thecrusherwi
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Post by thecrusherwi on Oct 15, 2013 7:48:26 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cs4iRj2zscI'm sure any of us who were fans at that time could nearly sing this entire song. Probably the most memorable part of Double J Jeff Jarrett's first WWF run. But what I want to know is how you feel about the actual song. It's clear that the WWF thought it was awesome. Between Double Js original "release" in 95 and the Real Double J Jesse James's rerelease in 1996, they Must've played it on TV at least 50 times. (And that's not including Jesse James using it as his ring entrance). I'm convinced that Vince legitimately believed that this song would chart on Billboard. I personally think its decent for a campy wrestling song, but compared to other songs, it's pretty bad. What do you think?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Oct 15, 2013 8:23:35 GMT -5
As a song, it's not actually that bad, it's better than a lot of the country music I was forced to listen to growing up, still to me, it's the themesong to the weird lurch toward the American south the WWF made from 93 to about 96. In 1992 you still had all the superheroes, titans and millionaires, then a year later they were all gone and the midcard was filled with the likes of Je, double-eff, Ja, double-arr, ee, double-tee, haa-haa, trying to be a country singer, wrestling Nascar drivers, cowboy tag teams and they started plugging Memphis and Smokey Mountain.
As a European, I found it all more than a little offputting as the WWF was heading increasingly downmarket and I wasn't big on the whole flaghugging Lex Express either, luckily there was Bret, Owen, Mr Perfect, Crush, Taker and other holdovers to keep me interested.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2013 8:30:31 GMT -5
As a song, it's not actually that bad, it's better than a lot of the country music I was forced to listen to growing up, still to me, it's the themesong to the weird lurch toward the American south the WWF made from 93 to about 96. In 1992 you still had all the superheroes, titans and millionaires, then a year later they were all gone and the midcard was filled with the likes of Je, double-eff, Ja, double-arr, ee, double-tee, haa-haa, trying to be a country singer, wrestling Nascar drivers, cowboy tag teams and the plugging of Memphis and Smokey Mountain. It's funny how much I noticed this without actually being aware of it. |
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Post by sagsag on Oct 15, 2013 16:07:38 GMT -5
Don't forget the awful country music intros for Superstars in 94/95ish. "Weeeelllll, Bret Hart, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels - heart breaker!"
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Post by TGM on Oct 15, 2013 17:19:16 GMT -5
Didn't Jeff Jarrett sing this live at a ppv in 1998 (I wanna say Unforgivern or Over The Edge)? Further confusing the issue in my preteen mind.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 15, 2013 17:37:23 GMT -5
Didn't Jeff Jarrett sing this live at a ppv in 1998 (I wanna say Unforgivern or Over The Edge)? Further confusing the issue in my preteen mind. "Some Girls Do" with Sawyer Brown. Can't remember if he lip-synced or actually sang, though. |
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Post by agent817 on Oct 15, 2013 17:37:53 GMT -5
Didn't Jeff Jarrett sing this live at a ppv in 1998 (I wanna say Unforgivern or Over The Edge)? Further confusing the issue in my preteen mind. It wasn't the same song. I think it was a song from the country group Sawyer Brown, but I don't know the same of the song, and it was at Unforgiven. |
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Post by turkeysandwich on Oct 15, 2013 18:09:13 GMT -5
I embarrassingly remember asking a Target employee if they had the cassette of "With My Baby Tonight." The guy looked around for 20 minutes only to tell me they didn't carry that one. I also remember being confused at how JR and Gorilla would discuss how the song was such a big hit on county radio, and at that time I listened to country radio all the time and never once heard it. C'mon I was 12.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Oct 16, 2013 18:22:11 GMT -5
Don't forget the awful country music intros for Superstars in 94/95ish. "Weeeelllll, Bret Hart, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels - heart breaker!" I'm surprised they used this for Superstars instead of Monday Night Raw when you conider how much this sounded like the then theme for Monday Night Football ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night" by Hank Williams Jr. a reworking of his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight") |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2013 21:13:55 GMT -5
Hated the song. Doesn't help that it was heavily featured on all the shows to promote an angle that ended up being abandoned a month later...
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Post by Dean-o on Oct 16, 2013 22:16:06 GMT -5
I embarrassingly remember asking a Target employee if they had the cassette of "With My Baby Tonight." The guy looked around for 20 minutes only to tell me they didn't carry that one. I also remember being confused at how JR and Gorilla would discuss how the song was such a big hit on county radio, and at that time I listened to country radio all the time and never once heard it. C'mon I was 12. I remember making my mom drive me to the mall to see if the record store had the album. The clerk said he heard of it but they didn't have it. Then I rememeber a kid at school telling me he had the album, and listed some track names. I belived him of course. I miss being a mark. |
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Post by Professor Chaos on Oct 17, 2013 17:09:25 GMT -5
I remember seeing the video on CMT once. At least I'm quite sure I did but maybe it was a hallucination.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 18, 2013 3:05:00 GMT -5
I'm not sure why so many of you tried to buy the album when they said it was sold out everywhere.
Pretty sure I looked a few times myself...
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Post by percymania on Oct 18, 2013 19:34:21 GMT -5
It's not a bad song, but Road Dogg isn't much of a singer, sorry Dogg.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2013 3:52:22 GMT -5
As someone who grew up on country music in the mid 90s, I regret missing out on this gimmick. I didn't get into wrestling until 1996 unfortunately, but I always knew about that storyline because HBK/Jarrett for the IC Title was in the first WWF VHS I ever got, The Best of In Your House.
America as a whole was really into country western stuff there for a while in the 90s.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2013 10:48:14 GMT -5
It's not a bad song, but Road Dogg isn't much of a singer, sorry Dogg. There was a PPV (April or May 1997) where he did his normal Double J Jesse James schtick of singing it on the way down the aisle and it sped up on him. He started cracking jokes and doing impressions in response, including a Beavis & Butt-Head "This music sucks." |
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Post by Vampiro138 on Oct 19, 2013 10:51:52 GMT -5
I remember it being played in southern illinois on the country station there WMIX. also remember them playing "rap is crap" on that station too.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Oct 19, 2013 20:40:19 GMT -5
Dammit, I'll have this stuck in my head for the rest of the week now. I quite enjoy the song, but it was before my time, so I view it as a cheesy piece of the past compared to folks who were around for it.
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