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"Van Lingle Mungo" is a lounge song composed and performed by jazz pianist Dave Frishberg. Frishberg wrote both the lyrics and the music. The song, released in 1969, was distributed by Red Day Division of Doramus, Inc. under CTI Records.〔 It was originally released as a single, but was later incorporated into Frishberg's LP, ''Oklahoma Toad''. ==Development== Frishberg developed the melody first, but couldn't settle on lyrics, rejecting several sets of lyrics he drafted.〔 〕 Frishberg browsed through a copy of a baseball encyclopedia, which lists the names of players in Major League Baseball. In the encyclopedia, he found the name of Van Lingle Mungo, a name he found unusual. He later found himself humming Mungo's name to the melody.〔 From there, Frishberg found more names in the encyclopedia that he found interesting. He proceeded to write song lyrics for the melody that included only the names of major league players and the words "and" and "big", attempting to order the names in a rhyming fashion. The song is performed in bossa nova style.〔 〕 The players mentioned in the song, in addition to Mungo, are:〔 *John Antonelli *Eddie Basinski *Augie Bergamo *Frenchy Bordagaray *Lou Boudreau *Harry Brecheen *Roy Campanella *Phil Cavarretta *Frankie Crosetti *Bobby Estalella *Ferris Fain *Augie Galan *Danny Gardella *Johnny Gee *Frankie Gustine *Stan Hack *Sig Jakucki *Eddie Joost *Whitey Kurowski *Max Lanier *Thornton Lee *Ernie Lombardi *Hank Majeski *Pinky May *Barney McCosky *George McQuinn *Johnny Mize *Hugh Mulcahy *Claude Passeau *Johnny Pesky *Howard Pollet *Johnny Sain *Hal Trosky *Johnny Vander Meer *Eddie Waitkus *Early Wynn With the death of Johnny Pesky on August 13, 2012, Eddie Basinski is the last surviving player mentioned in the song. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Van Lingle Mungo (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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