[78-L] one hen, two ducks

[David Lennick]

Even funnier is that it turned up on a Facebook page today, as an "announcer's 
test" (which by the way I nailed sight unseen on the first try). Several links 
point to Jerry Lewis.
http://www.jerrylewiscomedy.com/announcer.htm

     One hen
     Two ducks
     Three squawking geese
     Four limerick oysters
     Five corpulent porpoises
     Six pair of Don Alversos tweezers
     Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
     Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
     Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a 
marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth
     Ten lyrical, spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall 
around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.

dl

On 7/25/2014 9:40 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
>
> This conversation came up on another list, and I figured you good folks
> would have the ultimate answer.  When I was growing up, an overnight DJ
> named Dick Summer on WBZ Radio in Boston used to play a novelty song
> with the lyrics "One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, four
> limerick oysters, five corpulent porpoises..." (etc, all the way up to
> ten). I know there was a modern version of the song, called the Tibetan
> Memory Trick, I believe-- Flo and Eddie (formerly of the 60s pop group
> the Turtles) did it.  But who did the original, and was it on a 78?
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