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19 Feb 07 - 01:23 PM (#1972662) Subject: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: voyager So after my family's first trip to the Hawaiian Islands I got the musical teenage wunderkid a cheapt Ukelele to mess around with. Having been at numerous events where the Ukelele appears I thought I'd poll the Mudcat Circuit for which Ukelele Tunes are your favorites - I'll start with 'Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey' (jam tune at my summer Beer-Bash camporee) THREAD ON! voyager |
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19 Feb 07 - 01:34 PM (#1972679) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,eek a uke !!!! "Stairway to Heaven" |
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19 Feb 07 - 01:42 PM (#1972683) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Little Robyn Five foot two, eyes of blue, But oh, what those five foot could do, Has anybody seen my gal.......... But that's a bit advanced for a beginner. Start with 2 or 3 chord songs until kid is more confident. Robyn |
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19 Feb 07 - 01:44 PM (#1972685) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Waddon Pete Hello, How about "Ain't she sweet" (see her walking down the street)? Best wishes, Peter |
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19 Feb 07 - 02:02 PM (#1972704) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Alec You might be interested in checking out www.alligatorboogaloo.com |
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19 Feb 07 - 03:10 PM (#1972785) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Fidjit Ukelele Lady Turned out nice again, ain't it? Chas |
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19 Feb 07 - 03:12 PM (#1972788) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Jim If you learn 5 Foot 2, as Little Robyn suggested, you can use the same chords for Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 2 for 1. My favourites to play on the uke are John Prine's Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaaian and My Ukulele Helps Me Beat The Blues by John Rutherford of the Highwater Jug Band. Listen to it here: http://www.myspace.com/highwaterjugband |
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19 Feb 07 - 03:29 PM (#1972805) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Cool Beans "Yes Sir, That's My Baby." Played in the movie "A Thousand Clowns." |
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19 Feb 07 - 03:31 PM (#1972809) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Jean(eanjay) Leaning on a lamppost. |
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20 Feb 07 - 02:26 AM (#1973310) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Ernest "Nashville Blues" by the Delmore Brothers (from alligatorbogaloo mentioned above) - try it with kazoo in a rack! Best Ernest P.S.: ha! Nr. 10! |
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20 Feb 07 - 07:54 AM (#1973513) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Scrump How about these three: 1. I'm A Ukulele Man 2. With Me Little Ukulele In Me Hand 3. My Ukulele |
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20 Feb 07 - 08:50 AM (#1973566) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: dj bass While my guitar gently weeps - believe it or not. Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo dj |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:01 AM (#1973579) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Scrump dj bass, maybe that's not as odd as it may seem. George Harrison was a keen ukulele player and a fan of George Formby :-) Thanks for the link. |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:12 AM (#1973586) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Alec Sixty-odd Beatles songs tabulated for Uke at http://beatles.info Sadly "While My Ukulele gently weeps" is not amongst them,though I have seen it at other sites. |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:59 AM (#1973642) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: dj bass Well! The things I learn on here! dj |
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20 Feb 07 - 10:03 AM (#1973650) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Alec Mr McCartney & ,to a lesser extent,Mr Lennon were also afficionados. Julia Lennon (mother of) was also reputedly a talented Ukelele & Banjo player. What goes around comes around. |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:20 AM (#1973747) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Scrump Yes, George Formby was undoubtedly a big influence on the Beatles. To take just one example: their song Good Day Sunshine was clearly inspired by his catchphrase "It's turned out nice again". |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:24 AM (#1973754) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Alec George Harrison's last ever public appearence was at a George Formby Convention. "Free As A Bird" culminates in a backwards tape of Lennon saying "Turned out nice again." Both of the above statements are true. |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:38 AM (#1973774) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,eek a uke !!! dont forget Joe Brown's tribute uke performance at the George Harrison memorial concert.. |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:39 AM (#1973777) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Bainbo at work (though obviously not very ha Born To Be Wild; Teenage Kicks; The Good The Bad and the Ugly; Miss Dynamitee; Should I Stay Or Should I Go; The Trout (Schubert); and anything else by The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain . (If I remember rightly, they also do a version of Shaft, altered so that it's about Cecil Sharp.) |
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20 Feb 07 - 11:43 AM (#1973783) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Alec Joe Brown's rendition of "I'll See You In My Dreams" at The Concert For George is my all time favourite Uke performance. |
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20 Feb 07 - 12:50 PM (#1973843) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Jim Tonight You Belong To Me from The Jerk. The dvd of The Jerk includes a ukulele lesson on playing this song. When Sixty-Four or Obladee both seem like they'd suit a uke. |
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20 Feb 07 - 12:52 PM (#1973845) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Alec "I Will" works particularly well |
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20 Feb 07 - 03:22 PM (#1974033) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: M.Ted "I'll See You In My Dreams" is a ukulele classic,also "Paper Moon", and, of course, "Singin' in the Rain"(all done by the top selling uke player of all time, Cliff"Ukulele Ike" Edwards--best learn a few of the Hawaiian "Hape Haoli" tunes, as well, such as "Hukilau" and "Little Brown Gal", "On the Beach at Waikiki"--and, of course, Iz' version of "Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World"-- |
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20 Feb 07 - 04:48 PM (#1974120) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Songster Bob "When Old Bill Bailey Plays His Ukulele" is one of my favorites, but I also sing and play two of my uncle's songs on uke. One is "Paul McNeeley's Ukulele Song (Wish I Could Play the Ukulele)" and the other is "Jose From Tijuana" (I guess that's what you'd call it). "Here Comes the Sun" certainly sounds like it started life on a uke, you know. Finger-picked uke, that is. Bob |
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20 Feb 07 - 09:41 PM (#1974459) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Cap't Bob A few of the many I like: Hotel California Alabama Jubilee Somebody Stole My Girl Little Grass Shack in Hawaii Ring Around Rose Foggy Mt. Breakdown Sweet Georgia Brown I'll See You In My Dreams Cap't Bob |
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21 Feb 07 - 06:07 AM (#1974678) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Scrump A few more I overlooked yesterday: - He Played His Ukulele As The Ship Went Down - Ukulele Heaven - Ukulele Blues - I Showed Her My Little Ukulele |
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21 Feb 07 - 11:06 AM (#1974975) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: bet Robyn, Did you ever bring back the memories of childhood. Christmas of my 3rd grade my dad gave me a uke. Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey was the 1st tune he taught me. Boy did I think I was good when I played it. It's been so many years I don't know if it was good or just a kids thought. He later bought me a baritone uke and I love it. bet |
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21 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM (#1975079) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Frank Hamilton I agree with M. Ted and would furthur suggest that the uke sounds really good with a light tenor or alto voice because of the positioning of its register. This probably explains the popularity of Cliff Edwards and Tiny Tim. The lightness of its tone and the way its played makes it more gentle than say the tenor banjo or a Django-style guitar. The approach suggests a less frenetic and more peaceful, wistful and wafting-on-the-breeze playing which is expressed in Hawaiian music. it can swing like Ukulele Ike but remains lyrical and not as percussive as other accompanying stringed instruments. Some of the tunes that I think it expresses best are: "I'll See You In My Dreams" "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Most any lyrical Hawaiian Hapa Haole tune) "Blue Skies" "Ain't She Sweet" "Song of the Islands" "Now Is the Hour" "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (ya' gotta hear Cliff Edwards do this) "At Sundown" "Ukulele Lady" "Honolulu Baby" (ya' gotta hear Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel do this one) "Has Anybody Seen My Gal" "Moon of Manikoora" "That's My Weakness Now" "Ain't We Got Fun" (Walter Donaldson tunes fit) "I Want to Be Happy" "When Day is Done" "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (another Walter Donaldson) "Margie" "You're Getting To Be a Habit with Me" "If I Had You" "When You Wish Upon A Star" (Cliff Edwards sang this as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio. The sweetness and naivete of the uke music became obscured by the popularity of the razz-a-ma-tazz of the tenor banjo and the sophistication of the guitar by the songwriters of the Thirties. Most of the Twentys songs fit well. Lyrical is the deal here in my opinion. The George Formsby approach is different because of the banjo-uke which sounds more like a tenor banjo. Obviously, he is in a category by himself. Frank Hamilton |
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22 Feb 07 - 09:38 AM (#1975955) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Scrump I agree with M. Ted and would furthur suggest that the uke sounds really good with a light tenor or alto voice because of the positioning of its register. Good point Frank, but maybe those with deeper voices could go for a baritone uke? There's a uke to suit everyone! |
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22 Feb 07 - 10:10 AM (#1975991) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Leadfingers It would be nice to have a uke to play , especially as I own one !!! |
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22 Feb 07 - 03:47 PM (#1976293) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Frank Hamilton Right Scrump. It's one of the most accessible of instruments kinda' like the Irish tin whistle. Leads you on to other things. But is great in its own right. Frank |
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22 Feb 07 - 07:09 PM (#1976463) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Cap't Bob CAROLINA IN THE MORNING DOCK OF THE BAY Cap't Bob |
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22 Feb 07 - 09:50 PM (#1976620) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST tiptoe through the tulips ukulele lady somewhere over the rainbow black roses Al |
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23 Feb 07 - 10:54 AM (#1977023) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Geoff the Duck I would like some suggestions which would be of interest to my 7 year old ducklings. We bought them a pair of ukes, one red one blue, birthday before last, but I've not got round to learning to play for myself so as I can then teach it to them. I would like suggestions which don't contain the word Ukelele and preferably child friendly words. Any GOOD suggestions? Quack! Geoff the Duck. |
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23 Feb 07 - 11:03 AM (#1977026) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,TJO Well, I was glad to see some recognition of Braddah IZ (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole). Lots of his stuff is Hawai'ian language and a litle tough to get, but much of his ukulele style is very accessible, even for beginners. "Hele on to Kauai" is a great example--simple chords, great rhythm, some Hawai'ian place names to challenge the tongue. It's really a basic country home song translated to the island of Kauai. Petty Booka's version of "Pineapple Princess" is great and easy. I think it's actually from an early Annette and Frankie Beach movie. I could go on, but I've got to catch a plane. Almost anything by The Ka'au Crater Boys -- Tropical Hawai'ian Day, or Island Style -- are great choices. |
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23 Feb 07 - 02:01 PM (#1977179) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Ernest Geoff, her is a page that mightmight contain something: http://www.nancycassidymusic.com/jubilee.html Best Ernest |
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23 Feb 07 - 03:04 PM (#1977245) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Geoff the Duck Thanks Ernest, an ACE collection. Just need to find some tunes for the ones I haven't heard before. Quack! Geoff. |
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29 Jun 07 - 07:22 AM (#2089903) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST Can anyone give me the Ukulele cords that Joe Brown played in the Concert for George my email is ronnielee70@hotmail.com I would sincerly appreciate it. |
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29 Jun 07 - 01:18 PM (#2090187) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Dave Roberts Has anyone mentioned 'You Are My Sunshine' yet? |
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30 Jun 07 - 12:10 PM (#2090928) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Jim Guest, Joe Brown's chords are here: www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/tabs/050922-3.html - 8k |
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30 Jun 07 - 09:30 PM (#2091285) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Artful Codger "I Couldn't Afford a Concertina (So I Got This Instead)" |
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14 May 08 - 01:52 PM (#2340478) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Lori Brand New Key - Melanie. Three chords, it's fun to play and sing with. Chordie is a good reference site for Tabs. Also, I use YouTube if I'm not real familiar with a song. I swear you can find any song there. Happy Strumming! |
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14 May 08 - 02:14 PM (#2340492) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice New York Girls - Steeleye Span, with Peter Sellers on ukelele. To be found on Commoners Crown. New York Girls Charlotte R |
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14 May 08 - 07:40 PM (#2340774) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Arkie Get your young virtuoso a CD by Jake Shimabukuro or check him out on utube. Or maybe you would prefer he become the next Cliff Edwards or George Formby. |
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14 May 08 - 09:39 PM (#2340859) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: open mike the ukulele is making a come back. there are festivals and workshops all over the place. http://www.ukuleleworld.com/home.php www.ukuleles.com http://beatlesite.info/ www.ukes.com www.meleukulele.com http://www.ezfolk.com/forums/forum18/333.html http://www.get-tuned.com/ukulele_tuner.php o.k.now, get strumming... let's talk d***y in Hawaiian... |
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15 May 08 - 12:02 AM (#2340918) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Padre How about 'Lady of Spain' on the uke - I'd be willing to drive 100 miles @ 3.75/gal to hear that. Padre |
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06 Jul 08 - 09:57 AM (#2382304) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,elvis mcnoodle speed of the sound of loneliness alabama 3 style |
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06 Jul 08 - 07:44 PM (#2382637) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,BanjoRaY If you really want to learn what's possible on a Uke, check this out. I only recently discovered Jake Shimabakuro..... this guy plays ukulele better than most guys play any instrument. Cheers Ray |
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06 Jul 08 - 08:58 PM (#2382659) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the link, Ray. I had no idea the ukelele could sound so ethereal. |
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12 Aug 08 - 08:05 AM (#2411384) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST It's gotta be "Elephant Town" http://elephant-town.com What Uke original has spawned more covers? |
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12 Aug 08 - 08:17 AM (#2411391) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Ron Davies Heard a boatload of ukulele tunes, mostly George Fornby, on the Sidmouth prom--perfect place to hear 'em, too. Played by Emily Warren, of Exeter, about 22, I'd guess. A real virtuoso. She teaches ukulele and violin. And any of the ones she played would be in the top ten as far as I'm concerned. One in particular about a Mr. Wu's `Chinese Laundry, I think. |
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12 Aug 08 - 10:33 AM (#2411515) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: Will Fly "Oh Mr. Wu - what shall I do?" (Chinese Laundry Blues - George Formby). Having heard the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain recently, I'd vote for "Je t'aime". |
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13 Jan 09 - 05:30 PM (#2539133) Subject: RE: Top 10 Ukelele Tunes From: GUEST,Laurel in Des Plaines IL Here's a longshot: Does anyone have the words & chords for "Look in the Mirror and See Just Who I Love"? I'd love to play this on ukulele! |