A lead-off home run is a home run hit by the first batter of a team, the leadoff hitter of the first inning of the game. In MLB, Rickey Henderson holds the record with 81 lead-off home runs. Craig Biggio holds the National League record with 53, second overall to Henderson.
Puttin' On the Ritz has also been recorded by Robbie Williams, using the original 1929 lyrics, on his 2013 Swing/Pop album Swings Both Ways. Herb Alpert recorded the song in 2013 and Pomplamoose made their version in 2014. JiÅi JiÅÃ­ korn did his own. version
The oldest known existing recording of the song, under the title of Rising Sun Blues, is by Appalachian artists Clarence Tom Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it for Vocalion Records on September 6, 1933.Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley.ccording to Stevers, the Frijid Pink recording of House of the Rising Sun was done impromptu when there was time leftover at a recording session booked for the group at the Tera Shirma Recording Studios.