That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 28, 2023

“You want me to sing a happy song while I’m imprisoned in this cage? F**k off, lady!”

/// Their duet done, Euterpe engaged

with the songbird she’d recently caged:

“Those were Sweet Sounds we made.”

But it loudly inveighed,

warbling “FREE ME!!!”— not sweet, but enraged.

How’s your bird?

“I swear I tawt I taw a puddy tat.”

“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast. Sondgbirds always eat, if their song is sweet” Rodgers & Hart

Lacking a convenient snake, Edna had to improvise.

To get the worm, probably.

Everybody’s critic. Mocking birds should be legal game fowl.

Now I know why the caged bird sings. (Someone had to say it.)

The ‘spirit’ of “Enrique Granados plays his ‘Maiden and the Nightingale’ from Goyescas, Op. 11, No. 4 (1913)”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8jo8S6mTbfs

Alicia de Larrocha plays Granados – Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (2001 Live)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ezREoh8-JQM

Wikipedia article, “Alicia de Larrocha” —

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_de_Larrocha

A day at the park before radio

" I didn’t call you that!!! I was just making up a new song."

Good one Steve!

“Free Bird!”

She knew the relationship wouldn’t work out; he had a part of him that was too small for her….yes, he was a bird brain.

Euterpe & Her Bird used to be a big hit on the Ed Sullivan Show but after the Gong Show fiasco, the retirement years were not kind to either, but they were still planning a big comeback on Greece Has Got Talent.

“If you can get this mating call down riff-perfect, then maybe you’ll score with one of those hunky Argonauts.”

Yaffle started out as a model, before he was discovered by Jeffrey & Brian.

Yes birdie, when Oliver leaves a part of me leaves with him…..

She’s tone deaf, but excellent on the skin flute.

“Sweetie, if you want to score a guy, do what I do: Puff out your chest and raise your tail.”

Never do a duet with a bird. They’re just hams when it comes to singing.

When ever someone criticized her playing, she would just flip them the bird.

Songs without Words: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by John William Godward" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Songs, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3122 (April 28, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 9 works by this artist have been used here (8 times total, 1 strip has 4 works, which has been repeated twice), the April 7, 2022, strip being the prior (a repeat). The August 5, 2021, strip has the prior non-repeat.

Little known fact; this is the origin of the phrase to flip the bird.

Very clever…

she tried kissing the bird and then singing to it, but it never turned into a Hansome prince, so now it’s a flute or she will try a different bird. she needs a prince she’s not getting any younger.

“Songs Without Words,” 1918

Look, a poison dart needs feathers, and I don’t have any, so get used to it.

The caption works either way