I’ve seen some weird (and overpriced) premium events at Walt Disney World, but this is probably one of the stranger ones…
Beginning June 1st, guests can book a “Premium Day Cruise Around the World” emanating from Disney’s Yacht Club Resort. Guests will step aboard a vessel at Bayside Marina that will take them all around Crescent Lake and the World Showcase Lagoon for one hour. Bagged snacks and soft drinks will be included along the way, but guests can also purchase additional items through private dining. Each boat can accommodate up to 10 guests.
Cost is $149 per boat, up to 10 guests (plus tax). Guests can call 407-WDW-PLAY to book now.
Songs of cars and the open road. Some from Disney California Adventure Park’s Cars Land background loop, some not. A car song forensic history examination with R&B DJ and aficionado Steve Propes. Pedal to the metal!
Act 1 Show Notes:
Riding In My Car (Car Song)
Recording: Riding In My Car (Car Song)
Artist: Woody Guthrie
Album: Woody At 100
From Woody’ssecond set of children’s music Nursery Days. Recorded in 1947, it was not released until 1956. After Guthrie was “quoted” in the Disneyland dedication address.
Show Opening Sound Logo (Audio Montage)
Includes:
Recording: Overture- M. Gustave H
Artist: Alexandre Desplat
Album: Grand Budapest Hotel OST
Recording: 852
Artist: The Cellar & Point
Album: Ambit
Thanks to these fine artists for setting the tone of the Podcast. Discover their music via the buttons.
A true man of the road testifies from the Book of Bob.
McQueen and Sally
Recording: McQueen and Sally
Artist: Randy Newman
Album: Cars Original Soundtrack
Cars Land BGM Sparks Hot Rod Musical History Class
@bout Steve Propes…
In the magical days when KLON-FM spewed Jazz and Blues like a smokestack over the San Gabriel River Delta, Steve Propes flipped varietaldisks of the R&B, Do-Wop, Blues, and Rockabilly strains to great acclaim.
Steve joins our own Deejay Middlebrow at Cars Land to check out the background music and chat about some classic car tunes in the linage of “Hot Rod Lincoln.”
Check out Steve’s Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-C.-Propes/e/B004XXPTZG?tag=wdwnewstoda03-20
Arkie Meets the Judge-Hot Rod Race 3
Recording: Arkie Meets the Judge (Hot Rod Race #3)
Artist: Arkie Shibley
Album: Hot Rod Race
Drive
Recording: Drive
Artist: Jim Lauderdale
Album: This Changes Everything
Jim does it again! A brand new disc from the reigning prince of Americana.
Readings From “On The Road” And “Visions Of Cody”
Recording: Readings From “On The Road” And “Visions Of Cody”
Artist: Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen
Album: Poetry For The Beat Generation
Taken from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show, NBC Broadcast, Monday 10:00pm EST, 16th November 1959. This is the only known motion picture footage of Beat Icon Jack Kerouac reading his own work.
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Skip This – Chrysler Highway Hi-Fi. Another fine idea from your friends at Chrysler-Plymouth.
Theme From Route 66
Recording: Theme From Route 66
Artist: Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra
Album: Bachelor Pad Royale Volume Four
Deejay wraps up part one and puts it on the truck.
Recording: Magic Skyway
Artist: Walt Disney
Album: Walt Disney and the World’s Fair
The complete soundtrack to what might be considered the original Cars Land ride: Walt Disney’s Magic Skyway from the 1964 New York World’s Fair
Tail As Old As Time
Walt Disney created four pavilions for the 1964 New York World’s Fair in an effort to gauge the appeal of a Disneyland style attraction on the East Coast. One was Magic Skyway for the Ford Motor Company.
In the climactic dinosaur scene, a Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus square off on a lava spewing volcano. But the two species never coexisted. They lived during different time periods millions of years apart. Maybe that’s why they are fighting.
The error originally emanates from Fantasia in 1940 when quite possibly, the various Geological periods were not widely understood. At least not in Hollywood. It seems that in the haste of developing the four attractions for the Fair, Imagineers may have “grabbed” the pre art-directed inspiration from the film without the benefit of modern reflection. An unforced error, millions of years in the making, that has been repeated several times.
Always a staple in Emmylou Harris’ live sets, Spyboy, featuring Buddy Miller on guitar, Daryl Johnson on bass and Brady Blade on drums, brought new energy to the Flying Burrito Bros’ classic.
Radio Free Disneyland is a curated music podcast that tells the stories of the Disneyland Resort in a unique and tuneful way. Using Disney music, not-so-Disney music, and definitely-not-Disney music to tell the stories of the “lands,” their origins, and their citizenry. Real and imagined. Usually with a backbeat.
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An incredibly detailed Soviet map of Orange County, California. Gotta be able to get the tanks down the streets. Which Chapman Ave. should we attack from?
Act 1 Show Notes:
Show Opening Sound Logo (Audio Montage)
Includes:
Recording: Overture: M. Gustave H
Artist: Alexandre Desplat
Album: Grand Budapest Hotel Original Sountrack
Recording: 852
Artist: The Cellar & Point
Album: Ambit
Thanks to these fine artists for setting the tone of the Podcast. Discover their music via the buttons.
Intercepted Transmission 7/17/55 (Audio Montage)
Includes:
Recording: Hall of Trade Unions, Moscow
Artist: Thomas Newman
Album: Bridge of Spies Soundtrack (2015)
Recording: Dedication of Disneyland
Artist: Walt Disney
Album: The Legacy Collection-Disneyland
I Can’t Live Without My Radio
Recording: I Can’t Live Without My Radio
Artist: Halloween Alaska
Album: Too Tall To Hide
A smooth and soulful cover of the LL Cool J’s Hip Hop anthem. Halloween Alaska is a Minnesota-based band consisting of James Diers, Jake Hanson, Bill Shaw, and David King. All of the group’s members live in the Twin Cities.
Radio Nowhere
Recording: Radio Nowhere Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album: The Essential Bruce Springsteen
Various Static (Audio Montage)
Contains excerpts of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress, Toni Basil’s “Mickey” in Spanish, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and the battle cry of the 1960s iconic Los Angeles radio 93-KHJ. Boss Radio’s iconic non-sequitur “Tina Delgado is alive, alive!” was the invention of DJ “The Real Don Steel.”
This cut also contains Artisanal Radio Static.
Vauxhall Bridge (with voice over)
Recording: Vauxhall Bridge
Artist: Thomas Newman
Album: Spectre Original Soundtrack (2015)
Deejay contemplates the futility of his assignment.
Artists of the Week – Los Lobos
In 2009 Los Lobos did a whole album of interpretations of Disney musical fare. On October 9, 2015, Los Lobos was nominated for induction into the a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the first time. Viva Los Lobos!
Deep Dossier: On America, Xenophobia and Los Lobos: Dream In Blue
No Depression – Easy Ed’s Broadside Review of Chris Morris’ Los Lobos bio-book.
Recording: Gates of Gold Artist: Los Lobos
Album: Gates of Gold
The place they describe on this title track seems somehow familiar. “A place where you never grow old.” The anticipation of arrival at a magical place is palpable.
Main Street Parade
Recording: Main Street Parade Artist: Louise Goffin
Album: Songs From The Mine
I’m not imagining this one. Listen to the words!
Clef Club No. 2 (From Ragtime)
Recording: Clef Club No 2
Artist: Randy Newman
Album: Ragtime (Original Sound Track)
Once Upon A Dream (Band Organ)
Recording: Once Upon A Dream
Artist: Walt Disney Imagineering
Composers: Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence
Album: A Musical History of Disneyland
(Attraction soundtrack from Sleeping Beauty’s Carousel)
Same Trailer Different Park
Recording: Merry Go Round
Artist: Kasey Musgraves
Album: Same Trailer Different Park
Part One Recap:
If you have been following along here, there’s really no need for you to hang around and listen the recap…
Why don’t you go to the kitchen and get me a beer?
Recording: Follow Me
Artist: The Tindersticks
Album: The Waiting Room
Recording: Once Upon A Dream
Artist: Lana Del Rey
Composers: Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence
Album: Disney’s Maleficent Original Soundtrack
A song so nice, we played it twice. Hey, it’s Briar Rose’s Park.
On The Porch and the Phone With Sam Gennawey
Sam Gennawey uses his unique cross section of qualifications to dissect the China Closet porch of Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A.
Sam is the author of The Disneyland Story: An Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney’s Dream, Walt and the Promise of Progress City, and Universal versus Disney: The Unofficial Guide to American Theme Parks’ Greatest Rivalry. Sam is also a contributor to Planning Los Angeles and other books as well as a columnist for the popular MiceChat website.
His unique point of view has brought speaking invitations from Walt Disney Imagineering, the Walt Disney Family Museum, the American Planning Association, the California Preservation Foundation. He is currently a Senior Associate at the planning firm of KPA.
Recording: I’m Gonna Tell You This Story One More Time
Artist: Béla Fleck & the Marcus Roberts Trio
Album: Across the Imaginary Divide
Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces
Recording: Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces
Artist: The Jayhawks
Album: Paging Mr. Proust
The Story of The Story
“Sleeping Beauty” by Charles Perrault or “Little Briar Rose” by the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The version collected by the Grimms was an orally transmitted version of the originally published by Charles Perrault in 1697 which was based on earlier writings by Italian poet Giambattista Basile. The earliest known version of the story is Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344 and first printed in 1528.
Hefner and Disney
Recording: Hefner and Disney Artist: T-Bone Burnett
Album: Proof Through The Night
The master record producer and maker of high profile movie soundtracks gets a little mixed up here, in this tune from his singer-songwriter period.
Or… is he trying to say something about instant wish fulfillment?
Memorandumb:
To: Radio Free Disneyland Air Staff
From: Station Command
Subject: Use of Deceptive Call Signs
In a critical effort to obscure our presence in California, Radio Free Disneyland will, beginning to immediately, use the call signs and on air collateral of vintage broadcast outlets at all appropriate opportunities.
Your Dear Leaders
Walking In The Park
Recording: Walking In The Park
Artist: Muddy Waters
Album: The Chess Story 1947-1975
The Wisdom of the Ancients. Muddy takes a stroll.
Station Sign-Off (Audio Montage)
WABC, now a part of the Empire, puts the station to bed.
When You Wish Upon A Star
Recording: When You Wish Upon A Star
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Album: The Essential Gretchen Peters
Show End Sound Logo (Audio Montage)
Next Episode: Episode 2: My Way Or The Highway (Cars Land)
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In Episode 11 of Welcome Home, the guys welcome back Damon from his recent WDW trip. Damon talks about his opinions and experiences with the Minnie Vans, Pandora, Frozen Ever After, Boardwalk Villas, and much more. The guys also talk about the closing of the Great Movie Ride and Universe of Energy. Is Disney getting rid of individual toiletries in guest rooms? The guys discuss their thoughts on their removal from Value and Moderate Resorts. Is the next reimagined WDW land going to be Dinoland USA? The guys discuss the possibility of Indiana Jones coming to Animal Kingdom.
