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The Main Street Electrical Parade was a regularly-scheduled parade, created by Bob Jani, long time Disney theme park entertainment leader, that is most famous for its long run at Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort most summers between 1972 and 1996 . It featured floats and live performers covered in thousands of electronically-controlled lights and set to a synchronized soundtrack triggered by radio control along key areas of the parade route. The parade was also spun off many other versions that ran or continue to run at Disney parks around the world. ORIGIN The predecessor to the Main Street Electrical Parade is the Electrical Water Pageant , a show made up of seven 25-foot-tall screens with electrical lights placed on them. The screens are placed on a string of seven barges which travel around the Seven Seas Lagoon just in front of the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort , beginning at 9pm at Disney's Polynesian Resort, or immediately after the fireworks if they are scheduled for 9pm. The Electrical Water Pageant still shows today. The Electrical Water Pageant has been showing since October 26 , 1971 , just weeks after the Walt Disney World Resort opened. The parade had counterparts of the same name and layout at the Magic Kingdom which ran from 1974 to 1991 when it was replaced by a similar parade called '' SpectroMagic ''. From 1999 to 2001 the original Disneyland parade also appeared at the Magic Kingdom, before returning to Disneyland for the final run. The Disneyland Paris version ran from 1992 till 2003, when it was replaced by "Fantillusion", a nighttime parade from Tokyo Disneyland , which had earlier replaced the Tokyo version of the Main Street Electrical Parade. Tokyo Disneyland's current Electrical Parade, ''Main Street Electrical Parade: DreamLights'' was a return to the style of the original updated with new music and floats. The Main Street Electrical Parade was so popular that light bulbs certified as having been part of the show were sold to collectors. The . MUSIC The Main Street Electrical Parade's theme song, "Baroque Hoedown" by and Reel Big Fish . In Japan, Walt Disney Records released a CD called ''DJ Digs Main Street Electrical Parade'' which featured the theme music remixed by Japanese DJs. The version used in the parade was arranged by Don Dorsey . SHOW FACTS Disneyland Resort
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