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Anyone here know who wrote that 6-note little ditty?
Maybe I better make clear what I'm talking about.... I'm talking about that 6-note piece that Goldsmith used in Mr. Baseball.
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Now there's a good story behind that Jimbo. As I recall things, must've been about 1946, one of my drinkin' buddies Tommy Walker came up with that tune. We'd been foolin' around with the "Last Call" trumpet thing, and he just loved the idea of goin' ahead and turnin' it into some kinda bugle call to get the crowds worked up at sports events. Tommy was always really into sports - and entertainment in general. He got mixed up in Disneyland or Disneyworld in the early days, and then when he got what he called "the baseball bug", well our Tommy took that little ditty to the Noo York Buglers or the Chicago Red Socks or the New Orleans Jazz Footstompers... I don't rightly recall the team. Never was too big on the game myself, if I say so rightly n' truthfully. But Tommy had those 20,000 toy trumpets made for the 1958 Brooklyn Dodgers game, and when they played all at the same time Tommy was just blown away. Never did get it patented. Lost a lot of money there. That was Tommy. All sport, but no brains on the business side. Tommy Walker, Tommy the Toe, the Trojan drum major, the Caliph of Conversion. He got himself well known in the game, and when baseball was really the only game in town he could knock it out the ball park, and often did so literally, I mean he really did. Of course that little tune later turned up in all sorts of TV shows like The Flintstones, and Tommy was like "Hey, that's my toon!", but he was too late. It then passed on to Hollywood and they used it in a couple of movies. There's a movie songwriter out there who made it quite big in the world of movies, he played it for some Japanese movie with the guy out of Magnum, which was quite a big show way back, but Tommy didn't get no respect for that, in fact they blamed him when Magnum's fans said "Gee Mag, that music in your new movie is terrible!". And Mag said, blame Tommy Walker, he wrote the damn thing!
Thomas Luttgen Walker, a little man with big ideas, a man who could have pitched a million if he hadn't taken a short detour. Into the Twilight Zone.
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Hey Graham....
Ummmm... I thought you were kidding. Your friend actually wrote that 6-note tune?
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I feel like my whole world has been turned upside down.
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