Song - The Race is On
Artist(s) - David Reilly
Released - 1988
Primetime Usage - 1989-90
Contained on - Bruton BR 67/BRN 19 (Success)
Featured Highlight - Bills @ Falcons, 1989I apologize for the three week delay in posts here. I ordered three FirstCom "A" discs that are not streamable on their website off eBay and my plan was to wait until I had listened to them before posting again (in case they had Primetime songs on them). I received two of them a week+ ago (FC-A35 Hip-Hop Pop and FC-A38 House Jams), but neither had any relevant tracks. Despite the fact that I ordered it from the same seller, the other (FC-A43 Action) has yet to arrive for some reason. If that has a Primetime track, I'll post it ASAP, but—for now—here's something else…
"The Race is On" is a pretty generic '80s rocker, but it's still catchy and fits football highlights well. It was composed by David Reilly, the son of famous harmonica player Tommy Reilly, and is contained on the Reilly-only Bruton album Success. I don't have much else to say about the song, but the album is a top-notch production music entry and two of its other songs were used on NFL Primetime around the same time. To explain the album numbers listed above, the "BR 67" code is for the CD version while "BRN 19" is for the vinyl version.
I don't have a particularly important highlight with this song, but at least I found one entertaining one. In 1989, the 6-2 Buffalo Bills visited Fulton County Stadium and the 2-6 perennial doormat Falcons in a potential snoozefest. Instead, what viewers got was a back-and-forth fist-clencher with a Paul McFadden 50-yard field goal sealing the upset. Unfortunately for the still-red-helmeted Falcons, though, that would be their final win of the season and Marion Campbell would lose his job 3 weeks later.
I have seen clips where they used this on the post-Super Bowl XXV "Primetime"
ReplyDeleteIf so, then that was likely the last time they ever used it.
DeleteThat was also less than a week before Pete Axthelm's death.
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