Another baseball season is upon us. Here’s a classic baseball number from the old musical “Damn Yankees” — Six Months Out of Every Year, pitting the wives against the sports loving husbands.
From a great high school production:
And here’s another EXCELLENT version, staged differently:
King’s Park High School
Finally, here’s the CD with the original cast Broadway recording of this must-listen must-own baseball musical score:
This score has one of my FAVORITE sports songs: You’ve Gotta Have Heart.
Here’s the number as seen in the film and as on the original Broadway cast CD:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.