I have a old vcr tape of this concert. My mom got it when she donated to our local PBS station, back in about 1993. I love P, P& M growing up. I'm 67 now and still love them. Paul's The Wedding Song, was sung at my wedding. It lasted almost 42 years, before he passed away.
This song always warms my heart. I'm 70 years old but this song is also my story. High School gym class, forced to play a game I was no good at. I too lived in right field, and one time, and only once I may add, luck shined upon me. A batter hit a high flying ball to right field, forcing me to run backwards. I held up my glove not expecting to catch the ball, but had to at least look like I tried. BAM! the ball hit dead center of my glove with such force, the glove wrapped the ball into my one and only "catch of my lifetime" My team cheered, something that never happen to me before or after.
My son was always in right field and had a ball fall into his glove one fine day. He came home and was so excited to tell me all about it. He loves this song and so do I. I always think of the joy on my sons face to know he had done something unthinkable to him when he went to school that morning.
Holy smokes, I watched the TMNT movie on VHS dozens of times and saw the Pizza Hut commercial that preceded it also. Hearing this entire song for the first time really adds context to the last verse that’s used in the commercial. The message and nostalgia went straight to the heart.
Like so many others have recalled, I always felt that this song was written for me...my older brother was incredibly gifted athletically...me, not so much...our wonderful father dedicated his time to coaching our teams...he tried so hard to do something with me, but I just didn’t have it....he had no choice but to put me in right field...before games we’d be shagging fly balls in the outfield and I’d always horribly misjudge them...either flying over my head or running to make what should have been routine catches instead off of my shoe tops...we got to the championship semifinal that year despite my inadequacies...sure enough, with runners on in a tight game a ball got blooped out to shallow right...I ran as fast as I could and caught the ball about an inch off of the turf...my momentum made me barrel roll about 3 times where I ended up in foul territory...I got up disoriented and threw the ball into center field while the opposing team tagged up and easily scored the go-ahead run...we lost the game but to this day friends still remember that catch...it’s the only play I ever successfully made in the whole of my little league career and I’ll never forget it as long as I’ll live...
HAVING COACHED LITTLE LEAGUE,THIS SONG BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORIES. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO SEE PETER, PAUL AND MARY IN CONCERT SEVERAL TIMES. THEY WERE MUCH MORE THAN MUSICIANS. IT WAS A SAD DAY WHEN THEY BROKE UP AND AN EVEN SADDER DAY WHEN MARY PASSED AWAY. WE WILL STILL BE SINGING THEIR SONGS MANY YEARS FROM NOW,UNLIKE THE TRASH THAT IS OUT THERE TODAY!
Love the song! and yes, while I hate commercials and not a big fan of Pizza Hut-- they scored big when they made this into that 1990's commercial! Priceless!
I can relate. I love the game of baseball, but like I was at almost every sport but bowling, I just wasn't that good. I worked at it, but I was definitely "right field" material. And I do remember a specific catch that I made late one Saturday afternoon in 1972. One of my friends on Facebook was our 1st baseman that day. Several years ago we were reminiscing our 3rd and 4th grade experiences playing ball on those Cub Scout teams. I mentioned that catch still thinking it so insignificant overall that it had faded from any memory except for mine. My friend Steve's eyes lit up and he said, "I REMEMBER THAT CATCH!!"
I could definitely relate to this song. I loved playing sports but was horribly awkward & always the last or, at best, next-to-last picked for kickball & of course played right field on a softball team at aged 13.
I always like it when people in performing arts can cross the imaginary divide that someone dreamed up that is supposed to irrevocably exist between the sports world and the world of culture. Kudos to Peter Paul and Mary for this song. And in St. Louis where I live that supposed gap which should not exist in the first place, has been bridged by a symphony director who was an avid Cardinal fan Leonard Slatkin, a pitcher Bob Gibson who performed classical guitar on The Ed Sullivan Show, Ted Simmons a catcher who sat on the board of our art museum, and Curt Flood who painted portraits including a very impressive one of Martin Luther King.
This is a great song by a great group. (RIP Mary). I was always in right field for softball and picked last for kickball but every once in while a baseball fell into my glove and I caught a high flying kickball. Thanks for sharing.
I love this song.I love this trio especially after seeing their lives on American Masters. They really backed their beliefs. I have it on a CD but I love seeing them perform. Good things do happen to good people!!! Yeah!!!
the next batter as there always is, was I able to digest what I had done and was absolutely proud of myself. And you only have a limited amount of time to appreciate it because as you grow up, your "innocence" starts minimizing as maturity sets in. And it's amazing what experience will do, and how "muscle memory" gets developed at an early age because after that first catch, I became adept at catching the ball when it was hit at me, to the point where I started thinking I was a professional
and even emulating my favorite professional outfielders. And refering to Noah's face; how perfect he was in setting up the emotion and wonder of that experience that as grownups we all take for granted as we watch the pros make diving catches or crash into the wall to make highlight plays. But at an early age, the baseball diamond is a big place, and those of us who played on it...were very small. And in a big world, everything we do has significance. And those memories are oh so precious.
Cool! That tune was later used in an advert for Pizza Hut. That advert was seen in the VHS release of the 1990 film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Thanks for posting! Greetings from the United States of America!
As an infielder, our rightfielder was this guy, but that is was made him awesome! He is now a graphic designer and I can still catch a ball. Who is better off? I can still remember him making a great catch, but also dropping and misplaying a ton of balls. I respect him now more than ever!
Speaking as a right fielder, I can identify with this song. I could hit but couldn't field to save my life. Although I used to throw runners out at first base from right field with regularity. One of which won a playoff series.
right there ready to be caught, I thought I might actually drop it because for a fraction of a second...I wasn't good enough to catch it. But lo and behold, Noah's eyes in that moment in time on stage captured perfectly that moment for me when I DID in fact catch the ball, and didn't have any time to revel in my triumph because I was too busy firing the ball back into the infield because there were runners on base. Only about 15 seconds later when there was a brief break in the action for
Yep, this was exactly my experience as a right fielder in little league. xD When I got to play second base I always got so excited, because it meant chances were, something would actually *happen* for a change.
I first heard this in probably 1988 at the Universal Amphitheatre and thought it was a brilliantly crafted song that epitomized/encapsulated the protocol of baseball (and sports in general) amongst young kids. The best get picked first and the "woeful ones" got picked last if they got picked at all. I was in between who had some athletic ability, but wasn't the biggest or strongest. And our metaphor for positional futility was "left field" possibly because "left" has always been thought of as
lmbee59 are you sure that this is the concert that they sing the song, and Paul does the hilarious Elvis Presley impersonation. The concert that I know that you are thinking of is the Peter Paul and Mary Too concert, which is as far as I am aware of, as never been released on dvd. Which is a shame, since it is out of print on vhs, and the only way to get a copy of the concert, if there are still people out there with a vcr, is Amazon.com's marketplace.
Never heard this version (which is great, of course - love P,P&M!). Heard it on a radio show here in St. Louis, done by Jason Alexander. His isn't on pitch as much as this, but has a great poignancy to it. Actually found this looking for that! :-)
"weak" alluding to those who are lefthanded. I played some right field (as often was the case in kids sports when they played pretty much all the positions), but mostly left field. My first fielding play was exactly what they're singing about, except for the part about people screaming and not knowing where the ball was going. I knew EXACTLY where the ball was going and was bloody scared to death. I had never experienced the bouncing effect when running down a ball, and when the ball was
Now here's a gem of a baseball tune by Peter,Paul & Mary..A real fun "Rightfield" Great line.."Watching the dandilions grow" for more great baseball tunes,..click on ACE DIAMOND'S Playin' Baseball" 12-tunes!
any chance of uploading a humorous song from the same show "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly"? IIRC, Paul was hilarious with his Elvis impersonation. Also: does it come out in DVD?
I have a old vcr tape of this concert. My mom got it when she donated to our local PBS station, back in about 1993. I love P, P& M growing up. I'm 67 now and still love them. Paul's The Wedding Song, was sung at my wedding. It lasted almost 42 years, before he passed away.
Wow! That's a very long song!
This song always warms my heart. I'm 70 years old but this song is also my story. High School gym class, forced to play a game I was no good at. I too lived in right field, and one time, and only once I may add, luck shined upon me. A batter hit a high flying ball to right field, forcing me to run backwards. I held up my glove not expecting to catch the ball, but had to at least look like I tried. BAM! the ball hit dead center of my glove with such force, the glove wrapped the ball into my one and only "catch of my lifetime" My team cheered, something that never happen to me before or after.
My son was always in right field and had a ball fall into his glove one fine day. He came home and was so excited to tell me all about it. He loves this song and so do I. I always think of the joy on my sons face to know he had done something unthinkable to him when he went to school that morning.
Just brings me to tears...so many right fields in life...and it turns out just fine. :)
Holy smokes, I watched the TMNT movie on VHS dozens of times and saw the Pizza Hut commercial that preceded it also. Hearing this entire song for the first time really adds context to the last verse that’s used in the commercial. The message and nostalgia went straight to the heart.
Sometimes I wonder if we all had the same childhood.
Same
thank you for the song from all us who played a lonely right field
Like so many others have recalled, I always felt that this song was written for me...my older brother was incredibly gifted athletically...me, not so much...our wonderful father dedicated his time to coaching our teams...he tried so hard to do something with me, but I just didn’t have it....he had no choice but to put me in right field...before games we’d be shagging fly balls in the outfield and I’d always horribly misjudge them...either flying over my head or running to make what should have been routine catches instead off of my shoe tops...we got to the championship semifinal that year despite my inadequacies...sure enough, with runners on in a tight game a ball got blooped out to shallow right...I ran as fast as I could and caught the ball about an inch off of the turf...my momentum made me barrel roll about 3 times where I ended up in foul territory...I got up disoriented and threw the ball into center field while the opposing team tagged up and easily scored the go-ahead run...we lost the game but to this day friends still remember that catch...it’s the only play I ever successfully made in the whole of my little league career and I’ll never forget it as long as I’ll live...
threw the ball into center field! Ha ha! But great catch!
Every child should have the opportunity to and be encouraged to listen to these guys 👦 ❤.
omigosh i didn't know this song had more lyrics! I just remember the Pizza Hut commercial from the TMNT 1990 VHS movie. I love this song!
i just watched that commercial on the vhs
I kinda did think for the longest time that the last lyrics were "Pizza Hut MAK-ING IT GREAT..."
HAVING COACHED LITTLE LEAGUE,THIS SONG BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORIES. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO SEE PETER, PAUL AND MARY IN CONCERT SEVERAL TIMES. THEY WERE MUCH MORE THAN MUSICIANS. IT WAS A SAD DAY WHEN THEY BROKE UP AND AN EVEN SADDER DAY WHEN MARY PASSED AWAY. WE WILL STILL BE SINGING THEIR SONGS MANY YEARS FROM NOW,UNLIKE THE TRASH THAT IS OUT THERE TODAY!
Is it wrong that I have tears in my eyes? This tune really hit a chord with me! =D
the baseball falls in my glooooooooooooooove
Every time I Iisten!
OMG, guys I only discovered this song today just when you think the Sun never shines.☀️🎶
Love the song! and yes, while I hate commercials and not a big fan of Pizza Hut-- they scored big when they made this into that 1990's commercial! Priceless!
What alsome video peter paul mary my favorite group of all time ❤
"RIGHTFIELD"..one of the best baseball songs ever! Really unique! Appreciate hearing this gem again!..Ace Diamond (Baseball artist/writer)
I was the right fielder, and on a work team, I caught a softball. Very proud
This song always makes me feel so happy...
My fifth grade teacher would always sing this I miss it
I think this is the best version of this song because they keep it fun. thank you so much for posting it.
I can relate. I love the game of baseball, but like I was at almost every sport but bowling, I just wasn't that good. I worked at it, but I was definitely "right field" material. And I do remember a specific catch that I made late one Saturday afternoon in 1972. One of my friends on Facebook was our 1st baseman that day. Several years ago we were reminiscing our 3rd and 4th grade experiences playing ball on those Cub Scout teams. I mentioned that catch still thinking it so insignificant overall that it had faded from any memory except for mine. My friend Steve's eyes lit up and he said, "I REMEMBER THAT CATCH!!"
RIP Mary
Reminds me of my childhood and my dad singing this song...
ninja turtles VHS is what brought me here
the tmnt 1990 vhs movie brought me here. loved that pizza hut commercial. Anyone else?
Holy shit, yeah! It brought a hell of a lot of memories I was no idea was.locked up in my head! Lmao!
What a great uplifting song. This was one of the best singing groups of all time.
This song always reminds me of the joys of childhood.
One of the greatest singing Ensembles
Like many before me, I arrived here because of the Turtles. I play guitar, and I'll cover this song. Within a year I'll post my TMNT version. 😊
I could definitely relate to this song. I loved playing sports but was horribly awkward & always the last or, at best, next-to-last picked for kickball & of course played right field on a softball team at aged 13.
Thank you so much for this song! wow..memories flooding back
Wouldn't you just love to go to a ballgame with these guys and they're singing "Rightfield" in the concourse someplace? Miss you Mary Travers
We enjoyed this after a mention by our pastor this morning!
One of my favorite songs.
I always like it when people in performing arts can cross the imaginary divide that someone dreamed up that is supposed to irrevocably exist between the sports world and the world of culture. Kudos to Peter Paul and Mary for this song. And in
St. Louis where I live that supposed gap which should not exist in the first place, has been bridged by a symphony director who was an avid Cardinal fan Leonard Slatkin, a pitcher Bob Gibson who performed classical guitar on The Ed Sullivan Show, Ted Simmons a catcher who sat on the board of our art museum, and Curt Flood who painted portraits including a very impressive one of Martin Luther King.
I love this song
I know this song because of the TMNT vhs tape
"You gotta know how to throw" I love this! So adorable!
This is a great song by a great group. (RIP Mary). I was always in right field for softball and picked last for kickball but every once in while a baseball fell into my glove and I caught a high flying kickball. Thanks for sharing.
I love this song.I love this trio especially after seeing their lives on American Masters. They really backed their beliefs. I have it on a CD but I love seeing them perform. Good things do happen to good people!!! Yeah!!!
A certified all time classic baseball song!!!!
When you're about to watch TMNT for the 899th time
Never know they did fun tunes like that pretty cool!
Thumbs up if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brought you here (Thanks, Pizza Hut).
Best baseball song ever written, period.
the next batter as there always is, was I able to digest what I had done and was absolutely proud of myself. And you only have a limited amount of time to appreciate it because as you grow up, your "innocence" starts minimizing as maturity sets in. And it's amazing what experience will do, and how "muscle memory" gets developed at an early age because after that first catch, I became adept at catching the ball when it was hit at me, to the point where I started thinking I was a professional
I came here from a Pizza Hut commercial that was on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS I used to watch as a kid.
Interesting that Peter and Mary also sing with Paul on this song, since I know in the Peter Paul and Mommy Too concert, that Paul sang this song solo.
and even emulating my favorite professional outfielders. And refering to Noah's face; how perfect he was in setting up the emotion and wonder of that experience that as grownups we all take for granted as we watch the pros make diving catches or crash into the wall to make highlight plays. But at an early age, the baseball diamond is a big place, and those of us who played on it...were very small. And in a big world, everything we do has significance. And those memories are oh so precious.
Love it. Just love it.
came here from tmnt vhs
Yes!!
i wbsolutly love thid song!
A great song when you have played baseball !!
I SANG THE WHOLE SONG TO EVERYONE ON SKYPE, WHISTLING AND ALL AND THEY WEREN'T EVEN IMPRESSED!!
A great song in every way.
Love this !!!
Cool! That tune was later used in an advert for Pizza Hut. That advert was seen in the VHS release of the 1990 film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Thanks for posting! Greetings from the United States of America!
That was ME !!! LOL.
Out in right field.
Athletically challenged. LOL.
As an infielder, our rightfielder was this guy, but that is was made him awesome! He is now a graphic designer and I can still catch a ball. Who is better off? I can still remember him making a great catch, but also dropping and misplaying a ton of balls. I respect him now more than ever!
Speaking as a right fielder, I can identify with this song. I could hit but couldn't field to save my life. Although I used to throw runners out at first base from right field with regularity. One of which won a playoff series.
right there ready to be caught, I thought I might actually drop it because for a fraction of a second...I wasn't good enough to catch it. But lo and behold, Noah's eyes in that moment in time on stage captured perfectly that moment for me when I DID in fact catch the ball, and didn't have any time to revel in my triumph because I was too busy firing the ball back into the infield because there were runners on base. Only about 15 seconds later when there was a brief break in the action for
One of my favorites, by PPM
Yep, this was exactly my experience as a right fielder in little league. xD When I got to play second base I always got so excited, because it meant chances were, something would actually *happen* for a change.
This is school work for me
I first heard this in probably 1988 at the Universal Amphitheatre and thought it was a brilliantly crafted song that epitomized/encapsulated the protocol of baseball (and sports in general) amongst young kids. The best get picked first and the "woeful ones" got picked last if they got picked at all. I was in between who had some athletic ability, but wasn't the biggest or strongest. And our metaphor for positional futility was "left field" possibly because "left" has always been thought of as
lmbee59 are you sure that this is the concert that they sing the song, and Paul does the hilarious Elvis Presley impersonation. The concert that I know that you are thinking of is the Peter Paul and Mary Too concert, which is as far as I am aware of, as never been released on dvd. Which is a shame, since it is out of print on vhs, and the only way to get a copy of the concert, if there are still people out there with a vcr, is Amazon.com's marketplace.
Never heard this version (which is great, of course - love P,P&M!). Heard it on a radio show here in St. Louis, done by Jason Alexander. His isn't on pitch as much as this, but has a great poignancy to it. Actually found this looking for that! :-)
loved this song when i was like 4 or something
this song pretty much sums up my childhood sports experiances.... minus the heroic ending ;-)
Anybody in the mood for a pizza from Pizza Hut?
great song
"weak" alluding to those who are lefthanded. I played some right field (as often was the case in kids sports when they played pretty much all the positions), but mostly left field. My first fielding play was exactly what they're singing about, except for the part about people screaming and not knowing where the ball was going. I knew EXACTLY where the ball was going and was bloody scared to death. I had never experienced the bouncing effect when running down a ball, and when the ball was
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The great American pastime meets a great American art form.
thanksgiving song
Very enjoyable
o the good ol' days
Grrreat!!!
Thanks!
Great song, we had to analyze this song a while back when i was in 4th grade i lol'd
cute song
Looks like 2 people sat on the bench!
Reminds me of a scene from the movie The Sandlot.
Makin it great!
You just want to sit around the camp fire and sing with them
KOWABUNGA!!!!
Can’t watch the original TMNT without watching the Pizza Hut commercial first
Who came here from DodgersFilms
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He's the Best !:D
Now here's a gem of a baseball tune by Peter,Paul & Mary..A real fun "Rightfield"
Great line.."Watching the dandilions grow" for more great baseball tunes,..click on ACE DIAMOND'S Playin' Baseball" 12-tunes!
IT WAS NOT WRITTEN BY PETER, PAUL, AND MARY. Willy Welch, from Dallas. Look it up!
Other great right fielders...Hank Aaron, Al Kaline, Mel Ott, Paul "Big Poison" Waner, Tony Gwynn, Frank Robinson, and Reggie Jackson
But what about the times he got to bat? By the way, wasn't Babe Ruth a right fielder.
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Babe Ruth played right field...if one of the greatest players of all-time can do it we all can.
I played left out!
any chance of uploading a humorous song from the same show "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly"? IIRC, Paul was hilarious with his Elvis impersonation.
Also: does it come out in DVD?
they should have put on the shift. right field would be a lot more busy
i luv this song but i like it better when henri audet sings this to me
Not to mention a former slugger named George Herman Ruth.
Katie this for you
It's the opening to the first Ninja Turtles movie.
Will someone name the performers from left to right?