It all happened the year the title track on Gangsta’s Paradise relished its share of accolades and received the Weird Al Yankovic treatment. It was the seventh track on Gangsta’s Paradise, which hit music stories November 7, 1995.Īnd then, as the fourth overall (third musical) track, it constituted the sophomore Jock Jams’ clear cleanup hit.ĮSPN released “1, 2, 3, 4” on Volume 2 four days after Nickelodeon premiered Kenan & Kel, with Coolio going onscreen to perform the theme. His “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” was released as a single on February 13, 1996.
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Together they typified the series’ tendency toward contemporary niche sports-DJ favorites and one or two token oldies per album.īut the series did not get much more mainstream or current than it did with Coolio. The other Volume 2 artists who either returned from Volume 1 or came back for Volume 3 or 4 were Black Box, Amber, Reel 2 Real, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Village People. SportsCenter’s “Big Show” is as strictly embedded in the ’90s as, say, the Prevue Channel.
They sandwiched that with “Get Ready For This” - blended with boxing emcee Michael Buffer’s timeless trademark catchphrase - and “Tribal Dance” - remixed to feature another well-beyond-the-’90s ESPN personality in Dick Vitale. “No Limit” was the Dutch duo’s second of four straight leadoff songs on Jock Jams. The epitome was 2 Unlimited, whose “No Limit” followed the introductory mashup of “Welcome to the Big Show” and Chris Berman’s “He could! Go! All! The! Way!” call (which he kept delivering on the network deep into this century). Jock Jams had its mainstay contributors whose output was most synonymous with sporting events and dance parties. Nowhere else do Coolio or “Macarena” appear in the Jock series, and no time else comes to mind when you introduce those names in a game of word association. The album’s actual musical lineup reflects that point. That was the point where the ’90s were seasoned and wise yet still had a dependable stock of steam. Beyond that, as it relates to this debate, it benefited in general from coming out in 1996. With Jock Jams Volume 2 hitting shelves 25 years ago today, it unwittingly incorporated the series distributor’s most famed era-specific phrase before it was too late. The ’90s were coming into their own when The Big Show took shape, and society and culture were already unduly hastening the decade’s exit when the titanic tag team broke up. Such installments ran from 1992 to 1997, when Olbermann unceremoniously left ESPN. The first five words of Volume 2, which precede a quick rendition of the SportsCenter theme hook, are synonymous with the highlight show’s Dan Patrick-Keith Olbermann episodes. It is the retroactive race to make oneself the answer when we ask which of these game-day music compilations packed the greatest volume and quality of items entrenched in their time.Īmong the in-house input from ESPN, which oversaw all but one of the five Jock Jams and three Jock Rock albums, nothing matches “Welcome to The Big Show” as a ’90s-and-only-’90s drop. The game in question is a bid for the distinction of the Jock series’ “most ’90s” edition.
The spoken introductory track on Jock Jams Volume 2 is the classic opening play that does not clinch a game but puts an assertive team on a permanent pace to victory.
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