When Nancy was a kid, the organ was really having a resurgence. I tried to major in music in college and I couldn't cut it because you have to be a good reader."
"I just spent my whole life developing my ear, not relying on reading sheet music, because that comes very hard to me. "It captured my fancy because at the time, I was about 4 years old, and here is this big instrument with all the draw bars and all the keys, and my parents found me just being able to pick out simple tunes on the keyboard without any instruction or anything," Nancy said. They decided to buy an organ so Jackie could practice at home. She played daily on the nationally syndicated "WLS Radio Barn Dance," for live vaudeville acts and at banquets and receptions all over town.
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Her mother, Jackie, had made quite a name for herself as a professional musician in Chicago playing piano, violin and the organ. IF THERE WAS a defining moment in Nancy's path to Comiskey, it almost certainly came in the early 1950s when her parents brought home an organ. We all want to be taken out to the crowd. To celebrate her impact on the game is only to be reminded of the things we miss most this year. Instead, the music played over the sound system reverberates off of empty seats and cardboard cutouts. The fans she spent decades entertaining are conspicuously absent from the ballparks this year. By having a nearly infinite mental songbook and an astonishingly accurate ear, Nancy pulled the sound of the organ from the teetering edge of a forgotten, vaudevillian yesteryear and created a new kind of nostalgia for baseball fans - one that we didn't know we really needed until now, baseball's silent summer. She invented walk-up music, for heaven's sake. She made a stodgy, centuries-old instrument suddenly funny and irreverent. She is the reason fans sing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" when a visiting pitcher is pulled from the game. She was the first to use the organ to react to the game itself. What the men in the stands didn't know - what Nancy didn't even know at the time - is that over the next 41 seasons, Nancy Faust would save the sound of baseball. It should be a man's job, they said, someone who knew the game inside and out.
Some of them didn't think a woman should be employed at the ballpark. Nancy was more or less alone in the outfield bleachers as she played standard organ fare like the national anthem and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Over in the grandstands, however, a petition was circulating among the remaining die-hard attendees. Attendance was at an all-time low - two September games drew only 672 and 693 fans. Alongside rumors of a move to Milwaukee and general fan disinterest, the 1970 White Sox lost a team-record 106 games. 30, 2020.įIFTY YEARS AGO this season, during the peak of what was later dubbed "Three Years in Hell" for the Chicago White Sox, Nancy Faust took her seat at the organ in the bleachers of Comiskey Park for the first time. This story originally was published on Aug. How Nancy Faust and her organ set the tone for America's pastime
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