Various Artists
The Wrestling Album


Tracks:

1. The Wrestlers - Land of a Thousand Dances
2. Junkyard Dog - Grab Them Cakes
3. Rick Derringer - Real American
4. Jimmy Hart - Eat Your Heart Out, Rick Springfield
5. Lou Albano and George Steele - Captain Lou
6. WWF All-Stars - Hulk Hogan's Theme
7. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper - For Everybody
8. "Mean" Gene Okerlund - Tutti Frutti
9. Hillbilly Jim - Don't Go Messin' with a Country Boy
10. Nikolai Volkoff - Cara Mia

Record Label / Year of Release:

Epic 1985

Notes:

The Wrestling Album is a music album released by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1985. It was the first album released by the WWF. It features mostly theme music of wrestlers on the roster at the time.

Most of the songs were produced by Rick Derringer and David Wolff. Jim Steinman composed and produced "Hulk Hogan's Theme", which was used on the Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling cartoon. Cyndi Lauper participated on the album as a backing vocalist on "Real American" and as producer of "Captain" Lou Albano's track under the pseudonym "Mona Flambé".

The album was briefly reissued on CD by Koch Records, who licensed the master rights from Epic/Sony in 1998.

The album's tracks are bridged with commentary from Vince McMahon, "Mean Gene" Okerlund, and Jesse "The Body" Ventura. Three singles were issued from the album: "Land of a Thousand Dances" in a shortened version with overdubbed saxophones, "Grab Them Cakes", and "Don't Go Messin' with a Country Boy". All three singles were issued in picture sleeves and used "Captain Lou's History of Music/Captain Lou" as the B-side.

A music video for "Land of a Thousand Dances was made featuring Derringer, Meat Loaf, and Cyndi Lauper (wearing a brunette wig and shades) playing while the WWF members sing the song en masse.