Seasons of the Ukulele

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SOTU 741 – April Fools Plus

jon

potmo yes you're right on the shaky theme connection w/ the song "oh how he lied"
when i think on it now there's no real trickery on either side, just a big garden variety lie lol
and the table-turning, so yeah…thanks for listening either way mate 🙂

jon

last one from me
thanks for a fun week David!
a rough old shot at this traditional folk song
"whistle daughter whistle"

LimousinLil

Ooh, I've just remembered that one of Del's "raves from the grave" is permissible this week. I did this a while back and it couldn't be more appropriate for the week as it has "clowns" - or, to be specific, one clown belonging to Cathy - all over it! (I am totally intrigued by the theme for Season 541 … must go back and investigate. I have a whole family of toilet-seat-leaver-uppers and when they are here I spend a disproportionate amount of time putting them down again.)

UkeCan1

Happy birthday to Bing Crosby from Mount Crosby!

Bing's "Swinging on a Star" won an Oscar and a Grammy.

It opens with the interjection "Oh!" ... and that's the only one. So I added some more. It's a song that asks a lot of questions, so it was natural to interject some responses!

(I also included a snippet of Pat Donohue's parody version, which includes one more.)

It also includes the word "fool".

CanadaJim

I'm gonna take advantage of the DelGriff Special today on Pete Seeger's birthday. Here's a story that I learned from Pete's singing and have told to many kids over the years: THE FOOLISH FROG

OnlyUkeThatMatters

"Cheat" by the Clash has some ideal lyrics for this Swason in its outro:

Don't use the rules

They're not for you, they're for the fools

And you're a fool if you don't know that

So use the rules, you stupid fool

uke4ia

This is an original I wrote in 2006 while putting wood stain on the front steps. It's about Hamlet. It's a two-fer because it includes the word "fool" and the interjection "Whoops!" The lyrics are in the YouTube description.

potmo

Fools in Love Joe Jackson

From your not too present host. Apologies. I am dissapointed that I couldnt spend a bit more time with you all and especially I just couldnt find the time to even play the uke. Know that on the upside I got to make some much needed monies so... anyhoo at least I got one in.
But you guys are amazing! I loved the playlist up to where I left off! And I am quite thrilled to see bing and Pete celebrated. Sad about Willie and James but I didnt do anything to help their case myself. I will of course listen to every note of every song and of course I will give you a thumbs down and a scathing critique.

potmo

UkeCan1 Monday twofer? or just plain old Sunday? i did this earlier and threw in oink sounds ! How prescient of me.

potmo

These Foolish Things (Remind me of You) FIRST DELGRIFF SPECIAL MONDAY TWOFER IN HISTORY

It's week but there is ... Oh how the ghost of you clings### These Foolish Things (Remind me of You) FIRST DELGRIFF SPECIAL MONDAY TWOFER IN HISTORY

It's week but there is ... Oh how the ghost of you clings

potmo

Well it is Monday in Kansas but it is still not to late for a last minute appearance of Wendy and/or Ms. Bean. I hope you all don't hate me but I am going to have to wait til tomorrow to finish up the playlist. Recap Tuesday or Wednesday. Hope you all can see it in your hearts to forgie this transgression.

joo

I got too busy and did not bring another song for your Season, David. A blink and the week went by. I shall check out some of the songs in your week soon. Thanks again for hosting!

UkeCan1

I first did this one for Yacht Rock Season 113, and it was in my regular performance rotation for a while - such a great song. It contains lots of interjections and many "fools", so time to bring it back.

Elvin Bishop, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"

potmo

joo i can totally relate Joo. I will forgive you just this once 😛~ You gave two submissions plus a bonus oldie. That's more than acceptable. You remain in good standing. Also you are Jon's muse so there's that too!

potmo

jon well it will go in the playlist anyway becauser that's what we do. We can say the man was a fool to treat his dead bride wiht such disrespect and got his come uppance. And dont worry Jon, you are very easy on the ears so not a problem listening

potmo

jon Another awesome tune and once again I have to inquire as to its relationship with the theme. (And of course it goes in the playlist anyway.

potmo

LimousinLil For some reason, your links aren't working for me. I had to go to your channel and find your old video and THEN I coudl add it to the playlist! This could certainly be on my end, but when I click other peoples vids there is no problem. But even though i had no issue earlier when I added your first song to the playlist. I can't reach the song by clicking through from SOTU.
Going from your channel, I got there. This is the URL that works for me
bing song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bla-VEB-400
toilet song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yamcvPoLG4Y works for me and you are on the playlist but it wasnt easy. Naturally you put the numbers in your video so i had to go through em one at a time. It was worth it though seeing all your cool creative video screens. Pinging @delgriff because he probably knows who the movers and shakers are that can get to the bottom of this existential crisis.
If others could check to help me figure out who shoulde be saying, "it's not you, it's me"
UPDATE: It is happening to me for a whole bunch of people now including links from people who I had no trouble following their links. By "no trouble" I mean I get the same error message i almost always get when i click on the video but then you click the link from there and you get there. This time these links dont seem to be working. The video links form a persons channel I can do but these links are redirecting me to youtube.com

LimousinLil

potmo That is weird, David … but thanks for letting me know! Maybe it's not just me, then, judging from your update. (If there is some kind of technical glitch, though, I always assume that I must be the one to blame!) And, while I'm here, thanks for a great week, Sir!

DelGriff

LimousinLil

I checked a couple of your links, Val - working fine. 👍🏼

potmo

Back to working fine for me now too! That was frustrating as hell. Flarum converts the youtube urls and for some reason it was causing it to redirect to youtube.com home page.
Meanwhile I am sorry to be so far behind! Gonna finish off the playlist and my recap will hopefully come tomorrow, along with a couple of interjections.

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