11 seconds sound clip from The Danny Kaye Radio Show - "A Baby From Washington" (3.02.1945).
You can hear this line at 00:07:10 in the radio play.
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- Say, I read about the shows you put on for the March of Dimes. They tell me you were entertaining every minute.
- Well, we got quite a rest in one place, thanks to a certain soprano who sang about eight thousand songs at her own request.
- What was her name?
- I don't know, but it should have been Lucresia Quivertonsil or Natalie No-throat or something.
- You should have heard her. Not only did she miss notes completely, but when she hit one, she flogged it into exhaustion.
- Wasn't there anything good about her?
- Oh, yes. Her diction was superb, just superb. I'll give you an imitation of her sometime singing 'Airy Fairy Pipers'.
- Why not do it now?
- Coax me.
- Come on...
- That's enough.
- When all the birds are gone to sleep, and all the frogs are still, then you would hear the fairy pipes come out upon the hill.
- Come out! come out! Listen on the air! Up there! down there! Fairies everywhere!
- Oh hark! Oh hear! Can't you hear the tune? Airy fairy pipers underneath the merry moon!
- But if you doubt that this can be, and question what I say, you'll never hear the melody the fairy pipers play.
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