Adventureland Veranda BGM [1971]

Status: Retired. Heard ca. 10/1971 through ca. 1977.

Running time: ~54:53

Playlist

01. Cherry Blossom [5]

02. Paradise Found [4]

03. Arirang [6]

04. Boating On the Lake [6]

05. Stars Over Maui [3]

06. Farmers Folk Dance [7]

07. Green Skirt [Edited] [2]

08. Tsuki No Sabaku (Desert in the Moonlight) [7]

09. Toragee [6]

10. Kojo No Tsuki (Moon Over the Ruined Castle) [Edited] [7]

11. Prima Donna Sri Nuan [Edited] [6]

12. Yoimachigusa (Evening Primrose) [7]

13. Embroidered Wallet [2]

14. Ofe (Bamboo Forest) [Edited] [1]

15. Mountain High, Valley Low [Edited] [5] 

[1] The Beat of Tahiti: The Exotic Rhythms of Tahiti by Various Artists (Tiare Tahiti Records)

[2] Chinese Drums and Gongs by Sung Tso-Liang Orchestra of Hong Kong (Lyrichord)

[3] In a Hawaiian Paradise by 101 Strings (Somerset)

[4] Paradise Found by The Fantastic Strings of Felix Slatkin (Liberty)

[5] Shangri-La! by Percy Faith And His Orchestra (Columbia)

[6] Toragee: The Romantic Music of Asia by Leopoldo Silos (Epic)

[7] Utsukushiki Nihon No Uta - Bosanoba No Kibun (Beautiful Japanese Melodies - Mood In Bossa Nova) by The Golden Pops Orchestra

Notes

Playlist compiled by Foxx Nolte with assistance by Ryan Komitor, posted to Passport to Dreams Old and New blog 03/2016.

As per Foxx Nolte: "The core of the loop is an astonishingly obscure recording, Toragee by Leopoldo Silos, a Filipino composer. Toragee highlights music from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand. To this, Jack Wagner added Hawaii and folk recordings from China and Tahiti. Percy Faith's Shangi-La! provided a sweeping start and finish to the record, Cherry Blossom representing Japan and Mountain High, Valley Low for China.

But far the most obtuse record on this list is Beautiful Japanese Melodies - Mood In Bossa Nova, which was released by Columbia only in Japan and features an LP sleeve with nary of fleck of English on it. How a copy of this ended up in Los Angeles in order to be picked up by Jack on a record expedition is unknown, and then how it wound its way through a theme park area loop, into the hands of collectors, then back onto the internet to be discovered by you is even less likely."

Last updated 11/14/2022.