The Music of EPCOT is now streaming, putting music from the park’s 1982 opening and its newest attractions on a single album. The album runs about 1 hour and 6 minutes and takes its cue from The Official Album of Walt Disney World EPCOT Center, the 1983 record Disneyland Records released with WED Enterprises, now Walt Disney Imagineering. The streaming track list matches the two-LP vinyl set sold through Disney Music Emporium, as Blog Mickey reported.
The Classic EPCOT Center Songs
The first half is the one longtime fans will go straight to. It includes the “Main Entrance Medley” from Future World and the songs that defined the park’s early years: “Listen to the Land” from The Land, “One Little Spark” and “Makin’ Memories” from Journey Into Imagination, “New Horizons” from Horizons and “It’s Fun to Be Free” from World of Motion. There is also music from Universe of Energy, EPCOT Computer Central and the Canada pavilion.
A few deep cuts make it more than a greatest hits list. “It’s Fun to Be Free” shows up twice, once in its familiar form and once as a 1983 jazz version, and “Magic Journeys” appears in an extended cut. The “Kitchen Kabaret Medley” brings back the Cereal Sisters, Hamm and Eggz and the Fiesta Fruit from The Land, and Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman perform “The Computer Song” themselves.
Today’s EPCOT And A Closing Word From Walt
The second half moves to the park as it is now. Pinar Toprak’s “EPCOT Suite” from Arrival Plaza is followed by Zain Effendi’s opening cue from the current Test Track, Bruce Broughton’s “Soarin’ Around the World” and Tyler Bates’ “Xandar Gallery” from Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Michael Giacchino’s ride-through mix of Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure is here too, along with a piece from Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana.
World Showcase gets its moment with Christopher Tin’s area music for the China pavilion and Germaine Franco’s for Mexico. Sheléa sings “Heartbeat Symphony” from Luminous: The Symphony of Us, and the album ends with Walt Disney himself, in an archival recording from the 1967 film Walt Disney’s EPCOT, talking about his original idea for the place.
Where To Listen
The album is out now on the major streaming platforms, with an official release date of Friday, October 23. On vinyl, Disney Music Emporium’s two-LP set puts the classic EPCOT Center music on the first record and the modern park on the second.
For anyone who grew up with the 1983 record, the appeal is hearing those EPCOT Center songs next to the music guests hear walking the park today.
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