The Little Fiddle-Danny Kaye

[ti:The Little Fiddle] [ar:Danny Kaye] [al:Danny Kaye - The Album] [offset:0] [00:00.65]My dear children, hello. [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, [04:34.83] [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.