Concert and Cabaret Vocalist MAXINE LINEHAN Celebrates New York Mets Home Run Hero Daniel Murphy in Video

Maxine Linehan, one of New York's rising star concert and cabaret vocalists, sure knows how to celebrate the newly-crowned National League Champion New York Mets and their sudden home-run slugging superstar Daniel Murphy. The Irish-born Linehan recently took to the roof of a midtown Manhattan recording studio to sing a special song in honor of fellow Irishman Murphy, who recently set a Major League Baseball post-season record for belting a home run in six consecutive playoff games. What song did Linehan pick as her love ode to the Murphy and the Mets? What else but a parody of that iconic Irish ballad "Danny Boy," the original of which Linehan featured in her critically acclaimed recent cabaret show Beautiful Songs. As you'll see and hear in the video, Maxine Linehan knocked this one out of the park.

Though Maxine is actually a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan (she has family in the Boston area), the Mets are clearly her second favorite team overall and definitely her number one team as they prepare to play the Kansas City Royals in the 2015 World Series.

"Since I sing 'Danny Boy' in my show Beautiful Songs, it was a kick when I saw a story about Daniel Murphy in the Daily News on Friday morning with the headline, OH, DANNY BOY, Maxine told BroadwayWorld. "It's such a beautiful and widely loved song and Daniel Murphy is becoming such a beloved player who is such a humble human being, I wanted to dedicate a version of 'Danny Boy' to him. I called Andrew and asked him if he'd write a parody of the song about Murphy and since Andrew is a huge Mets fan, of course he agreed. He was actually in a recording session with a client so I ran over to the studio, crashed the session, and we all brainstormed and came up with a fitting tribute to Daniel. Then I hopped up on the wall on the roof of the studio and we recorded the song."