SHE LIKES TO PLAY . . .

"She Likes To Play" begins with a radio announcer improvising a thoroughly silly introduction for a pretend polka band that is in the midst of wild crowd as a recording is being made of the live performance, sponsored by a Portuguese stocking company, in a night club located somewhere in Europe, making "She Likes To Play" one of the most spontaneous songs on the album.

The backup vocals began as an experiment to determine how the TC-Helicon VoiceWorks processor behaved when it was set to create barbershop style harmonies based on the real input of a single falsetto voice. There were no lyrics for the backup vocals at the time, so they started with a "Ha! Ha! Ha!" series to get a sense of how the harmony sounded, followed by a "Wow!" glissando, which sounded so absurd that it was exciting in a patently surreal and hilarious way. Realizing quickly that the effect was phenomenal, a virtual festival of harmony phrases and styles followed naturally, at times having flavors from the Big Band Era, where they sound like a chorus of frantic soprano slide trombones muted in a "wah-wah' style with rubber plungers.

On its most simple and obvious level, this is a song about a young lady playing a Clarke Metal Kazoo, the finest English kazoo in the known universe. Of course, there might be other perspectives, but perhaps not.

[Radio Announcer]

And now ladies and gentlemen, TKO Radiographic Productions in conjunction with Meias Incorporated broadcasting live from the Blue Ball Room located in beautiful downtown Prague, Czechoslovakia proudly presents Milford Whittle and his Finger Puppet Marching Band recording their hit polka tune, "She Likes To Play (Her Little Kazoo)" . . .

[Applause . . . ] ~ [Ha! Ha! Ha! . . . Wow! . . . ]

She's wild, she's hot, And she knows what she's got, She likes it a lot, And she knows what to do, When she plays her little kazoo . . . [Ha! Ha! Ha! . . . Kazoo! Kazoo! Kazoo! . . . ]

She likes to play it every day, Likes to play it all the way ~ [All the way! . . . ]

Knows the notes, Memorized by rote, Forward and backward, She likes to play her little kazoo!

[Kazoo! Kazoo! . . . Ha! Ha! . . . Play her kazoo! . . . Ha! Ha! . . . Hey! . . . ]

All she needs to start a band, Are some jelly beans and a candy cane, Juicy Fruit®, It's finger-licking good, So get a soda pop and knock on wood . . .

[Knock on wood! . . . Knock . . . knock on wood . . . Ha! Ha! Ha! . . . Ohhhh . . . ]

[Lead Guitar] ~ [Ha! Ha! Ha! . . . (various) . . . Kazoo . . . Wow! . . . ]

Jack and Jill went up the hill, To have some fun and laughter, Jill went down and kissed the ground, And Jack came tumbling after her . . . [Ha! Ha! Ha! . . . Wow! Wow! Wow! . . . ]

She's wild, She's hot, And she knows what she's got, She likes it a lot, And she knows what to do, With her little kazoo ~[She likes to play with her little kazoo! . . . (2 repeats) . . . Wow! ]

She likes to play with her little kazoo, She likes to play with her little kazoo, She loves to play and knows what to do, Forward and backward and upward too, She likes to play with her little kazoo . . .

[She likes to play with her little kazoo! . . . (2 repeats) . . . She likes to play, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! . . . Wow! Wow! Wow!. . . ]

[Lead Guitar] ~ [Shoo bop . . . Bop, bop, bop . . . (various stuff) . . . ]

She likes to play with her kazoo! She learned to play with her little kazoo! ~ [Repeat two times with Backup Vocals . . . ]

She learned to play every day, In an ethical modern way, An American band, Ohhhh . . .

[Her kazoo! Her kazoo! . . . Likes to play with her little kazoo . . . Wow! Wow! Wow! . . . ]

[She likes to play with her little kazoo! She likes to play with her little kazoo! . . . (various stuff) . . . Likes to play with her little kazoo! . . . Learned to play with her little kazoo! . . . Wow! Wow! Wow! . . . Ha! Ha! Ha! . . . She's wild, She's hot, And she knows what to do, She likes it a lot, And she knows what to do, With her pretty little kazoo . . .]