Sunday, April 10, 2022 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Nothing at All by The Waco Brothers
Little Sally Tease by The Standells
Sliver by Nirvana
Laugh at Me by The Devil Dogs
Drugs, Guns, Hookers by Angel Babies
Road Ragin' Mama by Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys
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Today, April 7 is the official opening day of Major League Baseball's 2022
season. I predict that the song at the center of this post will be played
hundreds of times in baseball arenas around the country during the next six
months ago.
I'm talking, of course, about "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," a song that's
become synonymous with America's Pastime in the past hundred years, even
though, according to the
Library of Congress, composer Albert von Tilzer as well as lyricist Jack Norworth, who wrote the
famous tune in 1908, each claimed they'd never actually been to a ball game.
The article about the song on the Library of Congress site says:
Few musical creations embody such significance in American musical
culture or rise to the stratum of Americana as `Take Me Out to the Ball
Game.' Just why the song has enjoyed such lasting popularity has been the
topic of sports commentators, journalists, and popular music historians
for decades. After all, one author quips, "Stardust it ain't." Critics
have described the lyrics as crude, but singable, and puzzle over the
chartbuster's instant success. Fans of the song, however, insist that it
is the sheer simplicity and straightforwardness of the words,
gender-neutral and shrewdly crafted so as not to name or favor any one
team, coupled with von Tilzer's luring waltz-like rhythms and
unforgettable melody that sealed the baseball ditty's success.
The
Major League Baseball site says, "it is generally acknowledged to be the third most-performed song in
America in a typical year, behind only `The Star-Spangled Banner' and `Happy
Birthday to You.' " (They apparently forgot about "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida," but,
you know...)
Like many songs of the early 20th Century, most modern folks only know the
chorus of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." But actually, there are verses
that tell the story of one Katie Casey, who was was "baseball mad."
The first recording of "Ball Game" in 1908 was by a funky dude named Edward
Meeker:
In 1949 Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly sang it in a movie called "Take Me Out to
the Ballgame." By this time, for reasons I'm not sure of, "Katie Casey" had
been changed, by Norworth himself (in 1927), to "Nelly Kelly."
Here's a sad trumpet version of the song, which appeared in the Ken Burns 1994
documentary series Baseball. It's by George Rabbai:
Dr. John's New Orleans funk version also appeared in the Burns project:
And here's an unusual, ukulele-backed version by The Skeletons
Having celebrities sing "Ball Game" at actual ball games has become common. Here's a transformational version by Ozzie & Sharon Osbourne during the seventh-inning stretch at Chicago's Wrigley Field in 2003:
Here's my favorite version of this song. It's by "Bruce Springstone," some kind of short-lived Flintstones/Springsteen parody act. But when I first heard it, I thought it was the actual Bruce:
Finally, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" survived the change from Katie Casey to Nelly Kelly. But will it survive this?
Thanks to Cracker Jack's parent company Frito Lay which just recently introduced Cracker Jill to honor women in sports, there has been another lyric update. "Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jill / No one can stop you if you have the will...”
Here's singer Normani with the new version.(And like just about any change these days, the introduction of Cracker Jill has sparked conservative culture-war OUTRAGE! Read the comments on the Youtube page and you'll see):
Sunday, April 3, 2022 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Sunday, March 27, 2022 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Bad Betty by The Sonics
See Me Frown by Les Grys-Grys
On Graveyard Hill by The Pixies
Take a Good Look by The Fleshtones
Groove Shelter by Xposed 4Heads
Bruges Jail Rhumba by Nesttor Donuts
Can't Seem to Make You Mine by The Barbaraellatones
Nobody Spoil My Fun by The Seeds
I'm Not Afraid by Dead Moon
We Can Really Feel Like We're Here by Negativland
She Don't Care by Ty Segall
Divide and Conquer by Husker Du
Crashing Down by The Grawks
(Hey Mama) Wild Tchoupitoulas by The Neville Brothers with Ivan Neville, Ian Neville & George Porter Jr.
It's officially spring -- although yesterday in Santa Fe we all woke up to a
winter wonderland, which, thankfully melted by afternoon. And, during my daily
walk, I actually saw a red red robin, bob bob bobbin' on a neighbor's
recycling bin.
So let's help nudge our sleepyhead spring to get up, get out of bed by
celebrating a song that for nearly 100 years has been synonymous with the
spring, "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)."
This tune was written in 1926 by Tin Pan Alley's Harry Woods, who also wrote
or co-wrote songs like "Paddlin' Madeline Home," "I'm Looking
Over a Four Leaf Clover," "Side by Side," (that's the one that starts out,
"Well we ain't got a barrel of money...") and "Try a Little Tenderness."
Woods' song about the bird was recorded by several singers in 1926, but Al
Jolson's version is surely the best-known:
Starting in the late 1920s, "Red Red Robin" became the signature tune for actress Lillian Roth. (This recording was decades later, 1956 to be exact.):
There seemed to be a Robin revival in the '50s. For instance, Louis Armstrong took a shot at the robin in 1956...
... as Doris Day had done in 1954
But I believe my favorite version of this happy tune came even later. Texas singer Rosie Flores did this rockabilly "Robin" on a Bloodshot Records children's song compilation, The Bottle Let Me Down in 2002:
Sunday, March 20, 2022 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Red Red Robin by Rosie Flores
I'm Going Back by Les Grys-Grys
Dirt Bag Fever by Quintron
Voice in the Mirror by Thee Oh Sees
Pornography Part 1 by Mike Edison
Meow Meow by Nesttor Donuts
Kiss My Ring by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Make It Up by Reigning Sound
You're Crazy for Taking the Bus by Jonathan Richman
Bionic Trunk by Old Time Relijun
Cream Johnny by Night Beats
Nothing Makes Me Happy by The Grawks
Do Me Do by Johnny Dowd
Gloomy Sunday by Nocturne Spark
Handful of Sand by Divine Horsemen
(There's ) No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car by Elvis Presley
Dog is Life / Jerusalem by The Fall
Alice by Figures of Light
Vodka is Poison by Golem
Corn and Grain by The Mekons
Down by Sam Snitchy
Oak Tree Hanging by Gary Gorence
Judy in Disguise by Jello Biafra
I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day by The Pogues
Born Stupid by Paul Leary
Three on the Tree by Bigdumbhick
I Love You So by The Chantels
Feelings by Die Zorros
Goodnight Irene by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
