It has been a while but with the passing of country and western great Kenny Rogers, it is a good moment for a new episode of Baseball Related Songs. Of course, we pay attention to Rogers’ baseball-related song “The Greatest.” Born in 1938, Kenny Rogers had an impressive career of more than fifty years. Even…
In today’s episode of Baseball Related Songs, we pay attention to the song “Wild Thing” performed by the Troggs. The song originally dates from 1965 as it was performed by the Wild Ones but it wasn’t a hit. Only when the song was released by the Troggs, it became an instant hit. The song was…
In this episode of “Baseball Related Songs” we pay attention to “Chin Music” performed by the Baseball Project. It isn’t the first song by this group we pay attention to. After “Satchel Paige Said”, “1976”, “To the Veterans Committee”, and “Fernando” “Chin Music” is the fifth song of the group we place into the limelight….
In today’s episode of “Baseball Related Songs,” we pay attention to “The Man With the Broom (Epilogue)” performed by Brocker Way. This is the final piece of music of the Netflix documentary “Battered Bastards of Baseball.” Brocker Way is an is an actor and composer, known for #TAKEMEANYWHERE (2018), Passport to Paris (1999) and Battered…
In today’s episode of “Baseball Related Songs,” we pay attention to “My oh my” performed by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The song is about the magical year 1995 in which the Seattle Mariners made it to the ALCS after beating the Yankees in the ALDS. Macklemore is the stage name of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, a…
In this episode of Baseball Related Songs, we pay attention to “Tiger Stadium’s Lament” performed by singer-songwriter and balladeer Russ Franzen. The nice part about this song is that it is written from the point of view of Tiger Stadium itself. As said in the prologue, Russ Franzen is a singer-songwriter and balladeer from the…
In this episode of Baseball Related Songs, we pay attention to “Laughing River” performed by Greg Brown. The song is about a minor leaguer who hangs up his spikes after a twenty-year career. | Greg Brown is an American folk musician from Iowa. He was born into a musical family so the apple didn’t fall…
In today’s episode of Baseball Related Songs, we pay attention to “Paint it, black” performed by the British rock formation the Rolling Stones. Even though the song itself isn’t about baseball, it is related to our beautiful sport in more than one way. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were credited for the lyrics of the…
In this episode of “Baseball related songs”, we pay attention to an instrumental performance by Bernie Williams, the former center fielder of the New York Yankees. In more than one way this “song” is baseball-related. First of all the song itself, which was released for the first time in 1908. But also the person who…
In this episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “We are Family”, performed by Sister Sledge. The song was a big disco hit in the seventies when the Disco music was at its heyday. The song was written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, another huge disco act from the seventies….
