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  • Back in the day when wrestling was great! I wish they would come full circle and reflect them days of the 80s! Better story lines and lots more action then todays wrestling!!

  • 'Sweet Stan' and 'Beautiful Bobby' were a great tag team, back then tag team wrestling was awesome...great tune

  • this a good theme, it is all so used for the late night radio show Coast to Coast Am as their intro song.

  • @suspiriafanargento19 what about the Hart Foundation?

  • this in tha' day was da' shyt!!! mid night experss, rock&roll express, road warriors,fabulous Free birds, Steiner brothers,RIP von Erichs, dam!!! jim coronet, jj dillon, 4-horse-man!!! brings tears to my eyes that the Era of top notch talent/tag teams like that are over...

  • @KINGDADDYxxx Yeah I remember watching NWA as a child and they just wrestled and didn't try to dramatize it like it is today.

  • yeah boy!!!! the best tag team in history along with halem heat and public enemy

  • this is such 80's music, love it

  • The Chase/Midnight Express theme is used for the intro to the Coast to Coast Am night time radio show. it's been used since the start of Coast To Coast am.

  • Thanks for claearifing, good stuff miss this old stuff, and cornette needs to be on tv again.

  • I though Dennis coundry was part of the original Midnight Express? Back in the old Crockett days of the NWA.

  • @darkwlf151: He was. Condrey disappeared without letting Corny, Eaton or anyone else know. He showed up in the AWA with Randy Rose as the Midnight Express as members of the Dangerous Alliance with Paul E. Dangerously and "Adorable" Adrian Adonis. Paul E., Condrey and Rose showed up in the NWA in late 1988.

  • I only came here to see how bad the Wrestling version of this tune was while searching for the ACTUAL Midnight Express Chase Theme - I'm actually pleasantly surprised how good it sounds. Thanks for the upload :)

  • Beautiful Bobby and Sweet Stan .............THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS!!

    0:35 brings back great memories.

  • I feel sorry for people who are wrestling fans now, who are forces to have all that Cena and Batista shit... If you wernt a fan in the 80's then you missed out on something that was amazing

  • @UltimateSenshi no doubt!

  • 80's theme music > everything

  • I had the privilege of seeing this team in person many times when they were feuding with the Rock-N-Roll Express in the old Mid-South territory.

  • Bloody brilliant. What a great post.

  • If this replaced "Hail to the Chief", our country would be a lot more intimidating.

  • The Road Warriors The Midnight Express The Steiner Brothers The British Bulldogs Arn anderson & Tully Blanchard The Hart Foundation Demolition The Rock N Roll Express The Freebirds The Nasty Boys The Samoan Swat Team
  • JC is the greatest wrestling icon of all time.

  • Double Goozle!!!

  • NICE!!!

  • wow back when wrestling was GOOD. now we get a bunch of no talent hacks who dont know a wrist lock from a wrist watch.

  • I miss the 80's along with it's amazing wrestling everywhere at the time.

  • One of the BEST to ever to have done it! & Also one of the BEST Wrestling Entrance Songs EVER!

  • Why were there so many "express" teams in the 80's?

    Great theme, anyway.

  • i wish i can download this theme one of my vas

  • Awesome!!

  • Fuck yeah love it

  • Yes...this may just be the greatest theme ever.

  • GREATEST WRESTLING THEME OF ALL TIME

  • Dammm wish I could have that entrance theme for a ringtone on my cel phone

  • Jim Cornette must really love Coast to Coast AM.

  • One of the most underateted teams in history, better then any tag team going today hands down!

  • Them holding both the NWA World and U.S. tag team titles belts alone in this pic make them instant Hall of Famers in my book!

  • the tag team division will never be the same

  • WWE HALL OF FAMERS...EITHER 2012,2013 &/OR ASAP...

  • @jerzeefranky3475 I agree but wwe haters and probably wont give them that honer for a while

  • I forgot why did they stop?

  • @Interscope100 After appearing at Halloween Havoc 1990, the Midnight Express split up when Jim Cornette and Stan Lane left the WCW, due to conflicts with Jim Herd and booker Ole Anderson. Bobby Eaton decided to stay with company. Jim Cornette then opened Smokey Mountain Wrestling and Stan Lane teamed up with Tom Prichard as the Heavenly Bodies.

  • This is my midnight express.

  • Not to mention that if you look at the suggested videos, there's about a dozen other MXP videos with the theme.

  • @DIESEL0759 You only half right - this is not the Midnight Express theme recorded by Georgio Morodor for the film - it's a great knockoff though, really brings back memories.

  • Not so rare. I found it years ago. It's a movie theme. I discovered it that way. You want rare, try finding the Rock n' Roll Express theme.

  • Awesome tag team.... they gave the Rock n Roll Express hell in the wrestling business

  • @Ricardosauve yea that gimmick with regal sucked ass. : P

  • THIS THEME IS KICK ASS!! DIDNT LIKE BOBBY EATONS SHTIT AS THE EARL OF EATON THOUGH!!! : D

  • I wonder what WWF would have done with the Midnights.

  • @kevin1278 The Midnights would have been JTTSes in the WWF. WWF would have misused them.

  • @barrybear2011 ~You're right.

  • Alabama Jam!!

  • The Midnites were rad, though they looked like total 'mos they still were great workers.

  • probably the most under-rated tag team ever. had they been in WCW when it was getting major exposure in the 90's or in WWE, it might not have been that way.

  • @KEV8551 Under-rated? They were quite sucessful as a tag-team. Particularly when they defeated the 4 Horsemen for the world tag-team titles.

  • @azariah15 under-rated = all talk of greatest tag teams start with LOD ( true ), Steiners ( arugable ) R&R (Rolling stones longevity award ), Hart Foundation ( good but most over-rated )...then they'll throw in the Horsemen, Briscoes, and a few others from the 60's and 70's, just to round it out. the '80's - '90's were the Golden Age of tag teams, and the Midnight Express was a big part of that.

    and they're rewarded by rarely being mentioned.

    under-rated.

  • @KEV8551 ~The Midnights and the Samoan Swat Team belong in the Top 10 of REAL tag teams.

  • @kevin1278 the SST's were really good too...i loved it when they used the "halloween theme" as their entrance music.

    good job mentioning them.

  • Thumbs up if you think Dennis Condrey should have been in the picture with Beautiful Bobby!

  • 8 people deserve the Veg-O-Matic !

  • a great theme and an even better tag team.

  • @Lfdjake91 ...The BEST theme!

  • back when tag teams meant something to wrestling. never again will there be teams like Midnight Express, demolition, rougeou brothers, rock n roll express, doom, skyscrapers the list goes on and on. this was the best time to be a wrestling fan as i think the best era was 1988 to 1994 and that is counting both wcw/nwa and wwf.

  • @suspiriafanargento19

    Don't forget the Ding Dongs.

  • @suspiriafanargento19 Man you said It I remember when we watched the Road Warriors take on the Steiner Bros I didn't know what to think it was like Superman vs Superman!

  • @suspiriafanargento19 Demolition were a cheap knock off of the Legion of Doom...

  • Sweet Bad ass entrance music.

  • Man this is great Beautifull bobby eaton and sweet stan lane byfar the greatest tag team of the 80'S man this is what true wrestling was like back in the day great video but even better tag team.

  • This was also ICW's opening theme for their show.

  • Beautiful Bobby?Gimme a break he was and still is so ugly and never saw a gym in his life Jim Cornette was in better shape than him.Had no mic skills most overated wrestler of all time!

  • @49ers545 who cares about his looks....what?! This guy was a hell of a wrestler, don't know what you were watching.....Midnight Express....AWESOME!

  • They ARE tag team wrestling!

  • BEST TAG TEAM EVER

    Lets Get Jim CORNETTE out here

    best wrestling time ever

    1.4 horseman

    2.warriors

    3.bobby n stan

    4.ricky n robert

  • still a good song....r & r express are still cool too

  • If I remember correctly, the original chase theme was used at one point. I assume there was some copyright issues that forced the NWA to use a faux version of it. But this version of the song was still very good. One of my favorite tag teams of all-time!

  • @TravJam317 you know, actually I think that they used the original AFTER this version. I think they had the money to actually purchase the rights when the NWA became the WCW to the original. I say this because I heard this version on the Starcade 88 ppv, but on capitol combat 90 its the original version.

  • Who are the 8 people who disliked this?

  • @ElNeilo Probably Ricky Morton, Robert Gibson and six other members of their immediate family lol.

  • @ElNeilo It must be new Generation Marks who been watching wresting in 2009. I know about Tradition and it was in the Form of National Wrestling Alliance. "Tradition Never Dies."

  • @StanKingston420 tradition never dies but the nwa is close lol

  • ha i love it how they change Moroder's song by a coupla notes to get around copyright. so cheesy.

  • Butiful bobby is one of the midnight Express wrestlers and i work with his son here in texas I get to hang out with him at his place but me my self am a wrestler as well

  • @MRPaulevens and i wish you the best of luck

  • this was not the original theme. the original was performed by a musician named georgio mirauder. the above picture is not even the original members. on the right is beautiful bobby eaton. on the lft i have no idea, but its not loverboy dennis condry

  • @MrMonti1492 the one on the left is Sweet Stan and this is the best version of the team. But condrey was good too.

  • Bodacouse Bart and Bombastic Bob!!!!!!!!!!

  • Thank You Jim Cornette for releasing the song, I really enjoy the wrestling themes, and of course, Pro Wrestling. W.O.N.

  • One of my 80's dream matches would have pitted the Midnight Express & the Hart Foundation vs. the British Bulldogs and Rock N' Roll Express in an 8-man elimination tag. I could only imagine the all sorts of awesome that match would be!

  • @reidkhnl What about Jimmy Hart vs. Jim Cornette? That would have been gold too!

  • The Alabama Jam!!! '  'nuf said!!

  • @dclive2000 Tower of London?! lol

  • This theme makes me want to have sex for some odd reason.....

  • They had Rocket launcher, flapjack, divorce court (nasty arm breaker-done to Ricky Morton on the arena floor when Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson won the tag titles after the Midnights interferred), double goozle and so many more. Jim Cornette was the best manager back then. I agree though I would have loved to see the Midnight Express vs The Hart Foundation.

  • They had Rocket launcher, flapjack, divorce court (nasty arm breaker-done to Ricky Morton on the arena floor when Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson won the tag titles after the Midnights interferred), double goozle and so many more. Jim Cornette was the best manager back then. I agree though I would have loved to see the Midnight Express vs The Hart Foundation.

  • @3714844 and don't forget the Veg-O-Matic.

    One of the most devastating tag team maneuver of all time !

  • @3714844 Here a match I would to see. The Midnight Express VS.The Eliminators!!!

  • @3714844

    Midnights vs. The Harts? Brilliant. That would have been stellar.

  • @3714844 Midnight Express vs High Energy. That woulda been awesome. Koko B. Ware vs Bobby Eaton would've blown the roof off the Dallas Sportatorium.

  • love this version from the old n.w.a.

    i would really like if you could e-mail me the mp3 or preferred wav file!

    thank you in advance

    djmikeg01@yahoo.com

  • LOVE THIS SONG. I HATE IT ISN'T ON THE WCW DVD'S OR SHOWS THE WWE DO.

  • great film midnight express.

    as for wrestling? any adult paying to watch this rehearsed nonsense, without a child in tow, should be arrested an detained in an asylum.

  • @MrDingaloo Damn what's with the pro wrestling hate? As long as the reason for hating it isn't because it's "rehearsed". You one of those wrestling is fake guys huh? No way!!

  • The Tag Team that got me into pro wrestling in the first place....I always thank them for putting on such awesome matches, and for making a fan out of me. Midnight Express rocks....

  • The only team ever to hold the U.S. Tag Team titles and World Tag Team titles at the same time!

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  • legendary theme.

  • HOF for 2011

  • Bobby Eaton was the most technically skilled wrestler ever. I remembered back in NWA days (either 89 or 90) after Bobby was attacked by the 4 Horsemen, he got a black eye; came out on a interview with Gordon Solie, he was so pissied he took it out on the opponents in the upcoming match (a real shoot). During that match I've never seen any wrestler executed with more perfection & precision than B. Eaton, he finished match in little over a minute, I only wish someone has a tape of that match!

  • @hsulawrence Are u being serious? How was he taking it out on them? Was he just hitting moves and shit harder/rougher?  Is this a known incident or is this just what you remember/believe to be true. Not being sarcastic, just wondering. I def do remember when he got jumped by the horsemen. Awesome shit back then. Loved watching NWA.

  • Saw Bobby Eaton in a Service Merchandise parking lot back in 1989 in Pineville North Carolina. He was going in the store.

  • @southport97 OK

  • Best tag team ever!!! Thanks for posting this version of the theme song...

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  • Worked with Bobby Eaton last night in Harrison, Ar and got the chills when they played this as he accepted his life time achievement award....Only thing better was when i worked him in the Battle Royal...

  • Sounds like a theme song from an early 80's Disney Channel show.

  • Just a little trivia Sweet Stan and Beautiful Bobby were not the original Midnight Express. The original MX were Randy Rose and Dennis Condrey.

  • @bamasaintsteve Yeah and then they actually became a "stable" ala the Freebirds with the addition of Norvell Austin in '81. When they won the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles, they invoked the "Freebird" rule which allowed any combination of two men from the MX to defend the titles on any night. The idea was that their opponents would never know who they were going up against and if one of the MX got hurt the other one could wrestle.

    My favorite version is still Condrey and Eaton though.

  • @bamasaintsteve True. Remember when Paul E. Dangerously and the "original" midnight express came to NWA and feuded with Cornett's MX?

  • @bamasaintsteve Do you remember the names of any of their double team moves? Or the finisher Sweet Stan and Bobby did together that was the shit?

  • @mbranco24 the rocket launcher, the vego-matic, the double oozle

  • @tdmoses73 Nice!!!

  • this is the team that made me wanna watch tag team. They developed moves that alot tag teams didnt offer in the ring. No wonder they held the belts for as long as they did!!!! MIDNIGHT EXPRESS........Greatest Tag Team IN HISTORY!!!!!

  • I grew up in the 70's and 80's. While others were going gaga over the Rock n Roll Express and Fantastics, the Express were kicking ass. You know for supposed bad guys a lot of fans sure loved them. Go back and see some of the pops they get compared to the faces.

  • this is a different version thn Giorgio, which version is this?

  • @PatiAmor1 This was a remix after WCW severed ties with the NWA and became more mainstream. They lost the rights to use the Moroder version because of it

  • @WorldOfDorkCraft Thanks, I was wondering. My older brother didn't even remember this version, just the original. I only remembered this version because I'm younger I guess. Funny. Thanks again for clearing that up.

  • they retired them in 1992 dick slater a the barbarian were the last team to wear the us tag team titles

  • This was before they used the actual Giorgio Moroder version

  • @rufus317 i like this version a lot better though, sweet stan and beautiful bobby was the shit!

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  • Picture Randy Orton doing the bird man strut to this insaine music

  • What ever happened to the U.S. Tag Titles?? When WCW had them...it was almost a rule to get a shot at the world title to have had THIS title!

  • @10soarxo There is no need for anything besides the world tag titles anymore. Wouldn't have anything to do with the extra belts! Tag team division/Real tag teams like MX are nearly non existent. One of the coolest thing about TNA right now is that they are at least trying to have a tag team div. Beer Money is tight. I'm not a fan of them but the MC Machine Guns are real good wrestlers. They still have a long way to go to get to the glory days of tag team wrestling though haha.

  • @mbranco24 - You bet!!! at least TNA isnt about BS...WWF has lost its luster in my eyes & they have handled some of their best talent all wrong! I applaud Steve "Sting" Borden for taking a stand like other talented artists for not going there no matter what they were asking. As for talent coming over from WWE ent....just watch their stock trully rise. The last match in TNA for the world title between Sting & Kurt Angle.......EPIC!!!!

  • @10soarxo U r correct on all accounts my man. I still believe TNA has to step it up quit a bit though to even come close to competing with WWE. Do you know who Kevin Eck is? I think thats how he spells his last name. Anyways, he writes for the Baltimore Sun paper about pro wrestling. I just heard he just got a job working side by side with HHH and is now in charge of recruiting talent or something like that. It was stated that he and HHH want to bring back tag teams.

  • @10soarxo He has always been a HUGE Beer Money fan so who knows. Maybe he could work some magic and bring Beer Money to WWE. I'd just like to see them get a chance on a big stage so the casual wrestling fan could get to see them. Not to mention I don't think they get enough air time on Impact but if I were in charge half of TNA impact would be Beer Money. I'm a mark for great tag teams as i'm sure u can tell.

  • I feel like a midnight drive in an 86 Nissan Z down the streets of Atlanta.

  • THANK YOU

    I have been looking for this for YEARS

  • the radio show coast to coast am with george norrey uses their original theme. (the one this was based on). i dont know who did it. i wanna say allen parsons, but not real sure about that.

  • This theme makes me want to make a porno.

  • @aberod11 you gotta have sex for the 1st time first ?

  • This theme is cool and all, but it's a ploy off of the original version of "The Chase" - this isn't the actual theme from "The Chase".

    Similar to how TNA does ploys off of actual songs (Kurt Angle's theme off of "Lunatic Fringe", Traci's off of "Love In An Elevator", and Daniels' off of "Beautiful People")

    But props for this version!

  • HOly Lou Thesz doing a Hurricanrana.... it's the REAL NWA Midnight Express theme. O_O And not the regular Gergio Moroder version.

    WOW! O_O!!

  • Either they were forced to stop using the theme from the movie or decided to stop paying for the fee to use it.

  • BEST. TAG TEAM. EVER

  • @halleberrybabydaddy Guess U missed it when the Road Warriors destroyed them in taking their tag title.

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  • @halleberrybabydaddy NO. That would be the Road Warriors... But the Midnight Express as a package with Cornette were not far behind...I thoroughly enjoyed booing them whenever they wrestled in Baltimore back in the 80s...

  • this is the greatest entrance theme of all time!

  • Man .....endearing memories!!

  • This is not rare. Its on a CD avalible to buy...

  • @07MancUK Do you know the name of the CD by any chance?

  • @IrishKyokushin Midnight Express - Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  • @07MancUK Thanks 07MancUK.

  • I remember this theme song as a little kid.....this reminds me when wrestling WAS wrestling. Especially tag team wrestling, which is sadly a lost art form today.

  • LEG DROP!!!

  • Used to love the royalty free synthesized porno music the NWA had for entrances. 

  • I thing if the Midnight Express were to become part of a foursome team then the additions would be DOUBLE A Arn Anderson along with none other than the Nature Boy Ric Flair. An ideal manager for such a team would be none other than James E Cornette or the one and only The Million Doller man. Ted Dibiase.

    Any views guys?

  • @ulhaqinator Couldn't have put it better.

  • what a tune this has to be one of the greatest theme tunes of all time and what a tag team one of the greatest tag team of all time and they were good looking too

  • You may have never like this team but you have to agree theirs never been an intro as a good as this one.

  • question... who composed / arranged this remix... i know Giorgio Moroder did the ORIGINAL "Chase" theme...

  • @blozier2006 YES SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER THIS. THIS VERSION IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL GIORGIO MORODER "CHASE" THEME.

  • @randycolvin This soundtrack is similar to Giorgio Moroder's version of the Midnight Express just some of the notes played are in a different order or altered slightly. If you take Nirvana's smells like teen spirit and Diamond Dallas Page's WCW theme or Raven's WCW theme and another Nirvana track Come as you are, they sound similar but to the trained ear it is slightly different. Ravens TNA version of this theme has the intro part of this tune but then breaks out of it

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  • When he was in TNA Christian Cage used evanessence tune My last breath. Most of the theme tunes that sound similar to the original is so that it is not directly infringing copyright, they probably have permission to use it as long as it is not the original theme.

  • Sorry but Bobby Eaton is anything but beautiful.

  • I want this as my a ring tone for my phone, where can i get it at? anyone know? BTW IMO they was in the top 3 ever of best tag teams. but thats my opinion, then again with James E. Cornette as your manager, how can you go wrong, swing batter batter swinggggggg, there goes another racket lol

  • @bigc1966 He had cool racket covers too haha remember!!

  • thanxs aul106, ive been trying to find this for months. 

  • Whether face or heel the Express was the best. I first watched them in Mid-South Wrestling then WCCW. Bobby perhaps had no equal at being a tag specialist. I remember when the Express took the tag titles from the Horsemen Anderson and Blanchard. That was a classic matchup.

  • Midnight Express was one of the dopest tag teams ever! That entrance theme used to have me pumped! I would've gave anything to see a Midnight Express vs. Hart Foundation match!

  • your right best ever

  • @dojoterebi they were tag team specialists.

  • @dojoterebi - Yo that would be an awsome throwback 80's match.

  • @dojoterebi Me too man. one of the few dream matches that we will never get to see.

  • The George Miroder version is way better. Coast to coast baby

  • " And now, laaaaadies aaaaaannnddd geeeeenntlemen!!!!!!". Always started with that. classic entrance by "Sweet" Stan Lane! The best tag team ever.

  • who does this song