Club 33
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You know, I have to admit, I'm still a little self-conscious when it comes to this whole Disney music thing. Music loops, specifically. I've only been on the scene a few years- heck, I've only recorded a couple of loops in their entirety. I considered my first full recording of an hour long music loop a bit of a rite of passage.
But I also feel like a bit of a whimp. I've used software like Shazam to identify unknown tracks in loops, which is great. But I think of Horizons with his 5 hour Fort Wilderness loop, or the thousands of tracks of Hawaiian music Jay has scoured through to ID the Polynesian loop. The two tracks in my Grand Californian Exterior loop listing I couldn't ID using software? Still unidentified.
And Jay's identification of the [post=30400]Polynesian loop[/post] (looking forward to that full listing, by the way) reminded me of an old recording I'd done of the Disneyland Enchanted Tiki Room Lanai music.
While the show is playing inside the Tiki room there are four distinct show segments that play in the waiting area (the "Lanai," which is Hawaiian for veranda, sometimes referred to as the Tiki Room "Garden") outside. The first one to play once the guests are completely loaded into the theater is some area music that is unique to this one location. Once the doors close the area music fades in and plays for about 6 minutes. Then it fades out and the "Flavor of Hawaii" Dole pineapple film begins to play. The film (which also includes the Dole product parade) is immediately followed by the Garden Show featuring the tiki gods, which is then followed finally by the load spiel and load music. Then the entire thing starts over.
There is a piece of music 16:38 in length that has circulated under the title "Lanai BGM Loop" that is apparently from the original attraction. As far as I know the current loop was installed during the 2004 refurbishment.
Now I have yet to make a long enough recording to determine if it is the same 6 minutes of music that plays every single time (based on casual observation I don't believe that this is the case), if there is a longer full loop that is getting faded into and out of again, or if there are multiple 6 minute segments that rotate. I hope to go down next week and figure this out.
However, there remained that recording, with the 6 minutes of music I had. Shazam and Midomi both turned up nothing. The tracks would have to be identified the (new) old-fashioned way- listening to samples from CDs online (the truly old fashioned way, of course, would involve listening to actual CDs or records). This was something I really didn't think I was up to but, restless at 3am, I decided to give it a try.
Since all I had was 6 minutes, and I've listened to the recording many times since 2007 when I made it (not to mention having ridden the attraction just this past Wednesday and waiting an entire show cycle in line to get my Dole Whip), I figured I'd probably be able to recognize any of the songs from the recording if I heard them. I started with the music from the Polynesian loop that Jay had IDd. One song by The Maile Serenaders had a similar kind of sound to it. I listened to the rest of the tracks on the album and on the other albums by the same artist. I then followed some of iTunes' "You Might Also Be Interested In..." suggestions and listened to several other albums. No dice.
Next I tried searching for, quite literally "hawaiian music". After listening to a few albums that had a similar kind of sound to them, I arrived at "Steel Guitar Magic - Hawaiian Style" by All-Star Hawaiian Band. I listened to several of the tracks, similar sounding, but nothing familiar. Until I got to one track, "Pearly Shells". This one had a lick I definitely recognized from the recording. Sounded pretty similar too. I listened again. Then I switched and listened to the track from the recording. Very similar. I switched back and forth a few times.
Now I figured, this probably isn't the right version, but knowing the name of one of the songs would certainly help me to narrow my search considerably. Since the songs in the loop are all of a very similar style I had long assumed they were all from the same artist, if not the same album, so finding one would likely allow me to ID the whole loop. I did a search for all versions of "Pearly Shells," as well as a Hawaiian name I found (Pupu O Ewa). None of the other versions sounded as close as the first I'd found. Oh well, I figured, let's spend 99 cents and see how close it is.
I bought it and imported it and the recording into Audacity. I lined them up and- a perfect match.
What?!
I'd expected this to take hours, days, months! And here I'd been looking for what, 30 minutes maybe and I'd found it?
Oh and it get's better. I was right. I found all of the other tracks present on my recording- every single one of them, on that same album.
So. That was easy. Makes one wonder if someone at Disney also searched iTunes for "Hawaiian Music" and used what came up. I guess there's such a thing as beginner's luck after all!
During my next trip, which will hopefully be next week as mentioned, I will be recording at least two complete show cycles (as many as it takes before I hear the same track again) to see if there are additional songs in the loop. That information, when completed, will be posted on my blog. In the mean time, here is a listing, in order, of the songs present on my recording:
1. Kaimana Hila (in recording, fades in starting at 1:56)
2. Lovely Hula Hands
3. Pearly Shells
4. Mekanani Kaupo (in recording, fades out at 0:50)
All tracks from Steel Guitar Magic, which according to Amazon is by a guy named Jack de Mello. Also available in iTunes under the album and artist information mentioned above.
But I also feel like a bit of a whimp. I've used software like Shazam to identify unknown tracks in loops, which is great. But I think of Horizons with his 5 hour Fort Wilderness loop, or the thousands of tracks of Hawaiian music Jay has scoured through to ID the Polynesian loop. The two tracks in my Grand Californian Exterior loop listing I couldn't ID using software? Still unidentified.
And Jay's identification of the [post=30400]Polynesian loop[/post] (looking forward to that full listing, by the way) reminded me of an old recording I'd done of the Disneyland Enchanted Tiki Room Lanai music.
While the show is playing inside the Tiki room there are four distinct show segments that play in the waiting area (the "Lanai," which is Hawaiian for veranda, sometimes referred to as the Tiki Room "Garden") outside. The first one to play once the guests are completely loaded into the theater is some area music that is unique to this one location. Once the doors close the area music fades in and plays for about 6 minutes. Then it fades out and the "Flavor of Hawaii" Dole pineapple film begins to play. The film (which also includes the Dole product parade) is immediately followed by the Garden Show featuring the tiki gods, which is then followed finally by the load spiel and load music. Then the entire thing starts over.
There is a piece of music 16:38 in length that has circulated under the title "Lanai BGM Loop" that is apparently from the original attraction. As far as I know the current loop was installed during the 2004 refurbishment.
Now I have yet to make a long enough recording to determine if it is the same 6 minutes of music that plays every single time (based on casual observation I don't believe that this is the case), if there is a longer full loop that is getting faded into and out of again, or if there are multiple 6 minute segments that rotate. I hope to go down next week and figure this out.
However, there remained that recording, with the 6 minutes of music I had. Shazam and Midomi both turned up nothing. The tracks would have to be identified the (new) old-fashioned way- listening to samples from CDs online (the truly old fashioned way, of course, would involve listening to actual CDs or records). This was something I really didn't think I was up to but, restless at 3am, I decided to give it a try.
Since all I had was 6 minutes, and I've listened to the recording many times since 2007 when I made it (not to mention having ridden the attraction just this past Wednesday and waiting an entire show cycle in line to get my Dole Whip), I figured I'd probably be able to recognize any of the songs from the recording if I heard them. I started with the music from the Polynesian loop that Jay had IDd. One song by The Maile Serenaders had a similar kind of sound to it. I listened to the rest of the tracks on the album and on the other albums by the same artist. I then followed some of iTunes' "You Might Also Be Interested In..." suggestions and listened to several other albums. No dice.
Next I tried searching for, quite literally "hawaiian music". After listening to a few albums that had a similar kind of sound to them, I arrived at "Steel Guitar Magic - Hawaiian Style" by All-Star Hawaiian Band. I listened to several of the tracks, similar sounding, but nothing familiar. Until I got to one track, "Pearly Shells". This one had a lick I definitely recognized from the recording. Sounded pretty similar too. I listened again. Then I switched and listened to the track from the recording. Very similar. I switched back and forth a few times.
Now I figured, this probably isn't the right version, but knowing the name of one of the songs would certainly help me to narrow my search considerably. Since the songs in the loop are all of a very similar style I had long assumed they were all from the same artist, if not the same album, so finding one would likely allow me to ID the whole loop. I did a search for all versions of "Pearly Shells," as well as a Hawaiian name I found (Pupu O Ewa). None of the other versions sounded as close as the first I'd found. Oh well, I figured, let's spend 99 cents and see how close it is.
I bought it and imported it and the recording into Audacity. I lined them up and- a perfect match.
What?!
I'd expected this to take hours, days, months! And here I'd been looking for what, 30 minutes maybe and I'd found it?
Oh and it get's better. I was right. I found all of the other tracks present on my recording- every single one of them, on that same album.
So. That was easy. Makes one wonder if someone at Disney also searched iTunes for "Hawaiian Music" and used what came up. I guess there's such a thing as beginner's luck after all!
During my next trip, which will hopefully be next week as mentioned, I will be recording at least two complete show cycles (as many as it takes before I hear the same track again) to see if there are additional songs in the loop. That information, when completed, will be posted on my blog. In the mean time, here is a listing, in order, of the songs present on my recording:
1. Kaimana Hila (in recording, fades in starting at 1:56)
2. Lovely Hula Hands
3. Pearly Shells
4. Mekanani Kaupo (in recording, fades out at 0:50)
All tracks from Steel Guitar Magic, which according to Amazon is by a guy named Jack de Mello. Also available in iTunes under the album and artist information mentioned above.
