Seasons of the Ukulele

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SOTU 761 – "Bon Voyage"

potmo

UkeCan1 The explanation you gave was good enough for me, but my idea was that there is motion happening from a point A to point B. The fact that the cabaret has an international crowd and is being welcomed, doesn't describe a trip or motion to me, but I am cool with it and it was a fantastic performance besides.

potmo

lemon Welcome! Always nice to have some new blood. Glad you decided to jump in and I see you didn't have an issue with my harsh rule that newcomers must also stick to the theme!

potmo

CanadaJim Ha I can't imagine any song qualifying more. Thank you for the fine addition to the list.

UkeCan1

Today's quickie (not quite as quick as yesterday's) - "Movin' Out" by Billy Joel

potmo

Woweee I was not expecting this! First came a second wave from Australia kicked off by John with a really cool really Australian song. Wendy executed a perfect one-take completely non controversial song. Jon revealed himself to be the only person to have heard of the Allman brothers but did not know that they did Ramblin' Man.
More importantly, Jon threw down a whole bunch of numbers with a bonus rerecording of an original song that brought back memories. Then he explored the moving thing with a series of cool tunes. I can't believe how many new songs I have been exposed to this week!
Meanwhile, we were blessed by a new member, Lemon, who channeled Woody brilliantly. And how about my sister?? She hit those high notes so effortlessly (or at least it sounded effortless) and she has been playing the uke for like two months or something and she is already mastering it! Chris also delivered a beautiful performance. And Jim gave us a couple of great ramblin' tunes to add to our growing ramblin' collection.
Thank you everyone. I hope I didn't miss anyone. I thik I have the playlist up to date. Let me know if I missed you.

CanadaJim

Jon beat me to this song. It seems that Jon and I have very similar influences, but I think my interpretation is different enough to make it OK.
I have a CD set of Charlie Poole recordings that came in a cigar box.
A while later, Loudon Wainwright III released a Charlie Poole tribute CD set that also came in a cigar box.
Loudon won a Grammy for his tribute and in his acceptance speech, he thanked his ex-wife, the late Kate McGarrigle, for teaching him to play clawhammer banjo.

MOVING DAY - Harry Von Tilzer & Andrew B. Sterling.

Recorded by Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers

Right around the turn of the century, Al Kirby, the late Zeke Mazurek and I formed an old time trio. We called ourselves The North Shore Ramblers because we all lived on the North shore of Lake Ontario (Yes, Donnie; I said "Lake Ontario") One of our posters was ripped off from R. Crumb's cartoon of The NorthCarolina Ramblers.

AlanDP

Flashback to season 286. A "my woman done left me" country song that I wrote, because the woman missed her home in Hawaii too much and went back home. I won a Ukulites t-shirt for this one!

CanadaJim

Here is the sticker thaty came with my R. Crumb book. It now resides on my banjo case.

jon

closing track from Frank Sinatra's 1958 album, 'Come Fly With Me'
fantastic song i found yesterday and fell in head over heels in love with. i spent
some time with it last night and this morning and made this little arrangement for it
on the uke. the song celebrates the joys of traveling abroad
but is ultimately a paean to home, in this case, New York City
big thanks to joojoo for filming!
definitely my new favourite song, well, this week anyway…
"It's Nice to Go Trav'ling"

johnpoole

My blast from the past. “ Hollywood Seven”. A rather sad tale of people travelling to Hollywood in the hope of making it the movies. You can tell it’s from the seventies as the cost of the cheap motel is “7 bucks a night.”

UkeCan1

Here's the TV theme song from The Jeffersons, "Movin' On Up"

dr_mitch

All the best with the move David! Here's a dash of Woody Guthrie.

dr_mitch

Since I can't resist a second one today, here's a late Beatles song.

CanadaJim

GOOD MORNING MR. RAILROAD MAN - P.D.
I have recordings of this by Ry Cooder, Ramblin' Jack Elliott (who calls it HEY MR. RAILROAD MAN, and Derroll Adams. I have included verses from each version and modified some (the folk process)

Xamar25

Hanukah’s Flame

Lyrics by Woody Guthrie, music by Frank London of the Klezmatics.

This song is about offering the warmth of a Hanukkah home to a lonely traveler bearing a “life long heavy load”. Lyrics include words like “road” and “way”. I dedicate my performance to my brother @potmo with the wish that, as he journeys, he will find kind souls to invite him in to “rest a day”

(I know it’s early for Hanukkah but I am leading a group called the Hanukuleles, and I have to start working on our repetoire).

If it that is not a self-evident that my entry qualifies I offer these two additional persuasive arguments

Anything by Woody Guthrie should qualify since he was tbe quintessential bard of traveling.
Its partially original—this is the ukulele world premiere! The chords and music are not available so I had to figure out the chords and harmonies just by listening. That’s at least a little original.

Finally I wish I had time for a few more takes! I am working with a new backup singer who seems to be getting the hang of harmony, but she could use more practice. But, lest the perfect become the enemy of the good, or even the so-so, I am posting this anyway. I hope you enjoy it.

Finally, I wrote a bit about Woody Guthrie’s connection to Judaism in the description of the YouTube video.

AlanDP

This isn't a song and therefore not an entry for the week, but I forgot that I had made this little commentary video about the song "It's Forty Miles From Schenectady To Troy." If anyone is interested…

joo

hey David!

Thanks for hosting! And all the very best to your move to Germany.

I thought of playing an Elvis Costello song, but I have not recorded that yet.

Here is one with simple 3 chords but soooo many words. (i include the lyrics in the YT thing)

UkeCan1

Saturday quickie: "Gonna Move" by Paul Pena

Paul Pena is best known for writing the song "Jet Airliner". Did you know that was a cover? I didn't.

He wrote and recorded it for his 1973 album "New Train", which didn't actually get released until 2000. But the Steve Miller Band heard the album and made "Jet Airliner" a hit.

This song is also from that album. From the track listing, I think about half the songs on it probably qualify for this theme.

LimousinLil

Sorry, David … still got problems with my thumb, so can't do anything this week. Just wanted to wish you all the best for your move … big change!

jon

yeah, i did an abbreviated version of this song yesterday
but i wanted to do the full song w/ the outro. besides, any old excuse to play it again haha -
i can't get enough of this song right now 🙂
(i also did another version today on our hike along the Coningham foreshore,
but, well, i'll spare you that one...for now lol) 😉
so David, feel free to remove the first one from the playlist mate, or not…
"It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" (full version w/ outro)

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