The Little Fiddle-Danny Kaye

[ti:The Little Fiddle] [ar:Danny Kaye] [al:Danny Kaye - The Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]My dear children hello [00:02.53] [00:03.34]Oh no no no children everyone must answer [00:06.03]Please hello before we can start Hello [00:08.22]Well that is better Now [00:10.65] [00:11.40]If you would all draw up your chairs and listen very closely [00:13.58] [00:15.20]I will tell you a most unusual story The story of the little fiddle [00:21.76] [00:25.20]As it is told in Symphony number 45 [00:27.70] [00:28.45]Which was written by the great Chzekoslovakian composer Andree (gibberish name) Junior [00:34.58] [00:38.14]Now this story children is very unusual [00:48.08] [00:49.02]Because it is told not only with words [00:51.58] [00:52.21]But also with music [00:53.90] [00:54.96]But first I want you to meet the symphony orchestra [00:59.21] [01:02.71]How do you do [01:04.40]Shake hands with the trombone [01:06.21]And the tuba [01:07.15]And the oboe [01:08.03]And the saxaphone sousaphone zither and xylophone [01:11.09]Clarinet buglehorn fiddle and fuglehorn [01:13.03]Tinny kazoo and the timpani too [01:15.59]And the piccollo picollo [01:17.22] [01:19.65]Now some of you children may be very surprised to hear [01:22.96] [01:24.71]That the symphony is not only music [01:26.33] [01:27.02]But that it always tells a story [01:29.39] [01:30.21]Which has a beginning a middle and an end [01:34.58] [01:35.58]Except for the unfinished symphony [01:37.89]Which has a beginning [01:39.96] [01:41.96]As I was saying [01:43.40]If you listen you will hear [01:45.28]From the corner of your ear [01:46.96]How the oboe she makes love to the bassoon [01:48.86] [01:50.36]And the pipe goes diddle diddle [01:52.05]And the fiddle's in the middle [01:53.55]And the dish ran away with the spoon [01:54.36] [01:54.99]Heh heh heh that's what she did [01:57.11]Well so Now we tell the story [01:59.53]Which starts with the first movement [02:02.27]Presto vivace argomento molto contabale molto chocolo molto [02:06.17]And we have the first theme which is naturally the theme of the little fiddle [02:14.40]Now this little fiddle is a young girl who lives with her wicked guardian [02:23.52] [02:24.76]Which is a french horn [02:26.08] [02:26.64]Now this young girl who is a beautiful girl [02:38.89]And her wicked guardian live all alone on a farm [02:51.58]And all she has for company are a hen and a dog and a nanny goat [03:08.28] [03:15.85]Now one day when her wicked guardian [03:18.34]The french horn is upstairs busy washing his coils along came a handsome young trumpet [03:29.97] [03:31.84]When he clasps his eyes on the little fiddle his heart went zing (musical noise) [03:40.97]And he gets so excited he has a big cadenza [03:45.59] [03:46.59]Which is a solo passage in triple time [03:51.85] [03:53.14]This brings us to the second movement [04:34.82] [04:36.59]When the little fiddle is happy and the trumpet is happy [04:39.03] [04:39.72]When suddenly out stalks the french horn [04:43.85] [04:44.98]Ehhhhhh [04:45.14]What's going on here says the french horn [04:46.77] [04:47.28]The little fiddle is so putrified her bridge falls out [04:49.03] [04:49.77]But the trumpet says we love each other [04:51.90]But the french horn is very objectionable to this marriage [04:56.83] [05:02.77]And the trumpet blows his top ah shut up [05:04.90] [05:08.95]Now I know who you are you are not the french horn at all [05:12.20] [05:12.83]That (nice music) had me fooled for awhile but the (bad music) gave you away [05:20.22]You are a glockenspiel in disguise beyond a doubt wanted by the police for drowning twelve little fiddles out [05:25.72] [05:26.41]The glockenspiel tries to escape to his flat but the animals are too sharp for him [05:30.66] [05:31.41]Ow in the leg [05:34.90] [05:37.40]Ow in the neck [05:38.46] [05:40.58]Ow in the face [05:42.21]Ow in the other place [05:45.03] [05:45.64]The glockenspiel is trapped his escape they are foiling [05:48.52]So he jumps into a kettle drum which is boiling