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Music Album Review: 'Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns: Original Soundtrack Recording'

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© 1994 The Baseball Project/PBS/Elektra Nonesuch In our sun-down perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing ‘base,’ a certain game of ball…. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms…. The game of ball is glorious. - Walt Whitman, 1846 On September 6, 1994 - at the height of that year's season-ending Major League Baseball players' strike - Elektra Nonesuch released Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns: Original Soundtrack, a 31-track album featuring music and selected audio clips from Ken Burns' nine-part documentary about America's national pastime. Featuring performances by Count Basie and His Orchestra, Carly Simon, Dr. John, Natalie Cole, Lester Young (with Count Basie), Les Brown, the Big League Orchestra, Jacqueline Schwab, Betty Bonney, Harvey Hindemeyer, Duke Ellington, Mabel Scott, Branford Marsalis, and many more,  Baseball: A Film by Ken Bur