The Impossible Dream The Story Of The 1967 Boston Red Sox A record album narrated by Ken Coleman
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- The Impossible Dream The Story Of The 1967 Boston Red Sox A record album narrated by Ken Coleman
A WHDH Radio production.
A Boston Herald Traveler Corporation custom recording.
Produced by Fleetwood Recording Co. Inc., Revere, Mass.
Arranged By - Robert Way
Conductor - Bill Green
Coordinator - Ken Wilson
Engineer - James Barker
Illustration - Dick Hamilton
Narrator - Ken Coleman
Presenter - The Boston Herald Traveler Corporation
Producer - Carlo Lagrotteria
Vocals - Jess Cain
Voice - Mel Parnell, Ned Martin
Written-By, Edited By - John Connelly
The Impossible Dream is the story of the 1967 Boston Red Sox. A season after finishing in ninth place, and pegged as 100-1 longshots, the Red Sox won the American League pennant on the final day of the season, bringing baseball back in New England and capturing the imagination of the country.
The Impossible Dream record album chronicles the exploits of Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Lonborg, George Scott, Rico Petrocelli, Reggie Smith, manager Dick Williams and the rest, in verse, song, narration, and radio highlights.
The record sprang from a half-hour radio show produced and aired by WHDH-AM just before the 1967 World Series. WHDH was the Red Sox flagship station and was hoping to sell ads.
Set to the theme of "The Impossible Dream" from "Man of La Mancha," a hit musical of the time, the record is a classic from a different era. John Connelly's lyrics may be considered corny by some, but I lived it and I find them to be extremely well-written, spot-on not only in a poetic but a baseball sense. The narration by Coleman, one of the team's play-by-play men, is perfect.
The record also includes the "Yastrzemski Song," sung by Jess Cain, a morning drive-time disc jockey on WHDH at the time. Cain later said he camped up his voice to hide it because he wasn't sure about how the song would go over, but many people of a certain age in New England can still recite most, if not all, of the lyrics.
The response to the radio show was overwhelming, and the Boston Herald Traveler Corporation, which owned WHDH and the Herald Traveler newspaper, decided to turn it into a record. I was 7 and still remember my mother buying the album for me at a suburban Boston gas station. I told her I'd listen to it all the time, and I have, at least once a year since then ... with the memories of an incomparable season always flooding back!
Copyright Major League Baseball, or any second or third party. I didn't create, don't claim the rights to, and don't profit from, this recording. I posted it because I hadn't seen both sides on one TH-cam video, for historic and educational purposes, and for those who will enjoy it as much as I did. Sorry for the lack of anything visual. I wanted to post the front cover for Side 1 and the back cover for Side 2, but have yet to figure out how!
Link to a great article with even more about the record by Jim Shea of the Hartford Courant on Oct. 9, 1992, 25 years after its release, parts of which I used above:
www.courant.co...
1967 Red Sox statistics on Baseball Reference:
www.baseball-r...
And plenty of 1967 Red Sox audio and video on my channel!
I lived it. The albums I have now are my Elvis and Beatles, and this.
Beautiful, Freddy!
I was 7 Years old when I got this album in 1967 for Christmas. I’m 62 years old now and I still have that very album. A few years back I got it autographed by Billy Rohr at Sportsworld in Everett Mass. I can thank the owner of the store ,Phil Castinetti for making that possible.
Nice autograph to have! I remember my mother buying it for me, at a gas station, oddly enough, and me thinking, "I'll probably listen to this at least once every year until I'm 50!" I've blown past 50, but it was true, at least once a year, and I'm not stopping now!
My godmother lived in Everett.
Great to hear Ken Coleman's voice again. I was 13 in 1967, living in Boston, and at no time was I a bigger sox fan even if they WEREN'T competitive. So naturally, I was glued to my radio the entire summer of that year, then bought the album after it came out. Practically memorized it.
Angels games from the west coast were always played late at night, and so I had to turn my radio WAAAY down as I lay in bed past my bedtime so as not to disturb my folks.
Classic parental-avoidance move!
Ditto. And nit to wake my bro!!
I was 5 yrs old at the time. My dad played this record over and over. I remember all of this still now at age 61. I know all the words to the songs and even the commentary. THANK YOU for this. I love it especially after the loss of Tim Wakefield a couple days ago. We needed this and I will be sharing it.
I agree, such a tough loss. Glad I could help!
Brings me back. Thanks for the memories. Fun times in Boston.
You're welcome! It brings ya back, don't it?
Thanks for this treasure!
You're welcome! Brings back great memories!
It's great to see this and Goal Bruins on TH-cam!! I listened to both of these albums over and over and over again as a kid in Northborough, Mass. I ended up donating them to Anchorage Alaska public library in the late 80's when my turntable was broken and I wasn't going to buy another one. Funny, I listened so much to these that I had memorised almost every word, and I still remember a lot of it!
I had a feeling I'd still be listening to them today, having transferred them from record album to tape recorder to CD, but I certainly never envisioned this method on TH-cam!
Wow. I just dug this album out from the bowels of my basement. Still in good shape but no longer have a turntable. Good to see this!
Agreed! I knew when I was 7 that I'd be listening to it throughout my time on the big spinning blue marble!
@@stever6885 wow. my mom threw out the album years after my dad died. I wish I had it.
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Excellent re-direct!
13:29, 14:03
Cardinals rule!
Last century, maybe.