We Want a Hit
Submitted by Jon Springer on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 12:09am
I keep getting delayed in my attempt to write a season preview, a book review and a few other things but I dropped everything today when I heard this song for the first time. The artist is The Duke of Iron, also a new name to me, but apparently not to New York area Calypso fans in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. In celebrating we fans' love of the team in spite of its foibles, I thought the Duke aka Cecil Anderson, who died in 1968) captured the spirit perfectly, as does the sound.
I was so inspired to share, I downloaded the song tonight and whipped up the accompanying video from stuff I had lying around. Enjoy!
Yeah mon!
Great song! My girlfriend (from St. Vincent and the Grenadines) adored it!
instant classic, 50 years later
I can't believe I'd never heard it before this week. Why hasn't it ever been played at Shea, er... the stadium? I mean, they tried Sweet Caroline before this?
This is great!
I love it! We really need to campaign to have this be the 7th inning song at home games!
What a find
This is triple if not quadruple awesome, Jon.
I've been looking for this song for 34 years!
A friend lent me this record when I was in the 8th grade in '76 or '77. I've been looking for it ever since. THIS IS GREAT! Thank you!
You're welcome Ray
I found it completely by accident, never knew it existed.
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