Edgar Burgen, the ventriloquist, used to sing nothing but pentatonic songs to practice his craft---his art---whatever you want to call it. This way he learned to sing without even twitching a single muscle in his entire body! And that was quite difficult. Not only that---he could sing 6 complete octaves but only using the pentatonic scale---or so I've been told. In later years he got very sloppy and always moved his mouth because doing a ventriloquist act on the RADIO somehow defeats the purpose of being a ventriloquist in the first place. Some even felt it was Mortimer Snurd who was the ventriloquist and Edgar was the dummy.

Whoops!!! I'm completely WRONG! It wasn't a pentatonic scale he used to practice his art.

It was the C A T A T O N I C scale!!! That's why he never moved!

Oh well, NEVER MIND!

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