Take Me Out To The Ball Game / Ask Anyone Who Knows (Your Hit Parade September 27, 1947)

Record plays inside to outside. A-side has no track breaks. B-side has 4 distinct tracks. The Frank Sinatra introduction tracks to "That's My Desire", "Thou Swell", and "An Apple Blossum Wedding" all end just after the music starts. Sinatra introduces "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" as being "where one American tradition pays its respects to another great American tradition" and a tribute to the World Series that would begin in three days. It was the first time he performed the song. "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "Ask Someone Who Knows" both appeared in 1991 on the [r7297103] compilation published in the UK. "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" was first officially released by Columbia, along with many other previously unreleased Sinatra radio transcription performances, in 2015 on the 4-CD [r12030739] compilation. It appears there without the "Your Hit Parade Introduction" and "Announcer Outro" found on this original acetate transcription.