Bye Bye Baby Chords Giants When the Giants Come to Town
Watching Aubrey Huff'southward clutch 9th inning home run on TV to tie the Padres in San Diego Thursday night I enjoyed Duane Kuiper's dramatic call, "It's outta hither!" And when the Giants finished batting in the 9th inning the station replayed Huff'south Hour before going to commercial with the familiar chords of "Bye good day babe!"
All long-time Giants fans know "Bye bye baby" as the Giants battle hymn going dorsum to the '60s. It was based on Giants' journalist Russ Hodges signature domicile run call. But what you may not know is Russ employ to say, "Good day bye baby" when the other team also hit a domicile run. It was actually overwhelming feedback from Giants fans who fabricated "Goodbye adieu babe" the signature call for Giants' HRs. Here'southward the story behind "Adieu bye baby" as told by Russ Hodges(*) himself:
"Everybody in my business has a favorite expression, and sometimes information technology catches on across his wildest dreams. That's what happened to Mel Allen'southward "How most that?" which has become role of the American language. Whenever somebody on the Giants hits a home run, I say, "Goodbye farewell baby," and our fans have picked it up and made information technology their own. It's a boxing cry, which any western follower of the Giants instantly recognizes, and nosotros at present fifty-fifty have a vocal based on it.
This melody, which was conceived i day in 1962 by Aaron Edwards, a popular KSFO announcer, is hardly a archetype in the mold of "On Wisconsin" or "The Washington Post March," but it doesn't sound bad when it's played loudly enough and it's like shooting fish in a barrel to sing. People at Candlestick Park get plenty of chances to sing it because whenever something practiced happens to the club, Lloyd Play a trick on belts it out on the organ weekdays while Del Courtney and his band play it on Sundays.
I'd been using the term "Bye good day baby" for home runs since 1954, but New Yorkers never adopted it. To them it was just another pet expression by a sports' announcer, such every bit many of us have. Mel Allen calls a habitation run by saying "It'southward going-going-gone." Harry Caray in St. Louis says, "It might exist-information technology could be- information technology is a home run." Short Gowdy in Boston says, "See ya afterwards," and Vince Scully in Los Angeles starts describing the length of the bulldoze, then says, "Forget information technology, it's gone."
And then it wasn't I who made "Bye goodbye baby" famous on the Westward Coast, merely the fans of San Francisco. I had always chosen every home run that style, whether hit past 1 of the Giants or somebody on the other team. When I came to San Francisco, I assumed I'd only go along right on doing information technology.
The first home run on opening mean solar day in 1958 was striking by Daryl Spencer in the quaternary inning. Equally the ball went into the stands, I said, "Bye good day babe," merely as I always had in New York. Orlando Cepeda hit one in the fifth, and I said it once more. I didn't think much about it either time.
The next mean solar day, Knuckles Snider of the Dodgers came upwardly in the third inning and belted a tremendous shot over the right field fence, which veteran observers said was the longest habitation run ever hit at Seals Stadium. The minute it left the bat we all knew it was gone, and I yelled, "Good day bye baby." A little later Dick Gray hit one for the Dodgers, so I said information technology once more.
Before the game was over, we began getting phone calls from fans objecting to my using "Cheerio bye baby" in describing Dodgers' homers. When I stopped in at the studio later, I found out that people had been calling up all afternoon about it, and the next day nosotros had an accented alluvion of messages.
"If you're going to say 'Bye good day baby' at all," a woman wrote from Marin County, "use it just for our side. We don't want to hear it when somebody else hits 1."
Her alphabetic character was typical of the hundreds that came in. So when I went to the ballpark that mean solar day, I saw my duty and I did information technology. Gino Cimoli of the Dodgers hitting ane out of the park in the second inning and I simply called it a home run. Simply when Bob Schmidt of the Giants banged one in the 4th, I gleefully howled, "Adieu bye baby." I guess everybody was happy, because the mail was predominantly favorable."
And that's how "Good day bye baby" was officially built-in as the exclusive home run call of the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, April 17 during the third game of the 1958 flavour. And the Giants beat out the Dodgers vii-four.
(*) Russ Hodges and Al Hirschberg,
My Giants
(Doubleday, Garden City, NY: 1963) pp. 168-169.
Source: https://punkyg.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/its-outta-here-and-the-birth-of-bye-bye-baby/
0 Response to "Bye Bye Baby Chords Giants When the Giants Come to Town"
Post a Comment