Open Thread: Baseball Themed Music

by jbox on Dec 20, 2006 10:28 AM PST in News

Bob Dylan has a radio show on XM Radio where he chooses a theme and then plays 15 songs to fit the theme.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game - The Skeletons
Baseball Boogie - Mabel Scott
Baseball Canto - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Three Strikes and You're Out - Cowboy Copas
The Ball Game - Sister Wynona Carr
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? - Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra
Baseball Baby - Johnny Darling
Home Run - Chancy Halladay
Strike One - Teddy Reynolds
Newk's Fadeaway - Sonny Rollins
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again - Billy Bragg and Wilco
Say Hey - The Treniers
The Wizard of Oz - Sam Bush
3rd Base, Dodger Stadium - Ry Cooder
Heart - Original Soundtrack: "Damn Yankees"
Joltin Joe Dimaggio - Les Brown and His Band of Renown

Most of his songs are ol' timey time music, which is fine, but maybe we should make a list of our own... and go!

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The Greatest by Kenny Rogers

Even if the video did feature Sosa and McGwire.

by Dex on Dec 20, 2006 10:29 AM PST reply actions

Here's the video

The Greatest Video

by jbox on Dec 20, 2006 11:04 AM PST up reply actions

White Unicorn - Wolfmother

Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.

by TheRevRun on Dec 20, 2006 10:33 AM PST reply actions

San Diego's Own Rookie Card

While not for a particular song, I mention these guys based on their body of work.

Not only do they have a song where lead singer Adam Gimbel talks about alphabetizing his baseball cards as a kid (and then goes on to shout out the names of the MLB teams), but they feature lyrics like the following...

She's out of my league
I'm T-Ball, Triple A
Got splinters from the bench
I just want some play

They've also played before a Padre's game at the Murph and performed on Outta Left Field with their 2005 Padre Theme Song.

And they give away baseball cards of various players at their shows. Awesome band, if not always baseball themed.

Check out their MySpace site. Great guys. Great band.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1009129

Live Fast Cy Young!

by The Swingin Punk Friar on Dec 20, 2006 10:47 AM PST reply actions

Good Band

Dex and I have seen them several times.

by jbox on Dec 20, 2006 11:04 AM PST up reply actions

speaking of Dylan

His song Catfish about Catfish Hunter is good.

Paul Simon has a song called "Night Game" that is good as well.

by jbox on Dec 20, 2006 11:06 AM PST reply actions

This may be a longshot but...

Ok sorry for being a lurker. I've made a few posts before, but they were under a different username that I've since forgotten the password to.

Anyway...this post made me remember something very important. Does anyone have or know where I can get an MP3 of the old "Let's go Padres" song they used to play at the Murph around 87'-91' or so?? You know what I'm talking about. They used to play it right before first pitch at all their home games. It was really cheesy, but in a good way. I have been in search of this song for the greater part of a decade. Please help if you can.
Thanks!

by wait till next year on Dec 20, 2006 11:15 AM PST reply actions

Right here waiting...

By Staind. We could dedicate it to KT and Sandy from the fans with the words Power Bat in parenthesis.

"Right Here Waiting (For a Power Bat)"

by jburtrum1 on Dec 20, 2006 1:46 PM PST reply actions

I'm too sexy

for the Giles bros

by thenerdhater on Dec 20, 2006 2:10 PM PST reply actions

bros

Did you see the interview... OMG the entire baseball world is reeling!!

by ABY on Dec 20, 2006 2:58 PM PST up reply actions

Mr Roboto

for Greene

by thenerdhater on Dec 20, 2006 2:10 PM PST reply actions

D!@! in a box

for any player in the batter's box.

by thenerdhater on Dec 20, 2006 2:12 PM PST reply actions

hey guys...

sorry i haven't posted in a long time, i've been busy with my first semester of college.

i've got the padres version of "talkin baseball" if dex or anyone else would like to host it...

http://baybearbeat.blogspot.com

by padresfan311 on Dec 20, 2006 7:15 PM PST reply actions

Vinyl

Oh man, I have a record (yes, circular, grooved, vinyl) from '85 called Sounds of Success. It is the soundtrack to the '84 season. I forget what is on there, but I will have to dig it up and list it here. Pretty sure there is some KFMB clips on there among other things. I also have a record that Eric Show recorded, and some early early Tim Flannery stuff. Maybe I can get my record player working and convert some of it to mp3s.

by osbug on Dec 21, 2006 4:55 AM PST reply actions