Hi Joe, i can’t remember the exact seasons but when we were in league 1 I believe the team came out the tunnel with Nero-Me & You. Don’t ask me how I remember that😂
We definitely ran out to "The Boys are back in Town" by Thin Lizzy for a while.
In our promotion to the Conference season we adopted "I wanna know what love is" by Foreigner as an informal anthem & took the field to it once, at our last home match that season.
It stemmed from an unforgettable moment in the wooden stand (now charcoal) at Moor Green (now Solihull Moors), when the local PA played it & kept increasing the volume in an attempt to drown out the solo chants of a legendary big-mouthed & big-nosed Crawley Town travelling fan... it was all the way to eleven & blasting out...
...they were inching ahead ...only... when the songs chorus arrived our boy appropriated it & was swiftly joined by his ITC cohort who must have been heard in central Brum.
A magnificent show-stopping rendition, our players halted their warm up to applaud it & went on to produce a typical gutsy ugly win by a single goal - likely we also had one bandaged up & one sent off too - as was standard that spring.
In truth, I cannot remember the match too well. But that piece of cheesy power-ballad stadium rock by Fitz & the band will be etched on my memory forever...!
At some point in the seventies, I recall Seaside Shuffle by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs (a mutation of Brett Marvin and The Thunderbolts?) was used as it contained the line '...the town of Crawley'. A decade earlier, the regular play through of The Beatles, A Hard Days Night Album meant that, if timed right, the team would be running out to the last track on side 2, 'I'll Be Back'