the legend of mickey tussler by frank nappi

“They said they didn’t want it to be this woe-is-me type thing.” “They wanted it to be upbeat,” he said of the song’s producers. “There’s no pretention at all, they just are who they are.” “Autistic people are amazingly pure of heart,” he said. Petrone explained that he had a number of classic baseball songs in mind when he wrote “Buckle Up and Dig In,” including Credence Clearwater Revival’s “Centerfield.”īeyond baseball, Nappi said that his story embodies a wholesomeness that country music often espouses. “The kid starts off on a farm somewhere, with meager beginnings… A little bit of baseball in there helps, too,” he said. Nappi said he thinks the story works well as a country song. The song is catchy, and this reporter has struggled to get it out of his head since first hearing it. MP Music House provided the Herald with a pre-release copy of the song, and the track’s emotional country vocals tell the Mickey Tussler story with guitar flourishes that evoke well-known country-rock acts like the Eagles and Neil Young. Petrone said he was drawn to the success of Nappi’s books. When he learned about the Mickey Tussler series, he told Nappi he wanted to turn it into a single. They stopped to talk to their neighbor Tom Petrone, a co-president at MP Music House, a songwriting and music publishing business. The track, called “Buckle Up and Dig In,” came about after Frank and his wife, Julia, also an OHS teacher, ran through their Massapequa neighborhood one day.

15, MP Music House will release a country music tune based on Nappi’s series. “I told them, ‘Eh, I’m not sure,’” he said, “but then there was the second one.” After that, there was a third and, before long, a TV movie. Urn:oclc:827722440 Republisher_date 20171104142119 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 697 Scandate 20171103105409 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1.After Frank Nappi, an Oceanside High School literature teacher for 29 years, wrote “The Legend of Mickey Tussler,” a novel set in the late 1940s, about an autistic farm boy with a strong pitching arm who makes it to the major leagues, people asked Nappi about a sequel. Urn:lcp:legendofmickeytu00napp:epub:9e9b9cfa-09b9-419d-8eb6-aa8ec9da1a09 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier legendofmickeytu00napp Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8jd8xv2g Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780312381097Ġ312381093 Lccn 2008005522 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL16490196M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:42:46.027153 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1159404 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.

The legend of mickey tussler by frank nappi