very sad day for yankee fans and fans of hava nagila...

Wearing his oversized eyeglasses and his captain's hat (he owned a maroon and green tugboat he piloted on the Hudson River), sitting on his padded bench at his 50,000-watt Hammond organ, Layton was a fixture at Yankee Stadium.
He played at Yankee games for more than three decades, although he missed a few years during the 1970's while pursuing other musical commitments. He was as familiar as Bob Sheppard on the public-address system, Phil Rizzuto in the broadcast booth and Robert Merrill singing the national anthem.
Layton was not supposed to play during the baseball action, but he told National Public Radio how once "I just got lost in the moment" with the Yankees' Reggie Jackson at bat.
"I kept playing and playing and playing and playing," he remembered. "And Reggie looked up at the booth, and the umpires looked up at the booth. Reggie threw down the bat and he started dancing at home plate."
"I've had my day," he told The New York Times in October 2003 as he closed his career. "Playing with 50,000 watts of power, what rock star has an amplifier like that? I play for up to 56,000 people a night. Not even Madonna has done those kind of numbers."