Baseball: A Film By Ken Burns - Original Soundtrack Recording [Soundtrack]

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Hailed as perhaps the greatest filmed document in the history of the sport, Ken Burns's epic series chronicled more than a century's worth of baseball lore. The producers paid nearly as much attention to the audio as the stunning visuals, but this soundtrack is slightly uneven. Baseball errs on the side of good taste a bit too often, what with contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Carly Simon, and Natalie Cole peppered amid classics by the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. The well-chosen historical material--including calls spanning five full decades--should interest die-hard fans, though. --David Sprague

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This CD completes the Book and Video or DVD Set
A HOME RUN FOR ANY BASEBALL FAN!
Excellent Companion Piece to An Excellent Documentary!
For the Baseball lover's heart and soul
Steal Away Home

Baseball: A Film By Ken Burns - Original Soundtrack Recording
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Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005J2P
Release Date: 1994-09-06

Tracks:

Walt Whitman (Quote) - Garrison Keillor
Take Me Out To The Ball Game - Jacqueline Schwab
Star Spangled Banner - Big League Orchestra
Hurrah For Our National Game - Jacqueline Schwab
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - Harvey Hindermyer
Gee, It's A Wonderful Game - Dodworth Saxhorn Band
Sol White (Quote) Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - Willie Johnson
Steal Away - Bobby Horton
Babe Ruth (Radio Call) - Various Artists
Clubhouse Stomp - The New York Hawks
If You Can't Make A Hit At The Ballgame, You Can't Make A Hit With Me - National Passtime Orchestra
Pound Cake - Lester Young
The Minstrel Boy - Jaqueline Schwab
Joe DiMaggio (Radio Call) - Red Barber
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio - Les Brown And His Orchestra
Kansas City Call (Quote) - Ossie Davis
The Star Spangled Banner - Jaqueline Schwab
The New Black And Tan Fantasy - Duke Ellington
Jackie Robinson (Radio Call) - Bob Wolf
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? - Natalie Cole
Baseball Boogie - Mabel Scott
Radio Call: Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard 'Round The World - Russ Hodges
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - King Curtis
Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) - The Treniers
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - George Rabbai
Henry Aaron (Radio Call) / When You And I Were Young, Maggie The New York Times (Quote) - Jaqueline Schwab
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - Dr. John
Eulogy For Jackie Robinson/ Steal Away - Rev. Jesse Jackson
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - Carly Simon
The Sporting News Quote - Amy Madigan
The Star Spangled Banner - Branford Marsalis

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Hailed as perhaps the greatest filmed document in the history of the sport, Ken Burns's epic series chronicled more than a century's worth of baseball lore. The producers paid nearly as much attention to the audio as the stunning visuals, but this soundtrack is slightly uneven. Baseball errs on the side of good taste a bit too often, what with contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Carly Simon, and Natalie Cole peppered amid classics by the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. The well-chosen historical material--including calls spanning five full decades--should interest die-hard fans, though. --David Sprague

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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.

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.)

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.

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.

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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