TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
Created on 13/01/2012Latest update on 07/03/2023
Artist: Harvey Hindermyer
Author: Jack Norworth/Albert Von Tilzer
Label: Columbia
Year: 1908
Used in film Baseball ('94). Tin Pan Alley waltz written by two non baseball fans. Albert Von Tilzer was Harry's brother. In 1927 Jack Norworth wrote a new set of lyrics but the chorus was kept to become the unofficial Baseball anthem, sung spontaniously throughout the field during the seventh inning of every game.
Covers:
- 1908:
- 1908:
- 1908:
Haydn Quartet [n°1 US; the most popular recording of the national pastime's anthem; lead vocal: Harry MacDonough]
- 1935:
Herbert Stothart [conductor in Marx Brothers' film A Night At The Opera in medley with Verdi's Rigoletto ouverture]
- 1949:
Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra [the 1927 version in film Take Me Out To The Ball Game]
- 1949:
- 1951:
- 1982:
Bruce Springstone [Live At Bedrock]
- 1984:
Randy Newman [in The Final Game on st The Natural]
- 1985:
Harry Caray & Chicago Cubs Fans [at Wrigley Field]
- 1988:
Frank Zappa [live in Bilbao on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 4]
- 1990s:
- 1994:
Dr. John [in Ken Burns film Baseball]
- 1994:
Carly Simon [idem]
- 1998:
- 2004:
- 2005:
Jimmy Buffett [Live At Fenway Park]
- 2007:
Boots Randolph [on A Whole New Ballgame]
- 2014:
