Main Street Electrical Parade



The Main Street Electrical Parade is a long-running parade that has been presented at several Disney theme parks, first appearing at Disneyland, where it ran from 1972 to 1996. The Magic Kingdom version of the parade ran from 1977 to 1991, and again from 1999 to 2001. Disney's Electrical Parade, which currently runs at Disney's California Adventure, and the current version of the parade, will be sent to the Magic Kingdom in summer 2010, where it will have a limited run as the Main Street Electrical Parade once again. Disney's Electrical Parade is currently scheduled to begin its run at Disney's California Adventure on March 19, 2010, but it is unknown if this has changed due to the move, and it is also unknown whether or not the parade will return to the Disneyland Resort.

The parade features scenes from Disney films depicted through the use colorful electric lights, and features many Disney characters. The parade's theme song is a version of Perrey and Kingsley's 1967 song "Baroque Hoedown" arranged by Don Dorsey.

Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights
After a six-year absence, the an entirely new, updated Electrical Parade returned to Tokyo Disneyland. Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights (東京ディズニーランド・エレクトリカルパレード・ドリームライツ) premiered on June 17, 2001, and is one of the two remaining operational versions of the Electrical Parade. This version featured an entirely new soundtrack focused more on orchestral music than electronic. It still featured "Baroque Hoedown," though somewhat stylistically different from the Perrey and Kingsley version. This new version of the parade featured updated versions of classic floats, while introducing new ones based on Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life, Winnie the Pooh, and "it's a small world".

It is sponsored by Unisys.

Opening Voiceover
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Tokyo Disneyland proudly presents our most spectacular pageant of nighttime dreams and fantasy. In millions of sparkling lights, and brilliant musical sounds: Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights!"

Disney's Electrical Parade
Disney's Electrical Parade, the Disney's California Adventure version of the parade, premiered on July 3, 2001, around five months after the park's opening. This version is actually the original version the adjacent Disneyland park, which ran there from 1972 to 1996, and at the Magic Kingdom from 1999 to 2001. It is one of the two remaining operational versions of the Electrical Parade. It is actually shorter than the final Disneyland version in that the Pinocchio sequences and the Dwarf Mine sequence are omitted from this version. On the 2008 edition of the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special on ABC, it was announced that a new Tinker Bell float would be added to Disney's Electrical Parade, which would be the first new float added to the Disneyland Resort version of the parade since the temporary Mickey Mouse's 60th Birthday float was added in 1988 while the parade still ran at Disneyland. It was later announced that the Dwarf Mine and Pinocchio floats would return, as well as the classic soundtrack replaced by a new version based on that of Tokyo Disneyland's parade soundtrack. The opening voiceover was left unchanged. In preparation for Disney's World of Color, the parade will go on hiatus in April 2010, as it will be shipped out to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World for a limited run. According to insider site MiceAge, the parade will be shipped back to the Disneyland Resort after the spring of 2012.

The parade is sponsored by Osram Sylvania.

Opening voiceover
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Disney proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: Disney's Electrical Parade!"

Soundtrack (2009-present)
This version of the soundtrack borrows almost entirely from the Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights version, with the same arrangement of the Electric Fanfare and Baroque Hoedown (though continues to use the 2001 voiceover) and the Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Pete's Dragon sequences. New music was composed for the Cinderella, Pinocchio, and To Honor America sequences. While Tokyo's version does contain a Cinderella sequence, the music from that sequence was not used for the updated California version. While Tokyo's parade progresses from an electronic sound to a more orchestral sound throughout the parade, the new California version mostly maintains an electronic sound, which may explain why the Tokyo Cinderella sequence was not used. New music was composed for the Dumbo sequence, but this sequence was eventually cut from the parade.


 * "Electric Fanfare" (composed by Don Dorsey)
 * "Baroque Hoedown" (from Perrey and Kingsley's 1967 album, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations)
 * "All in the Golden Afternoon" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "The Unbirthday Song" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Alice in Wonderland" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Cinderella" (from Cinderella)
 * "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (from Cinderella)
 * "The Work Song" (from Cinderella)
 * "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (from Cinderella)
 * "You Can Fly!" (from Peter Pan)
 * "A Pirate's Life" (from Peter Pan)
 * "Heigh-Ho" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * "The Silly Song" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * "Whistle While You Work" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * "Give a Little Whistle" (from Pinocchio)
 * "I've Got No Strings" (from Pinocchio)
 * "Little Wooden Head" (from Pinocchio)
 * "Brazzle Dazzle Day" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "It's Not Easy" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "Stars and Stripes Forever" (composed by John Philip Sousa)
 * "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (traditional)
 * "You're a Grand Old Flag" (composed by George M. Cohan)
 * "National Emblem" (composed by Edwin Eugene Bagley)
 * "Electric Fanfare" (composed by Don Dorsey)

Soundtrack (2001-2008)
The Disney's Electrical Parade soundtrack from 2001 to 2008 was a modified version (vocoder intro changed, remastered soundtrack) of the original Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade soundtrack from 1985, which itself was a modified version of the 1977 Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade soundtrack. From June 12, 2009, onward, the Electrical Parade featured a new soundtrack based on that of Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights!.


 * "Electric Fanfare" (composed by Don Dorsey)
 * "Baroque Hoedown" (from Perrey and Kingsley's 1967 album, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations)
 * "All in the Golden Afternoon" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "The Unbirthday Song" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Alice in Wonderland" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Cinderella" (from Cinderella)
 * "The Elegant Captain Hook" (from Peter Pan)
 * "You Can Fly!" (from Peter Pan)
 * "Casey Junior" (from Dumbo)
 * "Entrance of the Gladiators" (composed by Julius Fučík)
 * "Heigh-Ho" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * "Brazzle Dazzle Day" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "It's Not Easy" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (traditional)
 * "Yankee Doodle" (traditional)
 * "Stars and Stripes Forever" (composed by John Philip Sousa)
 * "National Emblem" (composed by Edwin Eugene Bagley)
 * "You're a Grand Old Flag" (composed by George M. Cohan)
 * "Electric Fanfare" (composed by Don Dorsey)

Main Street Electrical Parade (Disneyland)
The Disneyland version of the Main Street Electrical Parade was the first incarnation of the parade, premiering on June 17, 1972. This version originally featured floats with mostly flat scenes depicted in lights, the full effect of which could only be seen when the float passed directly in front of the viewer. The parade ended its run in 1974 to make way for America on Parade. A new version of the Electrical Parade appeared in 1977, featuring three-dimensional floats that could be easily seen from any angle. The parade again ended its run in 1982, and was replaced the following year with Flights of Fantasy Parade, but the Electrical Parade again returned in 1985, and ran all the way to November 25, 1996. This version was sent to the Magic Kingdom in 1999, where it ran until 2001. After its run there, the parade was moved to Disney's California Adventure, where it currently runs.

It was sponsored by Energizer in 1985, and General Electric in 1996.

Opening voiceover
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"

Soundtrack (1977-1996)
The Main Street Electrical Parade's soundtrack was updated in 1977 after the parade's hiatus, with a new arrangement of "Baroque Hoedown" by Don Dorsey. This version of Baroque Hoedown was used for all subsequent versions of the parade except Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights in 2001 and the updated Disney's Electrical Parade in 2009.


 * "Electric Fanfare" (composed by Don Dorsey)
 * "Baroque Hoedown" (from Perrey and Kingsley's 1967 album, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations)
 * "All in the Golden Afternoon" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "The Unbirthday Song" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Alice in Wonderland" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Cinderella" (from Cinderella)
 * "The Elegant Captain Hook" (from Peter Pan)
 * "You Can Fly!" (from Peter Pan)
 * "Casey Junior" (from Dumbo)
 * "Entrance of the Gladiators" (composed by Julius Fučík)
 * "Heigh-Ho" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * "It's Mine" (composed by Don Dorsey)
 * "Whistle While You Work" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * "When You Wish Upon a Star" (from Pinocchio)
 * "Give a Little Whistle" (from Pinocchio)
 * "I've Got No Strings" (from Pinocchio)
 * "A Bit Bubbly" (composed by Don Dorsey)
 * "Over the Waves" (composed by Juventino Rosas)
 * "Brazzle Dazzle Day" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "It's Not Easy" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "Boo Bop BopBop Bop (I Love You, Too)" (from Pete's Dragon)
 * "Return to Oz Rag March" (from Return to Oz, 1985)
 * "It's a Small World" (from "it's a small world", 1977-1988)
 * "Mickey Mouse Club March" (from The Mickey Mouse Club, 1977-1978)
 * "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (from Song of the South, 1977-1978)
 * "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (from Three Little Pigs, 1977-1978)
 * "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (traditional)
 * "Yankee Doodle" (traditional)
 * "Stars and Stripes Forever" (composed by John Philip Sousa)
 * "National Emblem" (composed by Edwin Eugene Bagley)
 * "You're a Grand Old Flag" (composed by George M. Cohan)
 * "Electric Fanfare" (composed by Don Dorsey)

Soundtrack (1972-1974)
The original version of the Electrical Parade shared its soundtrack with Walt Disney World's Electrical Water Pageant, which began its run on October 24, 1971, about nine months before. This version used a loop of the original Perrey & Kingsley version of "Baroque Hoedown" with a bass addition. Most of the musical sequences from this version were used in the updated version in 1977, except for the Alice in Wonderland sequence, which was updated and extended. A vinyl record was released in 1973 at Disneyland as "Main Street Electrical Parade" and at Walt Disney World as "Electrical Water Pageant.


 * "Baroque Hoedown" (from Perrey and Kingsley's 1967 album, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations)
 * "All in the Golden Afternoon" (from Alice in Wonderland)
 * "Casey Junior" (from Dumbo)
 * "Entrance of the Gladiators" (composed by Julius Fučík)
 * "Cinderella" (from Cinderella)
 * "It's a Small World" (from "it's a small world")
 * "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (traditional)
 * "Yankee Doodle" (traditional)
 * "Stars and Stripes Forever" (composed by John Philip Sousa)
 * "National Emblem" (composed by Edwin Eugene Bagley)
 * "You're a Grand Old Flag" (composed by George M. Cohan)

Main Street Electrical Parade (Magic Kingdom)
Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom premiered its version of the Main Street Electrical Parade on June 11, 1977, coinciding with the premiere of the new, nearly identical, three-dimensional Disneyland version that year. This version ran until September 14, 1991, when the parade was shipped to the soon-to-open Euro Disneyland. It differed from the Disneyland version in that it featured the Toy Soldiers from Babes in Toyland. In 1999, the Anaheim version was sent to Florida, where the parade ran again until 2001, after which it was sent back to the Disneyland Resort, where it would then begin its current run at Disney's California Adventure.Starting Summer 2010, the Parade will once again be "The Main Street Electrical Parade," wihile Walt Disney World celebrates their version of "Summer Nighttastic"

Opening voiceover
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Walt Disney World (1977 version)/The Magic Kingdom (1999/2010 version) proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"

Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade (1985-1995)
The Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade (東京ディズニーランド・エレクトリカルパレード) premiered on March 9, 1985, and ran until June 21, 1995. The name change from "Main Street Electrical Parade" to "Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade" is due to the fact that Tokyo Disneyland does not have a Main Street, U.S.A.. Rather, it has a similarly-themed land called World Bazaar. Nor did the parade route actually go to Main Street/World Bazaar. Instead, the route wound through the park, starting around Haunted Mansion, skirting past Westernland (Tokyo's version of Frontierland), going around the Plaza area, and finally heading up past Tomorrowland. This version was similar to the American versions, albeit without the To Honor America floats, and with a new Swan Lake sequence.

Opening voiceover
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Walt Disney proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights, and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds: Tokyo Disneyland's Electrical Parade!"

Main Street Electrical Parade (Disneyland Paris)
The Euro Disneyland/Disneyland Paris version of the Main Street Electrical Parade premiered with the park's opening on April 12, 1992, and ran until March 23, 2003. This version was shipped from Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and like the Tokyo version, was nearly identical to the American versions while omitting the To Honor America float. Newly added to this parade, but soon after removed, was the "it's a small world" float.

It was sponsored by Philips.

Opening Voiceover
Unlike all other versions of the parade, whose voiceovers are in English (including the Tokyo versions), Disneyland Paris' version is almost completely in French, except for the last line.

"Madames et monsieurs, et vous les enfants! Disneyland Paris est fier de vous présenter son extraordinaire festival de magie nocturne et d'enchantement, dans une féerie de milliers de lumières, sur une musique electro-synthe-magnetique: the Main Street Electrical Parade!"