Season 627 - It's 3/4 Time!

[uke4ia]

In 2001, a bunch of musicians, including members of Wilco, Cheap Trick, The Mavericks, and Sixpence None the Richer put out an album of great '60s and '70s-styled pop songs under the name Swag. The album was called "Catch-all". This song is from that album.

 

[uke4ia]

This is a New Pornographers song from 2007. The original was sung by Neko Case.

 

[pmorey]

I have really been woodshedding this all week and didn’t have time to get to the major section. Some stutters along the way but I wanted to sneak it in by the deadline. Un Dia de Noviembre by Leo Brouwer.

 

[mythinformed]

My last one, cheers Ylle x

 

[joo]

Nice playing, beautiful voice!

Thank you very much for your kind words!

 

[UkeCan1]

Val mentioned this one as a kind of "song pun response" over on 628, and I couldn't help but notice it is in 3/4 time.

So here's a 627 / 628 twofer:
"The Great Pretender" by The Platters

 

[ukukeguy]

Shane McGowan (RIP) taught me this song when I was a kid. Kinda had a few mistakes in their but it is longer than I am used to keeping it together for.

Parts of Fairytale of New York are in 6/8 time, too, I believe, which isn't that far removed from waltz time.

 

[Threebird]

This song, Black Boys on Mopeds by Sinead O'Connor, is supposed to be in 3/4 time. I don't know whether or not I managed to play it that way, but here it is...

 

[mikeinmontara]

If I can slip one more SOTU 627 in….Here is a minute or so of “La Llorona”, the first Spanish song I think I ever heard!

 

[Canada Jim]

MAGGIE'S ANNIVERSARY WALTZ - Jim Yates - July, 1994

I wrote this tune for Maggie on our tenth anniversary, nearly 30 years ago, long before I got my first ukulele. Still celbrates the best move I ever made.

 

[emba]

Jim’s “Beautiful Brown Eyes” made me remember a short of parody version of it I wrote a few years ago. I had sung the version that’s in The Daily Ukulele (yellow book) a few times but it’s a little dramatic and overwrought for my tastes, though I like the chorus.

Willie my darlin' I love you, Love you with all of my heart
Tomorrow we might have been married, But drinking has kept us apart

Chorus:
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes, Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes, I'll never love blue eyes again.

Seven long years I've been married, Wish I was single again
A woman never really knows trouble, Until she has married a man.

Chorus

Down to the barroom he staggered, staggered and Fell at the door
The very last words that he uttered: I'll never get drunk anymore

Chorus

My husband has brown eyes. He drives a truck part of the time so for my parody version I replaced all of the drinking references to trucking. As I recall, about the time I wrote it, he had had a lot of trouble with breakdowns and figuring out what the problem was, which inspired the last verse/made it funny.

My lyrics are in the description of the video.

 

[ksiegel]

Here's a short one...

 

[ksiegel]

And another one... I'm thrilled I actually got to do two for this Season!

(Of course, it was in the same sitting...)

 

[mountain goat]

thank you for this week Ylle
an original song for the season
xo

 

[TheOnlyUkeThatMatters]

A waltz, yeah?

I went straight to my ukulele bible - May Singhi Breen's New Ukulele Method for Beginners and Advanced Students - and rediscovered her lovely ukulele solo arrangement of this 1935 gem...

 

[UkeCan1]

We've had a couple versions of "My Favorite Things" already, which reminded me of this one, which I've managed to squeak it out in these final minutes.

Here's my New Jersey friend Mike Agranoff's parody version, "My Favorite Diseases". It has a couple of fun little non-3/4 song snippets in it as well.

 

[kolibri]

...and the terrific Season 627 is over! Thank you all for the music. It was great fun to host again, I enjoyed listening to your submissions very much. I'll update the playlist later today and get back with a wrap in a few days.

 

[LimousinLil]

Thanks so much for the week, Ylle ... it was fun thinking in 3/4 time!

 

[joo]

If I can slip one more SOTU 627 in….Here is a minute or so of “La Llorona”, the first Spanish song I think I ever heard!

Wow!!!! Great playing!
I love Spanish music!
Makes me think of....Jonathan Richman!

Your uke is insanely good looking and sounds fab!

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

Thank you for Season 627, Yile! When, many months ago, I posted a cover of a waltz popularized by Elvis, my favorite comment posted to my YT channel was “I wish all songs were waltzes”.