Take This Heart

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Name = Take This Heart


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Artist = Richard Marx
Album = Rush Street
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Released = 1992
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Label = Capitol Records
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Last single = Hazard
1992
This single = Take This Heart
1992
Next single = Chains Around My Heart
1992
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"Take This Heart" is a song by Richard Marx, the third single off his 1991 album "Rush Street". It hit #20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 while reaching #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart; the song also made the Top 20 in the UK.

Video

In the video, Marx is seen playing for the Chicago Cubs against the Oakland A's, in the seventh game of the World Series (Marx is a Chicagoan and a noted Cubs fan). In the classic baseball clutch situation -- last of the ninth, two outs -- Marx faces A's star relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley (who plays himself). The baseball scenes (complete with announcer Bob Uecker, who also plays himself) are intercut with Marx and his band playing the song on the field of the A's ballpark, the Oakland Coliseum.

Finally, with two strikes on him, Marx slams a home run to win the game for Chicago, to the dismay of Oakland players Rickey Henderson and Jose Canseco (also making cameos, as is Cubs manager Jim Lefebvre). Then we see a dozing Marx shaken awake; his homer was just a dream.

Only one problem with this scenario: if the game was played in Oakland, the hometown A's would still bat in the bottom of the ninth, so Marx' homer could not have won the game for the Cubs -- unless they convinced the Oakland team to bat first!

Video on YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLZ4iPHkm0]