Main Street USA BGM [2012]

Status: Current. Heard from 01/09/2012.

Running time:  ~55:53

Playlist

01. Wells Fargo Wagon
02. Put on Your Sunday Clothes
03. Maple Leaf Rag
04. Married Life
05. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
06. Surrey with the Fringe on Top
07. Oh, You Beautiful Doll
08. Old Timers Waltz Medley
09. Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
10. And the Band Played On
11. Alexander's Ragtime Band
12. Before the Parade Passes By
13. Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby
14. Dearie
15. Delirium Tremens Rag: A Trombone Spasm
16. Hello, Ma Baby
17. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
18. It's a Long Way To Tipperary
19. In the Good Old Summertime
20. Fortuosity
21. Oh! You Drummer
22. Sidewalks of New York
23. Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight
24. Wait 'Till the Sun Shine Nellie
25. Meet Me in St. Louis
26. Elegance
27. Kansas City
28. Yankee Doodle Dandy

Notes

Playlist based on an induction recording by pixelated and compiled by eyore, wedroy1923, and ww12345.

As per Disney Parks Blog, 01/06/2012, "Starting next Monday, January 9, guests strolling down Main Street, U.S.A., will be humming along to some new – and familiar – tunes. For the first time in 20 years, we are once again adding new music to the iconic entrance music of Disneyland park.

Though there have been many updates over the years, the last refresh of Disneyland’s Main Street’s musical score was back in 1992, when selections recorded for Disneyland Paris were brought back to Disneyland park in California.

This time around, over a dozen new tunes, arranged and recorded specifically for Main Street, U.S.A., will join many of the existing songs. Included in the new mix are such iconic period pieces as 'Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis,' 'In the Good Old Summer Time,' 'Alexander’s Ragtime Band,' 'Oh You Beautiful Doll,' Scott Joplin’s 'Maple Leaf Rag,' and a recent tune given a turn-of-the-last-century arrangement, Michael Giacchino’s 'Married Life' from Disney•Pixar’s 'UP.'"

As per Jim Korkis in All Ears, 03/19/2013, "In 2012, a new music loop for Main Street was created by Dean Mora and his orchestra. Mora is a Los Angeles-born pianist whose interest in music from the 1920s and 1930s was first sparked when he was 11 years old after watching the movie 'The Sting.' He was instantly enamored of the cars, clothes, music and the entire style of that ragtime period. In 1994, Mora formed the band Mora's Modern Rhythmists. [...]

Mora's Ragtime Orchestra was formed in 2006 to present the ragtime repertoire from the late 1890s to the 1910s. In Spring 2011, Mora was contacted by Disney Imagineering to record a new music loop for Main Street. He spent the summer helping select a new lineup of songs to be recorded, retaining some of the previous song list but adding new 'old' songs. Included in that selection was Michael Giacchino's 'Married Life' from the Disney-Pixar animated film 'UP,' arranged in the musical style of the period.

'For the arrangements, I used a good number of period arrangements, in addition to my own arrangements (as well as a handful of charts from trombonist Jim McMillen). We recorded all the tracks at Capitol Studios back in September (2011),' stated Mora.

Capitol Studios is located in the Hollywood landmark known as the Capitol Records Tower Building originally built in 1956 and renowned for its outstanding recording studios used by classic performers like Frank Sinatra, Les Paul and Nat King Cole."

Playlist updated 11/02/2022.