When I was little, before my parents bought the family CD player, my sister and I used to listen to our parent’s vinyl records to pass the time. It wasn’t uncommon to walk in our house and hear The Commodores, the Grease soundtrack, Michael Jackson’s “Off The Wall” or, when our dad cared enough to fight for his pick, “Physical Graffiti” by Led Zeppelin blasting throughout the house. Those were your normal, run-of-the-mill 12 inch vinyl LPs, but every once in a while we put on one of their 45s. One record in particular was a favorite of mine: Danny Kaye’s “The Little Fiddle”.

For you unfortunate, deprived souls out there who are in the dark, Danny Kaye was an entertainer during the same era as Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, back when men were men and women were women. Danny Kaye was known for his smooth singing voice and quasi-slapstick comedic roles in movies like “Hans Christian Andersen” and “White Christmas.”

In 1947, Kaye acted as “Walter Mitty” in the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” – the soundtrack of which featured “Symphony For an Unstrung Tongue (The Little Fiddle)” by Danny Kaye himself. It was that song, commonly referred to as simply “The Little Fiddle,” that to this day puts a smile on my face because it’s a genuinely fun song. I used to listen to it every chance I got growing up.

Thanks to Grooveshark, You can use the widget below to listen to Danny Kaye narrating “The Little Fiddle”: