Tim Rice & ABBA did Chess; Andrew Lloyd Webber & Ben Elton did football (or, as we Yanks call it, soceer) in The Beautiful Game. Check out the title song “Viva The Beautiful Game.” I first heard it during the Subway Series and did a parody “Viva The Yankees and Mets.”
How’s about anything by Fats Domino or Chubby Checker? (To tie this to the OP, the latter purposely chose his stage name to have a game it in, like the hugely successful former.)
Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name,” the opening track to the recent Bond remake “Casino Royale,” has several lyrics that are indirectly about poker, but are ambiguous enough to mean just about anything.
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Okay, maybe I have no taste, but I don’t think the song is either cheesy or kitschy.
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That makes two of us. I think the lyrics are tremendously clever faux double-entendre. The only other writers to incorporate such complex and funny plays on words were Gilbert & Sullivan.