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.
haha i just started unselfconsciously laffing just reading this thread title
My music history is a little fuzzy here, but isn’t that why ragtime music was invented?
So the Keystone Cops weren’t the first to use this?
“Here come Johnny singing oldies, goldies...”
dude, this guy invented it:
mike golic looks wierd in that picture
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.
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?
Yeah, 1912–1917, according to wikipedia. And ragtime’s beginning is listed as 1899 there.
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.
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.
plus, people always liked to think of baseball as old-tymey handlebar mustache thang. ragtime works with that. except for the black folx.
Rolly Fingers to thread
er, Rollie:
he was the greg norton of the oakland a’s
haha i just started unselfconsciously laffing just reading this thread title
i did too, thread title otm
I thought he was Raekwon the Chef of Wu Tang Clan.
xp
“Hi, I’m Greg Norton of Husker Du, and I’ve never been hit in the balls with a grounder to humorous effect.”
see also: yakkety sax
though i guess that’s more of a home movie bloopers kinda thing
Matt I kiss you
yeah for real, this is the first good ilx thread in ages
Fingers:Norton::Al Hrabosky:Lemmy??
Seriously the ’70s relief pitcher/’80s punk-metal bassist correlation needs further research
IMO, it can’t only be the Keystone Cops/Benny Hill + Ragtime combination, because they benefit from being shown sped up (originally due to being filmed 16 frames per second but projected at 18 or 22 or even 24 and in Benny Hill’s case sped up deliberately), whereas bloopers generally aren’t sped up.
Maybe audiences have been conditioned enough to imagine the footage being too fast (and thus funny) as soon as they hear that type of music?