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Oh, yes. Her diction was superb, just superb. I'll give you an imitation of her sometime singing 'Airy Fairy Pipers'.

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.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

[...]

The Danny Kaye Radio Show Sound Clip

The Danny Kaye Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from the old-time radio program "The Danny Kaye Show" which ran from Jan. 1945 to May 1946 on CBS.

Actors: Danny Kaye, Eve Arden, Lionel Stander

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