I am currently in Hawaii on a department-sponsored field trip until Friday, Sept. 12. In celebration of returning to Boston for the year, I am going to do a “countdown” of sorts of Boston-themed music. This is good stuff.
The Story: In the 1903 world series, the Boston Red Sox were down 3-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates in what was then a best-of-9 World Series. A Red Sox fan club known as the Royal Rooters took to singing the song “Tessie” from the popular musical “The Silver Slipper” in an attempt to distract the Pirates. The Rooters, led by Michael McGreevy, even travelled to Pittsburgh for the away games. The Red Sox rattled off four straight to take the series and the song became a staple at Red Sox games for over a decade. The Rooters disbanded in 1918, the last year the Sox would win a world series, until 2004.
In 2004, a Boston-area band, the Dropkick Murphys, recorded their own version of the song. This is how they described it: “We recorded this song in June 2004 and ,after giving it to the Red Sox, told anyone that would listen that this song would guarantee a World Series victory. Obviously no one listened to us or took us seriously. We were three outs away from elimination in game 4 at the hands of the Yankees and receiving death threats from friends, family, & strangers telling us to stay away from the Red Sox and any other Boston sports team and get out of town. Luckily for us things turned around for the Red Sox and the rest is history.”
#5, “Tessie,” The Dropkick Murphys.
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Who the hell knew Brett Favre also played bass for the Dropkick Murphy’s?
That’s one versatile somafabiatch.
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That was too bad about Brady wasn’t it?
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