Ball Park Incident

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"Ball Park Incident"
Single by Wizzard
B-side "The Carlsberg Special (Piano's Demolished Phone 021 373 4472)"
ReleasedNovember 1972 [1]
Recorded1972
Genre Glam rock
Length3:42
Label Harvest [1]
Songwriter(s) Roy Wood [1]
Producer(s) Roy Wood [1]
Wizzard singles chronology
"Ball Park Incident"
(1972)
"See My Baby Jive"
(1973)
Official Audio
"Ball Park Incident" (2006 remaster on YouTube

"Ball Park Incident" is a song by Roy Wood. A version, produced by Wood, was recorded in 1972 by his glam rock band Wizzard and released that November as their debut single, on the Harvest label. It was in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart for ten weeks, and stood at its highest position of number six for three weeks in January 1973. The single also reached number one on the Dutch Top 40.

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The band mimed performances of the song on BBC TV's Top of the Pops on 14 and 21 December 1972, and then again on 4, 11 and 25 January 1973. The recordings of all but the last of these performances have been wiped. [2]

"Ball Park Incident" appears as a bonus track on the 2006 reissue of Wizzard's debut album Wizzard Brew . [3]

Personnel

Chart history

Chart (1973)Position
Australian Singles Chart 6 [5] [6]
Irish Singles Chart 8 [7]
Dutch Top 40 1 [8]
UK Singles Chart 6 [9]

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