Dancing Hippo Music offers free music for you to download!

From time to time, we'll offer free music you can download and enjoy.  (Note that these files are not as high a quality as our paid downloads.) To download the files, right click on the file name below and "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" or whatever option your browser uses to save a file.

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In honor of Valentine's Day, 2009, here is a new tune, written by SaxMarc for his wife, Janet.  It is called "Janet's Valentine".  

Listen to it: 

Download it here:  Janet's Valentine.  Enjoy!

March, 2009:

Here's another freebie.  This was done a few years ago, with SaxMarc playing clarinet.  This is a classic tune called "Nature Boy."  It was made famous, by Nat "King" Cole in 1948.  The story of the song and its composer is an interesting one.  From the Wikipedia entry:

In 1947, at the prompting of radio host Cowboy Jack Patton, Ahbez approached Nat "King" Cole's manager backstage at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, and handed him the music for his song, "Nature Boy". Cole began playing the song for live audiences to much acclaim, but needed to track down its author before releasing his recording of it. Ahbez was discovered living under the Hollywood Sign, and became the focus of a media frenzy when Cole's version of "Nature Boy" shot to #1 on the Billboard charts, and remained there for 8 consecutive weeks during the summer of 1948. [Ahbez was considered by many to be one of the first "hippies".]  Ahbez was covered simultaneously in Life, Time and Newsweek magazines, and Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan released versions of the song.

Listen to SaxMarc's version: 

Download it here:  Nature Boy.