Gary Doesn’t Say Get “Outta Here!” To Musical Query

[G-Fafif]

Wayne Robins, long ago of Newsday, now with a Substack, gets Gary Cohen on the musical record.

"That's the thing about baseball," Cohen said. "It's often three and a half hours of game with eight minutes of action. It's a lot of time to fill. It gives us time to talk about other things, like music." I met Cohen for lunch earlier in November at a country restaurant near his home about an hour north of Queens' Citi Field. His network, SNY, does not provide him a driver; Cohen likes his long late night drives to unwind after home games. Keith Hernandez, as regular Mets viewers know, has an even longer commute, about 90 minutes from his home in Sag Harbor, on the East End of Long Island. Hadji, Keith's Bengal cat with a cult following and merch line of his own, must be fed. My favorite musical question from the 2022 season was when a player named Bird came into the game, and Cohen asked which version of "Surfin' Bird" Darling preferred: The Ramones' cover, or the Trashmen's original? (Because of surgery, Hernandez finished the season on the announcers injured-reserve list.) It was duly noted that both versions owed their existence to the root folder of the Rivingtons' "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow," a crazed moment of surf-doo-wop-dance fad intersectionality from late 1963. It's off-season, and we agreed not to talk on the record about the the Mets or baseball, and one suspects a mutual protection of privacy among the three men in the booth. Though Darling is Cohen's most frequent and adept musical foil, Hernandez has his own zone. Keith, Cohen said, is a Frank Zappa fan, which one might never expect, or totally expect from the inscrutable No. 17.

https://waynerobins49.substack.com/p/gary-cohen-rocks-the-metshttps://waynerobins49.substack.com/p/gary-cohen-rocks-the-mets



Meanwhile, Hope Silverman has created an Ultimate Gary Cohen Musical Reference Database.

6–July 8: Gary quotes the Mountain's 1970 sludge-rock classic “Missississippi Queen” and says “Mississippi queen, you know what I mean”. He then mentions band leader Leslie West. It didn't stop there. Both the song and West got namechecks on 8/4 and again on 8/17 ( by Gary AND Ron). The booth is weirdly obsessed with Mountain, West, and “Mississippi Queen”.

https://pickinguprocks.com/2022/10/10/weekly-new-wonders-playlist-27-of-2022/https://pickinguprocks.com/2022/10/10/weekly-new-wonders-playlist-27-of-2022/



Needless to say, all of this transcends awesome.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I've been really immersed in this stuff over the past few months. My research sez that the Rivingtons' Papa Oom Mow Mow is from 1962, not 1963. The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird single was released in late 1963 but was popular, and of the musical zeitgeist, mainly in 1964.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa-Oom-Mow-Mowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin%27_Birdhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin%27_Bird



Both songs appear in Typewriter's Starling Marte subset.



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[kcmets]

I can't help myself...



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wayne Robins, long ago of Newsday, now with a Substack, gets Gary Cohen on the musical record. 6–July 8: Gary quotes the Mountain's 1970 sludge-rock classic “Missississippi Queen” and says “Mississippi queen, you know what I mean”. He then mentions band leader Leslie West. It didn't stop there. Both the song and West got namechecks on 8/4 and again on 8/17 ( by Gary AND Ron). The booth is weirdly obsessed with Mountain, West, and “Mississippi Queen”. https://pickinguprocks.com/2022/10/10/weekly-new-wonders-playlist-27-of-2022/https://pickinguprocks.com/2022/10/10/weekly-new-wonders-playlist-27-of-2022/ Needless to say, all of this transcends awesome.

In the stadium they play the opening bars of Mississippi Queen as "foul-ball music" all the time, which might explain why it comes up so often. But cool piece anyhow

[Edgy MD]

Gary, like many, jumps off the bandwagon when Springsteen stops using black-and-white photography on his album covers.