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Jim Johnston On Vince McMahon Not Liking Country Music, The Renewed Popularity Of ‘With My Baby Tonight’

Jim Johnston was two of the guest interviews on Matt Koon‘s latest episode of MLW Radio’s Total Engagement. In his interview, Johnston talks about how he goes about composing theme music for bad guys versus good guys, his relationship with Vince McMahon and much more.

Jim Johnston on Vince McMahon not liking country music:

“For whatever reasons, Vince never liked country music and I never quite could figure out how much of that was he actually didn’t like it or that he was trying to get wrestling away from it’s southern profile.

It is a little strange, but there is some logic there too. When he got into it he really had this vision and many elements of that vision he was successful with creating and one of them was taking this thing that was in fact much more centered in the south or certainly mid-Atlantic states and then pockets in the north and not only make it all across the United States and all across the globe and I think he just thought one element of that that was important was to not let it be pegged as some sort of bizarre, ‘Deliverance’ level thing. My personal taste and personal opinion and having come from the south, I don’t particularly agree with that point of view, but I absolutely see why he felt that and I can’t really argue with the result either.”

Johnston commented on ‘With My Baby Tonight’ having a renewed surge in popularity, and how it was originally written as a love song for his wife:

“Someone mentioned it, but no, I haven’t been following it. That was a song I wrote a long time before I played it for Vince, and strangely, before that period that I played it for Vince—I guess I was thinking ‘Jim, you should really go play out’—try out this performance thing and maybe something has changed. As it turned out nothing has changed and it scared the hell out of me, but I got a band together and a bunch of singers and we did two shows at a small, local concert venue. We played that song at both, the first time she wasn’t my wife though.”

Johnston also praised Road Dogg’s performance of the song:

“He did an absolutely excellent job with it. He has a great voice, and I think he does the best thing a singer can do, which is he sings it from the heart, as if he wrote it. That’s what brings the song alive.”

(Transcription credit to WrestleZone)

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