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#009: Monorail- 4.28.2006
Top 7: “Songs You’ll Still Be Singing When You Leave the Park”

News Stories:

• The EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival will be held April 21st - June 11th this year. The event was kicked off with a special event featuring Nelson.
• A new “Magical Beginings” program will run between August and September of 2006. The program is targeted at trying to attract families with toddlers and preschoolers to come to Disney World.
• Disney’s cell phone service will launch this June. The program will allow parents to control spending, internet access and text messaging on their childrens’ phones. In the U.S. the service will be through Sprint-Nextel and later launched in Britain through another carrier.
• Euro Disney SCA, the operators of Disneyland Paris (formerly EuroDisney) announced Thursday that their net loss more than tripped in the first half of the fiscal year to 102 million Euro (approx. $126 million USD).
• The United States Postal Service released four new 39-cent stamps last week featuring Disney cartoon couples: Mickey & Minnie, Lady & the Tramp, Belle & Beast, and Prince Charming & Cinderella.
• Universal Studios pays more for minimum wage than Disney. Universal’s min. wage is $7.25/hour where miniumum wage at Disney World is $6.90/hour.

Top 7: Songs that’ll reach into your head, grab ahold and not leave your thoughts until you can’t take it anymore and HAVE to listen to something as horrible as Macy Gray’s music just to start getting them out of your head.

7. Listen to the Land

6. Canada (you’re a lifetime journey for the trav-el-er … le voy-a-ger)

5. Tomorrow’s Child - Spaceship Earth, EPCOT

4. Hey-na, na-hey na, hey-na (the song they play after Illuminations)

3. The theme song from Rio Del Tiempo - Mexico, EPCOT

2. Its a Small World

1. Yo Ho, Yo Ho