Art Bell Bumper Music

[Northern Nights]

"White Bird" by David Laflamme was my favorite.

[albrecht]

Art's bumpers were good but aside from Cusco fairly common (still good) and repeated. Knapp has him beat on bumpers I think. Of course, alas, Knapp is on so infrequently and Art (in the day) was on a lot so hard, I would think, to be able to come up with bumper music for nightly shows. In any event, Art's bumpers were good (maybe a bit too much ABBA but still every time I watch Slapshot I think of Art, and every-time I listen to Art and hear Maxine Nightingale I think of Slapshot!)

[Daggit]

RIP

[The General]

Pardon the wall of text but here's an updated, alphabetized list. 
221 songs.  I'm crazy, I know. It's an obsession at this point.
If anyone knows any other bumps that aren't on this list, let me know.
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A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
Africa - Toto
After Dark - Tito and Tarantula
Alone Again - Gilbert O'Sullivan
American Pie - Don McLean
Andes - Cusco
Aquarius - Fifth Dimension
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Bang a Gong - T. Rex
Bend me shape me - The American Breed
Benny and the Jets - Elton John
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Better Days - Supertramp
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Black Velvet - Allanah Myles
Blade Runner Blues - Vangelis
Boom Boom Ba - Metisse
Born on the Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Bur Said - Cusco
Can't Find My Way Home - Steve Winwood
Carly's Song - Enigma
Chase - Giorgio Moroder
China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
Classical Gas - Mason Williams
Coming To America - Neil Diamond
Cradle of Love - Johnny Preston
Crazy on You - Heart
Cruel to be Kind - Nick Lowe
Crunchy Granola Suite - Neil Diamond
Dance With Me - Orleans
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons
Devil Went Down To Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
Devil Woman - Cliff Richard
Didgeridoo - Cusco
Don't Bring me Down - ELO
Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Don't Leave Me This Way - Gloria Gaynor
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin-
Dreams - Fleetwook Mac
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Drive - The Cars
Driver's Seat - Sniff n' the Tears
Dr. Who Theme - Delia Derbyshire
East Bound and Down - Jerry Reed
Eve of Destruction - Barry Mcguire
Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project
Fernando - ABBA
Fighting Inca - Cusco
Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers
Flute Battle - Cusco
Flying Condor - Cusco
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
Ghost Dance - Cusco
Go All the Way - The Raspberries
Grease - Frankie Valli
Harden My Heart - Quarter Flash
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley
Hold On - Ian Gomm
Hold Your Head Up - Argent
Hooked on a Feelin - Blue Suede
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
Hush - Deep Purple
Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac
I Can't Help Falling in Love With You - UB40
I Can See For Miles - The Who
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
I Know You're Out There Somewhere - The Moody Blues
Inca Bridges - Cusco
Inca Dance - Cusco
Inkuyo - Khusillo 
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
In the Year 2525 - Zeager and Evans
Isn't It Time - The Babys
It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
It's a Living Thing - ELO
It's My Life - The Animals
I'm In You - Peter Frampton
I'm So Excited - The Pointer Sisters
I've Got the Music In Me - The Kiki Dee Band
I've Seen All Good People - Yes
Journey to the Center of the Mind - The Amboy Dukes
Jump For My Love - The Pointer Sisters
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
LA Woman - The Doors
Layla - Eric Clapton
Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers
Little Ballerina Blue - George Fischoff
Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
Living in the Past - Jethro Tull
Lonely Days - The Bee Gees
Long Cool Woman - the Hollies
Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Love is All Around - the Troggs
Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider
Mad World - Tears for Fears
Michael Meyers Theme - John Carpenter
Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
Midnight in the Desert - Crystal Gayle
Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
Monday Monday - The Mommas and the Poppas
Montezuma - Cusco
Moody River - Pat Boone
Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon
My Little Town - Simon and Garfulkel
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Night Ride Across the Caucasus - Loreena Mckennitt
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
North Easter - Cusco
Nothing But a Heartache - The Flirtations
Oh Daddy - Fleetwood Mac
Oh Girl - The Chi-Lites
Only in America - Jay and the Americans
Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison
On The Road Again - Willie Nelson
Pahrump Big Water - Cusco
Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones
Pastorale - Cu†sco
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
Photograph - Ringo Starr
Pretty Blue Eyes - Steve Lawrence
Rae's Arrival - Jerry Goldsmith
Ready For The Times To Get Better - Crystal Gayle
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
Red Skies - The Fixx
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Ride My See Saw - The Moody Blues
Riders on the Storm-  The Doors
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Rocket Man - Elton John
Running with the Night - Lionel Richie
Self Control - Laura Branigan
Seminole Wind - John Anderson
Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney
Silver Threads And Golden Needles - The Springfields
Sky High - Jigsaw
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Some Velvet Morning - Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra
SOS - ABBA
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppellin
Stardust - Willie Nelson
Steppin Out - Joe Jackson
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Strange Way - Firefall
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Summer Nights - Newton-John/Travolta
Summer Wine - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics
Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Take a Chance On Me - ABBA
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots
The Big Hurt - Toni Fisher
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
The Fox and the Lady - Cusco
The Highwayman - The Highwaymen
The Logical Song - Supertramp
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
The Mummer's Dance - Loreena McKennitt
The Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennitt
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes - Bobby Vee
The Oh Of Pleasure - Ray Lynch
The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
The Story in Your Eyes - The Moody Blues
The Voice - The Moody Blues
The Way It˝ Is - Bruce Hornsby
These Boots are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra
These Dreams - Heart
Thunderdrum - Scott Fitzgerald
Time - Alan Parsons Project
Time - Pink Floyd
Time After Time - Cindy Lauper
Time is on my Side - The Rolling Stones
Time Passages - Al Stewart
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Tuesday Afternoon - The Moody Blues
Tupac Amaru - Cusco
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Venus - Shocking Blue
Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley
War! - Edwin Starr
Waterloo - ABBA
We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What is Life - George Harrison
While You See A Chance - Steve Winwood
White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harem
Who Loves You - The Four Seasons
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Windy - The Association
Words of Love - The Mamas and the Papas
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
You're The Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley
You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey
Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues

[pate]

Not Sure, what the Genesis of this thread was, but I figured it was the place for this post.

Art, I respectfully submit this song that I heard on the radio for your listening pleasure/consideration as Bumper Music (I would be amazed if you never have used it, to be honest):

Journey - Any Way you want it 1980

Bonus track for my disclaimer (which I also heard on the Radio this afternoon):

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight (Official Video)

I tread lightly, but still step on toes, apologies...

[sydtron]

General.  THANK YOU!! CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUITE has been haunting me for years!  I never knew what it was called. I just knew I loved that bumper song every time Art played it.  He never let it play long enough for me to hear Neils voice.  That string intro kicks ass!!

[The General]

General.  THANK YOU!!

You're welcome.  I'm glad if anyone gets any use from my meticulous list.

[Albemuth]

I got 1 for Art  here. This is a tune from 1979 by Canadian band Martha & The Muffins: Echo Beach… Not unlike Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra’s “Some Velvet Morning”….Has a surreal, timeless  inexplicable longing-to-be somewhere-else vibe to it. The lead-in ramp makes it easy to talk into…and there’s a cool sax solo reminiscent of Gerry Rafferty’s City to City record:

Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

"Echo Beach faraway in Time..."

[fromwomewhere outthere]

I just can't seem to get Some Velvet Morning out of my head. I love that song.

[soulburner]

I got 1 for Art  here. This is a tune from 1979 by Canadian band Martha & The Muffins: Echo Beach… Not unlike Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra’s “Some Velvet Morning”….Has a surreal, timeless  inexplicable longing-to-be somewhere-else vibe to it. The lead-in ramp makes it easy to talk into…and there’s a cool sax solo reminiscent of Gerry Rafferty’s City to City record:

Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

"Echo Beach faraway in Time..."

Oh, and I thought Gabriella Cilmi wrote that one in 2009 Another confirmation that modern pop music is dead and all the cool tunes were written eons ago.

[bateman]

Someone previously suggested "Eminence Front". Art, that's got your name written all over it.

http://youtu.be/5QaVzv5aR6U

[Divine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5ueEVlUUgk

The Animals (we gotta to get out of this place) 2:15 on

[Camazotz Automat]

Pardon the wall of text but here's an updated, alphabetized list. 
221 songs.  I'm crazy, I know. It's an obsession at this point.
If anyone knows any other bumps that aren't on this list, let me know.
----------------------------------------------------
A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.

. . . .

Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues

Good Sir, I believe you've overlooked Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath.

Okay, maybe it was never used by Art.  But in my opinion, it COULD and SHOULD be used as bumper on MITD, as it is so philosophically apropos to revealing the unseen/unknown/unthought.

Heaven and Hell was Game of Thrones before GOT was GOT, damn it!

We must educate the realm, and take back what is our right, and assume our places next to our brothers and sisters! In this War between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness!

(rolling on the floor)

(foaming at the mouth)

... and it goes on and on and on.... Heaven and Hell!... ah, well....

((Quick, someone grab the portable automated external defibrillator. Cam's experiencing the Godhead* again.))

*don't even THINK about saying it, Jaz.

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

I believe MV has that particular gem on Eight Track.

[SaucyRossy]

Art if I can make only one suggestion for music it would be to use this song for what I'll call an outro, use it while talking about what we're in store for tonight with the guest, etc then cut it when you go to commercial. This song gives me goosebumps and just feels like a song that you'd like.

If you hate it, oh well.

http://youtu.be/4cEdfc2_YAs

[bateman]

Art if I can make only one suggestion for music it would be to use this song for what I'll call an outro, use it while talking about what we're in store for tonight with the guest, etc then cut it when you go to commercial. This song gives me goosebumps and just feels like a song that you'd like.

If you hate it, oh well.

http://youtu.be/4cEdfc2_YAs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Black_Delta_%28album%29

Big Black Delta is the eponymous album of Mellowdrone vocalist Jonathan Bates' solo project Big Black Delta. It was released in June 2013 under Master of Bates Records.

[Divine]

Dirty Penny,    Midnight Ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY6eTWdcrww

LYRICS OF MIDNIGHT RIDE - DIRTY PENNY

Verse 1
Feels like I'm living in a train
Nothing as it seems
And the nights keep getting longer everyday
Gonna ride this gift I've been given
Gonna live this life I've been given
Never slow down, don't stop, get out of my way
And the nights keep getting longer everyday

Chorus
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride

I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride

Verse 2
Living life like there is no end
Come down with me my friend
Cause the nights keep getting longer everyday
The only light at the end of my tunnel
Is the light at the bottom of my bottle
Nights keep getting longer everyday
Never look back don't stop get out of my way

Chorus
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride

I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride

I'm on a midnight ride, I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride, I'm on a midnight ride

I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride
I'm on a midnight ride

[Lt.Uhura]

Art,

You might want to check out the music of Buddha Bar.  Heavily instrumental (perfect for voice overs), BB is really an outside the box departure from typical pop/rock music.   Representing music from various cultures around the world, it blends synthesized music with real instrumentation.  There's uptempo, mid, slow/chill...something to fit every mood (and topic)!

Some of these are long mixes, fast forward to hear the different tracks.

Siddharta- Spirit Of Buddha Bar, Vol- 3 (2006)

Buddha Bar - Best House Music Ever

BEST CHILLOUT SONGS OF BUDDHA BAR SELECTED BY DJ RADOO PART2

[SaucyRossy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Black_Delta_%28album%29

Hehehe

[SixWeekTenure(tm)]

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Soundtrack - Dust (Carpenter Brut Remix)

[Old_Flash]

"Procession" from the Moody Blues album "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor"

[rzr1911]

http://youtu.be/Fxa3J--g0hc
awesome track by Greek composer Saki Kaskas - Callista (means "most beautiful")


This track is played regularly at 'Club Afterlife' on the Omega Space Station.

[Divine]

FESTE - Midnight Ride + Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyfY6KBDK4

I met you downtown at the bar,
Sitting smoking your cigar.
You know how to make me sweat.
Come take a ride you won't forget.
You make me beg you make me plead.
Take a midnight ride with me.

Cadillac from '65. Well why don't you,
Hop on in, it's just your size.
Now we're speeding round the bend.
We change direction like the wind.
You make me beg you make me plead.
Take a midnight ride with me.

Cause you're acting o so vicious,
And your lips they look delicious,
Not afraid to make some wishes,
God damn, you're so ambitious,
Lie and deny and play the villain.
So you get high and you cry,
You feel the friction.
Make me beg and plead and put up a fight.
Take a midnight ride with me tonight.

Well you grab your coat, you grab your shoes.
You leave me singing the blues.
Well do you have to leave so soon?
Now I'm howling at the moon.
You make me beg you make me plead.
Take a midnight ride with me.

You make me beg, you make me plead,
Take a midnight ride with me.
You make me beg, you make me plead
Yeah! Take a midnight ride with me
Make me beg and plead and put up a fight.
Take a midnight ride with me tonight.

[nooryisawesome]

I think either one of these would work great for Art.

The Hush Sound: Wine Red [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

The Hush Sound - You Are The Moon

[Divine]

Kavinsky - Nightcall


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

[SaucyRossy]

Kavinsky - Nightcall


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

Seconded !

[pyewacket]

I posted these in the Art Bell thread before Art asked for them here.

Popcorn Original Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjxNnqTcHhg

Outa Space Billy Preston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-gcaA850g

Pick Up The Pieces AWB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE

Eminence Front The Who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QaVzv5aR6U

The Old Man Down The Road John Fogerty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSGMRZsN4Q

Copperhead Road Steve Earle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk


Also like to add:

I Feel Love Donna Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qI6UDD2uQ

[rzr1911]

Kavinsky - Nightcall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

nice track. I like that. downloading the movie right now

[Camazotz Automat]

I forgot the link.

Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dd_o9lpW0

[Divine]

Wynchester - High Desert Rambler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW9iVtsgTOI

Like this one but needs new recording like maybe by Crystal

[PrairieGhost]

Sinoia Caves - Sentionauts II (2014)

Sinoia Caves - Forever Dilating Eye (2014)