Jess Daniel Dennis Cain III (June 17, 1926 – February 14, 2008) was an American radio personality. For 34 years, from 1957 to 1991, Cain was the morning drive personality on WHDH/850 in Boston. Cain also was a professional actor and appeared in numerous theater and musical theater productions, and appeared in early television on the Sergeant Bilko - a.k.a. The Phil Silvers Show. In the Boston area, he was known especially for playing Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a graduate of Northeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia and the University of Notre Dame.
Cain's song about Carl Yastrzemski — which he adapted from an old ragtime tune called "Shoutin' Liza Trombone" — appeared on "The Impossible Dream," a WHDH-produced album commemorating the 1967 Boston Red Sox season and later as part of the soundtrack of the 2005 movie Fever Pitch.
When the drums kick in
And the bass starts rumbling
Low like a train
When the shit kicks in and the
Microphone's on fire
And your insides just got smoked
You wanna make a bet
But it's the money you already spent
When the change takes charge and
The music is brighter and closer
To who we are
This sound drowns slowly
It's symbiotic
It calls attention to the tornaquet
That was wrapped around your head
So take those headphones and put
Them on just put them right on
It pulls you slowly to the music