Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Good times never seemed so good
The Boston Globe had a piece on why "Sweet Caroline" plays at every 8th inning. I hate "Tessie", but "Sweet Caroline" has always had a so-bad-it's-kitschy appeal to it for me. Reminds me of that scene in Beautiful Girls where they all sing along to that song... come to think of it, that was written by a Massachusetts native, Scott Rosenberg, before "Sweet Caroline" became a standard at Fenway. For that matter, I have a recording of U2 singing that song in Foxboro (purportedly) and everyone joins in the "bah-bah-bah" and "so good, so good, so good" parts. What's with the Massachusetts connections to the song?
The Boston Globe had a piece on why "Sweet Caroline" plays at every 8th inning. I hate "Tessie", but "Sweet Caroline" has always had a so-bad-it's-kitschy appeal to it for me. Reminds me of that scene in Beautiful Girls where they all sing along to that song... come to think of it, that was written by a Massachusetts native, Scott Rosenberg, before "Sweet Caroline" became a standard at Fenway. For that matter, I have a recording of U2 singing that song in Foxboro (purportedly) and everyone joins in the "bah-bah-bah" and "so good, so good, so good" parts. What's with the Massachusetts connections to the song?
To my knowledge, Sweet Caroline came back into the National consciousness and the radio playlists after the "Beautiful Girls" movie. I believe that it being played at Fenway coincided with the playing of popular and rock music and the phasing away of organ music and that the playing of Sweet Caroline just kind of transitioned into what we know today.
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