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It's Saturday morning. On Saturday morning, the notion of rise and shine is noxious. The alarm clock is a screeching harpy. How to wake up chirping? Maybe music. Disney music! I've found lots for you.
The cleverly named site, SoundOfMagic, has enough Disney music to wake the dead, especially if they're after-living in the Haunted Mansion: a substantial portion of the site is devoted to a compilation of virtually every sound ever heard in the Haunted Mansion, including the soundtrack for the entire ride. I even found a short blooper reel of Paul Frees, the Mansion narrator, "tripping over his tongue", as the site owner puts it.
The site features music from every land in the Magic Kingdom, and from Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Disneyland Paris - no Animal Kingdom, unfortunately. I even found Vera Lynn's classic We'll Meet Again from his Tower of Terror section. How cool is that!
Some of my other favorites are the extended instrumentals from Epcot's Spaceship Earth. You hear snippets during the ride, but SoundOfMagic has them in their beautiful, soothing entirety.
The quality of all the music is phenomenal. You won't hear ambient crowd noise, amateurish pop 'n hiss, or anything but what Disney intended you to hear.
No soundtrack lasts forever, and I guess no site of soundtracks lasts forever, either. The site owner hasn't updated SoundOfMagic since September 2007. It's like a note held for a very long time.
But that doesn't matter. The music hasn't gotten old. Sample some for a ringtone or a computer chime or a wake-up symphony. I bet I could wake up chirping even on Monday morning with Vera Lynn in my ear.