“Baseball Boogie”, Mabel Scott, with orchestra

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Do you know how to play the game? Jeff Twiss Baseball Song of the Day will show you the way. Infact we can arrange for lessons if needed. Although from personal experience I know this involves a grapefruit. 

Mabel Scott’s “Baseball Boogie” was released in 1950 on a ten-inch, 78rpm shellac recording, catalogue #4368-AA on King Records, a label that operated in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1943 until 1968.  It’s a double-entendre ‘baseball’ song written and composed by Bill Williams.  The enduring popularity of the song has resulted in reissues on numerous compilation albums including the soundtrack for Ken Burns’ 1994 baseball documentary.

Mabel Scott was born on April 30,1915, in Richmond, VA, and raised in New York City. She developed her singing voice in the Metropolitan Baptist Church and led her own all-girl gospel group, the Song Cycles.  In 1930 the 15-year-old Scott began singing at Harlem's Alhambra Theater.

This led to a 30-year career in musical performing, recording, and touring.  ‘Baseball Boogie’ was preceded by four other boogie recordings: “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B”, “Elevator Boogie”, “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus”, and “Googie Woogie (Jungle Boogie)”.

Biography compiled from Wikipedia and Marv Goldberg’s R&B Notebooks website. 

 

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