49th Season of the Ukulele: Every Day Is a Winding Road
This week's theme is straightforward: The title of the song must include one of the days of the week.
Song Choice:
The song title must contain at least one of these words:
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
"Friday" by Rebecca Black is FORBIDDEN!
I'll put up with the Bay City Rollers. But I won't put up with Rebecca Black. I don't care how campy you want to be -- don't do it, not even as a bonus song. I won't put it in the playlist.
Song titles with plural or contraction versions of the day are okay. For example: "Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays" by Jimmy Buffett is okay. "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd is okay.
By the way, I'm really hoping someone will do the Doobie Brothers' "Another Park, Another Sunday".
It is not okay to just do a song by a band with a day of the week in the band name, such as the Sundays or Taking Back Sunday. The song title itself has to include a day of the week.
Here is a good on-line list I found of songs that fit the theme. It has a couple of errors, like listing Taking Back Sunday as a song when it's the band name.
Days of the Week song titles
Here's a few other songs I happen to like that aren't on the list:
Laundromat Monday - Joe Jackson (from the Mike's Murder movie soundtrack)
Mondays - Black Uhuru
Friday Came - Paula Kelley
Forever Until Sunday - Bruford
A Life of Sundays - The Waterboys
Seventeen Come Sunday - Fairport Convention
Sunday - Sia
Sunday Part II - Cibo Matto
Rules:
Judging:
Three winners will be chosen randomly. Each person who submits an eligible entry will get one entry in the drawing. My daughter Molly or I will pick the names out of my Fluke gig bag.
Bonus songs will not improve your chances of winning, but as always they will earn you the adulation of your peers.
Prizes:
The first place winner will get first choice of the three prizes, the second place winner will get to choose from the remaining two, the third place winner gets what's left.
1. The T-shirt Prize: T-Rex playing a ukulele, from Redbutton.com. You can choose size and shirt color:
The T-shirt Prize
2. The World Music Prize: A copy of the Rossy CD "One Eye on the Future, One Eye on the Past" (from Madagascar) and a copy of the Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag CD "Stolen Goods" (Norwegian roots big-band music).
3. The American Music Prize: A copy of the Echolyn CD "Cowboy Poems Free" (progressive rock with Americana lyrics), and ukulele EPs by my friends The Bella Birds and Davina Yannetty. Davina sold all her copies of her EP, so we'd talked about me burning a copy, and I'm awaiting her official permission. I'll substitute something else if I don't get it.
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I hope I can be somewhat prompt about watching everyone's videos and giving feedback. This will depend partly on how much my daughter needs the computer next week for homework. I'll try to keep her from feeding her growing Farmville addiction for a few days. When I hosted in September, I was able to at least listen to a playlist through headphones at work while I did some paperwork tasks. But they've told everyone to stop using YouTube because it was using up too much of our limited bandwidth.
49th Season Playlist
Bonus Tracks
I hope you have fun. I'm also hoping this week will inspire me to finish one of my many half-finished original songs.
This week's theme is straightforward: The title of the song must include one of the days of the week.
Song Choice:
The song title must contain at least one of these words:
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
"Friday" by Rebecca Black is FORBIDDEN!
I'll put up with the Bay City Rollers. But I won't put up with Rebecca Black. I don't care how campy you want to be -- don't do it, not even as a bonus song. I won't put it in the playlist.
Song titles with plural or contraction versions of the day are okay. For example: "Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays" by Jimmy Buffett is okay. "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd is okay.
By the way, I'm really hoping someone will do the Doobie Brothers' "Another Park, Another Sunday".
It is not okay to just do a song by a band with a day of the week in the band name, such as the Sundays or Taking Back Sunday. The song title itself has to include a day of the week.
Here is a good on-line list I found of songs that fit the theme. It has a couple of errors, like listing Taking Back Sunday as a song when it's the band name.
Days of the Week song titles
Here's a few other songs I happen to like that aren't on the list:
Laundromat Monday - Joe Jackson (from the Mike's Murder movie soundtrack)
Mondays - Black Uhuru
Friday Came - Paula Kelley
Forever Until Sunday - Bruford
A Life of Sundays - The Waterboys
Seventeen Come Sunday - Fairport Convention
Sunday - Sia
Sunday Part II - Cibo Matto
Rules:
- The video must be a new video recorded for this contest.
- The video must show the song performed in a single take. The ukulele must be the central instrument. No multitracking -- unless you pre-record (or loop) a backing track and then play along to it live. But we need to see you perform the song in one unbroken take.
- The video must say at the beginning that it is for the 49th Season of the Ukulele. If you forget to say it before your best take of the song, it is okay to insert a short separate video clip or title placard that says this.
- Videos must be posted to this thread.
- The contest ends at midnight Hawaiian time on Sunday night, January 27.
Judging:
Three winners will be chosen randomly. Each person who submits an eligible entry will get one entry in the drawing. My daughter Molly or I will pick the names out of my Fluke gig bag.
Bonus songs will not improve your chances of winning, but as always they will earn you the adulation of your peers.
Prizes:
The first place winner will get first choice of the three prizes, the second place winner will get to choose from the remaining two, the third place winner gets what's left.
1. The T-shirt Prize: T-Rex playing a ukulele, from Redbutton.com. You can choose size and shirt color:
The T-shirt Prize
2. The World Music Prize: A copy of the Rossy CD "One Eye on the Future, One Eye on the Past" (from Madagascar) and a copy of the Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag CD "Stolen Goods" (Norwegian roots big-band music).
3. The American Music Prize: A copy of the Echolyn CD "Cowboy Poems Free" (progressive rock with Americana lyrics), and ukulele EPs by my friends The Bella Birds and Davina Yannetty. Davina sold all her copies of her EP, so we'd talked about me burning a copy, and I'm awaiting her official permission. I'll substitute something else if I don't get it.
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I hope I can be somewhat prompt about watching everyone's videos and giving feedback. This will depend partly on how much my daughter needs the computer next week for homework. I'll try to keep her from feeding her growing Farmville addiction for a few days. When I hosted in September, I was able to at least listen to a playlist through headphones at work while I did some paperwork tasks. But they've told everyone to stop using YouTube because it was using up too much of our limited bandwidth.
49th Season Playlist
Bonus Tracks
I hope you have fun. I'm also hoping this week will inspire me to finish one of my many half-finished original songs.
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