# Songs on "Seinfeld" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539 "2006-04-13T16:16:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/1 "2006-04-13T16:16:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/2 "2006-04-13T16:24:16Z")
Green Day’s “Good Ridance (The Time of Your Life).” I first heard this on Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/3 "2006-04-13T16:26:30Z")
“Believe it or not, George isn’t at home…” ---
**Author:** ![Procyon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@Procyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procyon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/4 "2006-04-13T16:36:41Z")
I always associate the aria “_Vesti la guibba_” from the opera _Pagliacci_ with Crazy Joe Divola crying while lifting weights in a clown costume. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/5 "2006-04-13T16:43:22Z")
“Master of the House”, from the episode with Elaine’s father. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/6 "2006-04-13T16:48:46Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/7 "2006-04-13T16:50:07Z")
Um… obviously I meant _hear_ it… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/8 "2006-04-13T16:54:23Z")
“Get well, get well soon, we wish you to get well . . .” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/9 "2006-04-13T17:15:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Green Day’s “Good Ridance (The Time of Your Life).” I first heard this on Seinfeld. 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. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/10 "2006-04-13T17:23:13Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > 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?” ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/11 "2006-04-13T17:25:16Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/12 "2006-04-13T17:32:11Z")
Are we limited to real songs? Because I can still hear Bette Midler singing “Rochelle, Rochelle.” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/13 "2006-04-13T17:47:41Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > 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” ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/14 "2006-04-13T18:17:11Z")
The Theme from _Superman_, of course! Used multiple times… ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/15 "2006-04-13T18:49:49Z")
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?) ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/16 "2006-04-13T19:06:48Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/17 "2006-04-13T19:19:36Z")
“Witchy Woman.” No wait, “Witchay Woman.” That little musical fluorish from the “Wiz” commercials. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/18 "2006-04-13T19:21:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/19 "2006-04-13T19:21:33Z")
How about Elaine dancing to Earth, Wind & Fire’s **Shining Star**? “It’s like a full-body drive heave set to music!” ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/20 "2006-04-13T19:23:28Z")
Dry heave, even. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539.md?page=2)