“One night while performing "Quiet Village" those frogs, in the pond behind the stage, started croaking very loudly. As soon as we stopped playing, they stopped croaking!! thought "Was it a coincidence or what? When we repeated "Quiet Village," they started broaking again! The guys in the band thought it was really funny so they joined in with the frogs, doing these bird calls like we were back in a jungle somewhere. The whole thing just cracked up the audience. The next evening when somebody asked me if I would do that song with the birds and the frogs I was kind of mystified. Then I realized this guy was serious! He thought those effects were really part of the show. So at the rehearsals I had the boys do different birdcalls, spacing them about every four measures. Because they bach had different voices, it sounded like we had several species of birds making noises. I would do the frog sound on a guiro- a small grooved cylindrical instrument that looks like a potato masher. I'd rub a pen or a pencil on it, which made a sound just like a frog - "ribet, ribet, pibet, ribet," and from that point on people started requesting "Quiet Village repeat edly. Uttle did those frogs know that they would in time be responsible for earning Liberty Records over two million dollars!” - Martin Denny
“One night while performing "Quiet Village" those frogs, in the pond behind the stage, started croaking very loudly. As soon as we stopped playing, they stopped croaking!! thought "Was it a coincidence or what? When we repeated "Quiet Village," they started broaking again! The guys in the band thought it was really funny so they joined in with the frogs, doing these bird calls like we were back in a jungle somewhere. The whole thing just cracked up the audience. The next evening when somebody asked me if I would do that song with the birds and the frogs I was kind of mystified. Then I realized this guy was serious! He thought those effects were really part of the show. So at the rehearsals I had the boys do different birdcalls, spacing them about every four measures. Because they bach had different voices, it sounded like we had several species of birds making noises. I would do the frog sound on a guiro- a small grooved cylindrical instrument that looks like a potato masher. I'd rub a pen or a pencil on it, which made a sound just like a frog - "ribet, ribet, pibet, ribet," and from that point on people started requesting "Quiet Village repeat edly. Uttle did those frogs know that they would in time be responsible for earning Liberty Records over two million dollars!” - Martin Denny
That's amazing! Lovely story from Martin Denny, thanks for sharing the quote.
重めのピアノの響きがたまらない。大人の音楽だね。