top of page

Even More Heart

Apr 15, 2014
1 min read

For no other reason than in honor of the Heartbleed bug vulnerability and because it's the first month of the baseball season, here's my favorite song from Damn Yankees, with a score by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler.  "Heart."



The manager is played by Russ Brown, and the three ball players from left to right are: Albert Linville, Nathaniel Frey and Jimmy Komack.  All four, by the way, were in the original Broadway production.



The latter two are the most notable.  Komack later -- as James Komack -- became an extremely successful TV writer and producer, most notably as executive producer (and a somewhat controversial one) of Welcome Back, Kotter.  And Nathaniel Frey, with an extremely distinctive deep New York voice, is one of my favorite Broadway character actors, often used by Harnick and Bock -- co-starring in their Fiorello! and She Loves Me.



Recent Posts

See All
More What's My Line?

Let's head back to What's My Line?, which we haven't gotten to for a while and another Mystery Guest. This time it's Debbie Reynolds, for her second appearance on the show. It's great fun, since she

 
 
 
Costas

I worked with Bob Costas briefly on the movie, BASEketball from David Zucker, that starred Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park. The times I got to talk to Costas -- on the set and at his home ov

 
 
 

Comments

bottom of page