About mice and elephants.
Featuring mice that fly (‘The flying mouse’) or skate (André Popp: ‘Skating mouse’) and elephants that defy gravity (Jean-Jacques Perrey: ‘An elephant on the roof’ and Jimmy Leach and his Organolians: ‘When I see an elephant fly’).
A sweet song about white mice with red eyes (Dorus), a house mouse in the supermarket (Hetty Blok & Leen Jongewaard), Peggy Lee and Art Lund discussing the secret of a better mousetrap, Julie London with the ‘Mickey Mouse March’, ‘Three blind mice’ performed by bassist Slam Stewart and his trio and by Nat King Cole, the orchestra of Glen Gray (‘The lion and the mouse’), the humorous duo Flanders & Swann and pianist Bill Evans with a melody from the elephant musical ‘Jumbo’.
Also featuring various pink elephants (the Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang Blue Five with ‘Pink Elephants’, and that same piece turning into a nightmare with comedian Phil Harris. And what’s the story behind a ‘pink elephant’ anyway?
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