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GoKidd
10-28-2011, 12:45 PM
I'm working on a song list for a segment in a corporate holiday party.
Audience will likely include folks ranging in age from Baby Boom to Gen X.
Format is to have maybe three songs, then a hula dance, then one final song.
Thoughts include: sing-a-long numbers, G- or PG-rated humor and nothing seriously melancholy.
And I don't want to do traditional Hawaiian songs ... rather play up the fun/humor aspects. (Tiny cowboy hats if we do a Country-Western number, dark shades if we go Blues Brothers, etc.)
What say?? Any other ukulele wannabes out there in bowling land?:cool:
Trex
10-28-2011, 04:45 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YA_uTtb8r8

Or this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFOOEOlBF8
The Mayor
10-31-2011, 07:58 AM
I think "May The Bird Of Paradise" by Little Jimmy Dickens would be funny.
GoKidd
10-31-2011, 12:27 PM
@ TRex .. Yikes!
@ Mayor .. HA! I remember that song. Good notion.
J Anderson
10-31-2011, 12:29 PM
How about John Prine's " Let's Talk Dirty in Hawian "
GoKidd
10-31-2011, 05:58 PM
!!! Wow.
Trex
11-03-2011, 03:51 PM
Jump by Van Halen!! :)
GoKidd
11-04-2011, 12:00 PM
NOW you're getting it. I've been checking out YouTube vids of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain -- great stuff!
kev3inp
11-05-2011, 01:31 PM
There's this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPQ1z5FoqQ He's really good. John Prine is going to appear in our area and I'm really tempted to go. I have the clear green 45 of "Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian."
hondo
11-06-2011, 11:31 PM
This song was really played on an Hawaiian ukulele by IZ, an Hawaiian native. Went platinum after his death. This song is awesome, it is a medley of two very well known songs. JUST AWESOME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5JicO2bKec
GoKidd
11-07-2011, 10:05 AM
I have the clear green 45 of "Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian."

Oh, THAT is double cool. For a while, Fender offered a T-shirt that had a picture of the 45-to-LP snap-in adaptor on the front. Young'ins were mystified.
GoKidd
11-07-2011, 10:06 AM
This song was really played on an Hawaiian ukulele by IZ, an Hawaiian native. Went platinum after his death. This song is awesome, it is a medley of two very well known songs. JUST AWESOME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5JicO2bKec

True! It's been used in several movies.