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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the soundtrack to baseball’s seventh-inning stretch, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Today, we learn about a hit song that lost two verses en route to stardom in the big leagues. Plus: gritty blues duo The Black Keys talk about collaborating with studio wiz (and Gnarls Barkley member) Danger Mouse on the Keys' latest album, "Attack and Release."
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The Black KeysStill Swinging for the Fences
This year marks the 100th anniversary of that staple of baseball’s seventh-inning stretch, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Tim Wiles, director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, shares the history of a hit song that somehow lost two verses on its way to ...
The Black Keys
After four albums of down-and-dirty blues tracks recorded in basements, The Black Keys teamed up with superstar producer and Gnarls Barkley mastermind Danger Mouse. The result is “Attack & Release,” a dynamic CD of blues rock that avoids the genre’s biggest pitfalls: studio polish.
The Black Keys will perform ...
The Black Keys will perform ...
Buy John Some Peanuts and Crackerjack
You know the song “Heart And Soul”? Sure you do – it’s the one every beginning pianist sits down and bangs out on the keyboard at school assemblies and the like. Or maybe you don’t… what everyone knows is the chorus of “Heart And Soul.” But there are verses, verses ...