Season 628 - Let’s Pretend!

[joo]

A super quick take before I start work this morning!
I wanted to bring this before this week ends because it is a Ron Sexsmith song!

 

[UkeFoote]

"It's No Good Trying", by Syd Barrett, for concert ukulele with singing. Overdubs of Ashbory Ubass, fuzz uke, and secondary vocal. Thanks for hosting the season, John!

 

[One Man And His Uke]

Thanks Joko, Mitch, Joo and Brian for those last four entries. A little over an hour before we bring the curtain down on this season so still time for Ralf and/or Sabine . Off out to walk the doggy near that hippy Mecca, Hebden Bridge but I’ll check in later. TTFN

 

[Ms Bean]

Another John Playford dance: The Tuneful Nightingale published in 1718.

 

[hands_on_lanzon]

I wasn't sure I'd get around to recording this season overlapper in time, but I figure I'd give it a shot.

It's I'll Stand by You by The Pretenders.

 

[Ms Bean]

A song for two Seasons: Beethoven's La marmotte, published in 1805, lyrics by von Goethe.

The tune is from my saxophone tutor book, I recorded the sax part on Wednesday and worked out the chords yesterday.

Marmotte, Op. 52 No. 7 (Ludwig van Beethoven) - ChoralWiki

www.cpdl.org

 

[UkeCan1]

I've got a video uploading that I've been planning this week ... and turns out to be a perfect fit for 629 as well.

It's about neurodiversity, a subject with which I've been growing increasingly familiar ... and a common strategy many neurodivergent people develop, called masking or camouflaging - which is basically trying to be (or at least appear) "normal" and acceptable to others, to fit in and succeed in a neurotypical world.

Somehow the "Matchmaker" song from Fiddler on the Roof seemed like a good fit for this topic ... "make me a perfect mask". It's a fun lighthearted song about a very serious topic with huge potential impact on its subjects' lives - the three sisters who sing it go from romantically imagining dream husbands, to justified terror at the prospect of being married to someone truly abusive, repulsive, or both. Sometimes neurodivergence can feel like all of that.

It's a work in progress - the song and its creator. I left out the whole fun middle part where the sisters act out Yenta the matchmaker delivering the news of the not-so-wonderful matches she's found them. I may add that in later, but I wanted to get something in for this Season of pretending that inspired it.

(I'll come back and edit in the link in a few minutes when it finishes uploading. I don't know if it's my crappy internet or what, but they seem to take forever any more. Maybe it's something in my video camera settings, because the Zoom videos upload lightning quick.)

LINK!

 

[TheOnlyUkeThatMatters]

Just a few months after the UK's 1976 explosion of musical creativity (known today as punk rock) began, the scene began to splinter and people began to call one another out for pretending to be punks.

And no one did that with more attitude than anarcho-punks Crass

 

[TheOnlyUkeThatMatters]

And I couldn't resist playing a Pretenders song as well!

 

[One Man And His Uke]

Thank you Chris, Sabine, Ralf and Wendy for closing out the Season in such great style. I will add your entries to the playlist shortly. Thank you everyone who contributed this week. I’ll do a wrap at some point this week and like I say, there will be prizes of some minuscule sort.

 

[One Man And His Uke]

Sorry for delay folks. Thank you to everyone who took part. Apologies also to Chris @hands_on_lanzon , who also did an original, not just those I listed. The Season winners were @ukulele extra cheese , and @Elly . If you wish to claim your token prizes, please message direct with your details.

 

[LimousinLil]

Thanks for a great week, John, and congrats to the worthy winners! (I don't think I've ever seen a T shirt with Charles Hawtrey on it before!) Get well soon ... you sound as though you're suffering

 

[One Man And His Uke]

Thanks Val, the Tee is actually from a John Lennon line he says on Let It Be, just before the track “Two of Us”……,”I dig a Pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids…. Phase one: in which Doris gets her oats…”

Let’s face it, you can’t say fairer than that

 

[One Man And His Uke]

Crikey! Never realised how much I said erm or um…

 

[Ms Bean]

This came into my YouTube suggestions last week (I'm subscribed to the channel), but maybe listening to the playlist helped as well?

 

[ukulele extra cheese]

Sorry for delay folks. Thank you to everyone who took part. Apologies also to Chris @hands_on_lanzon , who also did an original, not just those I listed. The Season winners were @ukulele extra cheese , and @Elly . If you wish to claim your token prizes, please message direct with your details.

Thanks John! Thanks for the great season!