Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( German: Lead me to the baseball game ) is incurred in the Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th century song, which became in the decades to become the unofficial anthem of baseball sport. Traditionally, the song is played in baseball stadiums in the world Seventh - inning stretch.
The song is in the original text of 1908 by a young girl (Katie Casey ), to be run by her friend to a show, but prefer to be accompanied by him to a baseball game. In similar popular word of 1927, the girl (in this case: Nelly Kelly) invited by her boyfriend to Coney Iceland, but calls instead for a visit to the ballpark.
History
The original text was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth, a star of vaudeville, while a subway ride. He was inspired by doing an advertisement that advertised a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan. Then the U.S. music producer Albert wrote From Tilzer Music for the existing words. The song was immediately a success and was in 1908 one of the most successful pieces of music in the United States.
Occurrence in other media
The episode 7x04 "Take Me Out to the Paper Moon " of the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine state in its title and in their subject matter on this song. The main characters of the sci-fi series contest here on a holographic (three-dimensional computer- created ) baseball field, a preparatory training and a baseball game against a team consisting of extraterrestrial beings, called Vulcan.
Versions
The song, at least the chorus of the song has been recorded countless times by various artists in the more than 100 years since the birth. The original text and the music of 1908 in the United States now public domain. Outside the U.S., the song is mostly in the public domain because the copyright term comparison, in Germany the music until the end of 2026 and the original text by the end of 2029 is copyrighted. Nevertheless, a global use is of course without the payment of royalties.
At least the melody was and is often used in movies and TV series, if in any manner that is baseball theme. Thus we find the song several times in the American animated television series The Simpsons or in the miniseries Kingdom Hospital again. In 1949, named after the song movie Take Me Out to the Ball Game Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra singing ( in the lead roles ), the first verse of the version of 1927.
Mid-1990s, a campaign of Major League Baseball versions by artists of different genres were included in the course. So, among other things, an alternative rock version of the Goo Goo Dolls.