Baseball: The American Epic

Baseball: The American Epic Artist: Original Soundtrack
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 075597934045
EAN: 0075597934045
ASIN: B000005J2Q


Release Date: 1994-09-06

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Tracks:

  1. Walt Whitman [Quote]
  2. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  3. Star Spangled Banner
  4. Hurrah for Our National Game
  5. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  6. Gee, It's a Wonderful Game
  7. Sol White /Dark Was ... [Quote from History of Colored Baseball, 1907]
  8. Steal Away
  9. Babe Ruth Radio Call
  10. Clubhouse Stomp - New York Hawks
  11. If You Can't Make a Hit at the Ballgame, You Can't Make a Hit With Me - National Pastime Orchestra
  12. Pound Cake - Count Basie Orchestra, Lester Young
  13. Minstrel Boy
  14. Joe Dimaggio Radio Call - Betty Jane Bonney, Les Brown & His Orchestra
  15. Joltin' Joe Dimaggio
  16. Kansas City Call - Duke Ellington
  17. Star Spangled Banner
  18. New Black and Tan Fantasy - Natalie Cole
  19. Jackie Robinson Radio Call - Mabel Scott
  20. Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? - King Curtis
  21. Baseball Boogie - The Treniers
  22. Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard 'Round the World
  23. Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Carly Simon
  24. Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) - Big League Orchestra
  25. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  26. Henry Aaron Radio Call/When You and I Were Young, Maggie/The New ... - Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis
  27. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  28. Eulogy for Jackie Robinson/Steal Away - Harvey Hindemyer
  29. Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Dodworth Saxhorn Band
  30. Sporting News [Quote]
  31. Star Spangled Banner

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This CD completes the Book and Video or DVD Set.......2006-04-25

I should have posted this review here several years ago. This CD complements the book and video or DVD set and includes a variety of songs and great moments from baseball's glorious history. Several renditions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game are included, my favorite being the one done by Carly Simon. Other songs include those of players Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, and Willie Mays. Gee It's A Wonderful Game is a song written by Ring Lardner several years ago, and probably not recognizable to most fans. Some of the great moments included are Bobby Thomson's memorable home run on 10-3-51, and Henry Aaron's historic home run passing Babe Ruth. If you have the book and the video or DVD set, but don't have this CD, your set is incomplete. Include the CD now. It is certainly worth it.

5 out of 5 stars A HOME RUN FOR ANY BASEBALL FAN!.......2005-09-05

While this soundtrack does not contain every song from the movie, it has the COMPLETE songs (not the snippets played in the movie) and the ones they picked are great! You will find yourself listening to this CD over and over again! The CD contains not only musical pieces but also radio calls (including Russ Hodges's famous "The Giants Win The Pennant!" call) and quotes. There is something for everyone on this CD, even if you are not a huge fan of any given team. (I ordered it used but if no used copies are available the music is well worth the new price.)

4 out of 5 stars Excellent Companion Piece to An Excellent Documentary!.......2004-11-18

Great album to accompany a great multi-chapter mega-documentary; Ken Burns' BASEBALL. Hands down, the best song on the CD is Carly Simon's rousing rendition of TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME. One could only wish they would play this version during the seventh-inning stretch at ball parks around the country because it's such a fun and upbeat version. The other song that comes close is Natalie Cole's cover of DID YOU SEE JACKIE ROBINSON HIT THAT BALL? which is equally rousing and upbeat. These two songs alone are worth their weight in gold on the album.

5 out of 5 stars For the Baseball lover's heart and soul.......2003-02-21

This is a simplistically beautiful CD. The cuts range from the joyous to the deeply moving. From Garison Keillor's opening reading of Walt Whitman's thoughts on baseball to the closing quiet of the Star Spangled Banner, the listener is taken on a musical and aural journey through the history of Our National Pastime. Even though the game of today can be a pale imitation in some ways of what it once was, baseball still has a strong emotional hold on millions of Americans.
While I love listening to the entire CD, my favorite track above all is the moving"Steal Away". I always think of Jackie Robinson when I hear this song. The song has the feel of quiet dignity and a life lived in simple strength.
If you love baseball like I do, buy this CD.....you'll be so glad you did.

4 out of 5 stars Steal Away Home.......2001-06-14

Ken Burns is smart enough to realize that some of the best music in many films, including BASEBALL, is the incidental music. As he did with THE CIVIL WAR soundtrack, Burns includes plenty of the beautiful piano solos from the PBS special on this CD.

The inclusion of the calls from The Shot Heard 'Round The World and Hank Aaron's 715th HR is a nice touch. Nothing drives people crazier than cranking that up real loud in afternoon traffic.

Unfortunately, what you see in the film and hear on the soundtrack is what baseball was in this country, and what it is now. It's still a popular game, it still makes a lot of money, it still has a lot of fans. But the love for the game, the feeling so many of us had for the players and the teams, isn't there any more. Would a major political figure speak so poetically on behalf of a player now, and would so many people listen and be as touched, as when Jesse Jackson gave his eulogy for Jackie Robinson?

For that matter, will there ever be another sports figure even half as important as Jackie Robinson?

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