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"I Want to Go to the Ball Game"
Musical prodigy, performer and prolific Tin Pan Alley composer Al Brown contributed a total of nine songs to the baseball repertoire, hoping that just one of them might successfully ride on the coattails of Von Tilzer's 1908 hit. Even with the exceptional cover art reminiscent of George Cohan's copycat song, "Take Your Girl to the Ball Game," and a cameo photo of vaudevillian Lucille Langdon, the song languished. [image 1] Another unsuccessful copycat song "I've Been Making a Grandstand Play for You," [image 2] attempted to capitalize on the theme of taking your girl to the ball game.
Al W. Brown and C. P. McDonald. "I Want to Go to the Ball Game." Chicago: Victor Kremer Co., 1909. |