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<\/a>Originally written as a blues shuffle in the early 1960s, the song was recorded and released in 1969 by the then-fictitious band called Steam.\u00a0 It reached #1 for two weeks in December, finishing as Billboard’s final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s.\u00a0 The song got a second life in 1977, thanks to the South Side Hitmen and their organist, Nancy Faust.\u00a0 With the White Sox hitting the cover off the ball and finding themselves in a surprising first place, Faust started playing the song after home runs.\u00a0 Eventually, she also started playing it when the opposing pitcher was chased from the game.<\/p>\nThe song became a hit once again, and Faust was awarded a\u00a0RIAA\u00a0gold record\u00a0from\u00a0Mercury Records to acknowledge her contributions.\u00a0 It was a mainstay at Comiskey Park and its successors until Faust’s retirement in 2010.\u00a0 Since then, the song is still performed, though not as often.\u00a0 The high play total is a result of the songs inclusion on all of my White Sox victory playlists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
4 years ago, we last counted down the Top 200 songs in my iTunes library. Since my iTunes stats are still intact, across multiple PCs, iPods, iPads, and iPhones, I figured it was time to take another look at my most listened to songs, based on number of plays as of January 1, 2020. Today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[746,597,2888,1358,3477,328,8680,85,8681,302,49],"class_list":["post-15613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-billboard","tag-comiskey-park","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-mercury-records","tag-nancy-faust","tag-riaa","tag-steam","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15651,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions\/15651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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4 years ago, we last counted down the Top 200 songs in my iTunes library. Since my iTunes stats are still intact, across multiple PCs, iPods, iPads, and iPhones, I figured it was time to take another look at my most listened to songs, based on number of plays as of January 1, 2020.<\/p>\n