thebrainfollower Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Anyone know how to contact Jim Johnston? This seriously interests me and I feel is harmless enough you'd easily get a straight answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I realize it's mostly a financial issue, but on an artistic level, I think wrestling would be better off using real popular music as opposed to stuff made in-house specifically for them. When I hear "Tom Sawyer", I still think of the Von Erichs. I'd like for that to be the desired effect of all entrance music -- you hear the song doing something else unrelated to wrestling and then you think of the wrestler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Harley Race, Honky, Demos all had music. Orndorff did too albeit Hogan's. Savage had music as a heel. It WAS less common though Watched WM III to see this (in clips) just now and noticed something. EVERY heel who gets a runway entrance has music except Andre. What are you defining as a "runway entrance"? The Dream Team, Hercules, Bundy & the midgets, Sheik & Volkoff, and Adonis all came out on the cart and none of them had music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I realize it's mostly a financial issue, but on an artistic level, I think wrestling would be better off using real popular music as opposed to stuff made in-house specifically for them. When I hear "Tom Sawyer", I still think of the Von Erichs. I'd like for that to be the desired effect of all entrance music -- you hear the song doing something else unrelated to wrestling and then you think of the wrestler. Real music is why CMLL and AAA have had the overall best entrances in the world for the last two and a half decades, with only very few exceptions being better, such as NJPW Tokyo Dome shows and Wrestlemania type shows with large entrance budgets. This is also why ECW had some iconic entrances that got lost when those same wrestlers were in WWF or WCW. A lot of the WWE music sounds generic and blends together. The themes for Rollins, Ambrose or Cesaro aren't much more than slightly modern versions of random WCW Pro wrestler themes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I don't know if I've ever heard a specific answer to this, but I think it goes back to Parv's general point (which I've believed for years as well FWIW) that the WWF had a slow gradual evolution from 84 to the end of the decade into what Vince's vision was. The 84 TV is much the same as the 83 TV with different talent is one example of my point. Music for nearly every wrestler is another key but it was not every wrestler. At some point in 1990 they lost (or gave up) the rights to Jive Soul Bro. As a result you rarely if ever see Warlord or Power and Glory coming to the ring, even for a squash match. They are already there and hence don't need music. Actually P&G had music for their earliest matches, but dropped it by Summerslam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrainfollower Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Can I hear that P and G theme anywhere? I cannot recall it at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Actually, they had it until Survivor Series when their team came out to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrainfollower Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Not on my version. It's the Model's music/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 I'm guessing Race's theme was just generic coronation type music? It was Maurice Ravel's The Great Gate of Kiev (same as what Lawler has used for the last twenty odd years). Interesting side note: a sample appeared on Michael Jackson's 1995 HIStory album (track by the same name) but has always been removed from reissues, including even today on Spotify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButchReedMark Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Taken from Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, the same place Alan Hawkshaw did a great arrangement of Promenade from which was used as the theme tune to The New Statesman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Can I hear that P and G theme anywhere? I cannot recall it at all (please delete if we're not allowed to post embedded footage) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButchReedMark Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 That theme is fucking spectacular! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaymeFuture Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 It sounds like a song that would come on at the main menu of a Mega Drive game. I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigelow34 Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Wow, never heard that theme either. Awesome find, wish they kept it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Never knew Power and Glory had music, nice find. Kind of reminds me of the first theme the Beverly's would use. I wonder if it was just a generic bumper theme for one of their TV shows that got repurposed, they did that quite often back then. And seeing the Rockers there reminded me they actually did use Judas Priest in the WWF for one or two shows, I used to have a recording of it years ago when I used to collect rare themes but that stuff is long gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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