Three Tune Tuesday Best Sports Music

I was in the Gym last night and I always put on the Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify and listen to a mix of old and new music. There are always around 40 songs each week and each week I add around 3 of these songs to my liked playlist. Now for some reason the Spotify gods decided to throw a few oldies at me last week but Sporty oldies. Big brother is watching. Now some of these songs had nothing to do with the said Sport at the time but the sport has taken the song and made it that sports theme tune. @talesfrmthecrypto will know what I am talking about with my first track.

Soul Limbo - Booker T and the MG's

BBC making this track the national anthem for all things cricket is a stroke of genius. The song is upbeat, summery, Caribbean, cocktails, happiness all mixed in together. It just makes you feel good. It is up there with La Bamba and those kind of songs that make you think you are in a foreign country but in reality you are on the back of a dustbin lorry collecting Mrs Ryan's black bin. This song takes you out of this world and has you in Barbados drinking out of a coconut with a straw. The lilt of songs. I looked into Booker T and he is of Glass Onion fame as well. I never knew an organ would be that trendy that two classics were made from it. He did a Tiny Desk concert and the producers were fawning all over him. The man is a legend and he tells a great story around how he started learning the organ as opposed to the piano. Here is his gig for Tiny desk. I love auld lads who still have it. He goes into the difference between a piano and an organ as well. Its riveting.

Grandstand - Keith Mainsfield.

Most of you would know this theme tune as well. It was the BBC Grandstand sports show on Saturdays on the BBC.
Again a famous show but the music is excellent. Another instrumental here with no music. I always wondered why people did not wrap this one up into a dance song. Keith Mansfield was mad for the sports teams and also did the Wimbledon theme music in the tennis and another for BBC Athletics. All good in their own right. This man was on fire. Grandstand one below.

The Chain ending - Fleetwood Mac - BBC Formula 1

I am always in awe of Tarentino films such as Pulp Fiction , Kill Bill and even Once Upon a Time in Hollywood who get the music in the film bang on. You could not get a better song to fit at that particular time. It's amazing. So whoever was at the BBC at the time and said "I know, Let's use Fleetwoods Mac The Chain and just use the end solo". It was a stroke of genius. The Chain is now linked to Formula 1 racing forever and whenever the song comes on in the car I always speed up and pretend I am Lewis Hamilton. I have nearly written the car off on many an occasion listening to the ending of this song. I wonder sometimes how many lives have been lost to this sing ending. Hundreds? Thousands? And that's only in my home town.
"What happened to him? Where's his head?"
"Still in his helmet Detective"
"Where's his helmet?"
"Up that tree a half a mile down the road?"
"He was listening to The Chain"
"That he was McGarnicle that he was."

If there is any guitarists reading this , then this is the solo you can pull even if you have sausage fingers. It is so easy it makes you sound great and give you the motivation to keep learning guitar.

And that is it for Three Tunes Bank Holiday Tuesday which is Wednesday really but it feels like Tuesday. Thanks to the Galway man @ablaze for launching to behemoth. Reminds me of Zuckerberg in Havard back in the day before he took over the world.