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Aesop's Fables: Two Enchanting Tales in Story & Song

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Aesop's Fables: Two Enchanting Tales in Story & Song

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2001 Aesop's Fables: Two Enchanting Tales in Story & Song. CD. "Donkey and Wolf" and BW. Purchased used. Los Angeles: Liberty International Publishing with Drive Entertainment. Unknown source.

Wow! A full orchestra leads us, with a full chorus, into a narrator's energetic telling of the hungry wolf's approach to the waterhole. "I'm a Lone Wolf" is a great lonely monologue-song! A flirtatious donkey knows nothing of the wolf's eating intentions, even when he says she could use a little make-up, like ketchup! When she understands, she sings "Why Me?" to a cha-cha rhythm. This is perhaps the most professional musical presentation of Aesop I have run into. He answers with "Nothing Personal." He is just a wolf! She mentions the nasty thorn in her hoof…. Aesop comes through! She is just being herself! The shepherd boy is just lonely. He makes his cries in order to see another human face. The recording has the chorus singing the same "To the Rescue" song more and more slowly with each of his several calls for help. It is a delight to listen through this performance!

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Carlson Fable Collection

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“Aesop's Fables: Two Enchanting Tales in Story & Song,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed January 16, 2025, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/587.

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