Art Bell Music – Theme and Bumper Music

Last Updated on August 29, 2021 by Raider1

Coast to Coast Theme Music is from the movie soundtrack “Midnight Express”. The song is called “Chase”. Although watching the movie I didn’t hear much of it, but it was there. Not the theme of the movie, but placed in the middle somewhere.

Anyway, here is a MIDI version of Art’s Coast to Coast – Theme Song by Bob Frazier.

Dreamland Theme Music is by Ray Lynch, Deep Breakfast, The Oh of Pleasure.

List of Bumpers

Some of the bumper music played by Art Bell is from the New Age group called Cusco. They have several CD’s out. Here is The CUSCO Homepage

Here is a growing list of Art Bell bumpers:

• Fifth Dimension, “Aquarius“
• Cusco, Mystic Island, several selections
• Cusco, Apurimac, several selections
• Cusco, Apurimac II, several selections
• Meredith Brooks, Blurring the Edges, “Bitch“
• UB40, “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (Old Version)
• UB40, “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (New Version)
• Crystal Gayle, “Waiting for the Times to Get Better”
• Abba, “Waterloo“
• Berlin, “Take My Breath Away“
• Inkuyo, “Khusillo” Here is a Real-Audio Recording.
• Thelma Houston, Don’t Leave Me This Way
• George Fishoff, “Little Balerina Blue”
• Bruce Hornsby and the Range, “The Way It Is“
• Eric Clapton, “Layla“
• Abba, “Dancing Queen“
• Crystal Gayle, “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
• Donna Summer, “I Feel Love“
• Heart, “Crazy on You”
• Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, “Time“
• Eric Clapton, Unplugged, “Layla”
• Charlie Daniels Band, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
• Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, “Time“
• Supertramp, Breakfast In America, “Take the Long Way Home”
• Neil Diamond, Hot August Night, “Prologue/Crunchy Granola Suite”
• Fleetwood Mac, Rumors Album, several selections
• Fleetwood Mac, Tusk, “Tusk”
• Toto, “Africa“
• Chris Issac, Heart Shaped World, “Wicked Games“
• Mason Williams, “Classical Gas“
• Maria Muldaur, “Midnight at the Oasis”
• Gary Wright, “Love is Alive”
• CCR, “Fortunate Son”
• Bruce Hornsby and the Range, “The Way It Is”
• Gerry Rafferty, “Baker Street”
• Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” Here is a better second version of Don’t Fear the Reaper submitted by Doug Wollschlager.
• Statler Brothers, “Flowers on the Wall”
• The Pointer Sisters, “I’m So Excited“
• T.Rex, “Bang-A-Gong” in MIDI, Stereo WAV File
• Louis Armstrong, “It’s a Wonderful World“, MIDI Sequence by Don Carroll
• Maxine Nightingale, “Right Back Where We Started From“
• Argent, “Hold Your Head Up”
• Gary Wright, “Dreamweaver”
• Kim Carnes, “Bette Davis Eyes“
• Norman Greenbaum, “Spirit in the Sky”
• From the “Medicine Man” motion picture soundtrack, “Rae’s Arrival”
• Pat Boone, “Moody River”
• Santana, “Black Magic Woman”

If you know or recognize any other songs, please let us know.

Song Lyrics

One of Art’s favorite songs is Highwayman. Performed by The Highway Men (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson). You can listen to the song with Real-Audio. Thanks to Dan Mattingly, here are the lyrics:

Highwayman

Written By Jimmy Webb

i was a highwayman
along the coach roads i did ride
with sword and pistol by my side
many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade,
many a soldier shed his life’s blood on my blade
the bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
but i am still alive

i was a sailor,
i was born upon the tide
with the sea i did abide
i sailed a schooner ’round the horn to mexico
i went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow
and when the yards broke off,
they said that i got killed
but i am living still

i was a dam builder
across the river deep and wide
where steel and water did collide
a place called boulder on the wild colorado
i slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
they buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
but i am still around
i’ll always be around and around and around…

i’ll fly a starship
‘cross the universe divide
and when i reach the other side,
i’ll find a place to rest my spirit if i can
perhaps i may become a highwayman again
or i may simply be a single drop of rain
but i will remain
and i’ll be back again and again and again…

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• https://web.archive.org/web/19990508062958/http://artbell.com/bumper.html – May 8, 1999 – Not added