Chico also made funny jokes about words and expressions that sound alike but have different meanings.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

I knew that sound well,too. It was the beating of the old man's heart.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He can even make noises that sound just like the birdcalls.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

What does that sound like? Here's a version of "Workingman Blues" recorded during the 2008 festival.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Other selections are new compositions by members of the group - works that sound very different from anything the Balinese people will have heard before.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

"I drive everyone crazy trying to get the sound that I hear in my head to come out of the speakers.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

A pickup is a device that captures the vibration of the metal guitar strings and changes them into electronic sound signals.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

That is sound recorded with equipment placed underwater near the busy shipping lanes off Vancouver Island in Canada.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

It is night time. And the only sound that can be heard is the long, lonely whistle coming from the train's engine.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Park Service rangers explain that mother bats find their babies by remembering their location, their smell and the sound of their cry.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

He worried that producer Dennis Herring might have too much control over the final sound of the songs.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

But Ohga and others believed that the excellent sound quality of the CD would make it popular.

VOA: special.2011.05.11