There's A Trick To Pickin' A Chick, Chick, Chicken - And Other Easter Tales

There’s precious few Easter songs and perhaps the most famous of all is Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade:

Irving Berlin's Easter Parade 

One of our musician pals told me a funny story a while back.  At one point in his career he was hugely popular on the Jewish function scene.  One time he got an odd request to finish the dancing with an Easter song.  Well of course he chose Irving’s ditty and duly played it as the last dance.  The bride approached with a look of horror on her face and asked him what on earth he was doing.  “Well, I’m playing your request”.  Her reply was “Are you mad?”.  

When he got back home and checked her email it turned out she’d asked for a Faster song to finish the dancing.   Whooops!

So to celebrate Spring, bunnies, chocolate and being bloody freezing we’ve got a Faster Easter song for you - here’s the Rio Trio with a 1920’s pop song called “There’s a trick in pickin’ a chick – chick – chicken.  It’s choc-full of comic chicken effects played by my near-namesake Richard White on various clarinets and saxophones.  Click here for the free MP3 download.

Have a happy and slow Easter.

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