The Wrestling Album - Track Listing

Track Listing

1. The Wrestlers - "Land of a Thousand Dances".
   • A music video for this song was made featuring Derringer, Meat Loaf, and Cyndi Lauper (wearing a brunette wig and shades) playing while the WWF members sing the song en masse.
2. Junkyard Dog - "Grab Them Cakes"
   • Disco singer Vicki Sue Robinson is a guest vocalist.
3. Rick Derringer - "Real American"
   • This was originally intended to be the theme song of the tag team of Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo, known collectively as the US Express, and on the album Vince McMahon says the song is dedicated to Windham and Rotundo. However, shortly after the album's release, Windham and Rotundo left for the National Wrestling Alliance. "Real American" became much better known as the theme song for Hulk Hogan, and it remains associated with him to this day.
4. Jimmy Hart - "Eat Your Heart Out, Rick Springfield"
5. "Captain" Lou Albano and George "The Animal" Steele - "Captain Lou's History of Music/Captain Lou"
   • "Captain Lou" is a cover of a song originally recorded by NRBQ; Albano made an appearance on the original recording and was credited with playing all of the instruments on this track. However, he is actually heard playing the main leitmotif from Grieg's "Morning" (from Peer Gynt Suite) on the "History of Music" portion of the song.
6. WWF All-Stars - "Hulk Hogan's Theme"
   • This served as the theme song for the television series Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling and was also briefly Hogan's entrance theme in late 1985. It also surface two years later with a different melody as "Ravishing" - a song on the Bonnie Tyler album, "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire."
7. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper - "For Everybody"
   • The song is a cover of Mike Angelo & The Idols' "Fuck Everybody," released by Atlanta's Hottrax Records in 1985. The Piper version includes Rick Derringer on guitars and bass along with the Tower of Power horns. Cyndi Lauper sings in the background. However, WWF would not allow any profanity, which included the refrain "kiss my ass," which was changed to "kiss my trash."
8. "Mean" Gene Okerlund - "Tutti Frutti"
   • A different version of the recording was used as Okerlund's entrance theme during the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001.
9. Hillbilly Jim - "Don't Go Messin' with a Country Boy"
   • Since 2005, this has served as the theme song for "Hillbilly Jim's Moonshine Matinee," a weekly program on Sirius Satellite Radio's Outlaw Country channel 63.
10. Nikolai Volkoff - "Cara Mia"
    • Volkoff intentionally ruins the end of the song, denouncing Western music before proceeding to sing the Soviet National Anthem. Okerlund and McMahon promptly turn off Volkoff's microphone and declare the whole album a disaster. Ventura, in an attempt to salvage the recording, tells Okerlund and McMahon that the three of them should sing a duet to end the album; they respond by leaving him in the studio.