The radio station to which I usually listen at work just played, back to back, Edwin Starr’s “War” (the lyrics of which are gullibly believed by Elaine to have been considered by Tolstoy) and Petula Clark’s “Downtown” (which provided cryptic directions for George to run an errand for the Yankees).
I always think of “Seinfeld” when I hear those songs. I thought they would surely be followed by the Eagles’s “Desperado” (which one of Elaine’s boyfriends insists is his song, not theirs). But alas, it wasn’t.
If you were assembling a “Seinfeld” playlist, what other songs mentioned or played on the show would you include? Remind us of the context in which the song appears, please.
Green Day’s “Good Ridance (The Time of Your Life).” I first heard this on Seinfeld.
“Believe it or not, George isn’t at home…”
I always associate the aria “Vesti la guibba” from the opera Pagliacci with Crazy Joe Divola crying while lifting weights in a clown costume.
“Master of the House”, from the episode with Elaine’s father.
In one episode Elaine’s boyfriend was a sax player who wrote an original instrumental inspired by her called “Hot’n’Heavy.” As I recall it we never get to here it b/c she gives him literal “performance anxiety.”
Um… obviously I meant hear it… :smack:
“Get well, get well soon, we wish you to get well . . .” 
I’d heard it before, in a Giants-produced farewell to Candlestick Park in 1999, so this song has played two significant things (to me) into the sunset.
Seinfeld went off the air after the 1997-98 season. I just saw the episode with this song and thought outloud “Green Day’s been around more than 10 years?”
The intro to the Warner Bros. cartoons, or the “Bugs Bunny song”:
Overture, curtain, lights-
[something something], we’ll hit the heights-
And oh, what heights we’ll hit,
On with the show, this is it!
(Jerry sings it to Elaine while waiting outside the theater during the aforementioned Pagliacci/Crazy Joe Divola episode.)
Also,
The music from The Barber of Seville.
Are we limited to real songs? Because I can still hear Bette Midler singing “Rochelle, Rochelle.”
That’s what I was gonna say! Also
“H E double N I G A N spells Hennigan”
and
“by MENON”
The Theme from Superman, of course! Used multiple times…
I think it’s funny that whenever someone on the show gets a new job we’re treated to a montage set to "Morning Train (9 to 5) by Sheena Easton. (Right? Sheena Easton sang that one?)
Just remembered- Crazy, by Patsy Cline. Elaine starts singing it during the ep with the woman in her office that doesn’t swing her arms when she walks.
Kramer: “C-c-c-c-c-catfight!”
“Witchy Woman.” No wait, “Witchay Woman.”
That little musical fluorish from the “Wiz” commercials.
Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough” was used in one of the clips shows and has become permanately linked to Jerry and the gang.
Also, Newman’s rendition of ONCE…TWIIIICE, THREE TIMES A LADY has ruined the song for me as anything but a gag. I always picture him catching on fire.
How about Elaine dancing to Earth, Wind & Fire’s Shining Star?
“It’s like a full-body drive heave set to music!”