[閒聊] Take Me Out to the Ballgame

看板NY-Yankees作者furtwangler (omission is betrayal.)時間18年前 (2008/05/14 22:59)推噓0(0推 0噓 1→)

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應該算是跟NYY有關的文章吧,畢竟這首歌是在紐約地鐵上產生的靈感, 說100年是因為當年這首歌由唱片公司像商標局註冊時是1908年5月2日. http://0rz.tw/8a41h 原文出處 Podcast: A 100-Year Hit (With Peanuts and Cracker Jack) They call it baseball's greatest hit. It set a record that would resonate with every replaying, but would never be broken. A perfect score. You won't find it in baseball statistics, though. The greatest hit wasn't made on the field or even inside a stadium. Legend has it that it originated on a New York City subway. This week is the 100th anniversary of 「Take Me Out to the Ballgame.」 On May 2, 1908, the song was registered with the copyright office. On the same day, The New York Clipper, a sports and entertainment newspaper, printed an ad for the sheet music, which was published by the composer's company on West 28th Street. It debuted with a public performance at the Amphion, an opera house on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn. It would be recorded that September. Within a month, it catapulted onto the Top 10 charts. 「Take Me Out to the Ballgame」 would become, by one estimate, the third-most popular song in America, after 「Happy Birthday」 and 「The Star-Spangled Banner.」 The biography of baseball's anthem has just been retold and elaborated on in a new book, 「Baseball's Greatest Hit.」 Thanks to the authors — Andy Strasberg, a sports marketer; Bob Thompson, a New York musician and professor; and Tim Wiles of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown — a buried historical footnote has been dusted off just in time to celebrate its centennial. The song is credited to two adopted New Yorkers. Both transplanted themselves here from Middle America to seek their fortunes. Both changed their surnames to sound more sophisticated. Neither, so the story goes, had ever been to a baseball game. The lyricist was Jack Norworth, a 29-year-old actor and monologist, who was performing that spring at Hammerstein's in Midtown, and who had already written another classic, 「Shine On Harvest Moon.」 Supposedly, Norworth was riding the old Ninth Avenue El when he spotted an ad for the Polo Grounds, the Giants' home field, in upper Manhattan. For whatever reason, he drew a doodle of a slightly frazzled iconic New Yorker whom he named Katie Casey and wrote in pencil: On a Saturday her young beau Called to see if she'd like to go To see a show but Miss Kate said No, I'll tell you what you can do — The immortal chorus followed, including the enviable product placement for 「 Cracker Jack」 and the 「one … two … three strikes yer out,」 which forever glorified not the hit, but the pitch. The composer was Albert Von Tilzer, a soulful 30-year-old former shoe salesman in Brooklyn — as the authors say, there's no business like shoe business. His music was being featured at the time in a Lincoln Square Theater burlesque about an Irish politician's son who falls in love with his father's German political rival. The following year, Von Tilzer would compose another baseball song, after the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, for what turned out to be the last time. They managed to capture the pennant by beating the Giants in a replay of an infamous tie game in which 19-year-old Fred Merkle was called out after failing to touch second base. Von Tilzer wrote a song titled 「Did He Run,」 but neither the tune, nor Merkle's single, would become baseball's greatest hit. Von Tilzer later composed 「I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time.」 He also teamed up with his brothers in publishing scores of popular tunes that would help enshrine Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley in America's musical history. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 123.193.18.244