Songs that make you think about pool

3andstop

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I don't know if this was done before, but I thought this might be interesting to fool around with. What songs make you think about pool. It would be nice to put a playlist of songs together and play it while playing pool.

While songs with pool mention or pool connotations in the lyrics are great choices, even if it's something else that is relative to pool in some personal way is ok too if you include the story to share.

For example, 30 years ago or so I visited a pool room up on the second floor over a bowling alley. The guy who ran the place as manager loved straight pool. During the day when I was able to visit the room, it was dead, and we would play straight pool all afternoon. He would play the following song over and over. He has since passed away, but that song instantly brings him to mind and the great games we played. He became a very good friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Xs1M7-nsg


Here are a few others that remind me of pool.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL733e8-VZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUODdPpnxcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkIEDi2x0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bOsdHckhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TpfK-4gS08
 
Runner

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Pool music

Rod Stewart - "Maggie May"
"Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool"

Bob Seger - "Main Street"
"The pool halls, the hustlers, and the losers, use to watch 'em through the glass.."

Of course all the Color Of Money stuff... and for some reason "Take Five" by Dave Brubek makes me think of late night nine ball...:cool:
 
GoldCrown

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I'm a loser. Beatles.....oops wrong song

You're a winner..... Curt Mayfield/Impressions
 
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I remember "One Night in Bangkok" being played over and over on the jukeboxes during the weekend of my first SD State 8 ball tournament. It always takes me back to Pierre SD in 1984.

The song has nothing to do with pool in the lyrics.


And of course:

Schoolhouse Rock's "Naughty Number Nine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt0Frq6bhNQ
 
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macguy

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3andstop said:
I don't know if this was done before, but I thought this might be interesting to fool around with. What songs make you think about pool. It would be nice to put a playlist of songs together and play it while playing pool.

While songs with pool mention or pool connotations in the lyrics are great choices, even if it's something else that is relative to pool in some personal way is ok too if you include the story to share.

For example, 30 years ago or so I visited a pool room up on the second floor over a bowling alley. The guy who ran the place as manager loved straight pool. During the day when I was able to visit the room, it was dead, and we would play straight pool all afternoon. He would play the following song over and over. He has since passed away, but that song instantly brings him to mind and the great games we played. He became a very good friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Xs1M7-nsg


Here are a few others that remind me of pool.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL733e8-VZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUODdPpnxcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkIEDi2x0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bOsdHckhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TpfK-4gS08
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Not really songs that have anything to do with pool, but songs that were out at a certain time when I was playing or hanging around a certain place. I remember playing "California Jack" in a place and the song "Year of the Cat" was on the juke box. It played almost non stop. When ever I hear it now that night comes back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFyMIME23M

Freddy the Beard liked "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and would play it over and over. I always think of the early 1970's and Freddy and that pool room when I hear BBLB. Freddy also hung with a guy who was as bad as Leroy Brown called Sugar Shack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPRm5UMe1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvYSZNyo8M
 
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Cardigan Kid

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Badbeat13 said:
Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon, because
of ' The Color of Money'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
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That was the brilliance of that movie, on how it time stamped songs with pool in the mind so now every time it's heard, you think of pool.

Another one was Phil Collin's "one more night" which was edited and played so perfectly in the background at the beginning of Color of Money, when Vincent was running out his last rack on John Turrturo's Julian character.

I absolutely loved how that scene played, and everytime I hear that song it reminds me of pool....just as much as werewolves of London.
 
RFranklin

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Jukebox

I think of pool when I hear a couple of the mainstays in the Jukebox from Eric's in Austin from back in the day. Bobby McGee, Family Tradition, Flat Top Box and one of the more strange selections Flame Thrower by J Giels. Good times.
 
Awizzzy

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For Me, The color of Money Soundtrack, anything Tom Petty or Bob Seger. :grin::grin:
 
dchan320

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One that stuck with me due to an annoying buddy back in college was a holiday song, "Do you hear what I hear?" You know... "Said the night wind to the little lamb, 'Do you see what I see?'"

So picture a bunch of us playing a 9ball ring game. My one friend whenever he had a chance to go at a non-obvious 5ball or 9ball combo, he'll start singing loudly "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?" to the melody of this Christmas song. Needless to say, when I hear that song now 20 years later, I'm thinking about pool.

-Doug
 
hang-the-9

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I can't say that I listen to it while playing, but in the room I started to play in, one of the guys that worked there would play the Color Of Money soundtrack pretty much non-stop. I'm sure that happened in every single room in the country during that era. If not the people playing, the people coming in that saw the movie.

Those songs and the smell of talc pretty much brings me back to those late 80's early 90s days.
 
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When I was, a little bitty boy
My Grandma bought me a cute little toy.
Silver bells hangin', on a string
.....
 
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