Take Me Out to the Ball Game Easy Ukulele Song by 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way

http://youtu.be/f2UcW9MNypw Take Me Out to the Ball Game Easy Ukulele Song by 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer. It was one of the most popular hits of 1908. but neither of the song’s authors of the song had ever attended a ball game when they wrote it. Nor worth didn’t make it to his first game until 1940, but Von Tilzer got there in 1928.

“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball. It's traditionally sung during the middle of the seventh inning of a baseball game. It was probably first played at a ballpark in 1934, at a high-school game in Los Angeles. Historians think it made its debut at a major-league park later that year.

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the 365 top "Songs of the Century”. The first recorded version (sung by Edward Meeker) was by the Library of Congress as as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry which selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Other famous performances of the song include a 1927 version by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (1949).

In 1994, radio station WJMP, broadcasting to the Akron, Ohio market, played the song continuously during the Major League Baseball players' strike of 1994 as a protest.

The 2001 children's book "Take Me Out of the Bathtub and other Silly Dilly Songs" by Alan Katz and David Catrow, featuring silly words to well-known tunes, recast the end of the chorus as "I used one, two, three bars of soap. Take me out...I'm clean!" in its title number.

And in March 13, 2015, the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was adopted as the departure melody for trains on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line at Kōrakuen Station in Tokyo, Japan. Baseball is popular in Japan.

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