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Trader, Speculator, Bucketeer

Aug 15, 2020, 5 tweets

The background music from 1980's MLB/NFL/NBA films is candy to my brain. Very proud of these finds...

(1) Michael Jordan -- Come Fly With Me:



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(2) Baseball The Pete Rose Way:



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And also this second version:

(3) ACC Basketball Intro (I remember hearing it on NFL films):



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Turns out that many of the majestic background music scores from sports intros and highlight films in the late 1970's and 1980's came from a single production group named "Network Music Ensemble" with a lead composer named Craig Palmer. Their music is everywhere in that era.

This one is already well known, but worth adding...

(4) This Week in Baseball:



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