Theme Song?

[TaleAsOldAsTimeBB]

So every time my parents planned our annual Walt Disney World trip, they picked a theme song. They would load it into the CD player and blast it through the house about 3:30am the morning of our trip. It always got me so excited to be at Disney. My favorite year was "Fly away" Lenny Kravitz.

Does anyone else do this or were my parents just crazy?! Because I feel like doing this the morning of my vacation with my husband.

 

[Sammy5150]

We don't do it, I just run around yelling at everybody "Let's Go!"

I would go with Dreams by Van Halen.

 

[TaleAsOldAsTimeBB]

I think that would be an awesome choice for a song!!!

 

[Disney4family]

We just sing along with the mini-song for Must-Do Disney. I even play it to wake the kids up at 3am for our flight down.

 

[TaleAsOldAsTimeBB]

That's awesome. My parents always wanted to play something to wake us up. It was always different and always memorable

 

[bigorangeandy]

My pick would be either the Wishes soundtrack, or Illuminations soundtrack.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Great idea. I never had a theme song to start our morning escape to Disney World day off.
My theme song to DS was..... ITS THE BREAK OF DAWN....GET YOUR A@#$ OUT OF BED. Were on our way out the door to Disney. Whose got the bags, tickets, cash, etc,etc. ???

 

[Disney4family]

If the kids wake up to Stacey at WDW, they can wake up to her at 3 am to get to WDW. I've had half a pot of coffee by then to make sure I get them and our stuff in the car to get to the airport!

 

[LdyApxr]

So every time my parents planned our annual Walt Disney World trip, they picked a theme song. They would load it into the CD player and blast it through the house about 3:30am the morning of our trip. It always got me so excited to be at Disney. My favorite year was "Fly away" Lenny Kravitz.

Does anyone else do this or were my parents just crazy?! Because I feel like doing this the morning of my vacation with my husband.

You're parents were just crazy but in the best way!! We don't have a theme song for our first trip(next May) but this has given me the idea so thank you!

Might have to go with something like World Turning by Fleetwood Mac(we've seen them twice in the last two years!) or All Fired Up by Pat Benatar. Maybe wring out some Pink Floyd Momentary Lapse of Reason or jumping into the way back machine here and doing some Oliver Good Morning Starshine... yeah my kids are old souls and we are all over the map musically. LOL

 

[TaleAsOldAsTimeBB]

You're parents were just crazy but in the best way!! We don't have a theme song for our first trip(next May) but this has given me the idea so thank you!

Might have to go with something like World Turning by Fleetwood Mac(we've seen them twice in the last two years!) or All Fired Up by Pat Benatar. Maybe wring out some Pink Floyd Momentary Lapse of Reason or jumping into the way back machine here and doing some Oliver Good Morning Starshine... yeah my kids are old souls and we are all over the map musically. LOL

I love theses ideas for songs! I tell you it made it so exciting to wake up and it motivated everyone to get to the airport

 

[LdyApxr]

That's why I love these boards because I get so many great ideas from everyone that I probably would not think of myself!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

When I get ready for my vacation I Blast this song..And I don't care if people look...I got 2 weeks waiting for me in the Most Magical Place on E-Arth..

 

[aandmmagiccarpetride]

LOVE this idea! Totally going to use it for our trip this October!!!

 

[Figgy1]

Being from Jersey the first song we played in the car last trip was Born To Run (the Boss) We also listened to quite a bit of Phineas and Ferb songs on the ride down

 

[ohiodisfan]

We have the Disney cd's in our car to listen to for the 18 mile drive to the airport. If DS picks its yo ho a pirates life, DW and DD it's the little mermaid ride song, and for me it's the haunted mansion. We always watch Disney movies the night before we leave to get pumped.

 

[LdyApxr]

I like the Disney song idea. I think I would bust out the wake up call with Circle of Life!

 

[Kate Alan]

If your family is crazy, ours is too! We didn't have songs but we had albums that were essentially trip theme albums. We had yearly trips to the Outer Banks, for example, and would always play Abbey Road, Rita Coolidge, and Moulin Rouge. I associate Tarzan's soundtrack more strongly with Palm Springs than I do Disney World because of this.

Our trips to Hawaii oddly enough had the Rocky Horror Picture Show as our theme album, lol. Nothing like a family sing-a-long to that while passing waterfalls and volcanoes.

For our drives to Orlando we tended to use Disney soundtracks. The Lion King soundtrack was a big one for us, as were the soundtracks for Beauty & the Beast and Pocahontas. When I travel to Disney now I make a point to blast "Be Prepared" before getting to the airport, and have a Disney song playlist for the plane ride.

 

[LdyApxr]

If your family is crazy, ours is too! We didn't have songs but we had albums that were essentially trip theme albums. We had yearly trips to the Outer Banks, for example, and would always play Abbey Road, Rita Coolidge, and Moulin Rouge. I associate Tarzan's soundtrack more strongly with Palm Springs than I do Disney World because of this.

Our trips to Hawaii oddly enough had the Rocky Horror Picture Show as our theme album, lol. Nothing like a family sing-a-long to that while passing waterfalls and volcanoes.

For our drives to Orlando we tended to use Disney soundtracks. The Lion King soundtrack was a big one for us, as were the soundtracks for Beauty & the Beast and Pocahontas. When I travel to Disney now I make a point to blast "Be Prepared" before getting to the airport, and have a Disney song playlist for the plane ride.

I am on board with all of those! Especially Rocky Horror! Our favorite saying in this house is "The sun will come out tomorrow...." to which someone always chimes in "OVER AT THE FRANKENSTEIN PLACE" LOL Yeah, we're weird.

 

[Kate Alan]

I am on board with all of those! Especially Rocky Horror! Our favorite saying in this house is "The sun will come out tomorrow...." to which someone always chimes in "OVER AT THE FRANKENSTEIN PLACE" LOL Yeah, we're weird.

Lol you'd fit right in with us @LdyApxr !

 

[LdyApxr]

Lol you'd fit right in with us @LdyApxr !

LOL! Great minds! I love my boys because they are so eclectic in their musical tastes that we have had entire conversations using only song titles! Before the Eagles concert in 2014(the first one) we had an entire conversation using nothing but song titles of the Eagles. My husband, God bless him, is not as quick with songs or movie quotes(another big thing here) and usually just sits back and listens. LOL