 – Disneyland Medley. New audio recently discovered will be added to this entertaining mix of popular songs about Disneyland. Besides addressing the “Coming Soons”, this is an example of the work Chris will do to several tracks across all chapters improving the content and audio quality. Tracks 67 – 70 – Disneyland Railroad Grand Circle Tours. Many fans have been dying to hear to this audio and Chris has a plan to add this by the end of the year! The wait will soon be over and it will be “All Aboard” for us railroad fans Track 71 – Disneyland Railroad Grand Circle Tour – 2015. Chris plans on editing this track inserting more authentic train sounds and cleaning up the audio. Chapter 4: Central Plaza ; Chapter 6: Adventureland Chris will update all of the "Coming Soons" in these two chapters by the end of the year! Chapter 21: Disneyland After Dark Originally, Chapters 21 and 22 formed one chapter, but since the size grew to well over 100 tracks, Chris split it into the two chapters currently available. This chapter is "technically done", but Chris is adding some additional content to various tracks including: Track 82 - Tomorrowland Terrace. Added six new bands to this mix. Track 84 - Tomorrowland Terrace - Summer 2017. This track currently exists in the Disneyland Bandstand chapter but is just as relevant in Disneyland After Dark. Chapter 22: Disneyland Bandstand Chris has made some progress on this chapter recently and has 12 tracks left to update. The plan is to complete it during the month of July. Tracks 62 - 74 - Big Bands in Disneyland Summer Concert Series. These are difficult to edit since they are taken from live performances and Chris would like to clean up a lot of the audience noise to enhance the audio experience. The Glen Miller Orchestra track is completed.
Track 89 - 1990s Grad Nite Party. This mix only covers Grad Nite music from 1990-1994 since Disneyland phased out big name entertainment shortly after 1994.
Tracks 102 - 117 - Tomorrowland Terrace. Chris engaged with a Twitter user and discovered two additional bands. He added those new bands plus the other four tracks that needed to be finished:
Track 103: Club Buzz - The Jakes Track 104: Aquabats Track 105: Aly & AJ Track 106: Steve Rushton Track 116: The Bolts Track 117: Thomasina
Chris finished editing these and has declared Tomorrowland Terrace is complete! Chapter 23: Christmas in Disneyland Another chapter with some "Coming Soons" and other tracks Chris would like to complete to enhance our 2018 Christmas celebration! Chapter 27: The Wonderful World of Disney This chapter centers around Disneyland themed television shows post-Walt Disney through the 1990s. Tracks 49 – 53 – Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream. This is a 1981 television special previewing EPCOT center and sharing some history of Walt Disney! Chris has finally obtained all of the audio for this special, which is great quality so this should be a quick addition. Track 55 – Big Bands in Disneyland. This is a medley of world famous swing bands that performed at the Plaza Gardens and featured in a 1984 Disney Channel series! Break out those dance shoes! So that does it for the update for June 23rd, 2018! In summary, Chris has laid out a plan to finish editing/adding an impressive total of 102 tracks. Many of these are "Coming Soon" and others are files Chris simply wants to edit and improve. He's heard the clamoring from his adoring fans and rest assured some great additions are COMING SOON! As a final plug, if you enjoy this content consider making a small monthly donation to DisneyChris.com by clicking here! Special mention: The following song lists comprise all of the medley tracks Chris updated in the previous two Disneyland Audio Tour vlog updates. Enjoy! Pop Pourri 1 – The Checkmates LTD – Mastered the Art of Love 1967
2 – Round Robin – I’m the Wolf Man 1965
On Stage USA 1 – New Classic Singers – Call Me 1966 NEW
2 – Gary Lewis and the Playboys – Sunny 1968
Rock N Roll Reunion 1 – Sha Na Na – Remember When
Great American Music Machine 1 – The Jackson 5 – The Love You Save 1970
The Great Rock Circus 1 – The Righteous Brothers – Rock n’ Roll Heaven 1974
More Legends of Country 1 – John Hartford – Gentle on My Mind 1967
Space Stage – Space Age Disco Concert 1 – KC and the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way I Like It 1975
Disneyland Disco Dance Party 1 – Billy Preston – Disco Dancin’ 1977
80’s Grad Nite Party - Part 1 1980-1984 1 – Kool and the Gang 1980 – Celebration
80’s Grad Nite Party - Part 2 1985-1989 1 – Animotion 1985 – Obsession
Pop Pourri (Disneyland After Dark Version) 1 – The Checkmates Ltd. – Mastered the Art of Love 1967
Disneyland Disco Dance Party (Disneyland After Dark Version) 1 – Billy Preston – Disco Dancin’ 1977
Grad Nite in Disneyland (Disneyland After Dark Version) 1 – Kool and the Gang – Celebration
6/8/18 Vlog Update
5/11/18 Vlog Update
4/27/18 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush Down The Rabbit Hole
Hello everybody, time for another update! There was a 3 week gap since the last update and Chris has been very busy falling down a musical rabbit hole. What does that mean? Lots of unexpected new content is coming!
There’s a group on Facebook known as Vintage Disneyland. If you love historic Disneyland, feel free to request to be admitted the group. You’ll learn a lot and see some wonderful vintage photographs and video posted by Disneyland lovers who share their personal material.
A member of this Facebook group started a discussion thread regarding favorite musical groups they had seen perform at their personal Grad Nites from years past. Lots of people commented and listed favorite performers. As Chris looked at the responses he noticed there were several names mentioned of which he had not been aware. This sparked a big research project to confirm that these people and/or groups did indeed play at Disneyland. After they were verified Chris began planning several updates for Chapter 21: Disneyland Bandstand to have the site more accurately reflect the history of these live performances. Prepare to fall down the rabbit hole with Chris as he discusses his unexpected new project.
If you click on the link above and scroll down the page you will notice several tracks have been inserted with “Coming Soon” next to them. Chris has done a vast amount of research and put together new track lists for custom mixes to represent several live events that happened in the park over several decades. He shows the track lists in the update around the 3 minute mark. The new material is highlighted in yellow - everything else on the list is already in a mix and doesn’t need to be edited. (However, it might be rearranged into a new mix). Just looking at how much yellow is in these lists gives an appreciation for how much research Chris has done and how much time he will be putting into editing the new tracks before uploading them to the site. Once the tracks are completed they will be discussed in future updates and lists will be provided to show what’s included in these mixes. You can see the lists on Chris’s computer starting around the 3 minute mark.
The planned additions are as follows:
A new section called The Tomorrowland Stage, which contains tracks 34-38. This is where you start to see a lot of “Coming Soon” signs. Chris uncovered so many new tracks during his research, started by that conversation in the Vintage Disneyland group on Facebook, that if he added it all to an existing mix such as The Great American Music Machine, it would make the mix over 4 hours long. To make things more manageable and also more accurate, Chris has divided the music into decades and is planning to split the current mixes up into 4 new mixes, with the new music added in, to better represent the decade or time period in which they were performed. The mixes are in the final editing stage and once they are uploaded to the site a list of what’s included in each mix will be provided. For now the planned updates to this section are: Track 34 - The Kids of the Kingdom. This track is currently finished and listed as “New”. Since they performed on the Tomorrowland Stage they are being included in this section even though they are also in the After Dark chapter. Track 35 - On Stage USA. When the new Tomorrowland premiered they began to have a concert event called On Stage USA. They were all performed on the outdoor stage known as The Tomorrowland Stage, which was pre Space Mountain. Some of the songs that were previously in The Great American Music Machine will be put into this track to make it more accurate to the decade in which the songs were performed. Track 36 - Rock n’ Roll Reunion. This concert series has several performers from the 1950’s. Some of the songs from the previous Great American Music Machine will be in this mix with new songs added in too. Track 37 - The Great American Music Machine. This was on the site previously but is being split up and redone so that it’s more accurate to the music that was played at this time period and the track doesn’t become 4 hours long. The previous Great American Music Machine is being split up into 4 tracks: tracks 35-38. Track 38 - The Great Rock Circus The Disco mix is being split up into two tracks. Track 48 - The Space Age - Space Age Disco Concert is another track affected by the big discussion on the Facebook page. Several artists who played at this concert were brought up during the discussion and Chris has verified the performers and decided which songs to add to the mix. There’s so much new music going in that it was going to be another 4 hour mix unless Chris did something to break it up. What he decided to do is put the famous, headline-type performers who played on the new Space Mountain Space Stage (which replaced the Tomorrowland stage when Space Mountain opened) and covers 1977-1980. There were also several events where DJ’s came and played and there were dance parties. Track 49 - Disneyland Disco Dance Party will have songs that were more for the dance parties and contain songs or performers who weren’t as well known. When the mixes are done and listened to there will be a definite difference in the type of songs included in each disco mix and the division will make sense and sound cohesive. The Grad Nite section is getting a revision and an addition. Chris is putting in a 90’s Grad Nite mix since many people who visit his site went to these Grad Nites and have fond memories. This will be Track 88 - 1990’s Grad Nite Party. Tracks 86 and 87, which contain the 80’s Grad Nite mixes, are going to be changed, but for now you can still listen to them as they are. Once they are changed a list will be provided to show what’s in each mix and give an easy way to show at a glance the new music that’s been added to each track. Track 102 - The Aquabats. They are a Ska band with a superhero aesthetic. They’re another discovery from the Facebook discussion. They performed at Disneyland in the late 90’s. Before Chris delved into the Pandora’s Box of adding new artist and revamping tracks he had added several new tracks to the site. These are up and running and ready to listen to right now:
A new section called Fantasyland Theatre, which contains tracks 32 - Humdinger! and 33 - Hootenanny! These were already on another Chapter but have been included here since they were performed live in the park. Since these tracks were already edited they are currently available to listen to on the site. These events both happened in the 1960’s. Humdinger! was a pop music festival and Hootenanny! is a folk music festival. They were on Disneyland After Dark but since they performed on a stage at Disneyland they fit into this Chapter as well. Track 63 - The Glenn Miller Orchestra. This was one of the original tracks that Chris had planned for the Big Bands in Disneyland - Summer Concert Series section, and it’s been completed. It’s not the authentic recording from the TV special (all of the tracks in this section are coming from a TV special that was done in the 1984). Nobody had posted that audio, so Chris found a recording from around the same time and posted that instead. You wouldn’t know there was a difference unless Chris told you, which he did - a behind the scenes tidbit. It’s good enough to work in place of the missing authentic audio which he hasn’t been able to find anywhere. The rest of the tracks in this section are still “Coming Soon.” Some of them have poor sound quality so Chris is making sure the sound is up to standard before posting them. This will probably be Chris’s next big project: taking VHS tapes that were recorded many years ago and eventually posted to YouTube and bringing the sound quality up to standard. Thankfully, many of the tracks in this section were released on laserdisc back when laserdisc was a thing, so the sound quality on those is really good and Chris doesn’t have to clean those up. Chris lists which specific tracks came from laserdisc around the 16:10 mark for those interested. Track 111 - Scot Bruce. He is an Elvis impersonator. Track 114 - Tomorrowland Terrace - Dueling DJs. DJs from Southern California come and perform rave-type dance mixes during the summer, at Grad Nites, and during New Years. Track 115 - Tomorrowland Terrace - Summer 2017. Nighttime entertainment went on a hiatus in 2015 but in 2017 several local bands made a comeback and began to play, as well as new bands.
Adding in new tracks, gathering music and rearranging tracks has meant that not a lot of new content has been added, but Chris has still been working hard. In addition to everything listed he has also planned out the Song of the Day list for May. He has also been working with his friend to clean up the behind the scenes code, and they have updated Chapters 1-24. There are only 3 Chapters still needing clean up on code. You should notice that the pages are loading faster and everything is running more efficiently since the code has been cleaned up and streamlined. Chris’s friend has dedicated hours and hours to teaching Chris how to be more efficient in using code and helping Chris to get the pages updated. Chris knows that his friend is listening to the Update, so he wants to be sure to give his friend (who remains unnamed) a big thank you and express his appreciation for the hours of dedication he has donated to make the site a more user friendly experience, and for all of the training that he has given Chris so that Chris can use that knowledge going forward with new additions and updates.
What’s next? Going in and actually adding all the tracks that Chris has been planning. By the time he does the next update he should have several tracks added. Chris will explain everything and provide track notes for the write-up at that point. Also, some of the songs on Chapter 20 will be redone as well because of all the new artists that Chris found out about because of the discussion on the Facebook group. Thank you for your patience. Chris has been very busy working on the site and planning, and he wanted to be able to explain everything once the planning was done instead of trying to explain it in the middle of all of the planning. He will try to get Vlog updates done every other week but if that doesn’t happen it’s because Chris has fallen down another rabbit hole and has a big project he’s completing before he can do a Vlog update.
Spring is starting, the weather is warming up, so everyone enjoy the change of season and Chris will talk to us again soon. Bye!
4/6/18 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush: Hello everybody! It’s been two weeks since the last update and 12 new songs have been added. Some changes have been made to one of the chapters and Chris will go through those changes today.
Chapter one of the audio tour starts with The Main Gate. It represents the main gate as well as the park as a whole. This was completed two years ago, but since then there have been 10 new tracks that Chris would like to add. He won’t be working on them right away, but the tracks have been set up with Coming Soon slots. Chris added these slots because he’s practicing a new method of adding tracks. Chris has mentioned his friend who has generously donated his time to helping Chris streamline the code, and basically rebuilding the entire website. He’s put a lot of time and energy into it and it’s very appreciated. So far they have rebuilt the home page as well as chapters 1 and 2. They look the same as before but they’re much more streamlined and efficient because a lot of the unnecessary coding was taking up space has been removed. In doing this there is now a new method needed to add in new tracks so that unneeded data isn’t put into the HTML code (the language that websites use to make the pages look the way they look). The way Chris was doing it before was copying and pasting things, and in doing so a lot of unneeded residual data was being added which build up a lot of disc space which made the pages load slower than they should. So Chris’s friend taught Chris a new way to insert the tracks, and Chris wanted to practice so it would stick in his mind for future use. So he decided to update Chapter 1 with the new tracks he’s planning on adding as a practice run so he knows how to do it going forward. Also, the navigation area on the top of each page which previously just indicated the chapter numbers, such as “Chapter 2”, for example, now will say something more descriptive such as “CH 2 - Town Square,” so that it will be easier to see what the chapter you click on is about without scrolling down to the bottom of the page and comparing it to the the “Welcome to the Hub” section. You will be able to tell which chapters have been updated and what hasn’t based on whether or not the chapter number has a new descriptive name added next to it on this top of the page navigation area. If you don’t see descriptive names at this navigation area, than it’s a good bet that this chapter hasn’t been updated yet. Also, the “Coming Soon” indications which have traditionally been placed next to unfinished tracks names now have a new look, with the “Coming Soon” now appearing under the liner notes, where the play bar will go when the track has been completed and posted. The ten tracks that are coming soon in Chapter 1:
Those are the 10 tracks that will be added soon. Before Chris works on those, he wants to finish the Holiday Time and Disneyland Bandstand chapter. The Holiday Time will probably be finished in a couple of days. The Bandstand chapter has about 20 tracks left to be added. Once that is done Chris will add those songs to Chapter 1, and then move on to Chapter 2 - Town Square. Down towards the bottom of the page there are several tracks that need to be added and they all have to do with the Disneyland Railroad. They’ve said Coming Soon for about two years, so “soon” is a relative term on the pages. It’s going to have narration from different decades. Chris is also going to try and improve the sound effects so they’re more authentic. As far as working on the Tomorrowland page, as Chris had planned, he’s going to finish up the things he’s had marked as Coming Soon in each chapter, and then he will start the Tomorrowland project. The Holiday Time chapter: Easter has come and gone so those tracks have now been moved to the bottom of the page and the upcoming holiday (the 4th of July) is at the top of the page. The first two tracks are still an overview for the rest of the chapter and will always be the first two. There are three new tracks that still need to be added to the page, and by the time this is released they might already be done. There are also several tracks that have been added since the last update:
The New Years Section: Chris changed the color scheme for the New Years section of the page. It’s blue and silver to represent the night sky and celebrating with sparkling silver things to bring the New Year in. All of the tracks that he discussed in detail during the last update have now been added and that section is complete. If you want to know more about those tracks then you can watch the last Vlog or read the accompanying notes from the last Vlog. Other things to note on the Holiday Time page:
That’s about it for this update. Have a wonderful early spring and Chris will be back in two weeks to talk about more updates. Bye-bye!
3/23/18 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush
Hello everyone! Chris waited an extra week to create the Vlog so that there was more to report on. March 23rd was the first day of the Easter Song of the Day. Up until April 1st there will be a Disney song with an Easter theme every day. You can click here to be taken to the Song of the Day page.
Chapter 20: Disneyland After Dark is now complete. If you haven’t checked it out in awhile be sure to do so. Its sister chapter, Disneyland Bandstand is still a work in progress. It has live bands that played at Disneyland. The country music section of the page has been completed.
Tracks 34- Danny David & The Nashville Brass and 35- More Legends of Country In Disneyland were the last tracks to be added to that section.
The full track list for the Country Music Jubilee, Country Music Spectacular, and More Country Legends In Disneyland tracks are as follows:
Country Music Jubilee 1 – Alabama Jubilee – Roy Clark (Instrumental) 2 – Act Naturally – Buck Owens 3 – Rye Whiskey – Homer and Jethro 4 – Sweet, Sweet Lips – Joe and Rose Lee Maphis 5 – Excuse Me For Living – Freddie Hart 6 – My Dirty Lowdown Rotten Cotton Pickin’ Little Darlin’ – The Geezinslaw Brothers 7 – Bonanza – Le Garde Twins NEW 8 – I’m An Old Cowhand – Jimmy Wakely NEW 9 – The Streets of Laredo – Rex Allen NEW 10 – Steelin’ Home – Noel Boggs NEW 11 – Ain’t You Ever – Collins Kids 12 – Let’s Wait a Little Longer – Canadian Sweethearts 13 – Hickory Hollow – The Dillards NEW 14 – It’s Just a Matter of Time – Sonny James NEW 15 – Giddy Up Go Answer – Minnie Pearl NEW 16 – Sad Movies Make Me Cry – Sue Thompson NEW 17 – Detroit City – Bobby Bare NEW 18 – Feed Me One More Lie – Mary Taylor NEW 19 – I’ve Come Awful Close – Hank Thompson 20 – Yes, I Love You Only – Bonnie Owens 21 – You Finally Said Something Good – Charlie Louvin 22 – Let’s Do What’s Right, Even If It’s Wrong – Faye Hardin and Bob Morris 23 - Happy Sunny Side of Life – The Country Ramblers NEW 24 – He’ll Have to Go – Jerry Naylor NEW 25 – Like a Fool – Dottie West 26 – Texas – Tex Ritter 27 – Little Maggie – The Stonemans 28 – A Woman Lives for Love – Wanda Jackson 29 – I’ll Hold You in My Heart – Tex Williams 30 – I Saw the Light – Roy Acuff and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 31 – She’s a Little Bit Country – George Hamilton IV 32 – Goodbye – David Frizzle NEW 33 – Hello Darlin – Conway Twitty NEW 34 – Louisiana Man – Doug Kershaw NEW 35 – The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA – Donna Fargo NEW 36 – Lonesome – Tony Booth NEW 37 – George Jones – She Still Thinks I Care NEW 38 – Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette NEW 39 – Married to a Memory – Judy Lynn NEW 40 – Mama Tried – Merle Haggard 41 – I Just Couldn’t Let Her Walk Away – Dorsey Burnette 42 – Stop the World and Let Me Off – Susan Raye 43 – Try a Little Kindness – Glen Campbell
Country Music Spectacular 1 – Roy Clark and Buck Trent – Shucking the Corn 2 – Roy Clark – Thank God and Greyhound 3 – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos – Together Again 4 – Ray Price – For the Good Times 5 – Jody Miller – Queen of the House 6 – Conway Twitty – I Love You More Today 7 – Bill Anderson & Jan Howard – If It’s All the Same to You 8 – Jeanie C Riley – Harper Valley PTA 9 – Tommy Overstreet – Gwen (Congratulations) 10 – Mel Tillis – Heart Over Mind 11 – May Bee – Let Me Call You Baby Tonight 12 – Dorsey Burnett – In the Spring (The Roses Always Turn Red) 13 – Donna Fargo – Wishful Thinking 14 – Doug Kershaw – Play Fiddle Play 15 – Jerry Naylor – But For Love 16 – Freddy Weller – Indian Lake 17 – Tony Booth – When A Man Loves a Woman 18 – Don Bowman – I’ll Never Get Over Getting’ Over You 19 – Kenni Huskey – A Fallen Star 20 – Sammi Smith – Help Me Make It Through The Night 21 – Buddy Alan – Cowboy Convention 22 – Bakersfield Brass – Buckaroo 23 – The Dillards – Ebo Walker 24 – Jerry Reed – When You’re Hot, You’re Hot
More Legends of Country 1 – John Hartford – Gentle on My Mind 2 – Bobby Gentry – Fancy 3 – Don Gibson and Sue Thompson – Good Old Fashioned Country Love 4 – Johnny Paycheck – She’s All I Got 5 – The Hagar Twins – I’m Miles Away 6 – Kay Austin – Big Red Roses 7 – Faron Young – It’s Four in the Morning 8 – Stoney Edwards – She’s My Rock 9 – Tanya Tucker – Delta Dawn 10 – Johnny Tillotson – Your Love’s Been a Long Time Coming 11 – Jacky Ward – Fools Fall in Love 12 – Johnny Lee – Country Party 13 – Susie Allanson – Run to Her 14 – Big Al Downing – Mr. Jones 15 – Becky Hobbs – The More I Get the More I Want 16 – Wild Oats – Heartache 17 – Lynn Anderson – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 18 – Charlie Daniels – The South’s Gonna Do It Again
The biggest section in this Chapter that still needs work is the Big Bands section. It contains music recorded at Disneyland in the Plaza Gardens for a 1984 television special. Then there’s another section of Big Band music that contains tracks which were not recorded for the tv special that need to be finished. The last section that needs work is the Tomorrowland Terrace section, which contains more contemporary type groups.
The Holiday Time In Disneyland chapter is what distracted Chris from being able to work on the Big Bands chapter. The Holiday chapter became so long that the Christmas songs were split off onto their own page. One change that Chris is going to make to the Holiday chapter is to put the most recent holiday at the top, and then the one that was just finished at the bottom, making it a rotation from now on. Now when you go to the Holiday page, the most soon to come holiday will be at the top - with two exceptions. Tracks 1 and 2 will always be at the top because it’s a lead-in to all the holidays and the theme for the chapter.
Easter is currently at the top of the page, and a brand new track has been added for the Easter section. That is Track 9 - Springtime in Disneyland. It’s a 40 minute mix that was a lot of work. Chris scoured the internet to find content to put this track together. It turned out really well so check that track out.
As for the rest of the chapter, there are 12 new tracks that need to be added to finish it. Some of them were already on other chapters but they’re going to be duplicated on the Holiday chapter.
Track 16 - America On Parade - The Sadie Mae is new as well. The Sadie Mae is a fully restored antique carousel band organ. This organ recorded the music for the 1976 America On Parade. Chris has all of the music from that band organ that was used in the parade, and it’s unaltered. The parade featured a lot of electronic music and sound effects but that track has just the Sadie Mae. Chris has both version in that chapter so you can listen to the original music and the parade music that has the sound effects and see what you think and which one you like. Coming soon will be Track 18 - The Dapper Dans - Patriotic Medley, which is a group that sounds a lot like the Dapper Dans and will be used to represent them singing patriotic songs in the park. Track 21- U.S. Military Bands - Fourth of July Concert will be a medley of patriotic songs performed by different army bands who are invited to perform at the park. Track 23 - A Patriotic Grand Finale will a combination of the end of the Fantasy In The Sky fireworks show, which always has a patriotic ending, and the Disneyland Forever fireworks from the 60th anniversary. Disneyland Forever added a patriotic tag at the end of the presentation, so Chris is combining 4 versions of the fireworks show into a little mix. Track 24 - Celebrate The Spirit - Disney’s All-Star 4th of July is coming from a television program that aired every year from 1988 until the mid 90’s. They still do a Christmas program every year, but they also used to do a 4th of July and an Easter program every year. The 4th of July one was always called “Disney’s All Star 4th of July”. In the beginning it was only broadcast from Disney World, but in later years they added Disneyland in as well. Sandy Patty performed a live fireworks finale for several years so that will be included in the track. Track 25 - Celebrate America - Pre Show Area Music will be some pre-show music that you hear as you’re waiting for the fireworks. Track 28 - Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House in the Halloween section was already on the Disneyland Records chapter, but it has been included on the Halloween chapter as well. It’s a tradition to play this record at Halloween time and it has been for years, so it’s appropriate to be on the holiday page. Track 32 - Haunted Mansion Holiday- Scream Along. Chris forgot that he had this in his files but someone pointed out that this was on YouTube and Chris listened to it and remembered he had it, but he was confusing it with the Scarols. So he’s digging that out and adding it soon. Track 47 - Villain’s Victory Party came from a publicity campaign in 2010 where people voted for their favorite Disney Villain. There was also a trivia contest and if you got all the answers correct you could win a ticket to a special event where they revealed who won the favorite villain contest. Maleficent won and they had a whole party on Tom Sawyer's Island. Chris has a live recording of it but the audio isn’t the best. He was going to leave it out but then he figured out some of the songs that were included in the live event. He found 2 of the 3 songs that were used, so he is going to add those studio recordings of what was played in the live show. Track 65 - America Sings - Auld Lang Syne in the New Year section will be added soon as well as track 66 - Country Bear Christmas Special - Another New Year. Track 71 - Tournament of Roses Parade - Walt Disney Grand Marshall. Chris found a piece of audio from the 1966 Tournament of Roses Parade when Walt was Grand Marshall and created a 1 minute audio piece. Track 72 - Tournament of Roses Honor Band has a band that plays in the Tournament of Roses Parade and they sometimes play in Disneyland as well. Chris is including a medley of parade songs to represent them since they have a long tradition with Disneyland. Track 73 - Tournament of Roses Parade - The Royal Court has already been added. It was on the Parade chapter already but has been duplicated onto this one. Track 83 - The Little Man of Disneyland comes from a 1955 Little Golden Record. The main character is a leprechaun. It was on the Disneyland Records chapter but it’s coming to the St. Patrick’s Day section now. Tracks 88 - The Dapper Dans - Irish Sing Along and 89 - Coke Corner - Irish Ragtime Melody used to be together, but Chris split them up and made them into their own tracks. Tracks 90-92 will always be the same and be at the very bottom of the page. So the page has two opening tracks and 3 closing tracks that will stay the same.
That completes the news for the Holiday page. Chris now moves on to Chapter 25: Disneyland Records to discuss a really interesting update and some historical information as well.
“Disneyland Records” is basically a play on words because the name of the in-house recording label that Disney used for decades was called Disneyland Records. They used that as a way to talk about all of their different projects (having “Disneyland” in their project titles, whether it had something to do with the actual park or not). Chris is using this Chapter to represent the park itself. The tracks in this Chapter all come from vinyl recordings that represent Disneyland park in some way.
What Chris recently added was Track 3 - Your Trip To Disneyland on Records. This is a special track. These were 5 little discs on cardboard that came in a set, and you would cut them out and play them on a record player. Because they were cardboard with a layer of vinyl on them the quality of them was really pour. Chris used some of the money from donations to the site to purchase an unopened, factory sealed copy of the records and sent it to a friend who has professional recording equipment. Chris sent him the sealed records, a tool to cut out perfect circles, and a new needle to play the records the way they need to be played. It took a couple of years for the project to be completed. When Chris got the digital audio he dropped everything and added this final track to finish off the chapter. Even though the records were factory sealed and never played they were still 60 years old and so they weren’t perfect. Still, they were an improvement over the other audio from other recordings of the same records that Chris has heard over the years. Chris then went in with his editing software and cleaned it up, so this is probably the best version of these records that exists. Chris worked hard to take out distortions, scratches, noise and background hiss to make this sound amazing. This track now completes the Disneyland Records chapter, which is very exciting.
Have a wonderful Easter. Be sure to check out all the new tracks on the site, check out the Patreon and become a donor if you aren’t already. If all you can pledge is $1 per month that is still helpful. The money is used for the site, so please consider becoming a donor. Bye for now!
3/2/18 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush:
It’s been a long time since the last Vlog. It’s time to get everyone up to date! Chris didn’t do a video for a couple of weeks because he went on vacation and didn’t have access to a computer. Because he couldn’t add content during that time there’s a little bit to report on today, but it won’t be a long update.
The site has benefited greatly from a fan who is also very computer savvy, and he has lent his expertise and gone above and beyond to help improve the site. The home page has been rebuilt, basically from scratch. There’s about half as much code on the page now (the code is what makes the page look the way it does, and it’s all behind the scenes), so the page looks the same but it will load about twice as fast as it used to. This same code cleanup will probably happen with every page on the site but it started with the home page as a tester. Not only does it look perfect on Firefox, which is the browser that Chris uses, but it also looks good on Explorer and Chrome as well. It’s good to have everything be consistent. Using a mobile device is still an issue because a lot of the data isn’t compressed to fit the device. This will hopefully be worked on down the road, but you can at least play all of the music on your phone now, which wasn’t how it was before. That’s because of the new audio player. Speaking of…
The new audio player looks similar and yet prettier at the same time. Going on a slight tangent, you can’t download the music from the website- you can only stream it. This is because there are copyright issues and Chris doesn’t want to get in trouble with Disney, so to keep it available to everyone it has to stay in a streaming form. Disney does know about the site because Chris has had to get permission for a couple of things, including contributing some edited audio from the site to TV specials. Disney was really great about it and Chris even got credited on the documentary. There are also Imagineers who go to the site and enjoy it, so Disney is very aware of the site. In the 5 years it’s been going, Chris has never been contacted by Disney, and he wants to keep it that way. Circling back to the original topic of the audio player, the previous audio player made it easy for people to download the content and that was a problem, so the current player doesn’t allow you to download and fixes that problem. (If you want some audio then become a supporter of the site and you will get exclusive content every month. See the ways to contribute at the end of this update). This audio player is HTML5 so it’s the best of both worlds: all the functions of the old flash player with the compatibility of HTML5 where you can use it on any device. It’s efficient and wonderful and consistent between browsers. As someone who went to design school, it’s very important to Chris that it looks good and works well.
In other news, one of the chapters that Chris has been working on for several months has finally been completed! That’s Chapter 20- Disneyland After Dark. There might be some added in the future but for now, it’s “finished”. “Finished” has to go in quotes because there’s always something that will pop up in the future, but for now it’s done.
Track 24- Skiles & Henderson was added. It’s a stand up comedy routine that was recorded live in the 1960’s. They performed at The Golden Horseshoe stage and The Carnation Gardens, and often filled in when the regular casts had the night off. They were also prolific musicians and they led a band at the park which were called The Disneyland Doodlers. This comedy routine captures the feel of what they were like when they performed at Disneyland, even though they didn’t record the album in Disneyland. It’s very funny and it was a lot of work. It took about 2 hours to edit every 1 minute of audio. Chris worked really hard to clean up the background noise and audience coughing and everything else to get it perfect. It sounds great and so much work went into it, so please check it out.
The other track that was completed it Track 54 - Michael Iceberg - The Amazing Iceberg Machine. This track originally wasn’t going to be included because…. it was forgotten. But one morning Chris woke up and remembered it and made sure to put him in. Michael Iceberg mostly performed at Disney World but he did come to Disneyland sometimes and do performances. In 1985 he recorded a half hour concert at the Tomorrowland Terrace which is on YouTube if you want to check it out. The track that is being used to represent him was recorded at Disney World and he makes a lot of Disney references. It has a lot of the same jokes and sound effects as to what you see on the YouTube recording so it’s pretty authentic to what you would have heard at Disneyland. The applause that was on the original track sounded very strange so Chris added in better applause and a couple of laughs. It really came out great, so be sure to check it out.
The water and music show that takes place at Pixie Hollow had a space on the page for future tracks, but the audio wasn’t able to be obtained and the space holders have been removed. Maybe at some point in the future the tracks can be obtained.
The other track that had to be removed was the Grad Nite Fireworks Special because a piece of that audio needed for it is very difficult to obtain and Chris wasn’t able to get it as hoped. It was going to be located after the current Track 81- as a sort of “Grad Nite” block of audio. The original name of track 81 was “Grad Nite Dance Party,” but it’s been renamed and given a different picture, so that it more represents all DJ events at the Tomorrowland Terrace in general terms, and not specifically Grad Nite. However, the audio is the same as it was before. Track 89 is a medley of songs and musical acts that performed at the recent “Disneyland After Dark” after hours party called “Throwback Nite” that happened in early January. Chris created a track to pay homage to this amazing event. So far Disneyland has not announced any future “After Dark” parties.
Chapter 21- Disneyland Bandstand was originally part of the After Dark chapter and was split off to become its own page. There are 26 tracks left to add to this page, and that’s the priority now. Chris wants to finish this chapter over the next month or so. The majority of it is done. The Michael Iceberg track is included on this chapter also because it belonged on both pages.
Big Bands in Disneyland is the big section that needs to get done, because only one track is done so far. The same is true with the More Legends of Jazz section. They will be done soon. The Tomorrowland Terrace section has several tracks that are finished but still needs a few to complete it. Once the Bandstand chapter is done, Chris is pondering on what to do next. There are a few tracks on the Town Square page that aren’t done yet, as well as some other “Coming Soon” tracks on other chapters that need to be finished before a brand new chapter is completed. Once that is done, the next new chapter could possibly be a 1950’s Tomorrowland chapter. Chris has a lot of audio for it and the retro feel is very fascinating to listen to when you compare it to how Tomorrowland is today.
Please check out the latest Jiminy Crickets podcast about New Orleans Square and Liberty Square. There’s been great feedback on it from listeners and it has information on it that many people may not have known before. Impress your friends with lesser-known facts about these two areas! You can find it at jcricketpodcast.blogspot.com or on Itunes and Stitcher. It’s also been posted on this same YouTube channel. ConciEars vacation planners are the new sponsors for the site. Check them out if you’re planning on taking a Disney Cruise or any Disney vacation. They are official Disney vacation planners and you don’t pay them. Disney pays them! So whatever you pay for you vacation when you go through them is the same as you would pay if you did it on your own. They get you hotels, give you the best rates, walk you through your fast passes, and it takes all the stress out of planning your Disney vacation. There’s no reason not to use them because they don’t charge you at all and they treat you like royalty. Chris doesn’t endorse products he doesn’t believe in, but he believes in these guys and can’t say enough good things about them. If you use them please let them know that you heard about them from DisneyChris so that they know that their partnership with Chris’s website has been beneficial.
Before the end, there must be another plea for people to help with donations to keep the website going. Chris is disabled and on a fixed income and the website costs money to host each and every month. You can be a regular donator on Patreon or you can do a one time donation at Paypal. You can also set up a monthly donation on Paypal if you’re not comfortable using Patreon. You will get special audio content every month if you contribute, no matter what the amount. Even if you donate a dollar, every donated dollar helps and is appreciated.
Spring is coming very soon, daylight savings is coming as well, and so is St. Patrick’s Day. Hopefully there will be another update before that holiday.
Until then, bye-bye!
2/6/18 Vlog Update
1/19/18 Vlog Update
1/7/18 Vlog Update
12/16/17 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush
The last vlog update of 2017!
Hello everybody, welcome to the bi-weekly Disney Audio Tour update! This vlog is a day late because, for the past couple of days, a big project was going on and Chris wanted to finish it before updating everyone.
As more Christmas tracks were added to the Holiday Time In Disneyland chapter, the page began taking longer and longer to load. With over 165 tracks on one page it was time to make another chapter split. Chris had been considering doing this for awhile but hesitated because the Haunted Mansion holiday overlay covered two holidays and Chris was debating on how to handle that. He decided to repeat those tracks on the Christmas chapter and went ahead and divided the chapter right now, instead of waiting for the update of the media player that will be happening in January and doing all the changes at once. It took a couple of days because it’s a major task to add a new chapter to the collection (it took nonstop and diligent work for two days to get it done). There’s a glitch in the program that Chris uses, where if you rename an image it will remember the old image and post that old image instead. It does this for several hours, then adjusts itself and posts the new images. Chris will check this all out and by the end of the 16th. By then the images should have straightened themselves out and be what they should be.
With the Christmas songs moved to a new page, Chapter 23, Holiday Time At Disneyland, now looks like this: Mickey greets everyone wearing his finest. Chris added the sash to this image to create an overall festive look and feel for the page without it being specific to any one holiday. Melonie wants to take a moment and point out Chris’s talents here, which he uses regularly to add not only musical content, but visual content to the Audio Tour as well. It’s very impressive and much appreciated.
The new title card for the chapter, complete with new introduction, has images that come from a 1958 record called Holidays With The Mouseketeers. Chris went with a rainbow background because there are so many holiday themes that one color wouldn’t fit all. Hopefully a rainbow will cover it.
The order of the holidays are now Valentines Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, International Festival and New Years.
Also of note, the “Hub” that appears at the bottom of every page has been rearranged. Here is the Hub from the Holidays chapter showing the way things are ordered at this point.
Christmas in Disneyland is now Chapter 22, which bumped everything back one number. Also, Disneyland Anniversaries (which includes major milestones and celebrations) was moved to be at the end of the seasonal chapters because anniversaries can sort of be considered holidays, so it seemed like it fit in with the holidays group really well (originally the Anniversaries was the last chapter). All that rearranging was another thing that took time to do.
If you’re having a problem viewing the Play bars recently, here is the solution. Run your mouse over the space where the play bars should be, and they usually will appear and you can play them as normal. Once the new media player is put in place in January, this hopefully won’t be an issue anymore.
Now let’s look at the Christmas page, which is now Chapter 22.
The order of the tracks has basically stayed the same. When the HauntedMansion overlay tracks were added they were put at the end of the Chapter. These now start around track number 60. Originally there were 93 tracks, and now there’s a total of 99 on the page. In the Holidays chapter, the Nightmare Before Christmas/Haunted Mansion tracks are separate, and each have their own liner notes. On the Christmas page, the tracks are grouped together in one section with one liner note, and the tracks are on a colored background. Track 60 has The French Market area music, which is also played during both Halloween and Christmas. Track 59 is the Grim Grinning Ghosts Christmas. Fun trivia fact: that track was originally in the Halloween folder but Chris decided not to put it on the Halloween page after all. You can only find it on the Christmas page.
Other changes to the page: the end of the Christmas tracks no longer lead into the Halloween tracks, the color scheme was changed to green, and the pictures above the Hub have been changed to all Christmas pictures instead of a mix of the different holidays, and the lettering in the Hub has been changed to red and green. Keep in mind that every letter has to be assigned a color individually. As Chris said, lots and lots of work went into making this new chapter.
All of that is what has been changed in the past couple of days, but before that, several new tracks were added as well. Let’s take a look at those now.
At this point, the blog turns towards the parades. This is because Chris wrote an article for a website about the history of Disneyland’s Christmas parades. Up to this point he had been mostly editing and adding tracks in order, but he skipped ahead to get the parade tracks done so they could compliment the article. You can read Chris’s article here on the Disney Avenue website. Some of the tracks Chris added were already there but he improved the audio. The rundown for the parade tracks are as follows:
Moving down the page, we resume the non-parade tracks:
Just as a heads up, on December 20th, Episode 85 of the Jiminy Crickets podcast will be released. It will be all about Babes in Toyland, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you should go watch it. You can stream it on Amazon for about $4. You won’t regret watching the movie, and you would benefit from watching the movie before listening to the podcast.
There will be more tracks coming, possibly as many as at least one new tracks a day. Check Chris out on Twitter or Facebook, because anytime something new is posted to the website, Chris lets people know through these social media channels that new tracks are out.
Have a very merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and may all your wishes come true this holiday season. Chris will do another update….next year! Can you believe it? Have a wonderful rest of 2017!
Bye bye!
12/1/17 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush
Happy Holidays, everybody! The website has been decorated with some holiday artwork. The homepage has a special link to skip right to the Christmas songs section. It also has the Song Of The Day towards the bottom, which are Christmas themed for the month of December. There’s been a major milestone for the website! As of December 1st, a total of 1,500 tracks have been added! When the website first started there were about 380 tracks available, and in five years it’s grown so much. There’s still more to add, so in another 5 years there will probably be 1,000 more tracks, and after that there will probably be more still. Thank you to everyone who has followed the website, supported it, and enjoyed the music. You are the ones who make it worth all the work that goes into it.
Two weeks ago, when the last Vlog was recorded, the audio was still being set up for the holiday tracks. That’s been finished and lots of tracks have been added since that time. The “work folder” started out with 78 files and it’s now down to 53 files yet to be added. Several of these files are brand new, and several files are existing tracks that will be redone to be improved. See the Vlog for a peek inside the work folder to see Chris’s list and get the behind the scenes details on which songs will be redone.
Here’s the rundown on the tracks which are on the Christmas Page at this point:
Track 1 - The Holidays At Disneyland. This is a 1957 radio ad that had some music added from Walt Disney’s firehouse apartment. It’s been on the site for years and is a classic which hasn’t changed. Track 2- Holiday Time In Disneyland - Walt Meets Santa. This is from a 1962 episode of The Wonderful World of Color, called “Holiday Time at Disneyland” (which is what the Christmas chapter is named from). This is an introduction to that program, and through the magic of special effects, it was snowing at Disneyland when Walt met Santa. It was on the site before but has been improved. Track 3 - A Christmas Adventure In Disneyland - Tree Medley. This is from a 1958 record called “A Christmas Adventure In Disneyland.” It was a story of some kids going through Disneyland on Christmas Eve, and the full version is on the Records page. This one contains just the 4 songs from that record, and the sound quality is really good. Track 4 - The Holiday Bowl. This is the bandstand that was in Town Square before opening day, then when the park first opened it had been moved to the west of the castle in Central Plaza and eventually moved to an area between Adventureland and Frontierland. A popular event took place here each December called the Holiday Bowl, which was a live show during the 1950’s. No audio from this exists, so some audio that has the correct feel to it serves as a representation. Chris worked really hard to find the right sound for this track and put a lot of thought into it. Track 5 - The Firehouse Five Plus Two - Jingle Bells. This is from a 1950’s TV special called “One Hour In Wonderland.” This version of the song is nearly identical to the one played on the TV special but was taken from a studio recording. Chris included this song because the Firehouse Five have such a strong connection to Disneyland. Track 6 - Parade Of Many Lands. This has audio from the “Holiday Time In Disneyland” TV special, as well as from the “A Gala Day In Disneyland” news special. Both describe the Parade of Many Lands, and elements from each were combined to create this track. It’s not authentic audio recorded in the park but it’s vintage audio from that time that was produced by Disney describing the parade. It’s a good one, so check it out. Track 7 - Babes In Toyland Exhibit. This is a few songs from the 1961 cast album from Babes In Toyland. The album was produced at the same time that the exhibit was open, so this music is an educated guess as to what was played in the park. Track 8 - March Of The Toys Parade. This comes from the 1962 holiday special. Lots of editing went into it to clean up the audio. Track 9 - March Of The Toys Parade - Toy Train Choir. There’s a segment in the same 1962 special where a float came out and you hear a high pitched “Deck The Halls.” In 1957 the Walt Disney Christmas Concert came out with “Ludwig Mouseinski” conducting an all-mouse choir singing Jingle Bells, using a recording technique that was later used in Alvin & The Chipmunks and it came out really cute. Track 10 - Silent Night - The Disneyland Boys Choir. This is from the 1964 album “It’s A Small World’ where an all boys choir sang traditional songs from around the world. Silent Night represented Germany and is the only song from that album on this track. Track 11 - Matterhorn Mountain - Christmas Star. Chris took a piece of music that has a Disneyland connection to it and added the authentic sound effects of the wind from the Matterhorn. This represents the Christmas star that used to be on top of the Matterhorn for Christmas. Track 12- Fantasy On Parade- Promotional Radio Spots. These are 3 different advertisements recoded from the stars from Blackbeard’s Ghost. This was on the site before but Chris added some different music to it. Track 13 - Fantasy On Parade - Premier Season. This was on another page of the site (the Parade chapter). It has been added to this chapter and had some extra clean up work done on it. Track 14 - Fantasy On Parade - 1973 Season. This is just the Christmas segment from the 1973 version of the parde. It is authentic. If you want to hear the full parade, it’s on the Magical Milestones chapter and the Parades chapter as well. Track 15 - Fantasy On Parade- Wacky Reindeer. This will probably be renamed as Silly Reindeer at some point. This is 3 version of Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer taken from various area loops. Track 16 - Carousel Of Progress- Mid Century Christmas. Chris is very proud of this one. He wanted to represent the Christmas scene that happened at the end of the Carousel. I took awhile to figure out how to do it since Christmas was only mentioned very briefly. Chris took this brief mention and then faded it into other Christmas music taken from a couple of albums from the same time period. It definitely sounds like what Mother and Father would be listening to in that scene, when they talk about being able to dim the lights to match the music, etc. It came out really fun, so check that out. Track 17 - The Kids Of The Kingdom - Christmas Medley. This one isn’t done yet, but it will most likely be done by the next Vlog and Chris will explain it then. Track 18 - Christmas In Disneyland Television Special. This comes from a 1976 TV special. It was a lot of work to get this track right, and Chris is happy with how it turned out. If you compare this to what you can find on YouTube, the sound quality is very different because of all of the work Chris put into it. Track 19 - A Disney Christmas Gift - Christmas Morning. This is a song at the beginning of a 1982 TV special. The song is played while the characters are shopping and decorating Main Street. Track 20 - Christmas In Disneyland - Jack Wagner. This was already on the site but Chris found a longer version that had intro music on it, so it’s been redone. Tracks 21 - 26 are different TV commercials from over the years. Track 26 - Christmas 2006 - Year Of A Million Dreams has Burl Ives singing Holly Jolly Christmas. The commercial itself isn’t very great as an audio experience so Chris took the song by Burl Ives which was used as background music for this commercial and used that for this track. Track 27 - Coming Soon. Track 28 - Mickey Mouse Holiday Phone Greeting. This is a short piece of audio that’s maybe 10 seconds long, so Chris took a piece of music from the same actor who performs for Mickey, singing Jingle Bells, and merged the two audio pieces together. Track 29 - Are You Ready For Christmas - Neil Patrick Harris. This was technically performed in Walt Disney World during a 2013 TV special. However, Disneyland was featured in this TV special along with Disney World, and it’s a great song, so it’s being included.
That’s basically everything that’s been added thus far. Chris plans to work diligently at it from now until Christmas, so something new should be added every day. Check him out on Facebook under Chris Lyndon or on Twitter at DisneyChris73. Every time something is added to the site it’s posted in those two places.
One other thing to mention is Patreon. Yes, the sales pitch again. Chris really does need all the listener’s help because it costs money to run the website. The more audio that’s added to the website, the more it costs to run. There will eventually come a point where it will be cost prohibitive to add any more audio to the site unless the listeners come forward to help. Any amount will help, even one dollar. If ten people donated only one dollar, that’s ten less dollars that Chris has to pay for. Every little bit can help and every little bit is appreciated. Special exclusive audio content is given to Patreon subscribers, and if you donate $1 you get the same content as those who donate $10. Please consider it and see if it is something that you can do, since there’s a limit to how much Chris can afford to do on his own. All Patreon subscribers so far are really appreciated, and Chris is thankful for all of those donations and ponders every day on the generosity of people, and it warms his heart. Have a wonderful holiday season and we will see you in two weeks. Enjoy all the festivities and decorating and everything going on during the holiday season.
Bye-bye!
11/17/17 Vlog Update
11/03/17 Vlog Update
Notes by Melonie Bush
Hello everybody! Welcome to the vlog update for November 3rd, 2017! Several new tracks have been added to the site, and the Song of the Day for November has been set up. This month doesn’t have a theme for the whole month, unlike last month that had a Villains theme. November 18th is Mickey Mouse’s birthday, so for the week leading up to his birthday there will be all Mickey Mouse songs. The week following his birthday there will be a week of Thanksgiving themed songs. So half of the month will have a theme, half will have no theme, and the half that does have a theme will have 2 themes. In December there will be a Christmas Song of the Day all month long. Now for the updates:
Chapter 20 - Disneyland After Dark.
Track 1 - The Flag Retreat. This has been redone again. It’s now been redone two times. The first time was to get some more echo into it, but upon relistening, it still needed something. So more bass was added and the announcer’s voice was tweaked to sound better.
Track 34 - The Great American Music Machine, had a tweak to it. An additional group was discovered from a post on a Facebook fan page that Chris visits a lot. Here is a picture of them performing in the 70’s:
The group is Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart. They did record an album live in Disneyland. It was never commercially released, and it was probably recorded just as something for the members of the group to have, not for the public. It’s so rare that there’s probably no way to get their album. They performed at Disneyland for three nights in a row, July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1976. This makes them the Rock and Roll band who was performing during America’s bicentennial, which makes it historically important. This was the only time they ever played at Disneyland. Two of these members were in the group The Monkees, and the other two were members of another popular group in the late 60’s who also actually wrote a lot of the songs for the Monkees. They combined and made a third group with two members from each band, and this is the band that is featured. This band was formed when a reunion tour for the Monkees was discussed, but two of the members of the group didn’t want to do it, so Boyce and Hart teamed up with Dolez and Jones and formed this new group. They released two albums commercially. One of them was a live album recorded at a concert in Japan, which is available for purchase but not digital download. Their other album has all original songs. One of these songs they sang in Disneyland, and the reason this is known is because there’s a recording of the Disneyland concert on YouTube which an audience member recorded and posted online years and years later. So the song they performed in the concert which they also recorded in the studio is the song that was added to The Great American Music Machine. If you want to listen to the concert on YouTube you can click here and listen.
Here is a list of the songs that are now included in this mix:
The Great American Music Machine 1 – The Love You Save – The Jackson 5 2 – Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry 3 – Tutti Frutti – Pat Boone NEW 4 – Light My Fire – Jose Feleiciano NEW 5 – Hooked on a Feeling – B.J. Thomas 6 – Woman, Woman – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap 7 – The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 8 – Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) – Helen Reddy 9 – Silver Bird – Mark Lindsay 10 – Music Music Music – Theresa Brewer NEW 11 – Precious and Few – Climax 12 – Sooner or Later – The Grass Roots 13 – Down By the Lazy River – The Osmonds 14 – Top of the World – The Carpenters 15 – Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Old Oak Tree – Tony Orlando and Dawn 16 – Billy Don’t Be a Hero – Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods NEW 17 – The Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Night and the Pips NEW 18 – Betcha By Golly Wow – The Stylistics 19 – Want Ads – Honey Cone 20 – Stagger Lee – Tommy Roe 21 – Yes We Can Can – The Pointer Sisters 22 – Indian Reservation – Paul Revere and the Raiders 23 – Minnie Riperton – Seeing You This Way NEW 24 – Without You – Sami Jo NEW 25 – The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Robert John 26 – Gene Cotton – Only the Lucky NEW 27 – Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Did You Boogie With Your Baby NEW 28 – You’re No Good – Linda Ronstadt 29 – I Honestly Love You – Olivia Newton-John 30 – Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart – I Love You (And I'm Glad That I Said It) NEW 31 – Shaun Cassidy – Doo Doo Run Run NEW 32 – Rock N’ Roll Heaven – The Righteous Brothers
Track 50 - The Bear Country Hoedown - Nashville Brass. This track was also tweaked just a little removing some of the songs with less bass in them and the sound quality is more cohesive. There was also additional cleanup done that was missed during the first go around.
There are three tracks left to do on this chapter. Skiles and Henderson (it’s a very tedious clean-up so Chris is trying to do one minute of clean-up on it a day - which can take about 5 hours just to do 1 minute,) Pixie Hollow Enchantment and Grad Night Blast. To hear more about these unfinished tracks, see the last vlog update or read the accompanying notes, which have all the details.
Chapter 21 - Disneyland Bandstand
This is the chapter with the most additions.
Track 32 - Country Music Jubilee and Track 33 - Country Music Spectacular come from old vinyl recordings that need cleanup. It takes a lot of time to perfect the sound on these. Remember that this is classic country music, not modern day country music, so if you don’t like modern day country music then you might still like this. It has a Country Bear Jamboree feel to it. Give it a chance, you might like it.
The songs on the Country Music Jubilee mix are: 1 – Alabama Jubilee – Roy Clark (Instrumental) 2 – Act Naturally – Buck Owens 3 – Rye Whiskey – Homer and Jethro 4 – Sweet, Sweet Lips – Joe and Rose Lee Maphis 5 – Excuse Me For Living – Freddie Hart 6 – My Dirty Lowdown Rotten Cotton Pickin’ Little Darlin’ – The Geezinslaw Brothers 7 – Bonanza – Le Garde Twins NEW 8 – I’m An Old Cowhand – Jimmy Wakely NEW 9 – The Streets of Laredo – Rex Allen NEW 10 – Steelin’ Home – Noel Boggs NEW 11 – Ain’t You Ever – Collins Kids 12 – Let’s Wait a Little Longer – Canadian Sweethearts 13 – Hickory Hollow – The Dillards NEW 14 – It’s Just a Matter of Time – Sonny James NEW 15 – Giddy Up Go Answer – Minnie Pearl NEW 16 – Sad Movies Make Me Cry – Sue Thompson NEW 17 – Detroit City – Bobby Bare NEW 18 – Feed Me One More Lie – Mary Taylor NEW 19 – I’ve Come Awful Close – Hank Thompson 20 – Yes, I Love You Only – Bonnie Owens 21 – You Finally Said Something Good – Charlie Louvin 22 – Let’s Do What’s Right, Even If It’s Wrong – Faye Hardin and Bob Morris 23 - Happy Sunny Side of Life – The Country Ramblers NEW 24 – He’ll Have to Go – Jerry Naylor NEW 25 – Like a Fool – Dottie West 26 – Texas – Tex Ritter 27 – Little Maggie – The Stonemans 28 – A Woman Lives for Love – Wanda Jackson 29 – I’ll Hold You in My Heart – Tex Williams 30 – I Saw the Light – Roy Acuff and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 31 – She’s a Little Bit Country – George Hamilton IV 32 – Goodbye – David Frizzle NEW 33 – Hello Darlin – Conway Twitty NEW 34 – Louisiana Man – Doug Kershaw NEW 35 – The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA – Donna Fargo NEW 36 – Lonesome – Tony Booth NEW 37 – George Jones – She Still Thinks I Care NEW 38 – Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette NEW 39 – Married to a Memory – Judy Lynn NEW 40 – Mama Tried – Merle Haggard 41 – I Just Couldn’t Let Her Walk Away – Dorsey Burnette 42 – Stop the World and Let Me Off – Susan Raye 43 – Try a Little Kindness – Glen Campbell
The songs on the Country Music Spectacular mix are:
Tracks 45-52 are from the Rollin’ River Revue and they are all done. This is includes a track for every themed week, plus a track of the random stars that performed for the rest of the summer. Here is the breakdown of the songs included on each mix:
Rollin’ River Revue - Surfin’ 60’s Week 1 – Frankie Avalon – Beach Party 2 – Jan & Dean – Surf City USA 3 – The Ventures – Walk Don’t Run 4 – The Association – Never My Love 5 – The Surfaris – Wipe Out
Rollin’ River Revue - Swing Week 1 – Cross Over the Bridge – Patti Page 2 – Boogie Blues – Ray Anthony & His Orchestra 3 –You’re Nobody ‘Till Somebody Loves You – Roberta Sherwood 4 – Corner Pocket – Ray Anthony & His Orchestra 5 – Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man – Connie Haines 6 - Rose Room – Ray Anthony & His Orchestra
Rollin’ River - Country Week 1 – Donna Fargo – Don’t Be Angry 2 – Sylvia – Drifter 3 – Jacky Ward – Fools Fall in Love 4 – Steve Wariner – Your Memory 5 – Eddy Raven – Who Do You Know in California 6 – Lee Dresser – A Beautiful Song (For a Beautiful Lady) 7 – Billy Thunderkloud and the Chieftones – Come to Me
Rollin’ River Revue - Jazz Week 1 – Spyro Gyra – Little Linda 2 – Buddy Rich – Tales of Rhoda Rat 3 – Roy Ayers – Destination: Motherland 4 – Seawind – He Loves You 5 – Freddie Hubbard – Midnight at the Oasis 6 – Bill Watrous and Refuge West – Tiger of San Pedro 7 – Cal Tjader – Sabor
Rollin’ River Revue - Latin Week 1 – Jose Feliciano – La Bamba 2 - Albertico Perez Su Orquesta y Su Juli – Juan Donde 3 – Los Diablos – Niña de Papá (L'Olympia) 4 – Trio Las Reyes – Como Un Belero 5 – Mariachi America – Homenaje a Vicente Fernandez 6 – Mariachi San Marcos - El Son De La Negra
Rollin’ River Revue - Pop Week 1 – Kool & The Gang – Steppin’ Out 2 – Shalimar – Make That Move 3 – Tiera – Together 4 – Bruce Johnston – Disney Girls 5 – Papa Doo Run Run – Do It Again
Rollin’ River Revue – Bluegrass Week 1 – Leon Russell – Delta Lady 2 – New Grass Revival – Souvenir Bottles 3 – Earl Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Breakdown 4 – The Dillards – Greenback Dollar
Rollin’ River Revue Special Guest Stars 1 – The Pointer Sisters – Duke Ellington Medley 2 – The Spinners – Working My Way Back To You 3 – Brenda Lee – Break It to Me Gently 4 – Pearl Bailey – St. Louis Blues 5 – Pete Fountain – Lazy River 6 – Paul Revere and the Raiders – Good Thing 7 – Jessy Dixon and the Dixon Singers – You’ll Never Walk Alone 8 – Billy “Crash” Craddock – Walk Softly 9 – Shalamar – This is For the Lover in You 10 – Patti Page – Old Cape Cod 11 – The Lennon Sisters – Theme from A Summer Place 12 – Doc Severinsen – Brass Roots
At this point, these two chapters are going to be set aside for awhile while the Christmas tracks will be worked on from now until the end of the year. At first, this was going to be done after Thanksgiving. Upon reflection it was realized that the pages have to be set up, the liner notes need to be added, and all that has to be done before the tracks can be edited. If Chris starts with the setup now, this can all be done in a timely way which will still allow the tracks to be edited near enough to Thanksgiving that his neighbors won’t think he’s crazy for listening to Holiday music off-season. There are several things to be added, several things to be updated, improved, and lengthened. It’s going to be nice to have something else to work on since Chapters 20 and 21 have been the focus and worked on since March, so it will be nice to do Christmas music and have a change. Chapters 20 and 21 will be worked on again at the beginning of the new year.
The next update might be short because things will still be getting set up, but there will still be a video to let everyone know what’s going on. Did you guys have a good Halloween? Chris was without internet for 2 days so someone played a trick on him, it was definitely no treat. There was a big wind storm in Rhode Island and it knocked the internet out, and it was a long two days to be without it. How did we ever live without the internet?
Hopefully everyone is having a happy early November and we will talk to you again in two weeks! Bye!
10/20/17 Vlog Update See Video on YouTube Channel: DisneyChrisDotCom
Notes by Melonie Bush Hello everybody! It’s time for another update. Today is October 20, 2017. New tracks have been diligently added to the site, most of which have already been explained on previous videos. For those who haven’t seen the previous videos, the updates in the last two weeks will be detailed.
There are 34 files that are ready to be edited and put in Chapter 20 and Chapter 21. That will complete the two chapters. The closest to being done is Chapter 20, which needs only one more track! Some of the 33 files that are left to edit for Chapter 21 are already partially edited or finalized. A list of tracks that are color coded is shown in the video so one can easily see what is already completed for the medleys. This happened because Chapter 20 has some of the same medleys, only shorter, and they have been completed and posted already. It’s the longer versions for Chapter 21 where more material needs to be finished and posted. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, which is good timing since Christmas audio will be worked on once Thanksgiving happens. The pie in the sky scenario is for Chapters 20 and 21 to be finished, or at least mostly finished, before Thanksgiving, since whatever is being worked on will be dropped in favor of editing Christmas songs once Thanksgiving is done.
As a side note: if you are using Firefox, you might be experiencing issues. Firefox did an update and now it’s sometimes not showing the play bars. They are there, and if you hover your mouse over that area they will pop up. It’s not known why that’s been happening but it’s not that big of a deal if you know to just put your mouse over it. Wait for the page to load, hover your mouse, and if the play bars still don’t show up, refresh the page and try again.
(7:30) Chapter 20 Updates:
At this point, Chris got excited about explaining Chapter 21 and moved to that. He returns to Chapter 20 to finish explaining the additions at a later point in the video, which will be listed below.
(20:27) Chapter 21 Updates:
Rollin’ River Revue Special Guest Stars 1 – The Pointer Sisters – Duke Ellington Medley 2 – The Spinners – Working My Way Back To You 3 – Brenda Lee – Break It to Me Gently 4 – Pearl Bailey – St. Louis Blues 5 – Pete Fountain – Lazy River 6 – Paul Revere and the Raiders – Good Thing 7 – Jessy Dixon and the Dixon Singers – You’ll Never Walk Alone 8 – Billy “Crash” Craddock – Walk Softly 9 – Shalamar – This is For the Lover in You 10 – Patti Page – Old Cape Cod 11 – The Lennon Sisters – Theme from A Summer Place 12 – Doc Severinsen – Brass Roots
(25:27) Heading back to Chapter 20:
Country Music Jubilee (Chapter 20 Version) 1 – Alabama Jubilee – Roy Clark (Instrumental) 2 – Act Naturally – Buck Owens 3 – Rye Whiskey – Homer and Jethro 4 – My Dirty Lowdown Rotten Cotton Pickin’ Little Darlin’ – The Geezinslaw Brothers 5 – Bonanza – Le Garde Twins 6 – I’m An Old Cowhand – Jimmy Wakely 7 – The Streets of Laredo – Rex Allen 8 – Steelin’ Home – Noel Boggs 9 – Let’s Wait a Little Longer – Canadian Sweethearts 10 – Hickory Hollow – The Dillards 11 – I’ve Come Awful Close – Hank Thompson 12 – Like a Fool – Dottie West 13 – He’ll Have to Go – Jerry Naylor 14 – You Finally Said Something Good – Charlie Louvin 15 – Texas – Tex Ritter 16 – Little Maggie – The Stonemans 17 – A Woman Lives for Love – Wanda Jackson 18 – She’s a Little Bit Country – George Hamilton IV 19 – Hello Darlin – Conway Twitty 20 – Louisiana Man – Doug Kershaw 21 – The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA – Donna Fargo 22 – George Jones – She Still Thinks I Care 23 – Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette 24 – Mama Tried – Merle Haggard 25 – Try a Little Kindness – Glen Campbell 26 – I Saw the Light – Roy Acuff and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 27 – Ray Price – For the Good Times 28 – Jody Miller – Queen of the House 29 – Mel Tillis – Heart Over Mind 30 – Lynn Anderson – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 31 – Freddy Weller – Indian Lake 32 – Jerry Reed – When You’re Hot, You’re Hot 33 – Jeanie C Riley – Harper Valley PTA 34 – John Hartford – Gentle on My Mind 35 – Bobby Gentry – Fancy 36 – Don Gibson and Sue Thompson – Good Old Fashioned Country Love 37 – Tanya Tucker – Delta Dawn 38 – Johnny Lee – Country Party 39 – Charlie Daniels – The South’s Gonna Do It Again
The Great American Music Machine 1 – The Love You Save – The Jackson 5 2 – Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry 3 – Tutti Frutti – Pat Boone NEW 4 – Light My Fire – Jose Feleiciano NEW 5 – Hooked on a Feeling – B.J. Thomas 6 – Woman, Woman – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap 7 – The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 8 – Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) – Helen Reddy 9 – Silver Bird – Mark Lindsay 10 – Music Music Music – Theresa Brewer NEW 11 – Precious and Few – Climax 12 – Sooner or Later – The Grass Roots 13 – Down By the Lazy River – The Osmonds 14 – Top of the World – The Carpenters 15 – Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Old Oak Tree – Tony Orlando and Dawn 16 – Billy Don’t Be a Hero – Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods NEW 17 – The Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Night and the Pips NEW 18 – Betcha By Golly Wow – The Stylistics 19 – Want Ads – Honey Cone 20 – Stagger Lee – Tommy Roe 21 – Yes We Can Can – The Pointer Sisters 22 – Indian Reservation – Paul Revere and the Raiders 23 – Minnie Riperton – Seeing You This Way NEW 24 – Without You – Sami Jo NEW 25 – The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Robert John 26 – Gene Cotton – Only the Lucky NEW 27 – Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids – Did You Boogie With Your Baby NEW 28 – You’re No Good – Linda Ronstadt 29 – I Honestly Love You – Olivia Newton-John 30 – Shaun Cassidy – Doo Doo Run Run NEW 31 – Rock N’ Roll Heaven - The Righteous Brothers
Rollin River Revue Featured Performers 1 – Frankie Avalon – Beach Party 2 – Patti Page – Old Cape Cod 3 – Donna Fargo – Don’t Be Angry 4 – Spyro Gyra – Little Linda 5 – Jose Feliciano – La Bamba 6 – Shalamar – This is For the Lover in You 7 – Kool and the Gang – Take It to the Top 8 – Earl Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Breakdown 9 – Leon Russell – Delta Lady 10 – The Pointer Sisters – Duke Ellington Medley 11 – The Spinners – Working My Way Back To You 12 – Brenda Lee – Break It to Me Gently 13 – Pearl Bailey – St. Louis Blues 14 – Pete Fountain – Lazy River 15 – Paul Revere and the Raiders – Good Thing 16 – Jessy Dixon and the Dixon Singers – You’ll Never Walk Alone 17 – Billy “Crash” Craddock – Walk Softly 18 – The Lennon Sisters – Theme from A Summer Place 19 – Doc Severinsen – Brass Roots
That’s it for this update! Apologies for jumping around. Have a very happy and safe Halloween. Please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber or do a one time donation to help pay for the costs of running the website. Thank you very much and see you in two weeks. Bye!
10/06/17 Vlog Update See Video on YouTube Channel: DisneyChrisDotCom
Notes by Melonie Bush
Hello everybody! Two weeks has flown by because so much has happened. First of all, Halloween season is upon us. The home page has been decorated to celebrate the holiday with the Song of the Day featuring the Disney Villains. The song of the day is about two thirds of the way down the page. Here’s an example of what to look for:
You can listen to songs from previous days by clicking underneath the villains banner where it says “To Listen To Your Favorite Musical Selections From Days Past, Click Here,” OR, you can scroll to the top of the page and click on “Song Of The Day Archive” and that will take you to this page:
Someone had asked if the song “Trick or Treat” from the 1952 Donald Duck short will be featured, and the answer is no, because this year’s Halloween theme is villians, and since Donald Duck isn’t a villian he won’t be there. However, if you click on “Song of the day Index” at the top of the page, it will show every song that’s been featured in the past, starting from January of 2015. In October 2016, one year ago, Halloween-specific songs were featured in October, and if you look at the bottom of the song listings from October you will see a blue link that says “Click Here”. If you click on it, it will take you to that page and you can listen to all of the songs from last year. So any song that was featured as a song of the day is always available to listen to. There are 3 versions of Trick or Treat - 1) From a Disneyland record with the Mouseketeers from 1958, 2) The Lawrence Welk show from 1965, and 3) The original soundtrack version from 1952. So you can really get your Trick or Treat song fix if you want to.
If you want to listen to Halloween songs from the park, you scroll down to the bottom of the page and there is a link to click on:
That will take you to a special page on the Magical Audio Tour that has just the Halloween songs from Disneyland, and looks like this:
It’s a temporary page that will be available in October for convenience, and you can get there from the Song of the Day archive page. You can also listen to it in 4.5 hour installments if you want to hear them in a chunk. So you can definitely get into the Halloween spirit from the website. Now onto the updates!
Disneyland After Dark and it’s split-off called Disneyland Bandstand are the ones that have been being prepped for several weeks. The final editing process can be tedious and take a lot of time, but tracks have begun to emerge.
At (8:40) the updates for Chapter 20:
Chapter 20 is very near to be completed. The two main obstacles that will slow it down are the Skiles and Henderson track and the Firehouse Five Plus Two track that have very difficult editing work that need to be done. But the completion is in sight!
At (24:11) the updates for Chapter 21:
So that is the overview of what has happened on the site since the last update. There’s a chance that Chapter 20 might be completed by the next update, so fingers crossed! Meanwhile, here are some lists of the various medley tracks, showing what songs and artists are included:
Cavalcade of Big Bands 1 – Benny Goodman – Don’t Be That Way 2 – Charlie Barnet – Cherokee 3 – Count Basie – April in Paris 4 – Les Brown – I’ve Got Me Love to Keep Me Warm 5 – Lionel Hampton – Flying Home 6 – Gene Krupa – Sing Sing Sing 7 – Tex Beneke – American Patrol 8 – Harry James – Two O’Clock Jump 9 – Wayne King – Josephine NEW 10 – Duke Ellington – Take the A Train 11 – Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Buddy Morrow – Opus One 12 – Charlie Shavers – Moten Swing NEW 13 – Si Zentner – Lazy River 14 – Stan Kenton – The Peanut Vendor 15 – Woody Herman – Four Brothers NEW 16 – Ray Eberle – In the Mood NEW 17 – Les Elgart – Bandstand Boogie NEW 18 – Buddy Rich – Jumpin’ at the Woodside
Humdinger 1 - Humdinger - Freddy Cannon 2 - This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis and the Playboys 3 - Patience Baby - The Pair Extraordinaire 4 - The In Crowd - Dobie Gray 5 - Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups 6 - She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles 7 - Things - Jody Miller 8 - Across the Street is a Million Miles Away - Ray Peterson 9 - Kicks - Paul Revere and the Raiders 10 - Papa Oom Mow Mow - The Rivingtons 11 - Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis 12 - Deep Purple - Nino Tempo and April Stevens 13 - Five O’Clock World – The Vogues NEW 14 - I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four 15 - Dream For Sale - Joey Paige 16 - What the World Needs Now is Love - Jackie DeShannon 17 - The Birds and the Bees - Jewel Akens 18 - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - The Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans 19 - I’m Into Something Good - Herman’s Hermits NEW 20 - Windy - The Association 21 - Two Lovers - Mary Wells 22 - More - Vic Dana 23 - He’s a Rebel - The Crystals 24 - Love Letters Straight From Your Heart - Ketty Lester 25 - It's My Party - Leslie Gore 26 - Hold Me, Kiss Me, Thrill Me - Mel Carter 27 - Dirty Water - The Standells 28 - Goody Galum-Shus - Bobby Sherman 29 - Nowhere to Run - Martha and the Vandellas 30 - Good Lovin' - The Rascals 31 - Come A Little Bit Closer - Jay and the Americans 32 - Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond
Pop Pourri 1 - Mastered the Art of Love - The Checkmates Ltd. 2 - Sunny - Gary Lewis and the Playboys 3 - Love’s the Only Answer - Kelly Garrett 4 - I’m the Wolf Man - Round Robin 5 - I Want Love - The Individuals 6 - Something About You Baby - The Vibrants 7 - Heartbeats - Dick and Dee Dee 8 - She Done Moved - The Spats 9 - Candy - 1910 Fruitgum Company 10 - Girl It’s Over - The Six Deep 11 - The Duck - Jackie Lee 12 - Annie Ya Ya - Jim Doval and the Gauchos 13 - Follow Me - The Bantams 14 - Follow the Bouncing Ball - The Hondells 15 - I Live For the Sun - The Sunrays 16 - That Ain’t Right - Freddy and the Sounds of Soul 17 - Tainted Love - Gloria Jones 18 - Get on This Plane - The Premieres 19 - Heartbreaker - H.B. Barnum 20 - You’ll Never Know - Mickey and the Invaders 21 - Our Love is Gonna Snowball - Jackie and Gayle 22 - Chocolate Cherry - The Joe Tex Band 23 - Follow the Sunshine - Don Grady and The Yellow Balloon 24 - You’re Absolutely Right - The Swinging Apollas 25 - Free as the Wind - The Brooklyn Bridge 26 - Spanish Flea - Doodletown Pipers NEW 27 - Tequila - New Classic Singers 28 - You’re the Sound of Love - Peppermint Rainbow 29 - Words - The Regents 30 - That’s My Bag - Shango 31 - Two Can Have a Party - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell 32 - Knock on Wood - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
The Space Stage - Space Age Disco Concert 1 – Billy Preston – Disco Dancin’ 2 – Hues Corporation – Rock the Boat 3 – Gary’s Gang – Keep On Dancin’ 4 – Con Funk Shun – Shake and Dance with Me 5 – The Spinners – Rubberband Man 6 – Peaches and Herb – Shake Your Groove Thing 7 – Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right 8 – Never Can Say Goodbye – Gloria Gaynor 9 – Party Lights – Natalie Cole 10 – Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – Don’t Leave Me This Way 11 – Willie Bobo – Always There 12 – Ohio Players – Love Rollercoaster 13 – KC and the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way I Like It 14 – High Inergy – Lovin’ Fever 15 – Roy Ayers – Runnin’ Away 16 – Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough 17 – Starguard – Which Way is Up 18 – Sea Wind – King Grand 19 – Meco – Star Wars Theme 20 – Rose Royce – It Makes You Feel Like Dancin’ 21 – Willie Aames and Paradise - Why Don’t You Answer 22 – Anita Bofill – What I Wouldn’t Do (For the Love of You) 23 – Voyage – Souvenirs 24 – Sister Sledge – He’s the Greatest Dancer 25 – Shalamar – The Second Time Around 26 – Teri DeSario – Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Keep Me From You 27 – Manhattan Transfer - Birdland 28 – Kool and the Gang – Good Time Tonight
Big Bands in Disneyland (all instrumental covers in same style as original artists) 1 – Big Bands in Disneyland Main Title 2 – Glenn Miller – Moonlight Serenade 3 – Count Basie – April in Paris 4 – Woody Herman – Two Brothers 5 – Cab Calloway – Minnie the Moocher 6 – Bob Crosby – South Rampart Street Parade 7 – Ray McKinley – Celery Stalks at Midnight 8 – Jimmy Dorsey – So Rare 9 – Artie Shaw – Begin the Beguine 10 – Lionel Hampton – Flying Home 11 – Les Brown – Leapfrog 12 – Tommy Dorsey – Opus One 13 – Buddy Rich – Bugle Call Rag
Tomorrowland Terrace 1 – Papa Doo Run Run – Surfin’ USA 2 – Friendship Train – I’ve Got the Music in Me 3 – Sunshine Balloon – Dancin’ Machine 4 – Sandbox – Don’t Stop Believing 5 – Hard Day’s Night – I Wanna Hold Your Hand 6 – 80z All-Stars – Jump 7 – Barrage – Calypso Jam 8 – Stellar Show Band – The Rules 9 – The Suffragettes – I’m in Love 10 – Instant Replay – Call Me 11 – Suburban Legends – Under the Sea 12 – Scot Bruce – Hound Dog 13 – The Bolts – Don’t Let Me Go 14 – Tomisina – Out There
Legendary Big Band Singers in Disneyland 1 – Jukebox Saturday Night – Tex Beneke with Paula Kelly & The Modernaires 2 – Walking Happy – Frank Sinatra Jr. 3 – I’ve Heard That Song Before – Helen Forrest 4 – I’ll Never Smile Again – The Pied Pipers 5 – Lullaby of Birdland – Mel Torme 6 – Fever – Peggy Lee 7 – September Song – Patti Page 8 – Racing With the Moon – Vaughn Monroe 9 – How High the Moon – June Christy 10 – Minnie the Moocher – Cab Calloway 11 – Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive – Ella Mae Morse 12 – If You Could See Me Now – Billy Eckstine 13 – Take the A Train – The King Sisters 14 – Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey – Helen Humes
Rollin’ River Revue - Surfin’ 60’s Week 1 – Frankie Avalon – Beach Party 2 – Jan & Dean – Surf City USA 3 – The Ventures – Walk Don’t Run 4 – The Association – Never My Love 5 – The Surfaris – Wipe Out
The days are getting shorter and the leaves are changing color in Rhode Island, so happy Fall to everyone and we will see you in two weeks! Bye!
9/22/17 Vlog Update See Video on YouTube Channel: DisneyChrisDotCom
Happy fall! Today is the first day of fall for 2017. It’s been two weeks and it’s time for another update of the Disneyland Magical Audio Tour!
There hasn’t been any new content added since the last update although behind the scenes, there has been a lot of work done, getting ready for things to be added. Before the details of that happen….
Everything on the site is free for people to use, but it does cost money to run the site. If anyone is willing to become a Patron, it would be greatly appreciated. You can do as low as $1 per month. If 10 people donate $1 per month, that’s ten more dollars that can go toward the expense of the site. When all is said and done, the site will have about 3,000 audio tracks and the more content that is added, the more the web host charges in monthly fees. In order to keep adding new content to the site, support is needed. Even a small, monthly, recurring donation is appreciated, and you get exclusive content as a reward for being a Patreon donator. If you don’t want to do the monthly donation you can make a one time donation in any amount. On the very bottom of the home page you can click on “Donate” and it will take you to a Paypal account. Those who do a one time donation are also included in the special content that the Patreon donors receive (if you donate this way and you don’t get that special content, contact Chris and he will be sure to get that to you).
Since the last update, there have been more fliers found. This flier in particular was a big find...
The first reaction to this find was “Oh no! What is this?” Originally, the Country Music Jubilee (which was a weekly concert series held in peak seasons, from 1966 until the 80’s) was what was going to represent country music in Disneyland. Then, this Country Music Spectacular flier was found. This was an after hours, once a year, special event, similar to the Dixieland in Disneyland. Big artists performed in a concert and then went around the part to perform as well. It was only one night and it happened once a year. From the information found, this started in 1971 and ran every September until 1974, maybe 1975. This sort of took over from the Dixieland in Disneyland yearly concert where the park closed early and the special ticket let you go on all of the attractions as well.
The flier only says Saturday Night September 23rd. Using deductive reasoning and calendars from the 70’s, this was advertising the 1972 concert. Doing more digging produced articles for the 1971 concert and the 1973 concert. This led to a new problem: how to represent all of these country stars? They were previously represented all in one track in the Country Music Jubilee, which is about 1 hour and 15 minutes, and is a medley of the performers from 1966-1972 who appeared in the ongoing, weekly concert series. To solve this problem, another section will be added.
Incidentally, if you’re having a problem on Firefox, right click and then hit “Activate this plugin” and “Allow and remember” and it will fix the problem. In early 2018, the method for playing the music will be changed from a Flash-driven system to an HTML system, which will allow the music to be listened to on any browser as well as any mobile device.
Back to the country music, there’s a new section! The Legends of Country in Disneyland. The Country Music Jubilee will have its own track and have a few additional artists added to it. Then, the Country Music Spectacular will be split into two sections, 1971 and 1972. Anything post-1972 will go in the track called More Legends of Country in Disneyland. The popularity of country music started to fade, and in the 80’s the style of country music started to change. The music featured on the site will be a classic country sound, so if you have a great distaste for country music, don’t be afraid to give this a listen. It’s really great music. If you like the Country Bear Jamboree, the music is in that style more than what you hear on country radio today.
Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass will get his own track as part of the new country music section that’s been added. All of the music for this has been gathered and a medley is being put together for it.
You can also take a look at a master list that Chris has put together listing all of the artists, the years they played, and the availability of music. The list is color coded and explained and it’s pretty interesting to see a behind the scenes look of how this music is being gathered, organized, and put together. The After Dark page will have a medley of only the most famous singers and songs and be put together in one, 1 hour medley. The Bandstands page will have significantly more. As of right now those two chapters have 55 tracks that need final editing. Once the music is posted to the website, a list of songs will be provided in the vlog notes that accompany the vlog update so anyone can look at all of the lists and glean information from them and look up artists, songs, years, etc.
Taking a look at the actual site, starting on the Chapter 20, the After Dark page:
Now let’s look at Chapter 21, Bandstands at Disneyland.
And that’s the end!
Once the country music tracks have been gathered, new music tracks will start to be added to the site again. All of the work that’s been done behind the scenes for the last month will start appearing, and probably appearing rapidly. It was hoped this would be done by Chris’s birthday, but all of the new stuff that was discovered has pushed that back. However, once Thanksgiving Day hits, everything will be dropped and Christmas music will be the focus for the rest of the year. Then the new format for playing audio will put in place, and once that is done the Bandstands chapter will be finished up. What will happen after that hasn't been decided, so if you have an idea, Chris is open for suggestions.
Happy fall everybody, and see you again in two weeks! Bye-bye!
9/08/17 Vlog Update See Video on YouTube Channel: DisneyChrisDotCom
Notes - By Melonie Bush
Since the last update it doesn’t appear that much has been done to the site. However, behind the scenes things have been very busy, as you will see. The reason for this is that more information has come forward which means more content is going to be added to both the After Dark chapter and the Bandstand chapter.
Before getting started, let’s express our concern and do a group prayer for those in the path of the hurricanes. Please evacuate if asked and don’t try to ride it out since it’s probably the most powerful hurricane that has ever hit Florida. Stock up on all your supplies now, and please fill up all your pots and pans with water in advance so safe drinking water is on hand in case something happens to the water supply. Prayers and thoughts go out to everyone in Florida.
That being said, let’s move on to happy news. Supercalifragilistic September is happening now, with songs written by the Sherman Brothers. The September 7th song Thomas O’Malley the Alley Cat turns out to not be a Sherman Brothers song after all! The Sherman brothers wrote 3 songs for this movie, two of which made it in. It was assumed that Thomas O’Malley the Alley Cat was one of them, but a lot of people pointed out that this song was a mistake after it was put up as the Song of the Day. Oops! The song was left in the queue so we’ll call that artistic license. Even though it’s not officially a Sherman brothers song it sounds like one and people really like it. Next month will be the yearly Halloween month, starting October 1st. Last year a general Halloween theme was done, so this year the songs throughout October will be about the Disney Villains (Cruella De Ville, Poor Unfortunate Souls, etc). (5:33) A couple of articles have come forward which turned out to be the main reason why new content didn’t get added since the last update. A few months ago it was mentioned that the names of the performers of an After Dark event called The Rollin’ River Revue would like to be obtained. In the last update a podcast by Jim Hill was mentioned that gave the names of some of the performers. Since then, another article was found.
This article lists performers that were not included in the podcast done by Jim Hill. The plan to create a medley of the artists at this Revue had to be scrapped, because if all of these performers were included it would go from a 1 hour medley to a 5 hour medley. There was also confusion because some performers that were known to have performed at the Revue (like Pearl Bailey) are not listed in this article. This was cleared up a bit when another article was found.
On the right hand side of the page you see an article that says “Disneyland Is Rocking At Night.” You can see the previous article ends on June 13th, but this one starts on June 26th. It appears the concert series was extended beyond what the first article advertises.
Putting two and two together, this is probably what happened. The first several weeks of the Rollin’ River Revue there were musical events happening all throughout the entire park and the Rollin’ River Revue was part of it. These events had themes and the themes encompassed all of the entertainment, all over the park, all evening long. So the artists listed in the first article did not all play at the Revue, some of them played at the Carnation Plaza, etc. After these themed weeks ended, the Rollin’ River Revue continued throughout the entire summer. The performers that played starting June 26th didn’t follow a theme, they were more like special guest stars. That’s where Pearl Bailey comes in. There was even an extra week, not mentioned in the article, where the leader of the Tonight Show Band, Doc Severinsen came in and closed out the event with the last performance.
So from May through mid September, every week, this was going on. That led to rethinking how all of these entertainers were represented and reorganizing the Bandstand page once again to accommodate the solution. With that being said, let’s go ahead and look at the chapters and see what they look like now.
(12:09) Chapter 20, Disneyland After Dark
(22:36) Now let’s take a look at the changes that have been made to the new chapter. Chapter 21 Disneyland Bandstand
(30:41) That’s about where things are at right now. Music is being gathered and put together to create the tracks, it’s being organized and getting ready to go into editing. There are still a few more artists to find music for. The Current Projects folder has tracks that are ready for final editing, so if you want to see what’s in that folder, you can go on the vlog and take a peek. There are 24 tracks in that folder. Have a terrific final few weeks of the summer. Again, those in Florida, stay safe, hunker down, get your supplies ready. Prayers are going out to you.
We will see you again in two weeks. Bye-bye!
8/25/17 Vlog Update See Video on YouTube Channel: DisneyChrisDotCom Notes - By Melonie Bush
Hello everyone! There is a lot to report on during this update. While there haven’t been a lot of new audio tracks added, the website has had some big things happen. To begin with, the Index Page has been reconfigured. There were a couple of reasons for this. For one, there was a lot of residual HTML code (behind the scenes stuff that makes the website look the way it looks) so a 15 year old computer genius (Chris’s nephew!) helped get rid of all of that unneeded code, and the page pops up much quicker. The second reason was that although it looked beautiful on Firefox, there was an issue when people used Chrome (pictures were cut off on the edges, etc). So now it looks good on both browsers, and it took several days to go fix and was A LOT of work, so go check it out! (Use the link above for quick access).
The Disneyland After Dark Chapter is the next big thing to be worked on. It felt as though it was getting out of control with 145 tracks, where the other chapters have 80-100 tracks at the most. It took awhile to figure out how to split it up. It was finally decided to let Disneyland After Dark be about the nighttime shows and fireworks and create a separate chapter for all the live bands that played after dark. So instead of having all the live bands on that chapter, a brand new chapter was created that, with only a couple exceptions, features all the live bands that have played in the park.
Chris now introduces the newest chapter, Disneyland Bandstand.
So that’s basically what’s going on with the new chapter. The “Welcome To The Hub” at the bottom of each page has the new chapter link added, so you are able to navigate to the Disneyland Bandstand chapter from every page. Adding in this new chapter and all it entailed took several days of long, hard work to do. Every image and mp3 file had to be renamed to reflect the new chapter number, because what was Chapter 22 is now 23, etc. That took forever to redo. Also, new artwork and new pictures for the new page had to be created, which took up even more time. But it had to be done because even more tracks were going to be added to the After Dark chapter which would make it even longer, and it just really needed to be split up.
Let’s go over and look at the new Disneyland After Dark chapter.
First off, in order to keep the After Dark chapter from having gaping holes in its history by the removal of the bands to the new page, a creative musical solution has been devised. Whereas before, the different genres of music were represented by several tracks, they will now be represented on this page by one track only. What this means is, instead of having every individual artist from the Bandstand’s page represented, a custom mix will be put together to represent each genre (Swing Dange, Go-Go, etc). These will be a “Best Of” mix that representing the best of each genre. That way they are still represented in the After Dark chapter in some way, give a nod to its importance as history to the park, and not take up as much space as before. These mixes are Coming Soon. When they do come, and if you like an individual artist and want to hear more from them, head over to the Bandstand page.
It should be noted that since the site is a work in progress, the track numbers listed were correct as of 8/26/17. They may or may not match up to what was in the video at the time Chris recorded it, and they may change again later. As of 8/26/17, these track numbers are correct to what is on the site.
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