Seasons of the Ukulele

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Season 691 — Fruit Salad

Joko

I'm going in… With my apologies to the band,

I negected to mention there's a professional, talented, house band at this restaurant, and last night anyways, they were less than thrilled to hve to stay past their time to accommodate the owner and play behind a foreigner who's singing a song they don't understand'

Joko

My apologies for thinking too much. This week is about FRUIT. There's nothing serious about fruit.
It's mango season here in Myanmar, and my thought was to drive around a bit and record the heaps and heaps of mangos in front every market stall and corner store on every street in the city. Then add a song I love made mango, and I'd have a nice little videography project done. WHen I was able to get them at 400 kyats (US D$.899) each earlier in the week, I started to think economics… I've seen mangos sold in the USA for three bucks each - people will pay that… If I sell a mango to the USA for three bucks, the new tariff of 44% on EVERYTHING from Myanmar, that mango now costs four bucks…$

My whimsical re-writing of Guy Clark's Homegrown Tomatos gets a little political at the end.

I'm quite glad I went back to Jupiter Restaurant and Bar.
What they made for me at the end of the night was amazing.
Please like and comment; helps the algorithm and I think this song has viral potential. Bacterial, at the very least.

dr_mitch

Hi Ila,

Sorry I'm late this week - I've been busy. But to make up for it, here are two!

Firstly, here's an interpretation of the Joker (on my mango wood ukulele), with the line "I really like your peaches, wanna shake your tree.".

Secondly, an old swing jazz song, You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew (on my cherry wood ukulele), which mentions prunes and apples.

joo

here's a little homemade song about the DUCK APPLES that came out of our apple tree.

They are huge apples that look like ducks!

The words are in the YT description.

uke4ia

This is a 2004 song called "Apples & Oranges" by a Scottish band called Dogs Die in Hot Cars. The singer sounded a lot like Andy Partridge of XTC. In addition to apples and oranges, the song mentions plums and raisins.

AlanDP

A popular song from from the WW2 era.

uke4ia

This is a Jimmy Buffett song called "Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit".

Joko

When talking to owner of venue which hosted my entry this week, he didn't know the song on which SEIN TA LONE was based. We found a Guy Clark version on YouTube and he asked, "you want it to sound like this?"
Well, no, I mean it can't.. or so I thought
I want it to sound like what it would be, but he needed to share SOMETHING with the band… I got 6 different versions of Homegrown TOmatoes on my channel - three collaborative. THe one I liked was for Week 415 and featured Jon Duncan.

Ila

What a fabulous selection of songs! Such variety and diversity. From the simple apple to the exotic durian, and seemingly everything in between! If by chance I missed something on the playlist, please let me know.

I have no prize to offer this week, but if I did, I'd have to give it to Joko for his outstanding performance about mangos. It sounded simply amazing, and now I desperately want to try one of those mangos he sang about.

Thanks to one and all for making this week positively delicious.

--ila

OnlyUkeThatMatters

XTC have a whole album named Oranges and Lemons, though the album is named after a lyric from "Ballet for a Rainy Day" from their previous album Skylarking. A little confusing?

Anyway, it's great XTC song with plenty of fruit. And it rained all week here in Portland. Perfect, eh?

UkeCan1

Monday twofer:

Apple pie, Tallahatchie Bridge

MsBean

I haven't been around much lately, so time to refocus. (Since I put the sax back on the rota, I've hardly touched my ukes

The Playford collection of dances has a few tunes with appropriate, yet unripe pickings (e.g. Jenny Pluck Pears, or Furbelows And Apricocks). This morning I passed Strawberry Lane and this simple melody popped in my head.

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