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The Green Meanie

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On further research, considering the source material, and a bit of confusion as to why someone would use a disco song in 1984 I'm now not 100% sure that music is correct. The video is taken from a WWE Network airing, which has been known to overdub certain musical tracks, and the song was credited as having been released in 2009. I found this video clip from an original airing that matches the same intro, but uses the aforementioned Don Ray's Got To Have Loving: https://youtu.be/5YvVnfEXbL0?si=8zVyNbM3CHFMPzTH

If this is correct, kudos to the music department for picking a banger of a replacement song!

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odessasteps

odessasteps

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Well, in 1984, you’ve got Savage using Macho Man and the RnR using ELO and the MX using Giorgio Moroder, so it’s not like all the people using entrance music were using cutting-edge songs. 

The Green Meanie

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25 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Well, in 1984, you’ve got Savage using Macho Man and the RnR using ELO and the MX using Giorgio Moroder, so it’s not like all the people using entrance music were using cutting-edge songs. 

Granted, those have relevance to the wrestler(s) that used them names, so I'd see the connection.

odessasteps

odessasteps

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I’m still amazed that Continental’s TV used Situation by Yaz as their show open, after one week of using Party All the Time. 

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clintthecrippler

clintthecrippler

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On 8/28/2024 at 10:12 PM, The Green Meanie said:


https://youtu.be/xkkA1UhoHiM?si=3LLQtzK8NqljaD9w
An episode of Portland Wrestling featuring a drunk Stan Stasiak on commentary, a somewhat inept ring announcer, a tag team called THE CLAN (featuring one wrestler named Mr. Ebony), Playboy Buddy Rose bringing in a wrestler from Africa who is then immediately announced as being from San Francisco (and is really proportioned very strangely, but makes the best wrestling faces!) and the WORST ring-side security I've ever seen.

The somewhat inept ring announcer is promoter/owner of Portland Wrestling, Don Owen, who also owned the arena. I am guessing his logic was "why pay someone else to do this when I already know the matches?" He is however responsible for one of the my legit favorite moments from when I did some digging into Portland 1980/81 a while back. Roddy Piper and Buddy Rose are building to a loser leaves town match, which leads to a couple weeks of Don Owen going off about how loser leaves town matches are his least favorite matches as a promoter, including an incredible rant about how every time a wrestler leaves it costs him as a promoter hundreds of dollars to fly in a new wrestler to fill the spot and starts bitching about how much air travel to Portland costs.

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Curt McGirt

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On 8/29/2024 at 12:34 AM, The Green Meanie said:

a bit of confusion as to why someone would use a disco song in 1984

I have a theory about this, that is probably bunk but feels truthful sometimes. It is that culturally, the 1970s from '75 until '85 overlapped culturally, then there was a "true '80s" from '85 to '90. People who lived through it can describe this better than I can but end of Vietnam to dawn of Reagan seems like one big chunk of degradation, drama, and structural collapse. That's sociologically/politically. Now by '85 we had the new Reagan Capitalism and solidification of '80s culture until the '90s exploded that. Disco carried right along in its demise in '80 or so into hip hop, and heavy metal and punk rock were strongest from '77-'85 before the new wave of thrash/death/black metal. Using a disco song in '84, especially when Scarface had just come out the previous year and cocaine was exploding even more than in the '70s, seems about right. 

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Cobra Commander

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WWE Vault is gonna stream a WCW Saturday Night episode on Saturday at 6:05 Eastern that promises Vader, Austin, Regal, and Harlem Heat. So the Paul Levesque project to get his WCW stuff seen might be resuming, at least for one night.

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