Crockett's Theme - Other Uses

Other Uses

Between 1991 and 1994, it featured in a series of adverts for National Westminster Bank in the United Kingdom.

NBC Sports used "Crockett's Theme" during its prologue (narrated by Bob Costas) for Game 5 of their 1991 NBA Finals coverage between the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, and it's still one of the tones played in the Staples Center during Lakers games.

The song gained new fame in Finland in the late 1990s when a then popular, now defunct, radio channel, Kiss FM, started playing it on their morning shows.

The instrumental song was also featured on the 1987 Amiga game Mike the Magic Dragon, and later in 2002 on the hit PlayStation 2 Game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, on the fictional radio station, Emotion 98.3.

In 2008, a mashup version was made using Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot.

It was also included in the compilation album Pure Moods.

Hammer was asked to remake the track in 2006 with R&B singer TQ.

The Song was used in Season 3, Episode 3, for the HBO TV series Eastbound And Down.

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