Slippedisc daily comfort zone (73): Sweet Caroline is struck dumb

Slippedisc daily comfort zone (73): Sweet Caroline is struck dumb

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norman lebrecht

July 08, 2021

The football anthem as it should be sung.

Sweeter still:

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  • V.Lind says:
    July 8, 2021 at 11:33 am

    Fly that St. Martin’s gang in from LA for Sunday!

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  • Amos says:
    July 8, 2021 at 11:53 am

    I’m not sure how long the song has been associated with football but the original has played at all 81 home games of the baseball Boston Red Sox during the “interval” between the top & bottom of the 7th inning, known as the 7th inning stretch, since 1997.

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    • Amos says:
      July 8, 2021 at 12:08 pm

      Sorry 8th inning, not 7th.

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      • V.Lind says:
        July 9, 2021 at 5:43 pm

        Between halves of the seventh. Hence the name. Trust me — I have probably stretched in more seventh innings, in three countries, than most of you here.

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    • V.Lind says:
      July 8, 2021 at 2:01 pm

      I think it has been kicking around English football since about 2016, and Irish before that. And a long history with sport in the US.

      Worst first line of any song I can think of.

      But that orchestral version was really quite impressive. I’d never heard of this group, but they seem to specialise in orchestrated versions of pop songs.

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