Baseball Songs
Baseball songs are great ways to keep the world of baseball interesting. Like baseball poetry and other forms of baseball literary, baseball songs are true expressions of one’s passion and love of the game of baseball. Below are some of the famous baseball songs that have truly inspired a lot of baseball fans.
A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request- This baseball song will always link singer Steve Goodman with the famous baseball team, the Chicago Cubs. During start of a baseball season, this song is normally played in Chicago. This song debuted on WGN radio, particularly on Roy Leonard’s radio show. According to Roy Leonard, on March 16, 1983 Steve Goodman along with Jethro Burns, walked into the radio studio around eleven in the morning. Both have just wrapped up a weekend from the Park West. Steve Goodman said he wish to sing a song that he had introduced a night before, hoping to let the listeners here it for the very first time. With his partner Jethro taking care of the Mandolin, Steve Goodman sang the song for the first time, with him also doing the guitar as the accompaniment. After the song has been heard on the airwaves, it has been considered one of the most requested baseball songs of all times.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame- This song about baseball is one of the very few classic baseball songs. Written by Jack Norworth on 1908, this particular song was written apparently on a scrap paper on one train ride to Manhattan in New York. After writing the song, Norworth gave the lyrics to Albert Von Tilzer to compose music out of the lyrics. After the song was composed, it was then published on the York Music Company and in less than a year, the baseball song became an instant hit among the thousand of baseball fan. Norworth was a very successful with his career as a vaudeville entertainer and songwriter. In fact, this song was written for only fifteen minutes. This baseball song is usually sung on a game’s seventh inning stretch. In 1927, Norworth changed some of the songs lyrics, thus creating another version of the song called Take Me Out of the Ballgame.
The Greatest- The singer of this song is no less than world-renowned singer Kenny Rogers. This song was composed in 1978, along with the very popular song, The Gambler. Over the years, the song became not as popular as its debut but when Kenny Rogers returned in 1999 with his comeback album called She Rides Wild Horses, fans has reminisced Roger’s baseball song, thus making it a hit for the second time around.
Right Field- Peter, Paul and Mary, the artists who were considered cornerstone vocal of a movement called the Love and Peace Movement, interpreted this baseball song. Most of the songs from Peter, Paul and Mary did not become popular until they are heard over the radio. The song Right Field is considered one of the most popular classic songs that basically resonate with a simplistic innocence of the yesteryears of baseball.
The Game is Over- This song, written by Jim Nuzzo, has put million of baseball fans thinking because of its lyrics. The words of this particular baseball song has brought back a lot of memories of “The Strike” way back 1994 that has forever changed to face of baseball.
Catfish- This song was composed and written by Bob Dylan. This singer is known to be very prolific, releasing only a small fraction of his records. Because of that, he became a target for bootleggers for some years before he finally prompted to release some of his never-before-heard tracks mostly comprised of rare tracks, earlier versions of classics, unreleased outtakes, and some alternate versions that cut some part of the original version.
A lot of baseball songs have been heard and introduced to the public already. But with the fact that millions of people still love baseball, it is no wonder to hear new baseball songs as years go by.