Wrestling and Music
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You can find on this page:
- Introductory
chat
- Smashing Records made by Wrestling Superstars
- Wellknown tunes not made by the Wrestler, name-that-tune-thing

Introductory chat
Many of us can make an easy connection between wrestling and
music.
This could be the background music introducing almost every
fan-favorite or bad guy/gal or even music "made" by the wrestler himself -
we can even think of the "music" by The Greatest Intercontinental
Champion of All Times, played normally on the head of an opponent by guitar, but, even more we think about songs like "Land of a Thousand Dances", WWF 1985. Not only at the WWF wrestlers (or other people, like managers or managing artists) showed up, that got somehow a link with (rock) music, but also elsewhere. If you want to be reminded of
those people or want a checkbox at which you can add the people
I've forgotten, try the Rock 'n Wrestling
Connection.
This is just a try and the page is under construction, but I hope to
create a page in which everyone will contribute by telling
which tune was used by whom and when. The fact that
I'm giving it a try here does mean that I could be totally wrong or
ignorant about certain tunes, SO I NEED YOUR HELP, PLEASE FILL IN THE
GAPS!!!

Smashing
records made by Wrestling Superstars
Of course here we can name some records, made by the WWF SUPERSTARS:
Name of the record/CD:
- The Wrestling Album, (LP 1985, CD 1993), CD = Epic EPC 475719 2
Contents:
- Land of 1,000 dances ?!!? - The Wrestlers
- Grab them cakes - Junk Yard Dog
- Real American - Derringer
- Eat your heart out, Rick Springfield - Jimmy Hart
- Captain Lou's history of Music/Captain Lou - Captain Lou Albano
- Hulk Hogan's Theme - WWF All Stars
- For everybody - Roddy Piper
- Tutti Frutti - Gene Okerland (sic)
- Don't go messin' with a country boy - Hillbilly
Jim
- Cara mia - Nikolai Volkow (sic)
- WWF Superstars: Slam Jam, (5" CD Single, 1992), CD Single = Arista 74321
124882
Contents:
- Slam Jam
- Slam Jam (12") The Full Nelson Mix
- Slam Jam (Instrumental Mix)
- POWW Girls:
Nasty & Mean
I don't know if there's any record of this and other tracks

- Pile Driver: The Wrestling Album II (1987) - EPIC Records FET 40889:
Contents:
- Girls in cars - Robbie Dupree & Strike Force
- Piledriver - Koko B. Ware
- Honkytonk Man - Honky Tonk Man
- Demolition - Rick Derringer with Axe and Smash
- Jive Soul Bro - Slick
- Crank it up - Jimmy Hart
- Waking Up Alone - Hillbilly Jim and Gertrude
- Stand Back - Vince MacMahon
- Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Gene Okerlund and Rick Derringer
- If You Only Knew - WWF Superstars
- WCW Slam Jam - The Original WCW Wrestling Album (1992)
11 OFFICIAL THEME SONGS OF THE WCW STARS BY GRAND THEFT PRODUCTIONS (1992)
Contents:
- 1) DON’T STEP TO RON (SONG ABOUT RON SIMMONS)
- 2) MAN CALLED STING (SONG ABOUT STING)
- 3) MR. BANG BANG (SONG ABOUT CACTUS JACK)
- 4) MASTER OF THE DDT (SONG ABOUT JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS)
- 5) FREEBIRD FOREVER (SONG ABOUT THE FREEBIRDS)
- 6) SIMPLY RAVISHING (SONG ABOUT RICK RUDE)
- 7) JOHNNY B BADD (SONG ABOUT JOHNNY B BADD)
- 8) THE NATURAL (SONG ABOUT DUSTIN RHODES)
- 9) THE DRAGON (SONG ABOUT DRAGON STEAMBOAT)
- 10) HE’S SMOKIN (SONG ABOUT BARRY WINDHAM)
- 11) STEINERIZED (SONG ABOUT RICK/ SCOTT STEINER)
Wellknown tunes, but not made by (or originally for) the wrestler -
name-that-tune thing
Tune (artists) - wrestler(s) (organisation):
- Another one bites the dust (Queen) - Junk Yard Dog (WWF)
- Bad Company (Bad Company) - Bad Company = Bruce Hart & Brian Pillman
(Stampede International 198.)
- Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) - Hulk
Hogan (WWF 1984)
- Girls just wanna have (Cyndi Lauper) fun - Wendi Richter & Cyndi Lauper
(WWF 1984)
- Hot stuff ( ? ) - Eddie Gilbert ( ? )
- Push it (Salt 'n Peppa) - The Soul Patrol (Global Wrestling Alliance
1987)
With a special thanks to Jonathan Ward from Canada for contributing!