Mark Suszko
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SEASON OF THE UKULELE # 533: “Spring Break”
The category involves songs about Spring Break, or songs you yourself heard during one of your spring breaks, a spring vacation, or, if you never went anywhere on a spring break, pick a top 100 song from the year you graduated high school in the US, (or the European equivalent), preferably from between April and August of that year. For you Europeans, US high schools and colleges go on vacation around the week of Easter, and this is traditionally a time for students to go off on a holiday jaunt with family or friends, often to warm and semi-tropical places. But it doesn't have to be a beach to qualify. Any musical genre’ accepted. As an example, one year we took a trip to visit family in Colorado, and my uncle’s car had a looping tape of Fleetwood Mac in it all week, so “The Chain” and “Monday Morning” and Denver are indelibly welded into my brain from that spring. We’re looking for that kind of song that was part of your Spring Break/High school/college graduation experience, from Sisqo to Sinatra and anything in between. Tastefulness is optional: just nothing technically obscene, please.
Along with your entry, please add a little description text about the song you picked and your relation to it in the “Spring Break” context. I’ll be entering a song of my own that’s not part of the challenge. Nobody needs to comment on it to be eligible to win the prize. I just didn't want to feel left out.
There will be a random drawing prize winner picked and awarded by me, from among all the entries at the end of the week: that winner will have to give me a mailing address for their very insubstantial token gift. This is my first try at hosting; please be gentle with me I hope I have the listing location and playlist link correct; I would appreciate assistance from the Old Hands here if something needs fixing.
Here's the rule, please read them all, as some of the options may have changed:
This notice might go up early, but the Season Of The Ukulele # 533 will officially begin at 00:00:01 Hawaiian Time on Sunday May 1, and ends at 23:59:59 Hawaiian time on Sunday May 7th. Don’t be “that guy” that posts early. Nobody likes that guy.
Just to set the mood... this is 24 tracks of attempted harmonies, some of it is almost on pitch. It evokes a spring break feel in my mind.
The category involves songs about Spring Break, or songs you yourself heard during one of your spring breaks, a spring vacation, or, if you never went anywhere on a spring break, pick a top 100 song from the year you graduated high school in the US, (or the European equivalent), preferably from between April and August of that year. For you Europeans, US high schools and colleges go on vacation around the week of Easter, and this is traditionally a time for students to go off on a holiday jaunt with family or friends, often to warm and semi-tropical places. But it doesn't have to be a beach to qualify. Any musical genre’ accepted. As an example, one year we took a trip to visit family in Colorado, and my uncle’s car had a looping tape of Fleetwood Mac in it all week, so “The Chain” and “Monday Morning” and Denver are indelibly welded into my brain from that spring. We’re looking for that kind of song that was part of your Spring Break/High school/college graduation experience, from Sisqo to Sinatra and anything in between. Tastefulness is optional: just nothing technically obscene, please.
Along with your entry, please add a little description text about the song you picked and your relation to it in the “Spring Break” context. I’ll be entering a song of my own that’s not part of the challenge. Nobody needs to comment on it to be eligible to win the prize. I just didn't want to feel left out.
There will be a random drawing prize winner picked and awarded by me, from among all the entries at the end of the week: that winner will have to give me a mailing address for their very insubstantial token gift. This is my first try at hosting; please be gentle with me I hope I have the listing location and playlist link correct; I would appreciate assistance from the Old Hands here if something needs fixing.
Here's the rule, please read them all, as some of the options may have changed:
- Covers and originals all welcome.
- Never wear pearls with plaid.
- Multitracking and collaborations are welcome, and indeed, encouraged, as long as there's an obvious uke somewhere in the mix.
- No song limits - submit as many as you dare.
- Please only post new recordings made specifically for this week.
- Don’t mix grain and grape when imbibing.
- Please say/ add a graphic, either in the video or description on youtube, that it's recorded for Season 533: “Spring Break”
- For covers, remember to put the title and original artist/composer somewhere in the description.
- Support the other contributors with constructive appreciation; Don’t forget to listen to and comment on the other submissions!
- Never buy an extended car warranty over the phone.
- Ketchup does not belong on a hot dog if you are over six years old.
This notice might go up early, but the Season Of The Ukulele # 533 will officially begin at 00:00:01 Hawaiian Time on Sunday May 1, and ends at 23:59:59 Hawaiian time on Sunday May 7th. Don’t be “that guy” that posts early. Nobody likes that guy.
Just to set the mood... this is 24 tracks of attempted harmonies, some of it is almost on pitch. It evokes a spring break feel in my mind.