My favorite sports songs

[jrbunky]

I do a lot of sports slideshows for my daughter’s sports and I thought I would share my favorite sports songs. In some cases I don’t know the band name. If you search on Amazon, Microsoft Music, Yahoo Music, etc. you should be able to find and preview it.

I Get Knocked Down (I don't know the band)
NFL Films - The Equalizer
NFL Films - A New Game
Ole Ole - Gino Beats - Soccer Anthem
Dangling Tango (I don't know the band)
Sandstorm (there are many bands that do this song.)
BTO - You Aint Seen Nothing Yet
Chicago Bulls - Intro Music
Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
Smash Mouth - Allstar
Cirque du Soleil - Éclipse
Cars - Let The Good Times Roll
Bare Naked Ladies - Chinese Chicken
Pink - Get The Party Started
Blue Man Tubes - Rods and Cones
Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
Mission Impossible Theme
Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now
Liquid tension experiment - another dimension
3 doors down – Kryptonite
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine I use the intro section)
P.O.D - Youth Of The Nation (Only use the group singing section)
Fat Boy Slim right here, right now (I use the intro section)
Van Halen - Aint Talking About Love (I use the intro section)
Aerosmith Sweet Emotion (I use the intro section)
Dire Straits - I Want My MTV MOD (I use the intro section)
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold (I use the intro section)
This Is Your Life (I use the intro section)
Skillet - Rebirthing (I use the intro section)
Joe Satriani-The Extremist (I use the intro section)
Louden Wainwright III, Loudon - The Swimming Song (Great song to use for swimming)

Slower songs for the more personal part of the slide show
Taylor Hicks - Do I Make You Proud
Phill Collins - True Colors
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Beatles - In My Life
Van Morrison - These Are The Days
Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow

Sample sports slideshow http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.html?fl=2699027&alb=0

[toad Profile Private message]

Thanks fo the song suggestions for sports. I do a lot of sports videos for my kids and am hoping to veer towrds that direction in business. I have been trying to come up with a song(s) for my daughters fastpitch softball team show. There are some posibilities here. The one I think I might use is Ray of Light by Madonna.

[KellyInAz Profile Private message]

Very cool thread! Thank you so much for the list. I'm sure I will refer to it in the future.

Kelly

[dtpitts Profile Private message]

Thanks loads!

I am working on a Baseball show right now, this could not of come at a better time! Great suggestions, thanks for sharing!!

Teresa

[marmart Profile Private message]

This is very kind of you to share this with us!!! Thank you....

Mary

[my3luv1 Profile Private message]

Thank you for the list. I will keep it for future use.

I have used this songs for my karate videos that I have done in the past two years.

Push It To The Limit - Corbin Bleu
Hearts On Fire - Rocky Soundtrack
Moment of Truth - Karate Kid Soundtrack
You're The Best - Karate Kid
Fight to Survive - Bloodsport

Some of these songs can be used for other sports events.

[iromero Profile Private message]

These are all great songs. I believe the name of the "I get knocked down" song is Tubthumping. The artist is Chumbawumba. For those who have music questions, feel free to post them here. I was a DJ for over 20 years in South Florida. I have a pretty good knack for finding songs, titles, etc... I'd be happy to help you out if needed.

Teresa,

For a baseball show, you may want to use Centerfield by John Fogerty.

Another good slow song for a sport video is "The World's Greatest" by R. Kelly. These are the lyrics:

I am a mountain
I am a tall tree
ooooh, I am a swift wind,
Sweepin' the country

I am a river,
Down in the valley
ooooh, I am a vision
And I can see clearly

If anybody asks you who I am
Just stand up tall
Look 'em in the face and say

Chorus
I'm that star up in the sky
I'm that mountain peak up high
Hey I made it, mmmmmm
I'm the world's greatest
And I'm that little bit of hope
When my back's against the ropes
I can feel it, mmmmmm
I'm the world's greatest
(the worlds greatest, worlds greatest , for ever )

I am a giant
I am an eagle
ooh, I am a lion
Down in the jungle

I am a marchin' band
I am the people
ooh, I am a helping hand
I am a hero

If anybody asks you who I am
Just stand up tall
Look 'em in the face and say

Chorus

In the ring of life i'll rain love (i will rain)
and the world will notice a king (oooohhhhh yahhhhh)
when there is darkness i'll shine a light (shine a light)
and views of success reflect in me


Good luck.

Ivan

[KellyInAz Profile Private message]

Who hoo! A DJ in the house! That will help a lot when I'm stuck thinking of songs I used to love the chumba wumba song, but completely forgot about it. Thanks everyone for your excellent suggestions!

Kelly

[dtpitts Profile Private message]

Wow, I love the song, "the Worlds Greatest"... it fit perfectly as an intro to one of the baseball videos that I am doing! Awesome!

I agree with Kelly~way cool to have a DJ in the house!!

Thanks for your advice!

Teresa

[iromero Profile Private message]

I am glad i was able to help. I have been using PSG from about a year and recently purchased PSP. However I am not as proficient as some of the experts/artists that we have in this forum. Sometimes I feel like I am "mooching" from folks ideas here. I hope that maybe I can provide some contribution by helping out with the music....

Thanks,
Ivan

[jandipandi]

Ij've been doing sports shows for my kids team and have been have more fun with each one and the more I learn... I love taking pictures of the teams and watching them take life in the shows.... Some great Music that I like for bball are Baseball in my Blood, c'mon sonic chaos, the wav file from field of dreams, Let's get ready to rumble, I like it like that, for girls ... Hilary duff the girl can rock, girls just wanna have fun....

The last one that I did is posted below....

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 8918&alb=0

Hope it gives you some ideas
Janice

[skiyak]

For baseball, Chuck Brodsky (folk singer) has a Baseball Ballads album. They include:

1. Ballad of Eddie Klepp
2. Gone to Heaven
3. Lefty
4. Dock Ellis' No-No
5. Letters in the Dirt
6. Bonehead Merkle
7. 7th Inning Stretch
8. Moe Berg: The Song
9. The Unnatural Shooting of Eddie Waitkus
10. Whitey & Harry

Go to his website and you'll see a lyric section and some clips.

For hockey, Chuck Brodsky has:
1. Hockey Fight Song

There's probably other sports ones as well in there. I think some of these would be great for the oldtimers playing the game.

[bkraus]

Ij've been doing sports shows for my kids team and have been have more fun with each one and the more I learn... I love taking pictures of the teams and watching them take life in the shows.... Some great Music that I like for bball are Baseball in my Blood, c'mon sonic chaos, the wav file from field of dreams, Let's get ready to rumble, I like it like that, for girls ... Hilary duff the girl can rock, girls just wanna have fun....

The last one that I did is posted below....

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 8918&alb=0

Hope it gives you some ideas
Janice

Janice,

Who sings "Baseball in my Blood". It's an awesome song! Any suggestions where I can download it from?

[schiass Profile Private messageWebsite]

I love that song! Baseball in my Blood is by Erik Baulkey.

My new favorite is Stand by Rascal Flatts.

Others I have used for Baseball:
I Wanna Be a Baseball Star-Freddie Holt (off of Take Me Out to the BallGame-Cmh Records, which has some other good ones too)
Baseball-Dave Rudolf
Kenny Rogers - The Greatest
(for practice) Learning to Fly-Tom Petty
Baseball-Sam Baker
Baseball Summers-Steve Dahl
Load up the bases-Whiskey Falls
Play Ball!- Lil'Old C

[schiass Profile Private messageWebsite]

[/quote]Janice,

Who sings "Baseball in my Blood". It's an awesome song! Any suggestions where I can download it from?[/quote]

I got it from Rhapsody.

Also, the soundtrack from Everyone's Hero has some good songs on it.