13 Facts About Jane Jarvis

Jane Jarvis was known for her work as a composer, baseball stadium organist and music industry executive.

Jane Jarvis was recognized as a piano prodigy at the age of five and she studied under a Vincennes University professor as a young girl.

Jane Jarvis's family moved to Gary, Indiana soon afterward, and Jarvis was hired to play the piano at radio station WJKS in Gary in 1927.

Jane Jarvis was orphaned at 13 when her parents died in a train-auto wreck and returned to Vincennes, graduating from high school in 1932.

Jane Jarvis continued her studies at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, the Bush Conservatory of Music, Loyola University Chicago and DePauw University.

Jane Jarvis stayed with the Braves for eight seasons and then went to New York City, where she took a position with Muzak corporation as a staff composer and arranger.

Jane Jarvis would rise to become a corporate vice-president and its director of recording and programming.

Jane Jarvis is remembered at Shea for playing the Mets theme song, "Meet The Mets", which debuted in the 1963 season before every home game, followed by the Jarvis composed "Let's Go Mets", as the team took the field.

Jane Jarvis left Muzak in 1978, and the next year left the Mets to concentrate on her first musical love, jazz piano.

Jane Jarvis became a fixture at New York nightclubs, frequently playing alongside bassist Milt Hinton.

Jane Jarvis became a founding member of the Statesmen of Jazz, a group of jazz musicians aged 65 and older sponsored by the American Federation of Jazz Societies, and was featured on their 1994 album.

Jane Jarvis performed with this group across the US as well as in Japan and elsewhere.

Jane Jarvis spent the final years of her life at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey.