Seasons of the Ukulele

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Season 748 - Dedicated Follower of Fashion

UkeCan1

"Second Hand Rose" by Fanny Brice, as covered by Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl"

Bystander

Thanks for hosting Paul, easy song choice for me, no learning necessary.

Handbags and Gladrags, written by Mike D'Abo when he was lead singer for Manfred Mann.

Versions by Chris Farlowe, Rod Stewart and Stereophoncs, I love 'em all.

Barbablanca

As soon as I saw the title of this season implied clothes, I knew which clothing I would be writing a song about this week!
The uniform of those who do the Billionaire's bidding: Not the Men in Black, but the Men in Suits… a far more dangerous breed!

I am not usually given to doing a PUNK track, but my passion about this subject could only be matched by getting heavy and down-strumming away!

Hope you like:

jon

lovely old WWI era song from Al Brown, Gus Kahn and Egbert Van Alstyne
"You're in Style When You're Wearing a Smile" 🙂

LimousinLil

Barbablanca You managed to find a photo of him where he wasn't asleep!

LimousinLil

Greetings, Paul … and thanks for hosting. This song occurred to me yesterday evening, so I decided to have a go at it this morning, when I should really have been out weeding in the garden … actually, it's extremely hot out there; my excuse, anyway. It doesn't mention any specific item of clothing, but just clothing in general, and, of course, the importance of wearing a smile.

Nearsighted-Lemon-McKay

Since pseudo-Randy almost predicted this season correctly (well, he had an article of clothing in the prediction) I thought I'd do one of his songs. This was one of his favorites and mentions several pieces of clothing. Little Woman Blues.

jon

an original song for the season
guess i never really was a jeans fella…
"Rockin' The Corduroy"
thanks Mitch!

Nearsighted-Lemon-McKay

Here's my DelGriff special for the season. I recorded this Mills Brothers tune for no special reason a while back, and it mentions "shoes" in the second verse.

jon

sorry Paul, i feel like i'm making you work OT so far this week, it's
a great theme and i've had a handful of unexpected songs stuck in my head
like this Darren Hanlon song - and maybe the best opening line of any song ever -
"Today I left my house in shorts, but now I'm having second thoughts…"
'Winter Takes Fall'

and this lovely old popular song and standard which i love to play
but have trouble to sing
'You're the Cream in My Coffee'

i reckon that's probably it from me for this week but never say never i guess lol
thanks mate 🙂

OneManAndHisPGUke

Thanks for hosting Paul. I initially picked several songs that mention clothes, but then rather than learn any of them, I thought I’d just write a little original, The Cat’s Pyjamas. So here it is. Lyrics in the description on the Tube of You.

OneManAndHisPGUke

Then I went and did a cover that mentions “party dress” in the first verse. Have always loved this pretty song off Elvis Costello’s first album “My Aim Is True”.

LimousinLil

Bonjour, Paul … I think you might have got some unmentionable garment of clothing in a twist; when I clicked on the Playlist video, I just got my YouTube feed. (Of course, this could just be me!) Somewhere -- somewhere - there is a guide which Wendy sent me about how to put the Playlist up … I'll try to look it out if you want.

dr_mitch

LimousinLil How very peculiar. It didn't work for me either, but I believe it's fixed now. Probably more care needed from me when it comes to cutting and pasting URLs.

LimousinLil

dr_mitch Yes, all working now! I found Wendy's instructions:-

Type the word "Playlist" and highlight it, click the chain link icon, and paste the playlist link into the empty box marked "URL" and click insert. (I have to remind myself of this every time I host.)

UkeFoote

My repost is from ten years ago (!)

Here's "Take Your Clothes off When You Dance", by Frank Zappa. Brian plays concert uke and sings and whistles, Borfus on the bass and vocals.

Thanks again Paul!

LimousinLil

Oo-oo-oo-ooo! Seeing Brian's post reminded me that I can post a rave from the grave! This song, which I did a couple of years ago, is VERY clothes-oriented …

dr_mitch

Sorry everyone for lack of posts in the thread. Quality punning and even better music, whuch has eased by soul in what turns out to have been a beast of a week so far - but easing off. I'm now much more present and loving it!

uke4ia

I haven't posted a video for a month, and my strumming hand is getting twitchy! So this video contains two songs from the 1998 Blue Wonder Power Milk album by the Belgian band Hooverphonic -- "Club Montepulciano" and "Electro Shock Faders".

uke4ia

This one is my rerun from an earlier season (296). From The Simpsons show, this is "See My Vest".

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