Music from Regions Beyond: The Exterior and Lobby BGM Loop

            Music is, of course, a very important part of setting a tone and theme for an area, and the Tower of Terror was no exception. The hotel grounds, exterior queue, and main hotel lobby all shared the same music loop. This approximately hour-long music loop consisted of various circa-1930s songs processed with extra echo to sound distant and spooky. The echo gave the sense that the songs were emanating either from some unseen source somewhere in the inaccessible corridors of the hotel, or perhaps even haunting this dimension from the Twilight Zone itself!

            As far as anyone can tell, the same playlist of songs was used for all three Twilight Zone-themed Towers. A few music bloggers I asked made vague assessments of how maybe one or two tracks might be different or in a different order at one Tower or another, but nothing concrete was offered. Indeed, from my own observations, I have no idea if there was even a set track order at all; for all I know the developers in charge of the soundtrack might have simply put all the songs into a playlist, selected “shuffle”, and called it a day.

Here is a playlist with the 20 known exterior/lobby loop tracks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA073AD8C1E779F8A

            

The tracks included in this playlist are:

I Can’t Get Started by Bunny Berigan

Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington

Remember by Red Norvo

Uptown Blues by Jimmie Lunceford

Deep Purple by Turner Layton

Jeep’s Blues by Johnny Hodges

Jungle Drums by Sydney Bechet

Wishing (Will Make it So) by Vera Lynn

There’s a House in Harlem for Sale by Red Allen

Sleepy Time Gal by Glenn Miller

Pyramid by Johnny Hodges

There’s No Two Ways About It by Frankie Newton

Alabamy Home by the Gotham Stompers

When the Sun Sets Down South by Sidney Bechet

Inside (This Heart of Mine) by Fats Waller

Delta Mood by Cootie Williams

I’m In Another World by Johnny Hodges

Dear Old Southland by Noble Sissle

Jitterbug’s Lullaby by Johnny Hodges

We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

For those interested, here’s a short clip by cthulhufae from YouTube of “We’ll Meet Again” playing in situ:

And for those of you curious about how the songs sound without the processed echo, here is a YouTube posting by SuperHotLarry of the loop with the songs in their original form: