"The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room" is the official song for

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, an attraction at the

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theme park. It was written in

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staff songwriters, The Sherman Brothers: Robert B. and

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, and recorded by

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. The song's was the first written for an Audio-Animatronic attraction. A studio-recorded soundtrack of the ''Enchanted Tiki Room'' was released in 1968 by

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as the

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of the album '' The Enchanted Tiki Room'' (ST-3966), whose

B side The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record company ...

included music from the Disney

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attraction.Discogs
Retrieved April 8, 2014. The song is still heard at the Disneyland's and Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom's Enchanted Tiki Room attractions, as well as Disneyland's Remember... Dreams Come True fireworks show, though the final verse was removed to help shorten the overall length of the attraction. During the years Walt Disney World's

The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management) ''The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)'' was an attraction located in the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. It was an updated version of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, which was previously known in the Florida ...

was performed, only the first few seconds of the song were sung. The song was covered by

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for the first '' DisneyMania'' album in 2002. The song was also covered by Los Lobos on the collection of Disney songs album called Los Lobos Goes Disney released in 2009 under the Disney Sound label. It is also covered by

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. Disney also released an album entitled ''Disneymusic Block Party'' in 2008 mainly consisting of Playhouse Disney artists performing Disney songs. The album included a cover of "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room" performed by comedian and actor

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