[Dixielandjazz] Phoebe Snow song

[Robert Ringwald]

I have baseball in my blood.  

Beautiful song, beautiful arrangement and beautiful singing by Frank.  

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Weber" <famw at comcast.net>
To: "Bob Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
Cc: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Phoebe Snow song


> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4YQkrUCE80 
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> From: Harry Callaghan [mailto:meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:50 PM
> To: Bill Haesler
> Cc: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: Re: Phoebe Snow song
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> Well, my "Mouldy" friend (your description, not mine)
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> Youve been scooped by Fred Weber, who isn't even a DJML subscriber but I
> BCCd it to him as he and I e-mail back and forth rather frequently., moreso
> on movies and sports than music..
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> Admittedly the lyrics are not all that easy to understand but they really
> are very touching and as I said, particularly if you had baseball in your
> blood at a very early age
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> If you're looking for something in a similar vein with considerably improved
> enunciation, see if you can locate "There Used To Be a Ballpark Right Here".
> It was a Joe Raposo composition that Frank Sinatra recorded on his "Ol'
> Blues Eyes Is Back" album.  It laments the Dodgers move from Brooklyn to Los
> Angeles.
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> Joe's most popular composition, as I'm sure you know is the one he wrote for
> our little green friend (no, not the Geico) Kermit the Frog ,"Being Green".
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> And , after all these years, you know that I'm always the naughty boy in the
> corner..I have to check every once in awhile to make sure. my dunce cap is
> on straight.
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> Thanx
> 
> Harry
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> On 7/17/10, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote: 
> 
> Harry Callaghan wrote [in part]:
>> Have any of y'all ever heard the song that Phoebe Snow wrote and recorded
>> with Dave Grusin about a guy who shined shoes outside Yankee Stadium for
>> years?.
>> I have the name of it written down somewhere but it doesn't come to mind
>> right now.
> 
> Dear Harry,
> Do you mean "Somewhere Between Old and New York"?
> Here 'tis on YouTube.
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfd6tN3Dwjs
> Wow, just the mention of this performance could get you thrown off the DJML.
> Or, at least, a week in the naughty boy corner.
> As with all these girlie singers, I was unable to understand a word she is
> singing.
> A quick search for the lyrics didn't turn up anything.
> Maybe, just as well.
> Kind regards,
> Mouldy Bill.
> *>)
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> -- 
> Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good
> opinion 
> of himself, undisturbed by the facts
> 
>            - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) 
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