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Golden Horseshoe Saloon / WDW Frontierland 1975 [UPDATED]

Posted by SSrustworthy 5/18/24

Updated 6/9/24

The most recent interstitial music in the Golden Horseshoe Saloon seems to have been playing since at lease 2022 (per observations by pixelated). This loop appears to be a very close relative of the Walt Disney World Frontierland 1975 loop, which has been partially pieced together via fragmented recordings [1]. By association, this loop also played at a Chip and Dale Meet and Greet in the central plaza near Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante in the mid/late 90s [2]. When compared with the WDW 1975 Frontierland loop, it matches all of the identified tracks besides the replacement of “Bile ’em Cabbage Down” with the unreleased CBJ Stoneman Family track “Home on the Range”.

Many of the tracks in this loop appear to come from the Capitol Records production music libraries, specifically two records in the Media Music line [3]. I was able to track these down via some sleuthing and my preexisting familiarity with the behemoth of Media Music 😛 They can be found on three records in the Media Music Line:

  1. MEDS-4 - Media Music Release No. 2 - No. 4 - Western Themes/Fun Marches [Hi-Q equivalent Reel X-75/76]
  2. MEGS-5 - Media Music Release No. 7 - No. 5 - Solo Instruments [Reel X-145/146 or OGM Archives 4]
  3. MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136]

Some tracks from the first and third albums were released on the OGM Music album CD-MMXM-104 - Travel The World/Country/Western [4] which was released on Ole Georg Music's The Professional Line as Compact Disc 5. Are you confused yet??

There is one unknown track. It is a particularly lonely duet of a harmonica and accordion. I have excised the track for convenience. A close mic of the speaker or a live recording of the louder speaker downstairs would prove very useful in identification efforts, as it’s a fairly quiet track.

UPDATE: This track has been identified as a presumed Stoneman Family track associated with the Country Bear Jamboree / Mile Long Bar. It remains unnamed; see below. The track is likely ~~"Come Back Paddy Reilly."~~ Farewell To The Mountain from the Davy Crockett series (thanks to Chris Lyndon!).

DL - Frontierland - Golden Horseshoe Saloon Unknown A.flac

https://app.box.com/s/xxcg22hm8sn00bo2rjzkyva7z0q5nr4k

In order to ID the loop I put several live recordings together to make it easier to hear. I did record the entirety of the loop in one sitting but I attracted a ton of interference in my recorder as I had placed it on a table for most of the duration, so I made the new version where I limited the interference sounds where possible. It’s not great but certainly works for a reference.

DL - Frontierland - Golden Horseshoe Saloon (mixed recordings).flac

https://app.box.com/s/io0nda9g872woyvjqpdzogz0tsewurmn

All tracks have been verified with side-by-side references in a DAW. Some tracks are a slower/faster tempo than their re-released counterparts, but I did not mark that here.

Golden Horseshoe Saloon v.2

loop length 00:39:29.299

  1. Farewell to the Mountains (from “Davy Crockett at the Alamo”) - The Stoneman Family - Unreleased (loop length 00:02:51.559) waltsmusic.com collection for the Disneyland Mile Long Bar. The track starts at 7:18. See https://waltsmusic.com/index.php/jack-wagner-collection/disneyland-mile-long-bar-music-4?highlight=WyJtaWxlIl0= with MP3 here.>
  2. Bearless Love - The Stoneman Family - Country Bear Jamboree (Original Soundtrack) (loop length 00:02:04.695)
  3. Home on the Range - The Stoneman Family - Unreleased (loop length 00:02:31.330)
  4. The Town and Country Square Dance - Denny - Town and Country Square Dances (loop length 00:02:40.666)
  5. Western Saloon - Ib Glindemann - MEDS-4 - Media Music Release No. 2 - No. 4 - Western Themes/Fun Marches [Reel X-75/76] (loop length 00:01:01.439)
  6. Blackberry Blossom - Tommy Jackson - Square Dance Festival, Vol.1 (loop length 00:02:42.314)
  7. Country Guitar (B) - Henrik Nielsen - MEGS-5 - Media Music Release No. 7 - No. 5 - Solo Instruments [Reel X-145/146 or OGM Archives 4] (loop length 00:01:01.611)
  8. Buffalo Girls - Tommy Jackson - Square Dance Festival, Vol.1 (loop length 00:02:40.580)
  9. Country and Western No. 1 - Henrik Nielsen - MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136] (loop length 00:00:59.626)
  10. Country and Western No. 2 - Henrik Nielsen - MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136] (loop length 00:01:00.136)
  11. Country and Western No. 3 - Henrik Nielsen - MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136] (loop length 00:01:00.002)
  12. Cripple Creek - Tommy Jackson - Square Dance Festival, Vol.1 (loop length 00:02:41.901)
  13. Country Banjo - Henrik Nielsen - MEGS-5 - Media Music Release No. 7 - No. 5 - Solo Instruments [Reel X-145/146 or OGM Archives 4] (loop length 00:01:00.604)
  14. Country and Western No. 4 - Henrik Nielsen - MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136] (loop length 00:01:00.940)
  15. Country Harmonica - Henrik Nielsen - MEGS-5 - Media Music Release No. 7 - No. 5 - Solo Instruments [Reel X-145/146 or OGM Archives 4] (loop length 00:01:01.122)
  16. Country and Western No. 5 - Henrik Nielsen - MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136] (loop length 00:00:57.848)
  17. Dusty Miller - Tommy Jackson - Square Dance Festival, Vol.1 (loop length 00:02:30.818)
  18. Buffalo Gal - The Nashville Four and "Slim" 88 Wilson - Country Honky Tonk Piano (loop length 00:02:30.074)
  19. Country and Western No. 6 - Henrik Nielsen - MECS-8 - Media Music Release No. 6 - No. 8 - Special Occasions / Country & Western [Reel X-135/136] (loop length 00:01:01.377)
  20. Flop Eared Mule - The Wanderin' Five - Come On In! We're Pickin' and Singin' Folk Songs (loop length 00:01:31.003)
  21. East Tennessee Blues - Tommy Jackson - Square Dance Festival, Vol. 1 (loop length 00:02:12.225)
  22. Evening Campfire - Ib Glindemann - MEDS-4 - Media Music Release No. 2 - No. 4 - Western Themes/Fun Marches [Reel X-75/76] (loop length 00:01:00.213)
  23. Skip to My Lou - Richard Chase - Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians (loop length 00:01:37.429)

References

[1] https://forums.mousebits.com/threads/frontierland-1975.9736/

[2] https://community.magicmusic.net/threads/wdw-frontierland-bgm-history.3425/#post-22258

[3] https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-early-music-of-tomorrowland.html

[4] https://productionmusic.fandom.com/wiki/CD-MMXM-104_-_Travel_The_World/Country/Western

Post on 6/9:

Well hot dog! The unknown track seems to be another Stoneman Family track. It is included on this recording from the Disneyland Mile Long Bar on waltsmusic.com starting at 7:18.

Disneyland Mile Long Bar Music #4

No name yet, but I will try to do more sleuthing as the recorded CBJ BGM tracks seem to be American folk songs (asides from Bang! Goes Old Betsy).

Note that with the discovery of the source track, there is no longer a huge silent gap and so the beginning of the loop is now arbitrary.

Edit: The track seems to be strongly related to the Irish folk tune "Come Back Paddy Reilly". Different performances of the tune by various groups do not always have a consistently slow tempo, but this rendition showcases the strong similarities.