MAGIC KINGDOM/DISNEYLAND/DISNEYLAND PARIS
- American Journeys (1984 Circlevision film) - composed by Basil Poledouris and George Wilkins (pre-show and "fill and spill") (source: IMDB)
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show - composed by George Fenton (source: official CD)
- Mickey's Audition - composed by Bruce Broughton (source: Internet discussion with a forwarded message from Mr. Broughton)
- Spectromagic Parade - co-composed by John Debney (Walt Disney World Song Archive)
- The Timekeeper (Circlevision film) - composed by Bruce Broughton (source: IMDB, under "From Time to Time")

EPCOT - Future World
- Journey into Imagination: "Captain EO" 3-D film - score composed by James Horner (source: IMDB)
- Journey into Imagination: "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience" 3-D film - composed by Bruce Broughton (source: IMDB and Internet discussion with a forwarded message from Mr. Broughton)
- Universe of Energy: Ellen's Energy Adventure (background, lobby, & show) - composed by Bruce Broughton (source: Broughton promo CD, IMDB, and official Disney listing)
- Wonders of Life: "The Making of Me" film - composed by Bruce Broughton (source: Internet discussion with a forwarded message from Mr. Broughton)
- Wonders of Life: Body Wars - End of Show - composed by Leonard Rosenman (original music?) (source: official Disney listing)

EPCOT - World Showcase
- Norway - Film at the end of the Maelstrom ride (title?) - composed by Michel Colombier (source: an employee at the Norway pavilion who showed me the credits in print)
- Surprise in the Skies (daytime lagoon show) - composed by John Debney

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
- Back to the Future: The Ride - original music composed by Alan Silvestri (source: CD containing a rerecorded suite from the score)
- E.T. - an original 3-1/2 minute piece entitled "E.T. Botanicus" composed by John Williams (source: Internet discussion)
- "Sword and Sorcery" stunt show - composed by Basil Poledouris (source: Internet discussion)
- Unused music from John Williams' score for The Lost World: Jurassic Park is included in the "nine hours of original background music" (source: Audio Media magazine, May 2000, p. 78)

Fortunately that's probably my favorite Zimmer tune, but the people I was with nearly had a nervous breakdown after being subjected to this for upwards of an HOUR. (Andre Lux: be careful if you visit this attraction. You'll have funfas out your ears within a quarter of an hour, and if it gets especially bad, they might have to call the paramedics. I'm sure you're familiar with earplugs. They don't cost much. I've recently had to fashion a pair out of wet toilet paper, and they worked perfectly! Necessity ever being the mother of invention.)

I thought the E.T. ride was an absolute disaster -- in fact, at least in 1992, Universal's theme park left a lot to be desired. My favorite part was probably the tram-bus encounter with King Kong. Tip to visitors who ride the tram that includes the JAWS and EARTHQUAKE and KONG and other thrills: you want to sit on the LEFT side of the bus. The view is MUCH better from there for EVERYTHING, unless they've changed it dramatically. The only thing you'll see better by riding on the RIGHT side is Kong attacking you and exhaling banana breath at you. At least, that's what they say Kong does (I never picked up on the banana breath, nor felt I saw Kong very well, but that part of the ride is well thought out, I felt). If I ever go back, I'll happily ride on the right side of the bus just to get a better look at the wondrous ape.

At a cafeteria inside Universal, one of the counter ladies made a wrong move with her wrist, and shattered an overhanging lamp bulb, just inches away from me (and her, and the countertop). I couldn't figure out what had happened. Later, the best I could infer was that she'd gotten her watch too close to the lamps (very low-hanging over the counters, evidently dangerously so), and some kind of magnetic effect made the bulb explode. Not only was this very strange, it wrecked the spaghetti. (Actually, based on the pasta we wound up with, aluminum bits might well have enlivened the horrendous meat sauce.)

Universal must be a strange place to work. Those tram buses going back and forth all the time, right through the bungalow areas and their parking lots. I didn't see any stars, but I did see their parking spaces. I resented it that Joe Dante didn't come out of his office and wave. That's one less rerental of SMALL SOLDIERS you'll ever hear about, buddy!

I asked my friend, and he had this to say:

Well, the music played in the areas of Future World was usually a medley of the themes from the various pavilions (Energy, Imagination, etc.). The original EPCOT album that was released in 1982 was the only time that most
of them were released. But there has never been (as far as I know) a release of the "medley loop" that played in the open plazas between the pavilions.

World Showcase area music was simply themed to the country and was usually a mixture of "folk" music or traditional themes from that country. The composer's were all different for the different pavilions.

The album was from Buena Vista Records, and can be found from time to time on EBAY or through Disneyana related sellers. Usually can be purchased from around $25 to $50.

You and I have looked this stuff up before, but should be found on the Disney Archive Website at:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/musicofwdw/

Jeron