The world seems so much larger when you're too young to drive. I was 14 when we moved from Michigan to El Paso, Texas, so I had never gotten behind the wheel of a car and truly learned how to navigate myself around the Ypsilanti, Milan and Ann Arbor areas. Visiting friends was a drive away, as our house was beyond a bike ride. Of course, certain patterns would become more familiar. The way to George Allan Elementary School on the school bus, or the short drive to Meijer's Thrifty Acres or the Exhibit Museum on the University of Michigan campus with my mom. When you're a kid living in a rural area, the street names become less important than just the route that you take. Familiar trees, houses or dogs at homes become your waypoints. But one place in my kid-size world that I would journey out to solo was Wiard's Orchards. Wiard's was probably only a mile-and-a-half from our house. A bumpy bike ride up the dirt-and-stone Crane Road, left turn at the open field (Merrit
http://www.detroitradioflashbacks.net/retroreplay5/TigerTheme88961.mp3
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Detroit Radio Flashbacks updated the link to the theme...
http://www.detroitradioflashbacks.net/flashbacks/drfsports/TigerTheme88961.mp3
My next task is to find the sheet music.
ReplyDeleteThanks again. I'm originally from Detroit, so reading about the theme is enjoyable.
I think it's a dead link now.
ReplyDeleteyes, that is now a dead link. can anyone please email me a copy as an MP3 file?
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thank you so much.
bob in michigan
I was able to find a site that still has the old Tigers March at http://www.mcrfb.com/files/Detroit%20Sports//Detroit%20Tiger%20Baseball%20Theme.mp3
ReplyDeleteHope this will help folks still looking.
Thanks!!!
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We too are searching. Does anyone know whether it was written for the Tigers (by whom? Date? Actual title?) or was cribbed from something else? Sounds like an old newsreel march from WW2.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I had virtually the identical experienceso fromantic 68 thru the 70s. Thankyou. That tune was burned my brain. Love it.
ReplyDeleteI downloaded a copy of the tune with the Tiger growl and Paul Carey doing the voiceover. But does anyone know the name of this song? I also remember hearing it on Late Night With Letterman when he did a mock newsreel.
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