In 1981, seeking more stable work, she answered an ad in The Village Voice and became the first employee of Tommy Boy Records, a fledgling record label that specialized in rap music. She reveled in the party scene, waited tables and spent time as a topless dancer in a midtown nightclub. Her mother worked in ticket sales for the Bulls and Blackhawks she loved hockey and Black music and exhibited a genuine rebellious streak.īy 1978, the year after Faust launched a craze, Lynch moved to New York. Lynch had grown up in the suburban enclave of Oak Park, Ill. And though we had no word for the phenomenon at the time, it’s clear now.Īround the time Faust was hitting her groove, another young Chicago woman named Monica Lynch became a regular at games at Chicago Stadium. Faust, who also played the organ at Chicago Stadium, was awarded an RIAA Gold Record. The song was re-released by Mercury Records. “I never heard people sing like that before,” Faust said. As Faust said years later, “It created quite a stir.” The crowd sang along to the earworm chorus and the stadium rocked. 1 single from 1969 by a band called Steam. At that moment, Faust began playing the song “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye,” a No. In one version of the story, Faust was sitting at her organ in summer 1977, during a game against the Kansas City Royals, when the opposing manager, Whitey Herzog, pulled a pitcher from the game.
But Faust decided to take a chance, to embark on an experiment of sorts, and less than a decade later, the choice would change the course of sports history. The tradition of organ music in baseball dated back just three decades, to Wrigley Field in 1941. The latter did not feel like a sustainable career. When she finished her degree in psychology, she could do one of two things: She could become a teacher or she could play the organ for the White Sox. She spent her childhood mastering the instrument, and by the late ‘60s, she was studying at North Park University, balancing her classes with a side gig as a party musician. When she was 4, she started fiddling on her family’s organ.
She had grown up in Chicago, her mother working as a professional musician. She was blonde and thin and a ballpark staple, a soundtrack for the South Side summer. The following year, it was certified gold in the United States.Faust was the White Sox’ stadium organist for 41 years, starting at Comiskey Park in 1970. Jock Rock, Volume 1 is the first album in the Jock Rock compilation album series, released in 1994.
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