I wanted to create this blog as a place where I can store and retrieve information for future reference. I chose the name Humble Uker Ramblings because I have started out strumming my father's 1950's painted Harmony ukulele. I think that the greatest appeal of the ukulele as "the people's instrument" is it's humble simplicity. My contact email is HumbleUker@gmail.com. I have also been working on a blog for the Baritone Ukulele called Humble Baritonics.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Adelaide's Hillbilly Hoot (Australian Live Radio)
Saturday, October 2, 2010
FlawShow || Richard G. || Out on the Weekend (Neil Young Cover)
There isn't video so I made the YT Video box a bit smaller.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Richard G. || Visits HU and Friends || Then off to the WCUF
- Land Down Under (RG)
- Don't Worry Be Happy (Lorrie's Collection)
- Tiptoe Thru the Tulips (RG)
- My Wife Thinks You're Dead (Erich Sylvester)
- Ain't No Sunshine (RG)
- Here Comes the Rain Again (Chordie)
- Somebody's Crying (RG)
- Stray Cat Strut (HU Version)
- Needles & Pins (RG)
- Yeh Yeh (RG)
- One (RG)
- Man One the Moon (Chordie)
- This Guy's in Love with You (RG) <== very nice chords
- Handle with Care (RG)
- The Long & Winding Road (Moogly Moo)
- Moonglow (Steven Strauss Arrangement)
- Little Queen of Spades (RG) <== nice blues licks
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Chris Isaak on the Ukulele
Danny Hamilton (cover version on 'ukulele) w/ Christopher Lopez
I have been enjoying wailing out Chris Isaak tunes in the private confines of my music room. I like two versions that I found on Richard G's site (http://www.scorpex.net/Uke/) ...
http://www.scorpex.net/Uke/songs/Somebody
http://www.scorpex.net/Uke/songs/Wicked_Game.pdf
So I went on the net surfing for more C.I. tunes to wail and found that someone has written about him and how he likes to play the ukulele...
"...He was very romantic and played songs in bed. He had a ukulele on the wall, and he would pull it off and play it." "Naked?" "Oh, yeah. He was adorable. But I could never relax because I had loved his music for such a long time."
Source New York News & Features, "The story of Cho" (adult content, be warned!)
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/columns/citypolitic/6187/
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Richard G's Ukulele Songbook
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Richard G's http://www.scorpex.net/Uke/
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I, as a nearly 50 old American man, must endorse this site by saying, that the song selection was so much fun that I nearly succumbed to elbow tendonitis rather than stop.
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Here's an example...
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http://www.scorpex.net/Uke/songs/Man_of_Constant_Sorrow.pdf
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White Rabbit, Hooked on a Feeling, When a Man Loves a Woman, Istanbul, In My Life, And She Was, Lola, Hey Soul Sister, Needles & Pins, Worried Man Blues, You're Beautiful... and a WHOLE LOT more!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Adelaid Ukulele Appreciation Society (Click Here)
