Sports Bloopers & Ragtime Piano Music, A Match Made In Heaven! But: WHY?

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how did this come about? not complaining, mind you, but it's odd...they still use that stuff...i saw marv albert on letterman a week ago and they still use that piano type music for doodz getting bonked in the head wif baseballs n such.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i just started unselfconsciously laffing just reading this thread title

― urghonomic (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

My music history is a little fuzzy here, but isn't that why ragtime music was invented?

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

So the Keystone Cops weren't the first to use this?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"Here come Johnny singing oldies, goldies..."

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, this guy invented it:

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioImages/bookA_Page_119_Image_0001.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

mike golic looks wierd in that picture

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

or at least i think they used old ragtime music during the bloopers on this week in baseball. i only watched it in the 70's, so it's been a while.

― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

so is it the keystone cops?

i've never even seen the keystone cops actually, but they like did all sorts of goofy things to ragtime music in old silent films correct?

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, 1912-1917, according to wikipedia. And ragtime's beginning is listed as 1899 there.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

My guess is it began when Joshua Rifkin released his Joplin tributes/revival albums in 1970 & 1972 on Nonesuch and/or the Sting sdtk in 1973 -- I mean, the Sting sdtk was HUGE. The popularity of those probably lined up with someone's blooper segment, and being it fits perfectly, why abandon?

Either that or something to do with Shakey's Pizza.

― PappaWheelie IV (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man i didn't think about the sting! i love that fuckin movie!

but yeah i imagine the sports blooper industry was coming into its own in the early 70s.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

plus, people always liked to think of baseball as old-tymey handlebar mustache thang. ragtime works with that. except for the black folx.

― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Rolly Fingers to thread

― PappaWheelie IV (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

er, Rollie:

http://espn.go.com/i/page2/photos/040414fingers.jpg

― PappaWheelie IV (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

he was the greg norton of the oakland a's

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i just started unselfconsciously laffing just reading this thread title

i did too, thread title otm

― obi strip (sanskrit), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought he was Raekwon the Chef of Wu Tang Clan.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hi, I'm Greg Norton of Husker Du, and I've never been hit in the balls with a grounder to humorous effect."

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/6d/170px-Gregnorton.JPG

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link