If I Had Known Worrisome Years Poor Backslider All Day Rain Dream Cafe (1992) One More Goodnight Kiss Walkin' Down to Casey's Canned Goods Our Little Town revised Down in There (1990) Who Woulda Thunk It? I Slept All Night By My Lover Good Morning Coffee All The Money' s Gone Just a Bum Who Do You Think You're Fooling One More Goodnight Kiss (1988) The Iowa Waltz Out In The Country The Train Carrying Jimmy Rodgers Home One Night (1983)ĭream On Canned Goods Flat Stuff Downtown Heart of My Country Love Is a Chain You Don't Really Get Me, Babe Ella Mae Never Shine Sun In the Dark with You (1985) Twenty or So Ring Around The Moon Lullaby at the Edge of Town Early Iowa Waltz (1981) Īll of Greg's songs that I have transcribed and all others that I have received are posted here, I swear. Additions and corrections are most welcome. He also called baseball and softball games for the 20 Olympic games.Greg Brown's Songs: Transcriptions for Guitar These transcriptions haveīeen collected to facilitate sharing the guitar accompaniment to some of He retired after the 2001 season.Īlmost forgot my boy Timmy Neverett! Tim played baseball for Emerson College, lettering all 4 years. He also hit the last home run and recorded the last out at Three Rivers Stadium, and currently holds the MLB record for consecutive games played at 3B without an error at 99. Wehner was a utility player, playing every position (except pitcher) at least 3 times. He bounced back and forth between the majors and minors a lot, usually playing in the minors when they were away, and the majors when they were home (considering him a good luick charm at home since he was a local). Wehner played for the Pirates in the 90's, and was actually a local boy, growing up in Carrick. He played for the Pirates during their last glory days, in 1990-1992, retiring after 1993.
(He says Clemente's death wasn't a factor, but I think it was).īob Walk pitched in the 1980 World Series, but for the Phillies, winning game 1. Blass was good friends with Roberto Clemente, and after Clemente died Blass lost his mojo, his control went bonkers, and he retired two years later. Walk, Blass, and Wehner all used to play for the Pirates, with Blass pitching in the 1971 World Series. Steve Blass does home games and Wehner does away games. Two of them are radio, and two are TV, and they mix up who does what pretty regularly. Our whole broadcast team is Greg Brown and Tim Neverett for play-by-play, and Bob Walk, Steve Blass, and John Wehner for color commentary. Every Pirates win is punctuated with "Raise the jolly roger." Cannonball Coming!"īut his best call is what he says when the Pirates win. My favorite call of his for home runs is "Clear the Deck. Of course, Brown is in rare form when calling Pirates home runs.
Listen to what he has to say about the blown call that started the Pirates' 2011 tailspin. It came out of nowhere, and you could tell it. Here's how he called the first home run of Michael McKenry's major league career back in 2011.
The thing he says are the things you're saying as you watch them. What makes him endearing to Pirates fans is his sheer excitement. He first started as a Pirates announcer back in 1994.Īlong the way, Brown has had many memorable calls. In 1979, he served as the backup Pirates mascot (The Pirate Parrot). No disrespect to Neverett, but Greg Brown is simply the voice of every Pirate fan who watched the team suck for so long and is happy to see them succeed now.īrown grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA. Greg Brown is one of 2 play-by-play announcers the Pirates have, along with Tim Neverett. More specifically, I think you need to hear Greg Brown. To understand Pirates baseball, I think you need to hear about Greg Brown.