Opening . . . 25 years ago today!
Let’s just say people were . . disappointed with the park when it opened.
Original plan was to look at the opening day attractions through covers, but not that many attractions have music, and even fewer have covers of that music. (Catchy as I the Bakery Tour music is ) Let’s look at the list of Opening Day Attractions from February 8, 2001:
- Animation Academy
- The Bakery Tour
- Bountiful Valley Farm – (Closed)
- California Screamin’ – (Re-imagined as the Incredicoaster)
- Golden Dreams – (Closed)
- Golden Zephyr – (Closed)
- Grizzly River Run
- It’s Tough to Be a Bug! – (Closed)
- Jumpin’ Jellyfish
- King Triton’s Carousel – (Re-imagined as Jessie’s Critter Carousel)
- Maliboomer – (Closed)
- Mission Tortilla Factory – (Closed)
- Mulholland Madness – (Re-imagined as Goofy’s Sky School)
- Muppet*Vision 3D – (Closed)
- Orange Stinger – (Re-imagined as Silly Symphony Swings)
- Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
- S.S. Rustworthy – (Closed)
- Soarin’ Over California – (Closed, but often makes a temporary comeback!)
- Sorcerer’s Workshop
- Sun Wheel – (re-imagined as Pixar Pal-A-Round)
- Superstar Limo – (Re-imagined as Monsters Inc., which is also closed)
And here’s some songs I could find covers for, starting with a couple of songs that played on the Bountiful Valley music loop:
Fittingly, the farm area music was full of county and bluegrass favorites, but there was also this classic:
Originally performed by Heather Headley, here’s a cover of ‘Just One Dream’ from the Golden Dreams show;
Here’s a lovely piano rendition of the music from California Screamin’;
Here’s a a cappella cover of ‘It’s Tough To Be Bug’ by Molly Jeanne
Last one for today, this piano rendition of ‘Soarin”