Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1st recorded Version) - Harvey Hindermeyer - 1908 Standard Disc Record
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Here from late August of 1908 here is the very first recorded version of the famous Baseball Classic. This is the Columbia Record Rendition of "Take Me out to the Ball Game" Words by Jack Norworth and Music by Albert Von Tilzer, sung by Harvey Hindermeyer. The Record is a Columbia "Client" label, Standard Disc Record. The Standard Disc Record was rather unique in that it had an oversized Spindle Hole, much larger then regular Disc Records. The Theory being that if you bought A Standard Disc. Talking Machine with a larger spindle, you would be locked into buying only Standard Disc Records with the larger spindle hole to fit the machine. There were several other client disc. Companies that shared that same concept and marketing ploy, including Harmony, United and Aretino among others.
Still a banger 112 years later . That’s crazy, this is my favourite version
I really got into listening to these songs back in 2006. I enjoy your efforts preserving them for future generations. I share them with my children, because it is part of our history and should never be forgotten. Thank you and keep up the great work!
...and the irony was, Jack Norworth had NEVER seen an actual ball game until AFTER his song had become a hit!
The wordsmith also wrote shine on harvest Moon the same year. Good year for him.
He never attended a baseball game until 1942.
Thanks for the record.
Great video!
It's nice to hear the complete verse, not just the refrain. :)
Thanks Gael. and next time you are with friends who love baseball, you can impress them by singing the verses.
I'll be perfectly honest...I did not know there were those two verses!
I wonder how many baseball fans who sing the song even know they are singing just the chorus.
Most people don't even know the refrain or intro to God Bless America
Bruce!! This is so great!! I love all your video's so much!! You have the best music and machines! Thank you for all your efforts to show us these treasures!! To think these are all over 100 years old!! I never, never tier of them!! Thank you!!
It's hard to believe that record is older than Fenway Park.
It’s older than four U.S. states.
@desoto1961 Thanks, it is always nice to hear from viewers who really appreciate my efforts to share my collection and knowledge of this wonderfully interesting early era of Recorded Sound Classics, here on youtube.
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This was the version in the Ken Burns Baseball documentary.
I love that documentary and really like how this song became popular in a Nickelodeon, the photographs that came with it were awesome too.
So amazing ❤
Thanks for making this historical tune available. It's marvelous (and certainly less grainy than the Meeker recordings I've heard). All might be interested in Julien (Trudbol) Neel's recent acappella effort on this baseball classic. Do a You Tube search
I found this record at a thrift shop for only $2. Is it rare?
Well considering it's one of, if not the earliest-surviving recording of one of the most popular songs in America, i'd say you can get 50 bucks out of it, depending on the condition.
that's a good deal. It should play on a regular player
Just a note- you have the lyric "every sue Katy blew"- it's actually sou or sous, an old french word for a debased coin, worth less than our penny. Great find, enjoyed hearing the original.
@Edisonfans19 Thanks for your comment. I really wonder though how many people even care about seeing the actual 1908 record played on an original victrola from the era, and actually see the original verses on the screen? I am getting the impression, that fewer and fewer people, are caring less and less about the actual history, which is what I am trying to give them. Sometimes it does, really get discouraging.
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Bruce Victrolaman Young I agree! I've always loved the sound of vinyl and the more you listen to the really early stuff the more you appreciate it. I wish I had the money to buy a phonograph as beautiful as yours. I recently bought a set of ten 78 records and I can't even play them because the record player that I have doesn't play 78s. My friends and family laugh at me because I enjoy this so much, I also have a little collection of Underwood and Underwood stereoviews but I don't have the stereoscope viewer lol. Well, I'm just starting and I love these little treasures that nobody seems to appreciate. In fact I spent a couple of days singing Billy Murray's "He'd Have to Get Under".
They know not history, of any kind.....the ww2 guys never get the accolades they deserve from the younger gen.....so i am listening......mon cher, play on!!!
Well Victrolaman , I care, and appreciate your efforts.
The problem is there is so much crap music the younger generation listens to it drowns out their time and curiosity to explore and learn about earlier music, so they can’t even recognize bad music. But if you expose them to the best in a natural way they are often amazed.
In math class I overheard a few of the students raving about Billy Joe Armstrong’s cover of “We are the Champions”. His cover was in fact very good. I cancelled class and took them to the college’s music room and played Freddie Mercury’s Live Aid performance of the piece. They were amazed. None of them had even heard of Mercury much less of his band Queen, and were a bit disappointed to learn that Armstrong hadn’’t composed either the music or lyrics.
So I am a little more optimistic perhaps to think all is not lost. Since music has not been a regular part of the curriculum for decades now the situation is to be expected.
Amazing! Thank you for posting
This version was featured in Ken Burns' Baseball documentary and on the soundtrack.
If they had normal records in there collections, they would be playing them on some other machine, and would they make the larger holes and risk damaging and destroying the records ? The answer is yes, in some instances, because I have actually found sound regular records where the normal size holes have obviously been 'stamped" out with a Standard Size hole puncher ! You could also obtain, inserts, to place in the center of a Standard disc record so you could play it on a regular phonograph.
@victrolaman that is soooooo cool always nice to find new treasures
Thank you for posting!!!
thank you good research and great recording
Thanks so much for posting this!
What a GEM! WOW! Thank you!
@Westtoledoguy I just looked it up, The Victor Version was recorded Sept. 9, 1908.
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Yes, that be it !
I like it when they have the verses! I have a 1923 Vocalion that I think had its spindle hole enlarged for one of these machines which I guess were still in use in the 20's.
you're my hero
This is awesome..Thanks for sharing
I love standard disc records, do you have anymore of these records?
I love this record ......didnt know it was done before Ed Meeker
@Westtoledoguy Yes, it was. I am wondering whether this is the earliest version or the one done of Victor by the Haydn Quartet.
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Amazing! Now U.S.A just have Harry Styles...
@mlebagley I have very few Standard records, because I do not have a Standard Disc Phonograph.
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where does the 1908 Fred Lambert version on Zonophone fit in chronologically? Can you post that version? thanks!
I never heard of it. and I don't own it.
Good
I thought the earliest version was by Edward meeker
Where did that information come from ?
Bruce Victrolaman Young well I read it on Wikipedia and I’ve seen the Edison cylinders of it from 1908. But I could be wrong. I love both versions of the song! Not trying to hate on my man Harvey
@@sirhats1954 Ok here you go, according an online discography, this version was from July 31st of 1908, while the Edward Meeker Version on Edison was recorded in September of 1908.
Bruce Victrolaman Young ah. Well I was pretty close! Would love to find a copy of meekers version on cylinder
Is that a spindle clamp that is used for Rastus toys?
Any chance you would consider selling your copy? Thanks Jonathan
It is one of my most cherished Hitorical Records. I have no idea, what are your offering ?
Can you reply to jdtrager@gmail.com to further discuss. Thanks, Jonathan
What kind of victrola was that in the video?
Victor VV-330 Console Model.