Jimmy Hart: Warner Bros. Discovery Still Owns Over 100 WCW Songs
Jimmy Hart was responsible for many WCW songs and themes
Aug 11, 2022
One of the most legendary managers in pro-wrestling history, and also the brains behind many classic theme songs, Jimmy Hart has seen and done it all in the wrestling business.
However, ‘The Mouth of the South’ revealed to Fightful that Warner Bros. Discovery still owns ‘over 100’ classic WCW songs, including many Jimmy Hart compositions:
"Well, you know what’s really strange? It turned out great, but they still got all of our songs down there with their publishing company,” said Jimmy. “They never released anything. So there’s a hundred and something songs just sitting down there waiting for somebody to use them. That was owned by Turner. WCW has them, but when Vince bought all the tapes up here in WWE, they didn’t get the rights to the music.
“They’re all individual tracks that, I guess, if anybody wanted to use them, if Turner and them even have a publishing company,” Jimmy continued. “Who knows what they have down there?”
WCW notably used legally different ‘soundalikes’ of popular songs for use as themes, with DDP having a theme that sounded very similar to Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Now with Warner Bros. Discovery airing AEW who knows if these themes could resurface?
