Poll: Now is the Time OR It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

[Goofyernmost]

Beautiful Tomorrow, hands down.

Now Is The Time....I've never liked it. It's too infomercial-ly for my taste. Like Vince With ShamWow and and George Foreman are about to jump me with a salespitch.

They call it the Foreman LambWow. Homemade shawarma griller. You gettin this, camera jerk? Order now and you get a set of HamChop self-sharpening knives forged from Billy Mays' funeral pyre.

I'll have to admit that I need more of an expanded thought on that statement. Even with your bringing it to the surface I cannot see, or in this case, hear the connections. I'm either very naive or just to into the moment to get any connection at all. If you can, please explain.

 

[rnese]

Love 'em both! They're bot on my iPod and every time I play one of them, my boys and I begin moving like animatronics! Fun stuff!

 

[Bairstow]

What about the new, new version?

 

[FettFan]

I'll have to admit that I need more of an expanded thought on that statement. Even with your bringing it to the surface I cannot see, or in this case, hear the connections. I'm either very naive or just to into the moment to get any connection at all. If you can, please explain.

Nothing else to explain. NITT sounds to me like infomercial music, so I created the worst infomercial ever.

Because, as mentioned earlier, NITT was a sales jingle for GE.

 

[Bairstow]

Nothing else to explain. NITT sounds to me like infomercial music, so I created the worst infomercial ever.

Because, as mentioned earlier, NITT was a sales jingle for GE.

Speaking of Tomorrowland corporate jingles, does anyone know if the Shermans wrote this one?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

What about the new, new version?

I would really like to see this one used if they EVER refurbish the attraction and it is a Robert Sherman song..And from all the sites I checked about Here's to the Future they don't give credit on who wrote it. They only mention RCA about it's sponsership..

 

[Worldlover71]

Years ago when I got the The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song cd box set, I was confused by song GBBT. The booklet said if was the theme to the CoP but I KNEW that was wrong because NitT was the theme. I asked my mother and she told me the book was right but I knew I hadn't made up the other song. This was before the internet and it took us forever to figure out that both songs were the theme at different times. How did we ever live before the world wide web?

 

[Goofyernmost]

Nothing else to explain. NITT sounds to me like infomercial music, so I created the worst infomercial ever.

Because, as mentioned earlier, NITT was a sales jingle for GE.

If you had never witnessed the time when GE was the sponsor, what about it would make you think it was a GE jingle? GBBT was also a jingle for GE, based on your judgment and reality, but, without knowledge of GE's involvement how would you tell. NITT was saying, literally, that whatever time you live in is the time of your life. GBBT was saying things are great today, but, tomorrow they will be even better. How is that a commercial? I'm not trying to be a pain, I'm just trying to understand how that connection can be made on its own.

 

[FettFan]

If you had never witnessed the time when GE was the sponsor, what about it would make you think it was a GE jingle? GBBT was also a jingle for GE, based on your judgment and reality, but, without knowledge of GE's involvement how would you tell. NITT was saying, literally, that whatever time you live in is the time of your life. GBBT was saying things are great today, but, tomorrow they will be even better. How is that a commercial? I'm not trying to be a pain, I'm just trying to understand how that connection can be made on its own.

Ah but I DID witness it with GE. And I remember distinctly the plug "the folks at GE are bringing good things to life!" before all of the appliances randomly turn on. So for me, it screams jingle every bit as much as "Miracles From Molecules".

Also working against it is the fact that NITT grates on my nerves. It's best left as an electronic rendition on the Tomorrowland loop.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Ah but I DID witness it with GE. And I remember distinctly the plug "the folks at GE are bringing good things to life!" before all of the appliances randomly turn on. So for me, it screams jingle every bit as much as "Miracles From Molecules".

Also working against it is the fact that NITT grates on my nerves. It's best left as an electronic rendition on the Tomorrowland loop.

Well, you are entitled to your opinion. So, sorry you were unable to see past that and enjoy the show for what it was, appliance plug and all. I wasn't bothered by the GE introduction, they were, after all, making it possible for me to see the show and knowing Disney, I'm sure it wasn't cheap. So we can just agree to disagree, I guess.

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

Current-Big Beautiful Tomorrow

 

[Bairstow]

People put some weird stuff on Youtube sometimes.

 

[Marc Gil]

Definitely There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. It's more relevant to the theme of Tomorrowland, and it's much more catchy. Now is the Time isn't bad, but it's not as iconic as TAGBBT.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Definitely There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. It's more relevant to the theme of Tomorrowland, and it's much more catchy. Now is the Time isn't bad, but it's not as iconic as TAGBBT.

It is to me, but, I do concede that a lot of it hinges on what one heard first and what one's state of mind was at the time.

 

[kevinscruising]

Now is the time is the one I first remember as a child. We always went on that then went right on IF YOU HAD WINGS ! Remember that one ?????

 

[Goofyernmost]

I have an apology to make, but, I don't remember to whom. At one point it was said that "Now is the Time" was just a commercial for GE. I replied, in my usual warm loving way, that Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow was as well. Then I watched this YouTube video.


It is very long, but extremely interesting. At one point the surviving Sherman Brother, states that Walt came to them and said that he wanted a song pointing to the future while showing the past. When they got down to create it all they could think of was... "Walt has a dream, and that's a start. We follow that dream with mind and heart. And when it becomes a reality, it's a dream come true for you and me". That, of course, was changed to..."Man has a dream and that's a start. He follows that dream with mind and heart, etc. That was the inspiration for GBBT. When CoP moved to Florida, the CEO of GE demanded that they write something about right now. They didn't want people to wait to buy their products at a later day when things might be better. BUY NOW was the battle cry. So you were correct. Now is the time was indeed motivated by a desire to sell now, not later.

That said, however, I'm a little slow I guess because it was wasted on me. I never saw either one of them as a means to sell appliances. It was much more emotionally charged for me. Both of them. It never crossed my mind that there was any sales connection in either of them. I still like "Now is the time" best, because when I heard it, it truly was the best time of my life.

 

[C.FERNIE]

much prefer the orgiinal!