+zonk42 Forgive me for being a pain in the butt, but I remember old Shea Stadium and its original scoreboard and message board -- I believe this was the actual message: "You're listening to Jane Jarvis, Shea's Queen of Melody, coming up with hits on the Thomas organ" I also remember that whenever she played the Star Spangled Banner, the lyrics were displayed one line at a time on the message board starting from the top and going to the bottom -- after the line "Were So Gallantly Streaming" was displayed, the display went back to the top with the line "And The Rocket's Red Glare" and went back to the bottom ending with the final line "And The Home Of The Brave". :^)
This young boy that still lives in this 60 year old body has tears in my eyes. Goode bumps and great memories as if it were yesterday. Love and miss you Jane. Very much part of the team as anyone. Shea's Queen of melody ♥️
@@sgnmath1234YES !! Kids today.. ugh... I always take my hat off during the National Anthem, place it over my heart and face the flag.! (and tear up)
The Queen of big Shea!...Jane Jarvis, what a gem....When you walked into Shea on a sunny afternoon, and were greeted by this fabulous organ music....you knew it was going to be a great day, no matter the score!
I met her in the 60's at her organ in loge press box, thinking why am I asking for an autograph. Don't think she was asked often but graciously complied. Thank you Jane for the memories.
I’ve been a Mets fan since 1983. I was born in December of 1961 (four months before their debut at the Polo Grounds). I live in a large western Canadian city. Hearing this brought a few tears to my eye. I’ve never been able to see the Mets play in person yet. I hope to achieve that soon. Looking forward to going to Citi Field and having my pic taken with Mr. Met!
When I hear this, my eyes well up in tears. Those were the glorious, beautiful days. Going to the big Shea Stadium with your dad and hear that beautiful organ play. Citi Field is too sterile for me. SHEA STADIUM MUST BE REBORN!!!
GEORGE EVANS I only acknowledge Shea Stadium and refer to their current home field as the new Shea Stadium and will never drop a dime to enter that hole. I grew up in Shea Stadium and had the opportunity to take my daughter to many games there. Memories with my dad and then my daughter....awesome!
The key here is being with your dad, being so young and maybe even not appreciating how wonderful those days truly were. If only we could have one day in the past with our long lost friends to once again feel the Summer breeze on our face and those hot dogs!
Wonderful memories of growing up with my Dad taking me to Shea Stadium from where we lived in Yonkers over the years. So much fun, and the organ music was a big part of it :)
My 1st MLB hit was off NY Mets pitcher Ron Darling a clean line drive pinch hit single to center field that scored 2 runs and I was playing for the San Diego Padres 1984.
I LA LA LA LOVE THIS! Thanks for Sharing! Hearing Jane plays this take me back in time to Shea Stadium in the late 60's and the 70's and 80's. Thanks Again! LETS GO METS!!!!!
Reminds me of walking up the ramp, and then "boom" there was that perfect expanse of green. Citi Field doesn't have that moment. My Dad and me would watch batting practice, start with a dog and a soda, and just talk about the game. My eyes are welling the F' up right now. I can still smell the park, feel the sun on my face, and the roar of the jets overhead. Ain't no place like Big Shea...a ballpark like it oughta' be
Yes, smell that grass, those hot dogs, hear the crack of the bat... Ah, now just tell me as i sit hear tearing up, that you still can't hear Jane Jarvis
Imagine a boyfriend entering his girlfriend's house to meet her parents for the very first time. That boy is on a mission to impress her parents to know their daughter is with an awesome nice guy. He is a Mets fan, on the road as the away team. Baseball inspiring him every step of the way. It is now Opening Day, this the first major step! This music plays the moment he enters her house (or ballpark) and steps up to the plate to meet them. What a moment!
Walking outside before the game, Jane played this tune over and over. It was great. Nobody thought twice about it as we were mingling. Oh how I wish we could be there again.
Jane Jarvis was the coolest lady. When she left Shea in 1978?...she played jazz piano in NYC clubs. She is missed, we loved her. May she rest in peace.... Thank you for this post.
When I hear this, I get transported to a much more simpler time in baseball and what would be the sights and sounds of the 1964 World's Fair. How I wish I got to experience that and seen the original Shea with this classic music playing. We need organ music to be back at the ballparks. May the Mets and Baseball live forever!! I will have this playing when the Mets are on the verge of winning a World Series.
I do. It wasn't always that way. Until about 1985 you actually could go up the long escalators. Then some numbskull decided after a late night game to slide down the handrail and took a fly off it. They immediately closed them forcing people to leave the stadium via the ramps. Going up, it all depended on the crowd size at times. Large crowds- open, small crowds not so
One time I was standing in line outside Citi Field and they began to play this version of "Meet the Mets" on the public address. The girl standing behind me asked "Is this the Lawrence Welk version? I love Lawrence Welk!"
It's 1965 all over again and there on the Reingold Scoreboard is written: Jane Jarvis and The Hammond Organ, as the chalk goes down, final preps by the grounds crew followed by the lineup cards being brought out. Chills man. When $3.50 plus carfare from Aurburndale to see a game in a fairly good seat.
I wish it was still like this today; unfortunately we have to deal with the technical aspects of life which have made those who adored yesterday and can’t figure out tomorrow to be stuck in a quagmire …
It's not a baseball game if you don't have an o r g a n playing everything just hearing that pre-recorded crap this is not the same the organist would be following the game and come up with something just two or three notes that were perfect for the situation most of the time it's not a baseball game without live organ music
Awesome Citi Field! It has a double sided score board and even it's own Shake Shack complete with it's ridiculously long line! Yankee Stadium looks like a freaken mausoleum!
I never got to see a live Mets game at Shea. I did love the WOR-TV channel 9 telecasts my local stations would show (pre-cable days back then). Good times...
@exram1930 Me too. Bob Murphy's "IT GETS BY BUCKNER!" scream (from Game 6 of the 1986 World Series at Shea Stadium) will always reverberate in my mind every time I drive by Citi Field. :-)
wow I'm only 26, went to game 1 last night and am probably approaching as many games at citi field as I have at shea.... and this immediately took me back to the red seats, the blue and white tent in the OF pavilion, just sun drenched days and that organ.
When I was a kid growing up in the 60-70s, we used to play outside all summer with no supervision in the double parking lot across from where I lived. There was a kid who played with us who every time he got up to bat at stickball or Wiffle ball he would literally go through the whole Jane Jarvis songbook. It would kill us. LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cmon people you know this doesn't compare to the blasting canned sound effects and "everybody clap your hands" of today (I say that with extreme sarcasm lol)
All of these comments make this organ player very happy:-) I have many organs and have a special place for the Thomas organs. Jane sure could get the most from her Thomas. It would be great if someone had an old record with her playing several songs that you could post. Be sure to put Thomas Organ in the title with her name, and of course 'Mets Organist'.
Just some info for you...I am guessing you are way too young to remember, but the Brooklyn Dodgers uniforms featured blue and the NY Giants featured orange and black before they departed for the west coast in 1957...When the Mets brought National League baseball back to NY in 1962, they decided to incorporate the blue and orange hoping that fans of both old teams would like it
@fivesecondsonly Yeah, they use a live organist on Sundays, day games and holidays/special occasions. For everyday regular night games, they use piped in music on the PA only.
Lower reserve. Fancy. My dad would take me in 1971 when the Giants would return and we'd get the grandstand seats for $1.30 after getting off the 7 train for twenty cents.
@paulj0557--I don't know the model, but Mets broadcasters and the scoreboard specifically informed fans that they were indeed listening to "Jane Jarvis at the Thomas organ." During the late 60s-early 70s Thomas sponsored full-page ads in Mets yearbooks featuring Ms. Jarvis.
They should really have a retro-sound night where all of Jane's catchy tunes should be played. So much of it was catchy-soothing, which is the polar opposite of the blaring we hear today. You could even have a reasonably toned conversation while her stuff was playing. Though knowing the senseless sensibilities of the people in charge of such things now for the this organization, they'd probably jack it up so loud as to make it intrusive...... like every other sound they produce.
I'm a lifelong New York (A) fan, but does anybody have a little song Jane Jarvis played in 1969 - I think it had Mets' in the title. Just a nice little ditty, I'm sure many New York (N) fans remember it.
Yup. It’s called “Let’s Go Mets”. Type in Jane Jarvis “Let’s Go Mets” and it will come up. She played that whenever the Mets would take the field at the top of the 1st inning.
One of the reasons I don't go to ball games any more (in any sport) is the music they feel they have to blast at you constantly. It isn't the music itself, though that's bad enough. It's the fact that they won't let you have a moment's peace. Even ten seconds they have to fill with that obnoxious noise, as if you can't sit there for a moment without some distraction. Isn't the game supposed to be the focus? This all started with Frank Cashen in Baltimore and I hope he burns in hell for it.
Ray Castoldi, the Madison Square Garden organist, plays the organ for days games and other selected games Most night games recordings by Castodi re used
Thumbs up for NO-HAN SANTANA! 51 years and 8,020 games later...to quote Gary Cohen-- "IT HAS HAPPENED!" Put it in the books--a no-hitter for No-Han Santana and the New York Mets!!! :D
The Polo Grounds, the original home of the METS, did not have an organ. But that's where the METS were born and the only place I ever saw them play in person. Now THAT was a ballpark. Not only did Willie play there but so did The BABE and Lou !!!
Belting out the hits on the Thomas Organ. Does anyone have a link to the song "Let's Go Mets", which was what she played when the Mets took the field at the start of the game?
Does anyone know where I can find a rendition of The Star Spangled Banner played on the Shea Stadium organ? That was a beautiful sound to hear on gameday at Shea.
this song sums up my childhood with the mets... walking out of the runway to my seats listening to jane... then the song lets go mets when they took the field!!! does anybody know where that song is ... would love to hear it
Does anyone have the other catchy tune that Jane Jarvis did , right before the Mets took the field. It was an original instrumental and just awesome. Wish someone would post.
I wish that if they had to replace Shea, they did so on the spot where Citi Field is with a “modernized Shea”, something that kind of resembled Shea but different (Kauffman Stadium comes to mind). I don’t like Citi Field.
This sounds like a Thomas organ. There doesn't sound like a Leslie rotating speaker is on her organ. Very odd, but doesn't sound odd at all. In fact the Thomas organs had a new kind of tone that organ players either hated or loved depending on who you ask. Personally I love the fresh up front sound of a Thomas. It would be nice to know the organs Jane played through her career. Does anyone know which models of Thomas she played? Is this recording indeed a Thomas, which model?
