

(Listen to Buddy: "nnnnNN NO!!" He finds something that's probably not in the music a little moment where he can make something out of nothing, adding to the song without even slowing the flow. No, it ain't your friendly smile that brings me back again. No, it ain't your friendly smile, or your dimpled chin. How about my friendly smile? I see you're smilin' too. How about my friendly smile, 'specially for you? (A sprightly instrumental solo follows, with some tasty work on clarinet and pedal steel guitar. No, it ain't your girlish ways that makes me set and stare. No, it ain't your girlish ways, or your purty hair. (Darlene's voice is clear, with a melodious hillbilly accent that doesn't interfere with her diction.) What about my girlish ways, or maybe you don't care? What about my girlish ways, and my purty hair? It's buckwheat cakes, buckwheat cakes, along with crispy bacon! He twinkles with his voice, just enough that I can feel it in 2012, and not so much as to cloy.) (Listen to the warmth Buddy can put into a recital of foods. It can't be your chocolate cake that makes me fond of you! It can't be your chocolate cake, or your Irish stew (The accordion echoes the word "bacon!" Buddy and Darlene sing in harmony.) Yes it is your buckwheat cakes that sets my heart to achin'! Accordion and pedal steel guitar figure prominently in the accompaniment, along with clarinet, and unobtrusive rhythm.)īuckwheat cakes, buckwheat cakes, along with crispy bacon! Buddy Ebsen, just then working on the Davy Crockett series, teams with Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie in a homespun paean to the humble buckwheat pancake.

Here's two minutes of, for me, pure unadulterated joy from an old LP of songs from the Mickey Mouse Club.
