#The syndicate project outro song full#
The most recent music was a full album by power-pop outfit the Baseball Project, available in every format but sheet music. The first published music about the game was a ditty called “Baseball Polka,” published in sheet music form in 1858. Who doesn’t know all the words? Who doesn’t love counting out one! two! three! strikes? Who doesn’t love hearing an entire stadium harmonizing so poorly yet so earnestly on those last notes?īaseball and popular music are two distinctively American pastimes that have long and intertwined histories running back 150 years. In the 1970s, White Sox announcer Harry Caray started leading fans in a sing-along during the seventh inning stretch, a tradition that continues nearly twenty years after his death. Yet, the most famous version is by arguably the least talented singer of the lot. It’s been sung by generations of baseball fans, played by countless Wurlitzer organists and covered by the Andrews Sisters, Gene Kelly, King Curtis, Billy Joel, Carly Simon and Jimmy Buffett. The sheet music was an instant success more impressively, the song has remained incredibly popular ever since: the most durable American tune after the National Anthem and “Happy Birthday.” In 1908, a sailor-turned-vaudevillian named Jack Norworth scribbled the lyrics down on a napkin during a train ride into New York City, then handed them over to his partner, a former shoe salesman from Indianapolis named Albert Van Tilzer, who composed the melody.
It was hardly the first and obviously not the last song written about baseball, but “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is far and away the most popular.
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