Magic Behind the Music: Magic Kingdom – Entrance Music – Area Loop

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The Magic Kingdom – the beginning of almost everyone’s love for Walt Disney World starts here at the gates to this theme park where a plaque invites you to “leave Today and enter the World of Yesterday, Tomorrow and Fantasy.” It is only fitting that we begin our tour of D-COT’s expansive Jukebox with the area loop that, for many of us, started it all: Magic Kingdom’s Entrance Music Area Loop. Disney makes a point of saturating your senses from the moment you arrive at the gate of any of their theme parks around the world. They begin that at the Magic Kingdom with a ragtime train station and this musical selection. Disney fans, young and young-at-heart, gather here every day before the park opens and listen to the music as they wait to be let in. For adults, it sets the mood for what will hopefully be a day of enjoying imagination-fueled surroundings and technology that will, perhaps, give them the chance to be kids again. For children, the music in front of the train station means that soon the figurative curtain will be peeled back, allowing them not just to see their favorite Disney stories, but live them!

The impact this loop has had on our D-COT community is plainly evident. It’s #1 on the Top 25 Rated playlist, having a 4.8/5 average rating with more than 500 votes. It has been added to 80 custom playlists and favorited over 1,800 times! It is the second most played track in the jukebox with over 400,000 listens! One of the earliest songs to be included in the Jukebox, it was added on September 1, 2008.

While the Magic Kingdom has had the entrance loop in use for decades, the actual tunes played on the loop at the Magic Kingdom today have changed slightly with the removal of tunes from long-gone attractions and the addition of new ones. For example, you might hear music from Timekeeper, Toontown, or even 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; all of which no longer exist in the park. Many seasoned Walt Disney World visitors remember these attractions with much fondness, but as Walt Disney envisioned, this park would always have room for change, and change it does. Still there are tunes in the loop that are likely immortal. Favorites like The Mickey Mouse Club March, “it’s a small world,” and When You Wish Upon a Star are songs you’ll hear that are quintessential to the Disney experience and, at Walt Disney World, that begins here.

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By RocketEAR99
RocketEAR99 is one of our contributors that specializes in Disney music in the series we call "Magic Behind the Music". You will find some fun and exciting information about the music you can listen to in the jukebox.

11 Comments

  1. Yesss!! The Entrance Loop is super fabulous! Awesome pick for this weeks article :star: :up:

  2. Wonderful tie in to D-Cot, history and music. Bravo

    • Thank you! And RocketEAR99 does a fantastic job putting it on “paper”. :clap: :clap:

  3. Great job! Very well written.

  4. Love those stats! Great article! :sorcerer:

  5. Thank you! I know this is one of my absolute all-time favorite loops and it’s neat to see the statistics!

  6. I was thinking to myself that I probably am single-handedly responsible for it’s popularity (it is the first thing I listen to every day – just gets me in the mood somehow). But I see I am not alone in my love for it! :)

  7. Definitely a classic! :cinderella: :up:

  8. That is a LOT of listens! Thanks for the background info!

  9. What a great post!! Thanks @RocketEAR99 for providing context, personal experience, facts, and some really cool D-CoT stats. Well done! :) :clap: :clap: :note:

  10. Thanks so much for all the compliments on the article! I really appreciate it!!! :)

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