Music
- Within two weeks of the 1971 skyjacking, local Washington songstress Judy Sword produced a song, "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?"
- In 1980, a California-based rock band called D.B. Cooper self-released their debut EP, Every Man A King. That same year, the group was signed to Warner Bros. Records and issued their debut album, Buy American. A second album, Dangerous Curves, followed in 1981.
- Oregon-native singer-songwriter Todd Snider wrote and performed a song about the famous mystery titled "D. B. Cooper." It appears on his CD, Happy to Be Here, released in 2000.
- Singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky has a song titled "The Ballad of D. B. Cooper" on his 2006 CD, Tulips for Lunch.
- Roger McGuinn's self-titled 1973 solo album contains the song "Bag Full of Money" referring to Cooper's hijacking.
- Indie rockers Everything is Fine feature two songs about Cooper, "Vapor Trails and Light" and "D.B. Cooper" on their 2005 album Ghosts Are Knocking on Walls on Ohio-based Tract Records.
- Rock band Senses Fail's CD, Life Is Not a Waiting Room features a song called "DB Cooper".
- Ska/Punk band Victims of Circumstance's second album Roll the Dice features a track titled "The Final Flight of D.B. Copper" that details the hijacker's infamous crime.
- Alternative rock band Streetside Symphony recorded a song about the events called "D. B. Cooper" on their album The Curse.
- Cooper is mentioned in the song "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock.
- Post-hardcore band End of a Year released a song titled "Dan Cooper" on their 2008 split 7" single with Shook Ones, released on Runner Up Records. The song's coda features the line "I want you to sit next to me," echoing Cooper's instructions to flight attendant Florence Schaffner.
- Cooper is also mentioned in the song "Hoe Cakes" by rapper MF DOOM.
- Australian deathcore band We Came From the Depths released a song titled "I Am D.B.Cooper" on their 2010 album Embracing The Abyss
- Irish rock band Kopek released a song titled "The Easy Way (D.B Cooper)" on their debut album White Collar Lies in 2010.
- Bill Mallonee's "The Ghosts that I Run With" is sung from the point of view of D. B. Cooper after years of hiding in the hills. It appears on Mallonee's 2011 release, "The Power and the Glory". (Mallonee was leader of alt-country band The Vigilantes of Love.)
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