That's my dad, Ted Blake, on the bass! The upright bass he's playing was the centerpiece of every home we lived in. When he passed, he requested it be donated to a student at the San Diego School of Music, which we did. Although I did watch him perform on his electric, I wish I would of asked him to play this for me.
my family lived on Oahu for 5 years, we left in 1963, and I remember this particular song, it was the best place to grow up, and later in 2007 I went back and so many wild places with the Bogainvilla flowers were gone, and not as many plumeria bushes, which made me cry, however my monkey pod tree was still there, only fenced in at Pearl Harbor by the barracks, close to Pearl Harbor Kai ele.
“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 my dad, Ted Blake, on the bass! The upright bass he's playing was the centerpiece of every home we lived in. When he passed, he requested it be donated to a student at the San Diego School of Music, which we did. Although I did watch him perform on his electric, I wish I would of asked him to play this for me.
That's awesome!
awesome!
That's so cool.
my family lived on Oahu for 5 years, we left in 1963, and I remember this particular song, it was the best place to grow up, and later in 2007 I went back and so many wild places with the Bogainvilla flowers were gone, and not as many plumeria bushes, which made me cry, however my monkey pod tree was still there, only fenced in at Pearl Harbor by the barracks, close to Pearl Harbor Kai ele.
Thanks for posting this - so hard to find live Martin Denny stuff.
mágico ❤
Over 50 years old and still so awesome! WOW!
“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
Was a teen on NS during this time …. but my parents never did Waikiki night life and we did not have TV, so never knew about this … mahalo!
Amazing footage thank u so much!
These looks like heaven to me
This is classic. The best. The OLD stuff
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