# Identify that song: Olympic Ice Skating **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335 "2010-02-17T15:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/1 "2010-02-17T15:22:20Z")
Last night on the Olympics telecast there was a guy who was figure skating in overalls and a flannel shirt. He was skating to some harmonica-heavy 70’s southern-rock-sounding song. I recognized the song but I can’t think of what it is or who did it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/2 "2010-02-17T15:29:15Z")
Whammer Jammer by J Gelis band. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/3 "2010-02-17T15:37:03Z")
Thanks! Although I guess J. Geils Band isn’t exactly “Southern Rock”, is it? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/4 "2010-02-17T15:52:22Z")
J Geils, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix; all a nice departure from the more traditional selections. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/5 "2010-02-18T06:15:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Last night on the Olympics telecast there was a guy who was figure skating in overalls and a flannel shirt. He was skating to some harmonica-heavy 70’s southern-rock-sounding song. I recognized the song but I can’t think of what it is or who did it. > [@lieu](#): > > Whammer Jammer by J Gelis band. No sh\*t? That’s frakking awesome. Anybody got a link to a video? J Geils Band’s “Full House” is one of the greatest albums of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/6 "2010-02-18T07:25:08Z")
Supposedly it’s here [http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=4d348c8b-5ef7-4990-9b8c-6cc8abb8e450.html?\_\_source=rss&cid=#](http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=4d348c8b-5ef7-4990-9b8c-6cc8abb8e450.html?__source=rss&cid=#) But after installing Silverlight \ it still won’t play. Microsoft really annoys me sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/7 "2010-02-20T06:59:32Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Supposedly it’s here [http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=4d348c8b-5ef7-4990-9b8c-6cc8abb8e450.html?\_\_source=rss&cid=#](http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=4d348c8b-5ef7-4990-9b8c-6cc8abb8e450.html?__source=rss&cid=#) > > But after installing Silverlight \ it still won’t play. > Microsoft really annoys me sometimes. I found it, too. But I can’t get it to play. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/8 "2010-02-20T18:39:36Z")
worked for me ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/9 "2010-02-21T02:46:07Z")
Hmm, after messing around with it all afternoon, it plays for me. My link is different, I think: [http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=4d348c8b-5ef7-4990-9b8c-6cc8abb8e450.html](http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=4d348c8b-5ef7-4990-9b8c-6cc8abb8e450.html) ETA: BTW, when I Google searched for it, I discovered that the harmonica boards are all over the story. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-that-song-olympic-ice-skating/529335/10 "2010-02-21T19:36:59Z")
I couldn’t get **Taomist** ’s link to play either, but **Oslo Ostragoth** ’s worked for me. I only saw the tail-end of that routine when flipping through the channels the other night after “LOST” was over, so it was nice to see the whole thing.