The Chicago Cub are on the air! How'ya doin,' baseball fans! This is Jack Quinlan with Lou Boudreau brining you the play-by-play of today's ballgame between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals...
The Dodgers used to play the entire song before games. However, they eventually cut out the last verse; "It's a beautiful day for the ladies, so throw all your dishes away!".....not very PC. Cracked me up!
Takes me back to my childhood Vin Scully Jerry Doggett the Dodgers in the 60's and 70's i have moved all over the country even to Alaska I always took the Dodgers with me Dodgers are America's greatest team baseball is America's greatest game
In the late 80's and early 90's, they played this song at the beginning of the Dodger game broadcasts in English as well. They'd play the first "verse", followed by Vin Scully introducing himself and that day's game. Interestingly enough, I had never heard the entire song before now...
Same here I remember my mom listening to the Dodger games in her bedroom at night with no lights on only the windows open and the light from the little portable radio laying down cooling off
This brings back so many great memories with my dad. As a little kid we Listened to the Sunday Dodgers games at 110pm on the Spanish broadcast. Love you dad
WGN used to play this before Cubs games. I like toward the beginning, where they showed scenes from old Comiskey Park, and Tommie Agee, Tommy McCraw, and Tommy John...
Sweet memories of the dodgers on the radio. It was so much fun, especially on smoggy Sunday afternoons when you couldn't go outside to play...turn KABC 790 on and wait for this tune.
They played this on Dodger radio broadcasts in the late 60s, and probably before that. I started listening to the radio in 1969. They were just playing a portion of this on ESPNLA alluding to oldtime baseball songs and I believe alluding to Danny Kaye.
@@nancyeigenhouse8176 Dodger fan here saying I'm glad they finally won it-those fans waited FOREVER! They've had some amazing players come through that city and play in the "friendly confines." One of the absolute sports cathedrals, right up there with Boston Garden, Yankee and Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Royals Stadium, Chicago Stadium, the Olympia and Montreal Forum. I must say the greatest play ever made at Dodger Stadium was by a visitor, one rick Monday playing outfield for the Cubs who stopped a few unruly folks from burning a United States flag on the outfield grass just before they poured gasoline on it and lit it. The Bleacher Bums, Mr. Cub ("Let's play two!!") Ernie Banks and the "Cub fan Bud man himself, Harry Karay!
@@steveblaugh2180 Hi, That must have been a sight to see with Rick Monday!!! I watched in on RU-vid. He got a standing ovation from the crowd! Thank you for the story! I actually met Ernie Banks while traveling on Amtrak a number of years ago. I have a photo of him and myself. It surely made for a fun train ride (going from Chi town headed toward So. Calif)! : )
@@steveblaugh2180 Hi, Looks like my first reply did not post. Thank you so much for the story about Rick Monday saving the American flag. There are YT videos showing this which are wonderful to watch! A number of years ago, I met Ernie Banks on an Amtrak train! In fact, I have a photo of him (and myself). He was quite the celebrity on that trip which was from Chi town and headed toward So. Calif! Thank you, again for your very interesting reply post!
Dunno if they still play this -- The Dodgers are broadcast on KLAC radio now.. but they were on KABC -- and this song played every day before the game! Great stuff!
Did you ever buy any merch from Danny Goodman? Those were the days, dem bum making it to the World Series only to lose. Got to love them. RIP Jerry Doggett!
I sure do. I remember listening to the Tigers and Cardinals in the '68 series when I was in fourth grade. A bunch of us guys were listening to a transistor radio outside the school building during lunch. I wasn't even a baseball fan just yet (that would come in 1969 when we had the Pilots in Seattle), but sanding around listening to the game is an indelible mental picture that could've been used for a Rockwell painting.
You actually saw the Seattle Pilots? I'm impressed. There aren't many who did. I remember seeing Sicks Stadium on TV- it was a hastily-expanded minor-league park that was anything but big-league quality. They say players had to shower in their downtown hotels because there was no water pressure at the park. Only once did the Pilots come anywhere near a sellout- when the Yankees came in. They were still installing temporary bleachers in April. If not for the late Jim Bouton, nobody would have ever heard of this ball club. It's now 2020 and Seattleites are still waiting for that elusive pennant...and, as Elton told us, "I think it's gonna be a long, long time". BTW- I once heard the Pilots' fight song on RU-vid. Kind of lame...Don't you love the line about Walla Walla? Then again, why say "Everett" when you can say "Walla Walla"?😊 (It's also the home of Drew Bledsoe and Whitman College, Adam West's ["Holy Hoquiam, Batman!"] alma mater.)
Grew up rooting for my beloved Dodgers in the 80s, gives me chills listening to this song as it takes me back to my childhood. I left LA almost 20 yrs ago, but I took my team in my heart. Win or lose, for ever a Dodger fan.
I grew up listening to the NY Dodgers vs. NY Giants on Armed Forces Radio in Germany (delayed a few weeks from the actual game day). We finally returned to the US and ended up in Los Angeles, California. I went to my first Dodger game in the Los Angeles Colosseum back in 1957, and from that day on, I stayed true Blue to the L.A. Dodgers. I'm now over sixty-five years old and live in Alexandria, Virginia and the L.A. Dodgers are still my favorite Baseball Team. The Folk around Northern Virginia root for the Washington Nationals. My neighbors ask me "what is so special about the Dodgers?" I tell them that there isn't a team or a player in baseball today that hasn't benefited from the Ownership and the History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, including the Washington Nationals. The Nationals were once a Dodger farm club, known as the Montreal Expositions, and before that, the Montreal Expositions were the Montreal Monarchs (with a super-huge hat tip to the one and only Jackie Robinson), and many others that followed the great Jackie Robinson.
Even before that was Dodger Talk, then "Dodger Forecast," and I think "Dodger Confidential." The pre-game show and then the game! Afterward was the post-game show, "Dick Enberg's Sports Challenge" and more dodger Talk with Geoff Witcher who was the best host of them all.
@@HolgerRuneFan Darned right! Vin Scully, Ross Porter and Jerry Doggett who Vinnie said was the best colleague anyone could want and an overall beautiful person. Porter came on board in 1977 and from being a long-time news and sports reporter did an amazing job at play-by-play. There was nothing more exciting than hearing the start of an important game with a playoff atmosphere at Dodger Stadium and hearing Jerry say "And now for the play-by-play, here's Vin Scully! Vinnie?"
Did that for the 1969 World Series, when a few of us brought our transistor radios and kept the others up to date. Nowadays, iPhones can bring the broadcast, though the Series is played at night, so the kids can watch it in primetime.
Creci en Los Angeles en Los 80s y temprano en los 90's. Esta cancion me trae lindos recuerdos de mi niñes, escuchando en el radio la voz de Jaime jarrin y Rene Cardenas en Espanol y Vin Scully en ingles. Leyendas inigualables en la narracion de beisbol. Hace ya casi 20 años que me movi de Los Angeles pero jamas removi mi amor a los Dodgers, y como dice LaSorda "mi sangre es azul Dodger por siempre"
Who wrote and published this music? What were the circumstances and surroundings? And don't tell me Jon Weisman, as he could've only written it as an infant (he was born in 1967).
This song was composed by Ruth Roberts, with lyrics by Bill Katz and Gene Piller. They also wrote "Meet The Mets" (still the Mets' fight song) and "Mr. Touchdown USA". Choral director Harry Simeone also got credit as the arranger.
Here is current news April 1, 2020 the baseball season is currently on hold because of the corona virus. Millions and millions want this virus gone, we need our baseball!!!!!!!!!!
It's from 1960, recorded by The Harry Simeone Songsters on 20th Century Fox. There are plenty of renditions on RU-vid but the 45 is probably a collector's item. Simeone was the same choirmaster who recorded "The Little Drummer Boy" for the holiday season of '58. I'm told that the people who sang on this record were also part of The Ray Conniff Singers.
