Phillies Fever 2008

Sure, the lyrics could use an update but the sentiment surely still rings true.

Comments

[Kevin]

To think I was just watching a video of this song on YouTube earlier this morning! Love it!

[johndewar]

Great find on the song! Love the part during the song where Schmitty asks Garry Maddox about playing in the Vet and Maddox flat out lies about enjoying it.

Phil-EEEZE Fever!

[dp]

Great song and video. Nice post.

[will]

why do I imagine the gang from fat albert dancing to this awkward tune

[Matt P]

This oughtta get the Wally-Park song out of my head. Note to sports radio ad buyers: I turn off your station the second that spot comes on.

['Duk]

Not that I was on the fence about picking an alternate team now that both Chicago teams are gone, but hearing this song really seals the deal.

PHI-leeeeeeeeeees .... FEVER!

[Steve]

I'm at work, so I have to act reserved, but I just wanted to be excited somewhere about the three standing room tickets I just got for Game 1 for face value!

I entered the lottery for tix and got an email offering me to buy up to 3 tix from what was left. So hopefully I can jet out of work and get there early enough to get a spot on the railing in Ashburn Alley.

That is all.

PHILLIES FEVER BABY!

[GM-Carson]

That video is terrific, well done!

[meech.one]

Coincidentally, I'm calling out of work Thursday & Friday with "Phillies Fever 2008"

Good shit, E.

[Civil Negligence]

Ah, I remember this fondly. Yes, very fondly:

http://scrappleplusiggs.blogspot.com/2008/03/phillies-fever-1976.html

(By the way, the YouTube video ripped the song and video from my site. But as long as it gets out there!)

[enrico]

Just to be clear, a reader sent me an MP3 of the song. I didn't rip it from anywhere myself. Perhaps they ripped it and converted to MP3?

Thanks for your link though. Did you rip the audio from the original record?

[Civil Negligence]

Oh, I didn't mean that 700level took it from me, Enrico. Although the YouTube video noted by the first commenter, Kevin, was clearly the same exact video I had on my blog.

The audio on my video is from a special turntable you can hook up to your computer that directly converts records to mp3s. That's why you can hear all the scratching in it. The visual is a photo taken of the original record jacket.

[enrico]

Nice. Well thanks for getting it on the 'nets for all to enjoy.

[Matt P]

I need one of those record player things, and that original album.

[MPR529]

"Come on down to Veteran Stadium, the hippest place in town."

wow. that is lyrical excellence, right there.

SOLID! DY-NO-MITE!

[jr]

Anyone know where I can find (or who recorded) the jazz version of "Fightin' Phils"?

I heard it when they were playing "Centennial: 100 Years of Philadelphia Phillies Baseball" on Comcast during a rain delay earlier this year. It's not the Delaware Valley String Band version that you can find an mp3 of online, it's more of a big band jazz version. It's pretty sweet, I really want an mp3 of it!

[Mark]

Holy cow!

I'm got chills listening to that. I HAVE the orginal record...now I want to leave work and go find where I put it. I listened to that song over and over and over.

Wow. This made my day. Great find, Enrico.