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Detroit Lions Theme Song: Another One Bites the Dust.
Back around 1980 Jimmy Spiderman Allen and a few other Lions did a cover of Queens Another One Bites the Dust. Does anyone have a clue where I could get a copy of that song online? Any suggestions would be helpful.
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"offense, defense, special teams, when you're messin with the Lions you know what I mean"..."james spiderman allen", freddie doc scott, see billy run".bump, bump, bump, another one bites the dust"....
send me an email at srothw@aol.com and I will email it too you. When I was on Mad Dog as a guest for a year, I used it as my intro song!!!!! I still listen to that and the Bears Super Bowl Shuffle... Best two sports songs ever
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Bruce Springsteen, "I'm Goin' Down'
Quote:
you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds
well you let out one of your bored sighs
Well lately when I look into your eyes
I'm goin down, down, down, down, down down down, down, down, down, down...
The Beatles, "I'm A Loser"
Quote:
What have I done to deserve such a fate
I realize I have left it too late
And so it's true, pride comes before a fall
I'm telling you so that you won't lose all
I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be
Beck, "Loser"
Quote:
don't believe everything that you breathe
you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
so shave your face with some mace in the dark
savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
(yo cut it)
Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
Back around 1980 Jimmy Spiderman Allen and a few other Lions did a cover of Queens Another One Bites the Dust. Does anyone have a clue where I could get a copy of that song online? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks!!!
I remember that from when I was a little kid. My older brother had it and we used to listen to it together. If you get the .mp3, please let me know.
Thanks for the memory (and confirming that I didn't just make that up in my head).
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Anyone remember the Tigers song, "Bless You Boys" (1884)?
Also, I just read an interesting article about Steve Goodman who wrote "Go cubs Go." The article mentions another song he wrote called "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request." (Goodman was dying of cancer at the time). If you haven't heard this song, you must find it NOW! It captures the feeling of being a loyal fan of a team that disappoints. I know it might be hard for us Spartans and Lions fans to identify with, but give it a try.
Nearly a quarter-century later, 'Go Cubs Go' evokes warm memories of singer's life while again celebrating his favorite team's title hopes
Eric Zorn
September 27, 2007
Twenty-three years ago, a dying Cub fan wrote and recorded an anthem to North Side optimism called "Go Cubs Go."
The song became a local sports standard, but it's enjoying a big revival this season as part of a new tradition after home victories. As the team exchanges high-fives on the field, the song plays through the public address system and fans at Wrigley Field stand and sing with the chorus:
Go, Cubs, Go Go, Cubs, Go Hey Chicago, whaddaya say? The Cubs are gonna win today.
"There are tears in my eyes when they sing," manager Lou Piniella told reporters Tuesday, though he had the title as "Go Cubs Win."
Fans at home are now able to join in. At the All-Star break, the WGN-TV production team that oversees the majority of Cubs telecasts decided they'd patch into the PA system during postgame celebrations and simply let the images and music speak for themselves.
"It has a really good vibe," said TV play-by-play announcer Len Kasper, who, along with partner Bob Brenly, have agreed not to talk over the festivities. "We've gotten a ton of e-mail about it."
Bob Vorwald, executive producer of WGN-TV sports, said the "Go Cubs Go" moment, which has now spread to telecasts produced by Comcast SportsNet, "has taken on a life of its own. It's like a second 7th-inning stretch. People always want to know where they can get the song, who sings it and so on."
The singer is the forever boyish folk artist Steve Goodman. Goodman, a Northwest Side native who began regularly attending Cub games when he was 8, recorded "Go Cubs Go" in advance of the 1984 season, just months before he died of leukemia at 36.
Among the backup vocalists on the refrain are former players Gary Matthews, Thad Bosley, Jay Johnstone, Jody Davis and Keith Moreland -- dubbed "The Chicago Cubs Chorus" on the label.
Moreland, at it happens, shows up in the lyrics of Goodman's other notable baseball song, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request," dropping a "routine fly" at the "ivy-covered burial ground."
Goodman knew he was ill in 1981 when he wrote "Dying Cub Fan," a wry, bluesy salute to perpetual failure at Clark and Addison, though he always insisted it wasn't autobiographical. And it put him on bad paper with the Cubs' front office, which then (as now, as ever) was trying to shed the team's image as lovable losers.
"'Dying Cub Fan' made (new general manager) Dallas Green nuts," said Dan Fabian, then the program director and head of promotions at WGN Radio, the Tribune-owned station that broadcasts games by the Tribune-owned Cubs. "He said we didn't need that kind of negativity anymore. He hated the line about 'doormat of the National League.' He said that Steve Goodman is no fan of the Cubs."
The Cubs' slogan was "Building a New Tradition," and as part of that, Fabian set out in early 1984 looking for a more contemporary opening theme for the radio broadcasts than the antique pop number "It's a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame."
Fabian said his first plan was to ask Cub fan Jimmy Buffett to change the words of his hit "Margaritaville" for a song called "Wrigleyville."
But Fabian said this idea wasted away when he heard program host Roy Leonard interviewing Steve Goodman one morning in February 1984. He realized that not only did Goodman have better hometown-fan cred than Buffett (who grew up in the Deep South), but also that commissioning Goodman to write the theme would be "a fun, good-natured tweak" at the excessively earnest Dallas Green.
Goodman had the musical bona fides. He'd been recording, writing and touring on the folk circuit for more than a dozen years, and was best known to casual music fans as the composer of "The City of New Orleans" ("Good mornin', America, how are ya?"), a Top 20 hit for Arlo Guthrie in 1972.
Fabian didn't have to ask twice. A week later, Goodman, for whom experimental leukemia treatments had failed, was back at the station, guitar in hand. The sunny, bouncy, infectious "Go Cubs Go" "flat out blew us away," Fabian said.
"For all its exuberance, the song was merely the alter ego of `Dying Cub Fan,'" wrote Clay Eals in "Facing the Music" ($29.95, ECW Press), a Goodman biography published earlier this year. "In its fatalism (`Dying Cub Fan') was as devoted and affectionate as `Go Cubs Go' was in its blind faith."
Team and station executives loved it and so did the fans, particularly when the 1984 team began more often than not making good on the song's promise that "the Cubs are gonna win today."
WGN released a charity single that sold 74,000 copies, more than any other album or song Goodman ever recorded, Eals said in an interview this week. "But as the team and his song were going uphill, Steve was going downhill. It became a race to the end of the season."
Goodman lost that race. He died on Sept. 20, 1984, four days before the Cubs clinched the National League East Division title with a victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The only consolation was that death spared him the agony of watching the Cubs blow a two-game lead in the league championship series.
Several years later, the Cubs replaced "Go Cubs Go" with "Here Come the Cubs" by the Beach Boys, the next in what's been a series of theme songs. But Goodman's tune remained in the musical rotation on broadcasts and at the ballpark.
"We've played it off and on, here and there over the years," said veteran Cubs marketing director Jay Blunk. "Fans have always liked it, but this season it's finally gotten traction."
Why? Well, the team's winning record -- including a 44-37 home record -- has given fans something to sing about. But Blunk also credits the silence of the announcers, as well as the team's "likable spirit."
Whatever the reason, Red Pajamas Records, Goodman's label in Nashville, reports having received "a ton of inquiries" about the song in recent weeks. Operations director Josh Talley said the label won't know until reports arrive from online music retailers later this year whether the unprecedented level of interest is translating into paid downloads.
Meanwhile, one Cub fan who is particularly savoring the "Go Cubs Go" renaissance is Minette Goodman, the singer's mother.
At her home in the city she watches on TV at the end of games as the players dance joyously on the field where her son's ashes were scattered many years ago.
"It blows my mind," she said. "The Cubs win a game, and I get to hear my kid sing again. It's rewarding and comforting at the same time."
I'm the Spiderman and I can do anything a spider can, I can spin a web, any size, even catch a football just like FLIES.
We've got an offensive line that's very tough, we've got a defensive line called the Silver Rush. We've got Dexter Bussey, Horace King, see Billy run, you couldn't catch him with a gun.
Tick Tock it's Monte Clark. There's Gary Danielson back to pass, touchdown Freddie Doc Scott.
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How many of you Lions fans (like me) remember the pain and disappointment of Eddie Murray's missed field goal against the 49'ers in the 1983 playoffs? That coulda shoulda been the Lions' year.
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