I feel like we need another baseball song as well as more Jerry Colonna, so from the Two Birds Department, here's Jerry's 1946 recording of "Casey (The Pride of Them All)" on Capitol Records:
They get a lot onto that record!
Solid backing from Frank De Vol, as always!
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| Producer Walt Disney (left) gets an earful from Jerry Colonna! |
That song part of a segment from the Walt Disney compilation movie "Make Mine Music," which has several fun segments featuring recording stars (you can see Dinah Shore and Andy Russell with Jerry on the sheet music at the top), some of which, including "Casey," were later released as separate shorts:
Good fun!
The story is (of course) a takeoff on Ernest Thayer's famous poem "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (although the cartoon is apparently set in 1902).
Pretty neat that the baseball action could still happen in a similar manner 134 years later!
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