I have written a few Red Sox songs this summer. (I guess you could say writing baseball songs is a hobby — but the truth is, these tunes just come to me when I’m driving or hacking on my guitar.) One is called, There is Nothing Bettah, Than Beating Mariano Rivera. My kids like tha
t one. Another is called, On the Corner of Brookline Ave and Yawkey Way. This is the song I invited my songwriting friends, Dan Page and Michele Page, to come listen to about a week ago to help me write some lyrics. Just before they got to my house, the tune and first line of, I’m A Member of Red Sox Nation came to me. When Dan and Michele arrived, I didn’t even bother playing the Brookline Ave and Yawkey Way tune for them — I knew that the Nation song was the one we needed to work on. And we did.
It was a good time. We filled pads of paper with Red Sox images, phrases, memories, and ideas, referred from time to time to our thesaurus and rhyming dictionary, wrote and rejected about 250 lines — and a few days later, the song was complete. I stayed up late a few nights recording/engineering it on my iBook (using Garage Band software and the Mac’s built-in mike) in my basement, which is also my kids’ playroom. Surrounded by Play-Doh, dolls, and Pokemon cards, I perched the laptop on the surface of our air hockey table, and if you listen to the song carefully, you can hear our loud basement fridge droning in the background.
A week after the basement sessions, my good friends Bob Little and Michelle Rufo, along with about ten other day camp counselors at Summer@Park, taught the song to about fifty campers and organized them for an informal recording session in the lobby of the school’s gym. The kids’ enthusiastic singing was added to the last verse, along with their favorite Red Sox cheer, “Let’s Go Red Sox!”
The song was played at Fenway Park between the top and bottom of the fifth inning last Wednesday, July 18. If it has been played since then, I haven’t heard about it. Whether or not I’m elected president of Red Sox Nation, Dan, Michele, and I hope this song is good enough and gets enough play to get stuck in people’s heads across New England for years to come, making them smile every time they hear it. To read the lyrics, or to download the song for free, go here.
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What about the line “My bro’ would tell me ’bout Butchie and his bone chips”?
Love it!
hi – I just love the song – it’s stuck in my head. My wife and I downloaded Sweet Caroline for our ringtones when we call each other, but I’m going to try and change it to your tune. Very well done (I can’t stop smiling each time I hear the kids join in for the last stanza). Jim Goldman
Love your song, love your background and your belief in the Sox……voted for you for President. Good luck! GO SOX!!! Let the champagne continue to flow to the end of the ’07 World Series!
I first heard the song on You Tube and immediately added it to my Favorites. I believe it captures perfectly what Red Sox Nation is all about. It’s Ohana, which in Hawaiian means extended family. Thank you for capturing that spirit of familee!
Love the site…Great to talk up Sox Nation here in SC…Great job…
hey …thought we would do song together too?
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