We publish another little gem coming from contributor Christina. The success of “A Boy Named Goo” sparked interest even amongst filmmakers. “Iris” was the result of the director of “City Of Angels” falling in love with “Name” and wanting the Goo Goo Dolls to pen a song for his flick. However he was preceded by another director, the one in charge of a promotional clip for the 1996 US baseball season, who noticed the potential contained within ABNG and offered John et al. the chance to interpret one of the most famous tunes representing the ball game.
We stated many times how busy 1995 and 1996 were for the band. As far as the latter is concerned, one of the many appearance made by the Buffalo,NY act was a short, 25-second clip to promote that year’s US Baseball season. “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” is a very popular song originally written in early 20th Century by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer. The tune has been covered far and wide by many bands, including the Goo Goo Dolls.
While the clip itself, which aired on TV, was slightly less than 30 seconds, the band had actually recorded and fully produced a longer version that lasted roughly one minute and which makes an appearance on the 2021 compilation “Rarities“. I always wished the Dolls had released a way longer counterpart, as this little gem ended up becoming one of my favorite Goo songs.
For those who are curious to hear an instrumental version for it, you can check it out here.
Christina recorded the aforementioned clip and shared it with us. Let’s hear what she has to say about it:
Again, you’ve posted about this before so I include the clip only for the sake of sharing a downloadable version… my rip is lower quality than the one in this post.
This is obviously a VHS rip coming with the standardized 640x480p encoding format. Quality is what it is, but the rarity of this release makes up for it.
You can watch the video below. Download links are available at the end of this post.
Temple of Goo - The rarest Goo Goo Dolls releases, for real Goo fans only 
Somewhere out there is a quote from John saying he did this for the money. lol Apparently it paid well.
Can’t blame him!
wow I can’t blame him either 😂