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Baroque Hoedown" was created by early synthesizer pioneers (and frequent collaborators)
Jean-Jacques PerreyJean-Jacques Perrey is a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.-Biography:Perrey was...
and
Gershon KingsleyGershon Kingsley is a contemporary American composer who is famous for composing the first ever electronic pop instrumental song, "Popcorn". He formed a partnership with Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey, becoming widely recognized in the music industry...
(
Perrey-KingsleyThe musical duo Perrey and Kingsley are pioneers in the field of electronic music. Before their collaboration, starting in 1965, electronic music was considered to be purely avant-garde...
). The composition was once described as being a "
harpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
gone
countryCountry music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains...
". It later became the theme song for Disney's
Main Street Electrical ParadeThe Main Street Electrical Parade was a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani and project director Ron Miziker, famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972-1974, 1977-1982, and 1985-1996...
and for a time, the
Electrical Water PageantThe Electrical Water Pageant is a show that takes place several times every evening in Walt Disney World's Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake. It features fourteen floats with lights that depict images of sea creatures...
. It was also incorporated into
Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLightsThe Main Street Electrical Parade was a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani and project director Ron Miziker, famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972-1974, 1977-1982, and 1985-1996...
,
Light MagicLight Magic was a parade/street show at Disneyland that ran in 1997. Originally billed as a replacement for the venerable 24-year-old Main Street Electrical Parade, Light Magic opened to poor reviews in May 1997 and closed four months later...
and
Remember... Dreams Come TrueRemember... Dreams Come True is a fireworks display commemorating Disneyland's 50th anniversary. Described as an "E ticket in the sky," the show features fireworks, lower level pyrotechnics, isopar flame effects, projections and lasers set to the soundtracks of some of Disneyland's most famous...
as a tribute to the
Main Street Electrical Parade.
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"
Baroque Hoedown" was created by early synthesizer pioneers (and frequent collaborators)
Jean-Jacques PerreyJean-Jacques Perrey is a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.-Biography:Perrey was...
and
Gershon KingsleyGershon Kingsley is a contemporary American composer who is famous for composing the first ever electronic pop instrumental song, "Popcorn". He formed a partnership with Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey, becoming widely recognized in the music industry...
(
Perrey-KingsleyThe musical duo Perrey and Kingsley are pioneers in the field of electronic music. Before their collaboration, starting in 1965, electronic music was considered to be purely avant-garde...
). The composition was once described as being a "
harpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
gone
countryCountry music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains...
". It later became the theme song for Disney's
Main Street Electrical ParadeThe Main Street Electrical Parade was a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani and project director Ron Miziker, famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972-1974, 1977-1982, and 1985-1996...
and for a time, the
Electrical Water PageantThe Electrical Water Pageant is a show that takes place several times every evening in Walt Disney World's Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake. It features fourteen floats with lights that depict images of sea creatures...
. It was also incorporated into
Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLightsThe Main Street Electrical Parade was a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani and project director Ron Miziker, famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972-1974, 1977-1982, and 1985-1996...
,
Light MagicLight Magic was a parade/street show at Disneyland that ran in 1997. Originally billed as a replacement for the venerable 24-year-old Main Street Electrical Parade, Light Magic opened to poor reviews in May 1997 and closed four months later...
and
Remember... Dreams Come TrueRemember... Dreams Come True is a fireworks display commemorating Disneyland's 50th anniversary. Described as an "E ticket in the sky," the show features fireworks, lower level pyrotechnics, isopar flame effects, projections and lasers set to the soundtracks of some of Disneyland's most famous...
as a tribute to the
Main Street Electrical Parade.
Samples
The "Baroque Hoedown" melody is used in many songs, including:
- "Main Street Electrical Parade (Retro Future Mix)" from the Dance Dance Revolution Disney Rave
Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix, known as Dancing Stage featuring Disney's Rave in Japan and Dancing Stage Disney Mix in Europe, is a music video game based on Konami's popular Dance Dance Revolution series with animated Disney characters and electronic dance music remixes of past Disney songs...
game
- "The Theme from Rock to the Future" and "starship.6" by Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box are a Japanese electronic music band.The frenetic sound of their first album FAKEVOX is an example of the subgenre known as picopop, driven by rudimentary synthesized sounds and heavily-manipulated samples from a variety of sources, including 1950s jazz and big band recordings...
as well as their remix of Naivepop or Petitfool's "Bicycle Race"
- "Baroque Hoedown" by They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants is a double Grammy Award-winning American alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller, and Danny Weinkauf. Formed in 1982, they are best known for an unconventional and experimental style...
(recorded for DisneyMania 2DisneyMania 2 is the second of seven DisneyMania albums. Much like its predecessor, DisneyMania, DisneyMania 2 was commercially successful, certified Gold in November, 2005. DisneyMania 2 was more successful in that it peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200...
, contains excerpts of "The Unbirthday Song" from Alice in WonderlandAlice in Wonderland is a American animated comedy feature produced by Walt Disney and based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was released in New York City and London on July 26, 1951...
, which was used in the Electrical Parade as well)
- "Main Street Electrical Parade" by Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out." The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off...
(recorded for Dive into DisneyDive into Disney is a Japanese album containing rock/ska renditions of various Disney songs, such as Mickey Mouse Club March, Hakuna Matata, and It's a Small World, performed by various artists...
, Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
-only skaSka is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
and punkPunk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
Disney tribute CD)
- Film pioneer Mike Jittlov
Mike Jittlov is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature length movie using forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation...
uses a variation of the song as the soundtrack of his 1978 Disney-themed short film, "Mouse Mania", which debuted as part of the prime time Mickey Mouse 50th Anniversary Special
- a version of the song by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet consists of John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant and Matthew Greif . They are known for using nylon string guitars to imitate a variety of instruments and effects....
- "Baroque Hoedown" is used in the ending theme of El Chapulín Colorado
El Chapulín Colorado is a television series, created and played by Roberto Gomez Bolaños, also known as Chespirito, a successful Mexican comedian and TV show producer, which parodied superhero shows...
- The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
, under the production of Perrey fan Kenny EverettKenny Everett was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer...
, sampled "Baroque Hoedown" in their 1968 Beatles Fan Club Christmas record, prior to its use in the Electrical Parade.
- "I, Brobot", an episode of the Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a cable television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience,...
show Phineas and FerbPhineas and Ferb is an American animated television series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007 on Disney Channel, the series follows two suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation...
, features the Phinedroids and Ferbots dancing to a song reminiscent of the melody
- A cover version featured in the Japan-only Pop'n Music
, most commonly shortened to Pop'n, PM or PNM, is a music video game in Konami's Bemani series. The game is notable for its bright colors, upbeat songs, and cute character graphics...
series
- American guitar virtuoso Buckethead
Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 28 solo albums and performed on over 50 more...
plays the melody live during his song "Jowls"