Years ago when the atmosphere music was played when I worked there, it was an instrumental track that played all day at various locations around park. People were always trying to find the source...so they could go watch the live music being played. Some even asked where they could buy the records of it. I don't know why the park fails to put something out like that. Seems it would be an easy moneymaker. The Sounds of Silver Dollar City album released in 1980 captured some of that music, as well as stuff like a bit of Flooded Mine music, and so on, but never that I know has there been a full album of the stuff released. I noticed when I was in the radio.media business, all that good material we worked on to gather and put out before the public was used in a 24 hour time frame and then put into a file cabinet somewhere never to be seen again...what a waste. I have noticed in the last five or ten years many newspapers have put out picture books with photos snapped for the paper and then just put away. Like the 10 year anniversary book the Springfield paper did with SDC...similar to that. SDC could release a book of old show scripts...of old publicity photos and postcards, and, of course, several albums of material recorded around park. Somebody just has to get off their duff and get proper copywrite clearance and get it going!
