What about Billy Joel? I could swear I heard some Billy there. You're right about Elton...
No sign of the Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Platters, The Champs, The Everly Brothers, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson, or Bobby Darin for the 1950s — instead we get way too many Elvis Presley songs (and I happen to love Elvis).
No sign of Mark Dinning, Connie Francis, Hollywood Argyles, Brenda Lee, Brian Hyland, Chubby Checker, The Drifters, Del Shannon, Roy Orbison, The Tokens, Joey Dee & the Starlighters, Gene Chandler, Bobby Vinton, Little Eva, The Chiffons, Jan & Dean, Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs, Mary Wells, The Dixie Cups, The Animals, The Shangri-Las, Herman's Hermits, The Byrds, Rolling Stones, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Turtles, Nancy Sinatra, Bobby Gentry, Otis Redding, Herb Alpert, Marvin Gaye, The 5th Dimension, The Archies, or Peter, Paul & Mary for the 1960s — instead we get way too many songs by The Beatles (and I happen to love The Beatles).
No sign of B. J. Thomas, The Guess Who, Three Dog Night, The Carpenters, Neill Diamond, The Osmonds, Janis Joplin, Paul Revere and the Raiders, James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Cher, Don McLean, America, Roberta Flack, Sammy Davis Jr., Looking Glass, Johnny Nash, Helen Reddy, Billy Paul, Carly Simon, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Edgar Winter Group, Paul McCartney & Wings, Jim Croce, Grand Funk Railroad, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Steve Miller Band, Barbra Streisand, Terry Jacks, John Denver, Ray Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, Barry White, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Harry Chapin, Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, LaBelle, The Captain & Tennille, KC and the Sunshine Band, David Bowie, KISS, Bay City Rollers, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Commodores, Blondie, The Knack, Styx, or Rupert Holmes for the 1970s — instead we get way too many disco songs.
No sign of Queen, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, Kenny Rogers, REO Speedwagon, Chicago, The Police, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie, Van Halen, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran, Prince, Bryan Adams, Dire Straits, Whitney Houston, Starship, Heart, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Janet Jackson, Boston, Bon Jovi, U2, Bob Seger, Billy Idol, George Michael, INXS, Guns N' Roses, Poison, New Kids on the Block, Michael Bolton, Sinead O'Connor, Mariah Carey, Wilson Phillips, Celine Dion, Boyz II Men, TLC, Spice Girls, Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin, Destiny's Child or Santana for the 1980s and 1990s — but we do get Jennifer Lopez and a couple of odd selections from Madonna!
The person(s) responsible for this loop failed miserably just putting together a collection of top pop/rock hits, as they were apparently attempting to do, but they failed even bigger at capturing "pop culture" of the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. Why not also include popular television and movie themes? Then the couple of Disney songs that were tossed in wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. How about popular commercials (
I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke,
It's Slinky,
Plop, Plop, Fizz)? How about some famous soundbites like we hear during the
Golden Dream segment in Epcot's American Adventure?
It's too bad that WDE doesn't put more thought and/or research into most of these loops. For Disney's Pop Century Resort, all of the answers were staring them right in the face, had they bothered to look inside of the shadow boxes that are displayed on the walls in Central Hall. If you've got a photo of The Addams Family on display, it would make sense to include Vic Mizzy's wonderful theme. "Neat. Sweet. Petite."
Instead of getting inside of their subject matter, it seems as if these people just drive over to the Virgin Megastore, buy the first couple of CDs that have pretty album covers on them, and then call it a day.
I really need to submit a résumé!