Originally Posted By Kurtisaurus I've listened to all the songs I know the names too and tried to find this on a number of the streaming Disney music sites to no avail. Can you identify the name of this tune I've heard on Main Street? <a href="http://www.screamingcat.com/main_st_tune.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.screamingcat.com/ma...tune.mp3</a>
Originally Posted By FaMulan It's "Everything's Up to Date In Kansas City" from the musical Oklahoma!
Originally Posted By Kurtisaurus Nice call FaMulan! Thanks so much, it's been bugging me I couldn't figure out what that song was.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Truthfully, I'm a bit surprised that the ragtime version of Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (the song playing on the gramophone in the original attraction) doesn't play on Main Street. It's a perfect fit!
Originally Posted By skinnerbox I take that back. Put that in New Orleans Square. (It's dixieland, not ragtime. It's been a looooong week. And it's only Tuesday, darn it.)
Originally Posted By Kurtisaurus It's not the only Oklahoma song on the playlist actually, as "Surrey with the fringe on top" also gets played on Main Street. I suppose they chose these due to the time the show is set in as mentioned above, or maybe it's just because the songs have a folksy fun quality to them.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA The song from the musical 'Oklahoma' is sung by a cowboy, who has just visited Kansas City, and is marveling about all the wonderful modern things that are there. "They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high, about as high as building ought to grow." "They got a big the-a-ter, they call a bur-le-que -- for fifty cents you can see a dandy show" "You can walk to privies in the rain and never wet your feet -- they've gone about a far as they can go." And since Main Street U.S.A. represents that time in America at the turn of the twentieth century, when the horse-drawn carriage is giving way to the automobile -- the song seems perfect to me.
