Seasons of the Ukulele

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Season 739 - Better Together

AlanDP

An Irving Berlin song.

potmo

"Simple Twist of Fate" – Bob Dylan

@ukecan mentioned a "Monday twofer" term. If this means a song that woulda been a twofer had it been posted in time, then I guess this is a Monday twofer. ("They sat together ..." "Hit him like a freight train...")

Nearsighted-Lemon-McKay

Here is one I wrote just for this season. I got to wondering, what happens if you are together with someone, and then you break up? Do you become… Onegether?

CanadaJim

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WE WILL ALL GO TOGETHER WHEN WE GO - *Tom Lehrer *

A song we used to appreciate in the sixties when folks could still recall the only two times that nuclear weapons had ever been used to destroy a city. People were building bomb shelters on their property and classrooms were prctising what to do if it ever happened again.

Joko

I made this while a member of the Seasons, and the video has Together in the title. But it's not specifically from a previous Season, and whereas there are ukuleles hanging around in the background, they're not front and center. Still, its a nice little slice of life from 2014. Excuse my indulgence.

UkeCan1

potmo @ukecan mentioned a "Monday twofer" term. If this means a song that woulda been a twofer had it been posted in time, then I guess this is a Monday twofer.

For me here in Brisbane, Australia, midnight Hawaii time is always 8pm local time. The overlap day is always 8pm Sunday to 8pm Monday.

Since the new theme is usually posted early Sunday morning my time, I have all day Sunday to get a Sunday twofer together (hence why I'm often ready to post right at start time), and then most of Monday to do another one.

That's why you'll often see me do four twofers in a Season - one each for the leading Sunday and Monday, and a second pair for the trailing Sunday/Monday.

If you're in North America, you might have to get up quite early to manage a Monday twofer, but here we conveniently get two full days per twofer period.

UkeCan1

It's Tuesday now - so here's a non-twofer.

We can make it together.

"Candida" by Tony Orlando and Dawn

UkeFoote

Simon and Garfunkel's "America", for concert ukulele with singing, overdubs of Ashbory Ubass and secondary vocal. Thanks for hosting, Del! I may post a previously recorded video later in the week if no one else does the tune I'm thinking of.

potmo

UkeCan1 Hmm I'm confused. Don't we all use hawaii time? I have all day Saturday to post the twofer. True I am not going to wait til 4 am my time comes around but otherwise I guess what you are saying is it is Sunday Hawaii time but it is Monday your time. So I guess the short answer is that no, what I did was not a monday twofer since it was actually posted on Monday for Monday.

UkeCan1

potmo We all have the same 24-hour twofer period each week - for clarity I'll call it 12:00:01am Hawaii time Sunday through 11:59:59pm that night Hawaii time.

For you on the North American mainland, most of which has daylight saving time, that will vary in your local time by an hour depending on time of year - for you right now, I think that's 5am Sunday to 5am Monday?

So unless you're going to get up before 5am on Monday, your (local time) twofer period is effectively Sunday. (Though of course you also have part of Saturday, after the theme is announced, to record, though you can't post it on the thread until Sunday.)

(But you might choose to record one on Saturday, post it Sunday morning, and call it a “Saturday twofer”, and record and post another on Sunday and call it a “Sunday twofer”. And you might still get up early Monday and post a “Monday twofer”, if you were so inclined. You actually have access to three separate days between the usual announcement time and the end of the 24-hour twofer period, if you’re obsessive enough to care about such things. 😆)

For me though (no DST here), the twofer period is always 8pm Sunday to 8pm Monday. Most weeks, the theme is posted early Sunday morning my time.

So I can record what I call a "Sunday twofer" any time Sunday, and usually if I do that, I'll post it right at 8pm Sunday on the thread, which is the start time of the new Season. (I actually have an alarm to remind me, which is why I'm often first to post for a new Season. It's a lot easier to do that here in Australia at 8pm, than in Kansas at 5am (or 4am in the wintertime!)

For me the “old Season” then ends at 8pm Monday, so now I have all day Monday to make a “Monday twofer” if I want to. (I am well aware that when I make and post my Monday twofer, it is still Sunday for most of you. But here, it is Monday, usually Monday afternoon or evening.)

Does that make it any clearer?

For reference, Hawaii time is GMT-10 (10 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time), CDT (Central Daylight Time, which I believe you’re in now) is GMT-5, CST (your time in winter) is GMT-6, and Brisbane (where I am) is GMT+10 (10 hours ahead of GMT) - we’re near the leading edge of the day, 20 hours ahead of Hawaii.

(PS, if you start posting Saturday twofers, I may be slightly envious, because those are never available to me. 😆 Especially if you follow one up with a Sunday twofer and a Monday twofer, because that is not possible for me!)

dr_mitch

Time for a spot of Bowie from me. "As long as we're together, the rest can go to hell!"

jon

a bit of fun w/ an old folk song on our walk along the Coningham foreshore yesterday

and we bumped into this gorgeous greyhound and his mum

"old bell'd yoe"

Threebird

I have a song with "together", but there is a caveat - that word isn't in the original. I changed a line to "we could be together loving life" from "we could just be man and wife" to be more inclusive and not feel like I was making a strong political statement by being so very specific about the type of relationship. Anyways, that is how I play it and did not make the lyric change for the Season (Thanks for hosting!), so I hope it still qualifies.

"The Quiet Life" was written & performed by Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, but I learned it because I thought is was by a local artist (John Wort Hannam was just covering it) and my Sweetie liked the song. Also, I get pleasure from singing the line "fly across the Gulf of Mexico"!

UkeCan1

We belong together.

"We Belong" by Pat Benatar

Written by my friends Lowen and (Dan) Navarro.

Sadly we lost Eric Lowen to ALS some years ago.

Joko

It's Buddhist New Years this week, so I got lots of time on my hands to create stuff like my entry. Given that Wendy kicked off the week with the same song, mine needed some extra sauce.

Check out the dedications in the YT description.

Barbablanca

Here is an original I wrote for this Season. It was inspired by true events….

Hope you like:

redpaul1

A 'together' and an 'ensemble'! 😎

There's a nice line cliché you can work into this tune Fm, Fm(Maj7), Fm7, Fm6, DMaj7 & that's what I was trying to demonstrate here: 5548, 5547, 5546, 5545, 5544 (basically holding an Dm shape on the 4th & 5th frets of the G,C&E strings and walking down from the 8th to the 4th fret of the A string - f, e, eɓ, d, c# - before going to 2nd pos'n C-major 5433, and then 5553, 2nd pos'n F-major for the first line).

DelGriff

Good evening all - it’s half-ish way through the week and already we have 30 excellent vids on the playlist! By recent standards that’s pretty good - thank you all! As far as I know, I’m now finally up-to-date with listening and commenting, but please let me know if I’ve missed anyone!

I’m feeling very positive about how things have been picking up here on the forum lately. The upcoming host list is looking very healthy, which is always a good indicator, and happily we’ve welcomed back several absentee Seasonistas in recent weeks, which is fabulous and inspired my theme choice.

As I said in my opening post, I’m making a charitable donation this week in lieu of awarding a prize, and any of you that have listened to my first song won’t be surprised to learn that my chosen charity is the Alzheimer’s Society . I’ll be donating £1 for each and every song on the playlist this week.

Thank you all again - more songs please! :-)

potmo

UkeCan1 I get waht you are saying but the first time it almost sounded like you were saying that because of the time zone you had extra time to do a vid. I was just hoping it meant: "damn didnt finish that in time. Guess I will hae to make it a Monday twofer"

potmo

"Hey You"– Pink Floyd

Hey Del. Thanks for hosting and hosting the hosts and doing all you do to keep this thing going.
I know you promised to listen to every minute of every song, but I am exempting you from this obligation for my songs. You have to go all the way to the last line to hear our magic word (together we stand divided we fall)

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