Electrical Water Pageant (Original Music)

For those of you whose memories are a bit older than mine, here's the ewp with the original 1970s baroque hoedown music and 1980s post show music

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• water
• pageant
• parade
• disney
• world
• baroque
• hoedown
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• seas
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[DefconWarningSystem]

Was this the original water pageant music? This is the music used for the original '72 Main Street Electrical Parade. The music being played here is tied to Blue Fairy (Baroque Hoedown), All In The Golden Afternoon, The Angry Dragon, Casey Jr., Cinderella, a cut Small World, and To Honour America.

And yes, EWP was a precursor to Light Magic, but we're going to pretend that never happened. Hahahaha

[1983horizons1]

@DefconWarningSystem I'm actually not sure if the original Electrical Water Pageant ever used the Disney tunes mixed in or if it simply used Jean-Jacques Perrey's original version.

[thxapproved]

If I'm not mistaken, the order runs like this

-Original music (Baroque Hoedown) by Jean-Jacques Perry and Gershon Kingsley

-Discovered by Disney show designer Bob Jani

-"Remixed" with new synth by Paul Beaver (of "Beaver and Krause" fame)

-For MSEP (Main St. Elec. Parade) in '78, the show was again remixed with new compositions by show designer Don Dorsey, a long time Disney vendor.

-The show has been re-arranged several times since that time, the latest being the version running at DCA

-THX

[SONICSATAMJAMER77]

When the pageant began in 1971, it didn't have a Turtle, Octopus, Dinosour. Those were added in the second verson of the pageant. This is a list of the foalts from 1971-1980: Sea Serpent Whale Two sea lions playing with a red ball Clam Shell opening and closing Three red hair mermaids Dolphins Three orange fish swimming amongst bubbles Sea Horses Sea King which has red rope connected to sea horses *the floats then changed to stars and stripes*

[DisneyWorldVeteran]

@DefconWarningSystem That's what I thought too. They use this music for the new eletrical light parade as well.

[JamesFlipper77]

I found out that there wasn't a red elephant, it was a red SQUID! There was a killer squid in the EWP.

[ponkaton1]

so cool to see this on you tube i still have my record of this so cool to hear it sounds so good thanks for posting this

[sxymike12]

@bigblanc99 In my opinion Disneyland is a way better park when it comes to dreativity and the fact they care about the smiles on everyones more then the money. I hope they get their Electrical Parade back. I have never heard screaming over the music any where else other then Disneyland.

[disneydanny2]

@1983horizons1 if it only usded the original Barqque Hoedown track, it must've incluuded the disney tunes at some point as a record of the EWP sountrack was released w/ Disney tunes mixed in. idk if that record & the '72-'74 MSEP soundtrack were released simultaneously but both DID have the EXACT same content

[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.

[JamesFlipper77]

There was an Elephant it the Electrical Water Pageant.

[JamesFlipper77]

There are actually 4 versions of the pageant.

1. 1971 (Original)

2. 1972-1976 (Second)

3. 1977-1995 (Third)

4. 1996-Present (Current)

[thxapproved]

@Disneydanny Good to also know. But there have been several musical modifications between 1977 and 2010 according to Don. Thanks for the added information!!

[Disneydanny]

@thxapproved 1971 was the first time it was used by DSisney for the EWP then used for the MSEP in '72 the soundtrack for both the MSEP & EWP were updated simultaneously in '77 (w/ that version being used until January 2010 at which point the ":Dreamlights" Sountrack albeit modified for the U.S. was used begining in June 2010