Walt Disney World 1975 - Electrical Water Pageant

This was a vacation I took with my family in Walt Disney World Feb 23 - Mar 1st 1975. The music played is a rare recording of the original Electrical Water Pageant we bought while we were there. (The Electrical Water Pageant is played at night during the light show on Seven Seas Lagoon Lake. It includes footage during the 4th year it was open (Opened 10/1/71), including the Main Street Parade, It's a Small World, and The Hall of Presidents. Please excuse the rugged film quality.

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Travel & Events

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• Electrical
• Water
• Pageant
• Main
• Street
• Parade
• Baroque
• Hoedown
• Perrey-Kingsley
• Perrey
• Kingsley

[Meganox]

they have this song on the disney collections cd, i have 2 of them. love this song

[julius923]

Do they have this exact version? If so what's the name of the CD?

[strumpeteer]

I see no Electrical Parade.

[julius923]

This is 1975, before the massive crowds and and abundance of commercialism and recorded during the daytime.

[disneyfan85]

@julius923 Plus, the music as heard here was used only in the original 1972 parade at Disneyland. WDW never had this music. When the parade came to WDW in 1977 (and returned to DL that same year after a short hiatus), it was the music used in the parade up until 2009.

[julius923]

@disneyfan85 It may be true that WDW never used this for their parades, but they did use it for their Light show on Seven Seas Lagoon Lake at night, at least they did in 1975.

[didikh]

If that is true Walter Disney he's freeze untill we cure is deseas, I am not sure he will like the turn of he's own dream. In that time peoples had more time to look at things, even we didnt have the magic of today, now we are more to visit Disney it take more peoples to work there to low salary and not be convince at what they are doing... I love Disney mind, not The Image of Disney became...''profitable compagny'', when it was a dream world of everything is smooth..carton's

[didikh]

The first time I go there in 1978 it bring me in ...It was a magic souvenir of mine,

I have also great videos in 87 ' the time I had my first camera 8mm. and some on those films are in beta ... those gadgets dont work anymore but i still have those . I did go in disney world untill 2001 , when i had no more enchantement to feel inside. I thought the Disney we had then is so much out of the representation, of soft and lovely waves. It look now that feary world become like a money racket.

[didikh]

The first time I go there in 1978 it brinf me in ...It was a magic souvenir of mine

[MindbenderMilo]

This is the first record I bought as a kid. We went in '75 or 76. They had the Bicentennial parade on Main Street and my sister & I were selected to be the kids who carried the Constitution, we got commemorative medals for it. The music was played during the Electrical Water Pagent at night & I just had to have the music. So I asked around at the park & found where they were selling them. The record was slightly larger than 7" on colored vinyl housed in a clear plastic sleeve w/ insert info.

[bigblanc99]

It also might be interesting to note that "Main Street Electrical Parade" came about because Disneyland was getting jealous of Walt Disney World and the fact that WDW was getting all of the new innovations. Disneyland was feeling like a unwanted red headed step child. So Disney came up with the Main Street Electrical Parade for California since they didn't have anything like a huge lake for the barges. So the barges were replaced with floats.

[GuyRification]

This is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich.

[Moodyzblu]

This was my first year to visit Disney ! I'm loving this. :)

[dhdgonzo]

Well done