Bonus 78 - Baseball Bloch!

                                              

As mentioned, the New York Giants baseball team looms over 1953's "Big Leaguer" from MGM.

So, let's go back a few years to 1947, for this tribute to the team by Ray Bloch on Signature Records:

A couple of things to note include the misplaced apostrophe on the label. It sounds like it's a song about one giant marching!

Another is that is that it's credited to Ray Bloch and his Military Band, although it's presumably the same bunch of musicians who cut the their songs on that session. Fun, though!

Such a song from when the Giants were still in New York playing at the Polo Grounds brings an instant feeling of nostalgia!

We heard the flipside of Ray Bloch's record back here when talking about The Chickering Four, but let's hear it again:

William Bendix's character in "Kill the Umpire" would totally agree!

Ray Bloch doesn't get talked about too much these days, but it's worth a mention that he was the musical director for the Ed Sullivan TV show for its entire run from 1948-1973.

He must have had some stories!