Southbury Man Wants to Rock Citi Field During the World Series

Ridgefield music teacher and Southbury resident, Jim Tornatore (pictured) felt that NY Mets fans needed a rally song for the upcoming World Series.

“I remember the good feelings whenever we heard the song, ’Who Let The Dogs Out’ by the Baha Men in the 2000 World Series.” said Mr. Tornatore. “When the Mets won the National League Championship last Tuesday, they were playing the old favorite ’Meet The Mets’– a great nostalgic song, but not exactly a fist pumper. I felt we needed a song.”

He had an idea for a crowd rousing tune and by Thursday, met up with a few great musicians in a recording studio. guitarist, Mike Varrone from Southbury and drummer, Tito Nariznis from Bristol caught on immediately. “These guys were great! They played the song as I imagined, but somehow even better,” said the composer. Recording engineer and bass player, Jason Finberg, who is the lead audio assistant at ESPN, got the concept of the stadium rocking song right away.

By Sunday afternoon, Mr. Finberg delivered the final mix to Stephanie Tornatore, who has her own YouTube cooking channel, Classy Cookin’ With Chef Stef. By Sunday evening, she had put together some video clips to go along with the rallying lyrics and posted it on Facebook.

“Our goal is to have the video go viral and hope it gets into the right hands,” said Ms. Tornatore. “We’ve posted it to a lot of players’ pages and pages of big fans like Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Breuer, and Jimmy Kimmel.” Her dad chimes in with, “Could you imagine if Billy Joel would sing our song at game 3? Everybody has a dream . . .”

Mr. Tornatore, a Long Island native, has been writing songs since he was a teen and frequently writes fun songs for his students at Scotland Elementary School in Ridgefield, CT. He also is artistic director for Newbuiry Musical Theatre Company that performs at Pomperaug HS.

“Songs can be simple enough for kids to sing and enjoy and sophisticated enough for adults, as well,” he said. Inspired to tell his story to his students, Tornatore says, “I’ve been telling my students all week about following a dream. If you don’t follow it, it definitely won’t happen, but if you do follow it, it just might”.

His dream is to be rocking Citi Field this weekend when the Mets return to New York. Besides the rallying cries of “Let’s Go Mets”, the song pays tribute to New York’s resilience as a city, as well as the Mets teams of 1969, 1973, 1986 and 2000.

In reference to his song, as well as his team, Mr. Tornatore quotes pitcher, Tug McGraw, “Ya Gotta Believe”.

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