I'm a little surprised at this. I always thought Kay was leaning towards doing the radio thing full-time, and would at some point give up being the primary YES play-by-play man. Maybe I was wish-casting.

Chicken parm stock just went through the roof.

####!!! I can't stand Kay.

The Mets announcing crew is way better than the Yankee shills.

Classic Louis Jordan, but the line is "Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?"

I have a hard time getting upset about Kay as long as Sterling is befouling the airwaves.

"Caldonia" is my 2nd favorite record of 1945:

MY TOP 25 RECORDINGS FROM 1945:
1 ¦ 7th Street Boogie ¦ Ivory Joe Hunter
2 ¦ Caldonia ¦ Louis Jordan
3 ¦ The Frim Fram Sauce ¦ King Cole Trio
4 ¦ Wynonie's Blues ¦ Wynonie Harris
5 ¦ The Honeydripper ¦ Joe Liggins
6 ¦ That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch ¦ Buddy & Ella Johnson
7 ¦ Drifting Blues ¦ Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Charles Brown)
8 ¦ Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' ¦ Delta Rhythm Boys
9 ¦ Tippin' In ¦ Erskine Hawkins
10 ¦ Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well ¦ Lucky Millinder (Wynonie Harris)
11 ¦ The Cattle Call ¦ Eddy Arnold
12 ¦ Buzz Me ¦ Louis Jordan
13 ¦ It's Only A Paper Moon ¦ Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys
14 ¦ Young Man's Blues ¦ Wynonie Harris
15 ¦ Watch That Jive ¦ Joe Turner
16 ¦ Keep Your Arms Around Me ¦ Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
17 ¦ Darktown Strutter's Ball ¦ Four Knights
18 ¦ She's Gone With The Wind ¦ Wynonie Harris
19 ¦ Strange Things Happening Every Day ¦ Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20 ¦ Baby Look At You ¦ Wynonie Harris
21 ¦ Around The Clock ¦ Wynonie Harris
22 ¦ Sentimental Journey ¦ Les Brown (Doris Day)
23 ¦ Johnson & Turner Blues - Joe Turner (Pete Johnson)
24 ¦ Straighten Him Out - Wynonie Harris
25 ¦ On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe ¦ Johnny Mercer

BUBBLING UNDER FROM 1945
26 ¦ Got A Right To Cry ¦ Joe Liggins
27 ¦ Lover Man ¦ Billie Holiday

I have a hard time getting upset about Kay as long as Sterling is befouling the airwaves.

The only guys in the Yankee booth who are even decent are Singleton, who is pretty professional, and Cone, who likes Sabermetrics. I guess Leiter is okay.

Isn't Doris Day/Les Brown's "My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time" from 1945? That should be somewhere on the '45 list, not to mention "Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)," arguably the best up-tempo record Frank Sinatra ever made at Columbia.

Isn't Doris Day/Les Brown's "My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time" from 1945? That should be somewhere on the '45 list, not to mention "Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)," arguably the best up-tempo record Frank Sinatra ever made at Columbia

They were both huge hits in 1945, yes, although the Sinatra may have been released late in 1944.

As you can see from my list, I'm much more into the R&B stuff from that era than the pop stuff. I have MP3s of the two records you mentioned.....actually I have an MP3 of virtually every Billboard pop chart hit between 1907 and 2007.

"Caldonia" is my 2nd favorite record of 1945:

MY TOP 25 RECORDINGS FROM 1945

can't believe you left this out

can't believe you left this out

I'm not a jazz fan.

For all the talk here about how incredibly bad Kay is, I found him sort of blah when I finally saw him on a yankees broadcast. Not saying I'd want him to be my team's primary announcer but I was bracing for an even worse experience after what I'd read here. Waldman and Sterling are both much worse. Though that might be the best example ever of damning with faint praise.