Jason Alexander - "Playing Right Field" (1999) - MDA Telethon
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Actor, comedian, director, and now singer? Check out the hidden musical talents of Jason Alexander from the hit series, Seinfeld as he sings, "Playing Right Field" during the 1999 MDA Labor Day Telethon! This is a Jason Alexander performance that you can't afford to miss!
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Today is October 6th, 2023. I am 38 years old. I just learned, today, right now, that this is an actual song and not a little ditty that was written specifically for a Pizza Hut commercial on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS tape.
Must not have played baseball.
Today is May 22nd 2024. I am also 38 years old having the same discovery! Despite all the short term memory loss I inflicted upon myself in the subsequent decade, the movies that I watched obsessively during the 90s are imprinted on my brain. I never played baseball, but this tune will likely stay with me until the end.
We had a similar childhood my friend.
Today I realized brother
Bro!
As a proud sponsor of Little League Baseball, Pizza Hut welcomes all the kids who make it great.
Making it great
This song was made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary. They sang it in many of their concerts and was on their "Around The Campfire" album.
So this is how Costanza got his gig with the Yankees.
In addition to doing the opposite! Lol
this is amazing.. i never knew that he sang let alone sang this song... i've always loved it.. and yes i loved the Ninja Turtles on VHS ... pizza hut forever attached in my memories lol ... thats one hell of an Add
That ad won a "Clio" award, which is sitting on my shelf, for best music in a fast food commercial.
Glad you liked it!
we dont know he sang it for that commercial though
@@jakelang806 No - it was someone else, someone who apparently sounded somewhat like me. But I had moved out of NYC by then . . . so they got a "local."
@@misterwilly52 i was seriously unaware there was so much to this song except the pizza hut commercial thank you my childhood made better ❤
Same
I can’t believe how great his voice is I’ve never heard him sing before and I gotta say it is great.
Oh, yes. He's been in the TV-musical versions of Bye Bye Birdie and the 1997 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.
Well he did sing in Disney's Huntchback of Notre Dame
First time I saw him perform was on Broadway in a Sondheim musical!
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Please leave a messaaaaaaaage - at the beep
I must be out; or I'd pick up the phone
🤷Wheeeere could I beeeeeee?
@@sam-tg5rv Believe it or not it's just me..lmao
So I'm like 25 years late. I didn't know Jason Alexander could sing like that... 😮
Me too. Bandon Marsh just had a
ball "fall into his glove" playing for the Phils in Seattle. A feiend texted me about this song!
Unfortunately very few people know how good a singer and performer Jason is.
Oh, so this exists outside the TMNT VHS?
Who would've known.... Bout to go back to watching TMNT now that I've watched this and the pizza hut commercial.
Yup, it's by Willy Welch. There's a nice picture book version of the song as well.
@@jenniferschillig3768 Thank you for giving credit to the original writer!!
It's a song by the same people who do Puff the Magic Dragon.
Thank you for that
Wow I was pleasantly surprised with how good his voice is
This brings back a memory of America that had a spirit that has been missing for so long.
Never knew this was a full song. Thought it was just in that Pizza Hut commercial haha
TMNT!
Pizza Hut : Making It Great!
f. h. e.
@@zachh3660 New Line Cinema.
🌆 🚗 🚙 📰 🥷
Oh my... I've heard this before, but this version brought tears! I was a former rightfielder myself
We all hear ya, friend. Right field happened exactly like this to me. I actually saved the game that year. I cried at this because I realized this song was about me.
He can sing!!
Just to be clear, this song is originally written and performed by Willy Welch!
Thank you, daughter.
GEORGE IS GETTING FIRED UP!!! @ 1:43
HE sang this?! WOW His voice is awesome!
I like the extra verse added, about Mantle, etc! Very good performance!
LOL, LOL, this could have been my theme song of my life. In high school I was forced to play baseball. I was bad with a capital "B". Like the song I played right field as it had less chance to be needed. One time, and only one time did I have luck that I recall these 52 years later. A star player hit a high fly ball in my direction. I had to pretend I really was trying ,but knew in my heart it was a loss cause. I ran, and ran and put my arm up high to look like I truly believe I had a chance, and BAM! went in my mitt with such force my hand closed around the ball by the force. The team cheered, and talked about my unbelievable catch, WOW, only had one stand out play my whole life, and never came close to such stardom in baseball again.
The "Sometimes I'd dream I was Mantle or Mays..." bridge is in the picture book version of this song, but not in Peter, Paul, and Mary's version. (I like it.)
PP&M learned it from a friend of mine, and he forgot to teach them the bridge. It's the "folk process," I guess. LOL
All I’m hearing is Duckman singing this
TheCuteZerg that too
THIS is the best baseball song, not Centerfield
Did he sing the original VHS song or was this just improv? My 6 year old self is wondering why!
😊❤️
You're amazing. Now tell us the simple maths involving hitting a home run!!
What a pleasant surprise.
Making It Great!
Peter Paul and Mary. The originators and the best.
Thank you Paul Stookey for this classic. (Peter, Paul & Mary for those that don't know...)
I was today years old when I found out that this was an actual full length song. All this time I thought it was just a little jingle that Pizza Hut came up with
Jason can sing!! Who knew?
Those of us who saw him on Broadway in 1980. LOL
I want Pizza Hut.
His song is like a mix of Billy Joel and Ann Murray
(I'm only 21 btw)
I'm only 17 and I'd agree 🤣
WHAT! How so so very cool! I LOVED this! Jason, you are sensational!
LOL!!!!
Vhs, ninja turtles 😮
Y so serious 😈🃏🥃
Wow he sang that better than The original 🤗
DAMN
Wow. That was TIGHT 👍🏽👍🏽.
You are marvelous, Jason!!!!!!!
Awesome. Thanks!
Multi talented.
Who knew George Cantstandya could sing.
Peter, Paul and Mary song (1962)
Willy Welch...
1987, actually.
GG
it was ok. like the 1990 version better
Does anyone know who wrote this song originally?
Peter Paul and Mary
I did. There is a recording (on my TH-cam channel) of me singing it in 1986, at the club where Jason first heard me sing it, actually.
@@misterwilly52 No kidding? You're the real WW? Great year 86, my Mets won! Still waiting for another. Is that the year you wrote it? For some reason I feel like I heard it earlier. Father Time plays tricks
@@nicholasmuro1742 LOL yes I'm the real WW. I wrote it in '82, I think, but didn't perform it until early '84 (at this same club, the West Bank Downstairs Theate Bar on 42nd St.). So you may have heard me sing it sometime around then. PP&M recorded it in '87.
'86 WAS fun - I'm a Sox fan from Boston, but was living in NYC that year and my second favorite team was the Mets (lived in the city for 12 years). Had season tix in '86 so got to see some of the playoffs live. Painful ending..... :0)
Celtics had their best team ever, also.
My son was born that year, too, so it was a great year, all around.
@@misterwilly52 Wow, I figure you would hate the Mets after that disaster. Especially Mookie. Btw it was your pitchers, not poor ole BB. Sounds like 86 was good to you. Me too sports wise. My Giants won too. I was in San Diego so I doubt if I heard you sing it. PPM I'm sure was the first, but not 100%
As good as PP&M's original. Great song of pathos and victory for the little guy!
NIce George