The Disney Song Encyclopedia - fieldi

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ful piece “Baroque Hoedown,” the music for the 1972 Disneyland parade
uses a synthesizer to not only play the rapid, catchy melody that runs up
and down the scale furiously but to create synthesized sounds that punctuate
the music. The parade, which featured thousands of small, twinkling
lights on floats and characters, was so well received that it ran for twentyfour
years in California and was re-created at all of the other Disney theme
parks, although it was sometimes called “Disney’s Electrical Parade” if it
did not use Main Street.
“Maison des Lunes” is the silly but creepy song about an insane asylum
written by Alan Menken (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics) for the 1994 Broadway
version of Beauty and the Beast. Monsieur D’Arque (Gordon Stanley),
the owner of the title asylum, sings the number with the thwarted bully
Gaston (Burke Moses) and his sidekick Lefou (Kenny Raskin), plotting to
incarcerate the cockeyed inventor Maurice in order to force Belle to marry
Gaston. The number feels much like a Halloween song as it makes listeners
both laugh and shudder.
“Make a Wish” is the lite-rock song Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil
wrote for the made-for-TV movie Stuck in the Suburbs (2004). While the
teen heartthrob Jordan Cahill (Taran Killam) performs in a music video
about making dreams come true, a group of suburban teenage girls watch
him on television and break into a dance all over the living-room furniture.
“Make Mine Music” is the waltzing title number for the 1946 animated
anthology movie that illustrated various kinds of music. During the opening
credits of the film, a studio chorus sings on the soundtrack the breezy
song by Ken Darby and Eliot Daniel about the power of song, claiming that
music is what is needed to bring joy to life.
“Making Christmas” is a grinding and demonic song of joy sung by the
citizens of Halloween Town in the stop-motion movie The Nightmare Before
Christmas (1993). Danny Elfman wrote the unusual number in which
the music attempts to be happy but comes out painfully morose because of
its minor chords and odd tempo. The villagers are following the instructions
of Jack Skellington to create yuletide perfection, but they keep applying
their instinctual gore to all the presents and preparations.
“A Man Has Dreams” is the brief but affecting song of regret sung by
Mr. Banks (David Tomlinson) in the movie musical Mary Poppins (1964).