You always associate Robert Merrill with Eddie Layton and Bob Sheppard when you think of the old Yankee Stadium. Sheppard over the PA, Layton at the organ, and Merrill singing the National Anthem once in a while, even opening the World Series after the stadium reopened in 1976.
arthur richman, quite a guy.
hope u didn't pay too much to see half the field!
wiedep 7 months ago
Ehm... It couldn´t have been in 2009. Robert Merrill died in 2004!
Perhaps 1999! But it it´s still amazing, 1999 he was 82 (or perhaps 80, no one knows exactly), he sounds almost as in his prime age. Amazing!
Merrillmiller99 8 months ago
@Merrillmiller99 it was in 2009..if you read the description, it says "recording" :)
kaylamarie7589 8 months ago
beautiful... the it was meant to be sung, not like the idiots of today who screw it up...
he will be missed
KAHANAwasRIGHT 1 year ago 2
@KAHANAwasRIGHT Bravo!!!
Apollogranforte 6 months ago
You always associate Robert Merrill with Eddie Layton and Bob Sheppard when you think of the old Yankee Stadium. Sheppard over the PA, Layton at the organ, and Merrill singing the National Anthem once in a while, even opening the World Series after the stadium reopened in 1976.
GateStudios 2 years ago
He showed up at a Phillies-Cards game back in the seventies and sang it live. Sounded exactly the same: fantastic.
tat1685 2 years ago
Listening to Mr. Merrill's rendition of the Anthem kind of makes you wish the American male still had testosterone in his blood. ..
hnelson64 2 years ago 4
He wanted to play ball always and had the most beautiful baritone voice in his time and one of the best of all time.
halavey 2 years ago 4
I can't wait til summer when the balls start flying outta there like a bald eagle on liquid meth.
BinkieMcFartnuggets 2 years ago
They haven't already???
thunderstruck665 2 years ago