Act 1: Reach For The Stars
Gagarin
Recording: Gagarin
Artist: Public Service Broadcasting
Album: Gagarin (Extended Single)
A great British band that combines live playing with sound and film documentary, reminds us who got to space first.
Daylight Express to Lutz
Recording: Daylight Express to Lutz
Artist: Alexandre Desplat
Album: The Grand Budapest Hotel Original Soundtrack
A real favorite during station Vodka tastings.
Dancing In The Moonlight
Recording: Dancing in the Moonlight
Artist: Yonder Mountain String Band
Album: Love. Ain’t Love
The original version of the song was released by the Franco-American One-Hit-Wonders: King Harvest. Where were you in ’72?
Ikea
Recording: Ikea
Artist: Jeff Bridges
Album: Sleeping Tapes
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Atomic Number
Recording: Atomic Number
Artist: Case/Lang/Veirs
Album: Atomic Number
Stay in school kids!
Recording: Future People
Artist: The Alabama Shakes
Album: Sound & Color
These are the Future People!
Act 2: Build It
Wernher Von Braun
Recording: Wernher von Braun
Artist: Felix Janosa
Album: Die bosen Lieder des Tom Lehrer
Some international suspicion lingered about Von Braun and his cohorts. And you have to admit, nothing is funnier than a Tom Lehrer song in German.
Don Hahn Talks About The Disney Space Program(s)
Yesterday’s Tomorrow is a valentine to an era of optimism, relaxed lifestyle, and innovative design; a large-format book, illustrated with rarely seen art and photography of the mid-20th century reflecting the unique style that Walt Disney and his artists contributed to the era.
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Mission Control
Recording: Mission Control
Artist: Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams & Benjamin Wallfisch
Album: Hidden Figures- Original Score
Redstone
Recording: Redstone
Artist: Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams & Benjamin Wallfisch
Album: Hidden Figures- Original Score
Planetarium
Recording: Planetarium
Artist: Justin Hurwitz
Album: La La Land – Original Score
Lift Off
Recording: Lift Off
Artist: Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams & Benjamin Wallfisch
Album: Hidden Figures- Original Score
Hallo Spaceboy
Recording: Hallo Spaceboy
Artist: David Bowie (With The Pet Shop Boys)
Album: Nothing Has Changed
The musical poet laureate of space travel also contributed a space chanty recorded with the Pet Shop Boys.
Who built the Moon Rockets?
An unlikely conglomeration of scientists, electricians, aircraft fabricators, and former So. Cal gearheads who had worshiped at the Sunday night altar of Disney’s Man In Space shows
We called Rocket Ship builder, Former President of the Aerospace Legacy Foundation, and author, Gerald Blackburn for a confirmation.
Telstar
Recording: Telstar
Artist: Bill Frisell
Album: Guitar in the Space Age
Act 3: Your Flight To The Moon Is Ready To Depart (You’re Welcome)
Flight To The Moon (Pre-Show/Mission Control)
Recording: Flight To The Moon (Pre-Flight/Mission Control)
Artist: WED Enterprises/Disneyland
Album: A Musical History of Disneyland
Score: Fast Descent to the Surface (Eyeball Landing)
Artist: Jeff Mills
Album: A Trip To The Moon
As inconceivable as it seems, most early Disneyland attractions did not employ musical scores. We at the Radio Free Disneyland Labs have taken up the task of adding fitting scores from many of today’s cinematic musical titans to our forensic examinations of these extinct attractions beginning with this Park classic.
The score for both parts of our tribute and re-imagining of the Flight To The Moon attraction (1967) was composed by Jeff Mills. Mills has composed new scores to classic sci-fi films in the past, but he goes to the source of the river here in his interpretation of Georges Melies’ film, A Trip To The Moon. Mills, a Detroit legend, employes his usual musical dialects in the film score. Ambient and futurist Detroit techno – while also offering nods towards Chicago acid, experimental noise, and neo-classical, with notes of flowers, chocolate and coffee.
Mills was knighted Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
We are happy to be able to use his work to provide this classic Disneyland Attraction with a fitting soundtrack.
The Final Countdown
Recording: The Final Countdown
Artist: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Album: Banjo Banjo
A white knuckle prelude to launch, with all of the tension and precision of a liftoff? Or, a banjo duet cover of a classic Hair-Band cut. Either way, this should give you time to strap in for the ride.
Flight To The Moon (Main Attraction Show)
Recording: Flight To The Moon (Main Attraction Show)
Artist: WED Enterprises/Disneyland
Album: A Musical History of Disneyland
The Feeling of Being Watched
Score: The Feeling of Being Watched
Artist: Jeff Mills
Album: A Trip To The Moon
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