{"id":804787,"date":"2020-03-02T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=959954"},"modified":"2020-03-02T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:55:13","slug":"how-steal-away-singer-robbie-dupree-ended-up-on-the-wrestling-album-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/how-steal-away-singer-robbie-dupree-ended-up-on-the-wrestling-album-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Steal Away\u2019 Singer Robbie Dupree Ended Up on \u2018The Wrestling Album II\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019ve ever listened to The Wrestling Album<\/em><\/a>, the WWF\u2019s 1985 curiosity that cast its muscled superstars as singers, you can hear why producer Rick Derringer figured he needed an actual vocalist for the 1987 follow-up, Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sandwiched in among colorful rasslin\u2019 managers like Jimmy Hart and Slick and grapplers the Honky Tonk Man and Hillbilly Jim was Robbie Dupree, the soft-rock singer-guitarist who had a pair of hits in 1980 with the dangerously smooth \u201cSteal Away\u201d and \u201cHot Rod Hearts.\u201d For Piledriver<\/em>, he leaned hard into the theme of the latter, coming up with the wonderfully inane \u201cGirls in Cars.\u201d Technically billed as a collaboration with the tag team Strike Force \u2014 that was Rick Martell and Tito Santana, for those in the know \u2014 the yacht-rock retread is all Dupree.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been dropped by Elektra and was doing live shows and session work. Rick Derringer and his engineer, the late Tommy Edmunds, contacted me and said, \u2018Hey, we got this thing,’\u201d Dupree told Rolling Stone<\/em> during a recent conversation on the yacht-rock phenomenon<\/a>. \u201cThey wanted to get somebody other than the wrestlers to do it. I didn\u2019t really want to, but I thought, \u2018No one is ever going to hear this, so fuck it. I\u2019m going to get paid good money and it\u2019ll vanish.’\u201d<\/p>\n

But instead of disappearing into the pop-culture ether, the song has endured online as a gloriously cheesy music video. The plot: Dupree sings and plays guitar on the beach, women drive by in sports cars, and seagulls fill the sky behind him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wound up stuck in an RV trailer in Malibu with two or three strippers,\u201d says Dupree. \u201cThey gave a kid $5 to throw baitfish up in the air to bring the seagulls. He was back there with a whole bucket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dupree even made new fans from the song. \u201cWrestling kids! I\u2019d be in a market somewhere and two little kids would tug on their mom\u2019s shoulders and go, \u2018Look who it is.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t about \u2018Steal Away,\u2019 it was about \u2018Girls in Cars,’\u201d he says. \u201cWhat I thought would go away has gone on to be ever-present.\u201d<\/p>\n

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