WCCW alumnus Dan Bynum lately recalled how The Freebirds’ iconic “Badstreet USA” theme track took place. The theme track modified the way in which that the wrestling trade handled entrance music, and on Bynum — who served as TV director for the promotion — appeared on The Insiders with Conrad Thompson the place he talked about how the group’s entrance theme took place.
“Right here we’re, we’ve acquired the most popular present on tv, and we’re utilizing music as entrance music, which is one thing we had been sort of on the forefront of as effectively,” Bynum mentioned (per Wrestling Inc). “So we used rock music, new “Tom Sawyer” for Terry and and so forth, and so forth. However there was a man in Texas who was taking footage of wrestling, however in actuality, he was a composer and a music producer. His title was Jimmy Poppa. And he turned mates with Michael Hayes and gave him the concept of a customized entrance track.”
Bynum continued, “And so he and Michael wrote the track, ‘Badstreet USA.’ And Jimmy produced it, and we began enjoying it as their entrance music. And it acquired over big. It was an enormous hit.”