Most donkeys make noises that would rouse the demons of Hell, but this Irish specimen, Harriet the Singing Donkey, has a sonorous and mellifluous voice. As BoingBoing reports:
She became an internet sensation when Martin Stanton, who lives not far away and has visited Harriet the donkey regularly for more than a year, posted a video of her singing on Facebook last week.
“She lives about 20 minutes away from me in Toureen, Connemara,” he told ABC News. “I know the family who own her and I bring carrots, bread and ginger nut biscuits. She never hew-haws like other donkeys.”
“I try to visit whenever I can because she is adorable, so friendly and gentle,” he said. “I found the video funny so I just posted it. I didn’t think it would go viral.”
Listen to this lovely voice!
h/t: j.j.
A ululating F# I believe.
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Donkeys and goats, animal kingdom’s best.
Then there is this dog who sings on key!
Yes, the dog can sing. Ok, maybe it was good editing, but was that (gorgeous) dog following the judges conversation as well?
There was no editing whatsoever, the show was live.
Well, kudos to the camera person.
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There are many cameras and camera people. I thought you meant that the editing was of the dog’s voice – which it wasn’t.
Oh, I understand now. I apologise for my lack of clarity. I was watching the expressions on the dog’s face while the judges were pontificating as the focus switched back and forth.
That’s where I believed the editing played a part, not the actual performance by the dog.
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It isn’t really editing, it is the people in the TV studio’s control room which switch from camera to camera. 🙂
Awww! Thanks for that! 🙂
The ‘original’ Donkey Serenade.
https://youtu.be/vg7ftpjhJ08
Alan Jones could sure hold a note.
OOOOPS!
This is the correct link
That’s an amazing guitar. It’s voicing an entire orchestra. Probably a Kurzweil.
A Kurzweil Singularity guitar.😬
Indubitably.
For some unaccountable reason, “The Donkey Serenade” was one of the favorite songs of my childhood. I could listen to it for hours.
Might be Marni Nixon.
There was once a public house in Norwich, UK, called “The Singing Donkey”. In my time the wooden frame building, after several hundred years, had been converted in a bank. The bank kept the inn sign flying.
Sadly, the sign was cleaned. The picture turned out to be the pale of horseman (one of the four horses of the apocalypse). Slightly puzzling as a pub.
Harriet has better vibrato than I do!!