JSngry Posted July 15, 2016 Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 From here, Perry Como and Carla Bley, and then??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JSngry Posted July 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Thank you, that's the third of three that I knew. What's up next, gotta be more than three great donkey songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) Well, in Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (overture), there's a section where he musically depicts Bottom having been turned into an Ass (Donkey) by Puck. The braying starts at about 3:10. There's this too: Not sure I'd classify it as "great," but it has the virtue of being explicitly on topic. Remember: Don't ever laugh at a donkey, 'cause he may laugh at you. Edited July 16, 2016 by Mark Stryker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra "40 Acres And A Burro" .... at least a donkey reference titelwise .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Mahler also has one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) Hey, good one! . Translation: "Praise of Lofty Judgment" Once in a deep valley the cuckoo and the nightingale struck a wager. Whoever sang the masterpiece, whether won by art or won by luck! Thanks would he take away. The cuckoo spoke: ‘If you agree, I have chosen the judge,’ and he at once named the ass. ‘For since he has two large ears, he can hear all the better, and recognize what is right!’ Soon they flew before the judge. When he was told the matter, he decreed that they should sing! The nightingale sang out sweetly! The ass spoke: ‘You muddle me up! You muddle me up! Heehaw! Heehaw! I can’t get it into my head!’ There upon the cuckoo began quickly his song in thirds and fourths and fifths. It pleased the ass, he spoke but: ‘Wait! Wait! Wait! I will pronounce thy judgement, yes, pronounce. You have sung well, nightingale! But, cuckoo, you sing a good chorale! And hold the beat precisely! I speak from my higher understanding! And even if it cost a whole country, I thus pronounce you the winner, the winner!’ Cuckoo, cuckoo! Heehaw Edited July 16, 2016 by Mark Stryker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 "Donkey Riding" Recall singing this in music lessons in primary school. "Were you ever in Quebec..." There's a nice instrumental version by the Cock and Bull Band (an Anglo-French dance band) from the 1970s/80s. Not sure if Family's "No Mule's Fool" counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Didn't Quartet Out have something called the Donkey Dix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 On 7/16/2016 at 1:59 PM, JSngry said: Horace Silver liked to quote from "The Donkey Serenade". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 (edited) Oh wait . . . I'm sorry . . . this is actually a Bad Donkey song! Edited July 18, 2016 by duaneiac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jeffcrom Posted July 19, 2016 Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 I have suspicions that this is not really about his donkey. I have the original Guild 78 of this. That's the great Gregory Felix on clarinet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Teasing the Korean Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 (edited) If we can expand the criteria to encompass mules, there is Morricone's score for Two Mules for Sister Sara. Edited August 7, 2016 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 And then there is the pop-psych ditty "Donkey Rides, a Penny a Glass" by The Small Faces, although the donkey makes only a single appearance in the lyric, if memory serves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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