# Topic Playlist (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 365
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7281 "2026-05-15T14:33:18Z")
**Instrumental Hits (Post-1950s; no Classical, Swing, Jazz, etc.)** 1. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimted 2. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer 3. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 4. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 5. Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7282 "2026-05-15T14:38:19Z")
**Instrumental Hits (Post-1950s; no Classical, Swing, Jazz, etc.)** 1. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimted 2. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer 3. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 4. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 5. Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post 6. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Deodato ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7283 "2026-05-15T14:44:23Z")
**Instrumental Hits (Post-1950s; no Classical, Swing, Jazz, etc.)** 1. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimted 2. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer 3. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 4. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 5. Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post 6. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Deodato 7. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7284 "2026-05-15T15:35:43Z")
**Instrumental Hits (Post-1950s; no Classical, Swing, Jazz, etc.)** 1. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimted 2. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer 3. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 4. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 5. Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post 6. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Deodato 7. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson 8. Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & the Tiajuana Brass ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7285 "2026-05-15T15:59:09Z")
**Instrumental Hits (Post-1950s; no Classical, Swing, Jazz, etc.)** 1. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimted 2. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer 3. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 4. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 5. Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post 6. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Deodato 7. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson 8. Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & the Tiajuana Brass 9. Popcorn - Hot Butter ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7286 "2026-05-15T19:02:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & the Tiajuana Brass Although Herb Alpert recorded it as an instrumental, when the song was written by Julius Wechter (of _Baja Marimba Band_ fame, also an act on Herb Alpert’s A&M label), [there were, in fact, lyrics to the song](https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/pwfcoc/spanish_flea/) written by Wechter’s wife, Cissy. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7287 "2026-05-15T20:00:47Z")
**Instrumental Hits (Post-1950s; no Classical, Swing, Jazz, etc.)** 1. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimted 2. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer 3. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 4. Classical Gas - Mason Williams 5. Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post 6. Also Sprach Zarathustra - Deodato 7. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson 8. Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & the Tiajuana Brass 9. Popcorn - Hot Butter 10. Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs pass ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7288 "2026-05-15T22:10:55Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7289 "2026-05-15T22:25:12Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7290 "2026-05-15T22:33:08Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7291 "2026-05-15T23:16:15Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7292 "2026-05-16T00:28:53Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. 5. Long Train Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7293 "2026-05-16T00:51:06Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. 5. Long Train Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers 6. Eastbound And Down - Jerry Reed ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7294 "2026-05-16T00:53:41Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. 5. Long Train Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers 6. Eastbound And Down - Jerry Reed 7. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7295 "2026-05-16T04:12:14Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. 5. Long Train Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers 6. Eastbound And Down - Jerry Reed 7. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 8. Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7296 "2026-05-16T05:00:11Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. 5. Long Train Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers 6. Eastbound And Down - Jerry Reed 7. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 8. Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner 9. Truck Drivin’ Song - Weird Al Yankovic _Driving a truck with my high heels on!_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7297 "2026-05-16T06:03:44Z")
**Industrial/Transport Songs** 1. Shipping Steel - Cold Chisel 2. Convoy - C.W. McCall 3. Making Thunderbirds - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot. 5. Long Train Runnin’ - The Doobie Brothers 6. Eastbound And Down - Jerry Reed 7. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 8. Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner 9. Truck Drivin’ Song - Weird Al Yankovic 10. City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie, and others Next: **Novelty Songs** 1. They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa! - Napoleon XIV ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7298 "2026-05-16T06:14:25Z")
**Novelty Songs** 1. They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa! - Napoleon XIV 2. I’m Growing a Beard Downstairs for Christmas - Kate Miller-Heidke ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7299 "2026-05-16T06:18:51Z")
**Novelty Songs** 1. They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa! - Napoleon XIV 2. I’m Growing a Beard Downstairs for Christmas - Kate Miller-Heidke 3. Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills - Ray Stevens ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7300 "2026-05-16T11:04:37Z")
**Novelty Songs** 1. They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa! - Napoleon XIV 2. I’m Growing a Beard Downstairs for Christmas - Kate Miller-Heidke 3. Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills - Ray Stevens 4. The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun - Julie Brown [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=364) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=366)