Who is your uncle...this was Don Rondo & Kris Peterson recorded at Artie Fields Productions, 1968. This is the original and is being played at Tiger games to this day.
This song is so sentimental back to one of the best years of my life in 1984 and now my 18 year old son loves this song and loves hearing my 1984 stories lol.
This song is frigging awesome! I love hearing it at Comerica after each win! Your uncle did a hell of a job writing this cuz fans still love it 52 years later. Hearing this song brings out my pride for my hometown and my team! Go Get Em Tigers!
Every spring I teach this to my 4th and 5th grade choir. They've made so many people happy by singing it at nursing homes or food kitchens. Thanks for writing such a fun song!
50th year anniversary. I was 14 and growing up in Jackson, Michigan. I can tell you that the whole STATE watched and listened to every minute of this season. When the boys won it all... I remember all of us running into the streets yelling and screaming and running up and down the sidewalks. This was in Jackson, an hour away from Tiger Stadium. We all thought this was the way it should be; every year, another world series. Silly kids, eh? I've been in Arizona since my college days. But 1968 will always be so special for me. Even 1984 was special.. I had a buddy in tucson from the neighborhood in Jackson and he got a satellite dish that season. We ate Jackson coney dogs and watched nearly every game that year, from Tucson.
man, do I miss the old Tiger Stadium! first game I went to was in 96. heard this song at the end of the game and have been in love ever sense! Go get em Tigers!
I was eight years old when the '68 World Series was played. My second grade teacher brought in a radio and we heard a game instead of work. EVERYONE here in Ypsilanti was head over heels over our beloved Detroit Tigers. And I still am!
Tigers win 2012 world series in game six! I see it now! Thank You So much for this awesome classic! It was my late fathers favorite! He loved the Detriot Tigers all of his 70 years! R.I.P. Dad! I cant wait to toast to their victory with you!
FUCK OFF DUDE GOD DAMNTHE PHILLIES ARE TOTAL DOG SHIT AND MIGHT I ASK WHAT IN GODS NAME MADE YOU CLICK ON THIS VIDEO AS A FUCKING PHILLIES FAN YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW WE DO IN THE D #ONEPRIDE
Likewise when I was a kid I was a big Tigers fan and a Phillies fan especially in the 70's I was so happy when the Phillies won the pennant in 1980. 🐯⚾💪
This was my Grandfathers Favorite Team, my Dad tells me that he Remembers that my Grandfather was so excited when the Tigers Won the World Series in 1968. I miss you Grandad.
As a Phillies Fan I Like The Tigers As Well Since I Love The 1994-2005 Logo Which is Very Awesome Go Phillies and Go Tigers P.S. When I Saw My Phillies Play The Tigers In Clearwater Tigers Fans Were Very Nice Down To Earth People Without Question!
+James Trout Just as well, because the Tigers might have never made it otherwise. I well recall when the Tigers were near the end of a winning streak that clinched the pennant in September, they swept a series from the Oakland As. Earl Wilson hit a home run and shut out Oakland in the opener 3-0, Reggie Jackson gave Detroit a scare by hitting two homers off Denny McClain on national TV Saturday, but the Tigers rallied in the 9th to get McClain his 30th win anyway, and then Mickey Lolich was looking to lower his ERA and did it with a 13-0 rout. The As were a winning club for the first time since the close of the Macks' Athletics regime in Philadelphia, but it was still good for only sixth place that year. A couple weeks later, the situation was vastly different. The Tigers closed out the season with a series with the Washington Senators, which gave up the most runs in the American League that year, and was so terrible a ball club that Ted Williams won Manager of the Year next year just getting them above .500 and into fourth place. The Tigers remained stuck at their 103 win total by getting swept by the Senators in all three games. When the World Series began in St. Louis, the Tigers lost 3 out of the first 4 games, and looked pretty terrible doing it. If they had been playing just one season later, they would have had to play the sixth-place As right in the middle of a period the club was ice cold. I always thought the way the baseball owners came up with modern baseball was idiotic anyway. They should have simply approved the Pacific Coast League's application for major-league status right after WWII, and cooperated with Branch Rickey's Continental League venture in 1960. Then the entire postseason would have remained the World Series expanded by at least two teams (not to mention, the east coast wouldn't have had the experience of having their teams essentially disappear from view on trips to the west coast--as night baseball became predominant, but things like ESPN and significant broadcast audiences in the wee morning hours were still future--and west coast teams wouldn't have to be trying to adjust to playing early in the day --by their body clocks). Branch Rickey argued that expanding major-league baseball with teams rather than leagues would mean it would take years for expansion teams to catch up--and I believe time has shown him as a whole to be right. Look at the 1961-62 class. California under Gene Autry became famous for being a cursed team, though subsequently after 2000 they did win a World Series and had run of recent seasons in contention. After Washington had that one .500 season, it moved to Texas and underwent revolving ownerships by politicos and no championships until getting to the World Series recently (we'll see if Nolan Ryan's departure is a sign of going back to the winless management of decades past). The New York Mets got to postseason this year, only after a decade of struggle following their last WS appearance, and only five in total. The 120-loss 'Mazing Mets and & "Worst Team the Money Could Buy" was more the rule in those decades. The Houston Astros finally got into their first WS after 2000, only to fall into a deep hole in which it couldn't even get a cable TV contract and migrate to the AL before emerging back into post-season this year. The 1969 class didn't do much better. Montreal had exactly one strike-marred post-season appearance before falling into league ownership and moving to Washington to continue the frustration of Washington's winless tradition. San Diego barely avoided moving to Washington after several last-place finishes, and managed to win a couple pennants early and late in the Gwynn-is-gweaaatt!-but-the-Padres-are-terrible era before winning a couple division titles in the early 2000s. Bud Black has just been fired as manager after being the only element of stability in the constant overturn of upper managements and changing master plans since those titles. Seattle shifted to Milwaukee after only one year, enjoyed postseason for 1981-82 before sinking out of contention for decades until rising back into contention for a few seasons after another move to the NL. Kansas City started out the most successful MLB expansion team ever, getting into contention after a couple years and replacing the Oakland As dynasty with a West Division dynasty run of their own in the later 1970s, culminating with two World Series and a World title in 1985. However, two decades of losing followed before a new KC supersquad finally matured the last couple years. Of the 1978 AL class, Seattle managed a miracle 1995 season, a wild card berth and all-time win record season after 2000, but still has to make the WS (despite carrying last season's race to final day). Toronto has been the most successful expansion team after KC, winning five division titles starting in the mid 1980s and culminating in back-to-back World Series titles, but suffered through the longest active playoff drought in North American sports until winning the division title this year. Since then, Colorado has struggled to come to grips with getting pitchers to its hitting-happy mile-high air despite a World Series appearance and playoff berth in recent years, Miami has won a couple of World Series but has otherwise struggled for relevance in other seasons, Tampa Bay started more than a decade in the depths before contending on a budget in recent seasons, Arizona got off to a fast start with three division titles and World Series title but financially broke the franchise to do it, resulting in one lone division flag since. While the first round of NL and AL expansion was crushing the Continental League out of existence before it played a single game, at the same time Pete Rozelle was being hired by the NFL with the prime mission of doing the same to the American Football League. He totally failed--and it probably had a great deal to do with his ending up in the NFL Hall of Fame. Overall, the AFL and successor AFC teams have tended to strengthen the NFL more than the teams MLB added piecemeal over the decades. Even the expansion teams sparked by the AFL and since have tended to have more stable management and better performance on the field on a whole than baseball's. I guess when the AL and NL turned the PCL and CL aside, they cut off their nose to spite their own face because the quicker and more successful expansion of its product likely helped pro football overhaul major-league baseball as the top sport of the nation by the end of the 1960s. There's no earthly reason for the World Series to be limited to the final round between two teams. It isn't that way in the Little League, Junior League or College levels. Not even the early versions of the major league World Series from 1883-1890 and 1903 before the rules were permanently fixed in 1905 always involved just two league champions--it's just that no one thought of involving them in a post-season round-robin tournament like today. Baseball has always tended to be a marathon sport, with the WS essentially a notch above the All-Star game in being a glorified exhibition to showcase the best of the sport and give one league bragging rights over the next year. Now because the World Series no longer includes the entire postseason rounds, suddenly whether a team's season proves successful or not after 162 games comes down to the crapshoot of a handful of playoff games. That means managers can get fired because a team with good hitting and solid pitching that equips it to breeze past the marathon of a season can't sprint to the flag at the finish, because they lack the power hitting and ace pitching that makes a big difference in a short series. Or because the team is more inexperienced in the post season than a veteran dynasty. Or simply because one barely-over .500 playoff team or even one mediocre player happened to get red hot at the right time.
Awesome thanks for sharing! I love this stuff, I also remember the song after the series win in 1969 when the season opened they did a montage of Tigers hitting Home Runs to the song Happy days are here again.
As a Phillies Fan I saw My Team Play Your Tigers in Spring Training Once in Clearwater Florida and Tigers Fans were Very Nice People To Us Phillies Fans!
That is cool! Thanks for sharing that. The Phillies rock too, as a kid I always liked their uniforms the best Still like em .I remember rooting for them in the 1980 World series with Tug McGraw what a great team that was.
we're all behind our baseball team go get 'em, Tiger! World Series bound and pickin' up steam go get 'em, Tiger! They'll be joy in Tigertown, we'll sing you songs when the Bengals bring the pennant home, where it belongs we're all behind our baseball team Go get 'em! Detroit Tigers! Go get 'em Tigers! we're all behind our baseball team Go get 'em! Detroit Tigers! Go get 'em Tigers!
I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan, but I'm from Erie (where the Tigers' AA team plays). I've adopted Detroit as my American League team as a result. It's been fun watching a lot of different players pass through here on their way to Toledo and ultimately Detroit over the last 20 years or so.
Just a frigging awesome song! There's nothing better than hearing this at Comerica after a Tigers win! I will put are song up any other MLB team and especially the Cubs, with that super annoying "Go Cubs Go" I got so sick of that frigging song in 2016!
I love all of the Detroit teams Lions Pistons Red Wings and Tigers but the Tigers will always be my most favorite of them all since they were the first time I saw live
I have been a fan for the tigers since 2008, and I never heard this song until today (March 26th 2020, which would have also been opening day). I heard this through a clip of tigers final out against the Yankees in the 2012 ALCS. They played this song after they got the final out.
I don't understand why the team doesn't use this today. I know they did in 2012 when they won the pennant but this needs to be a regular part of games every year.
This song debuted around August of 1967. There may have been some promotional ties with National Bank of Detroit. The estate of legendary Detroit producer/studio owner Artie Fields should know.
This is from a Tigers fan who lives in Buffalo New York My father and grandfather both used to work at the Tigers at Tiger Stadium my grandfather was police officer that worked security outside at the stadium you got the Mickey Mantle's last home home run at Tiger Stadium my dad worked there in the seventies my great-grandfather I worked with the doorman the hotel across the street your father used to sneak into Tiger Stadium back in the day.
Haven’t been to the Postseason since 2014 Haven’t won the American League pennant since 2012 Haven’t won the World Series since 1984 Poor Tigers. It doesn’t get much better for Detroit for sports, or even as a city in Michigan seeing what it’s accomplished in the 21st Century.
As a New york Mets Fan Thank You 2012 Tigers!! Go Get em Tigers, now go get em and Beat the Cards (or Giants) hate both Cards for being Met nemisis in the 80's Giants for leaving NY
Tigers are the first team to beat the Yankees in three straight postseason series! 2006, 2011 and 2012. Suck it Yankees! You will never stop the Tigers in the postseason. World Series bound!!!
6 runs in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game and then the walk off run in the 12th to take the series from the Sox and knock the magic number down to 2 GO GET 'UM TIGERS!
