Season 365 - Aloha!

[UkingViking]

Someone had to do this song, and since I lack ideas for songs that have more substance - I might as well do it.

Rock A Hula Baby!

[AlanDP]

An old hapa haole song. Tried to do it in the original key, but it was a little high for me. I might do it better when I'm not so tired.

[Recovering Bassist]

I got this Hank Snow song I'd never heard before done in about 15 minutes total, with a break for a dog walk in between. Tried to do the picking on the sopranino here, which is always a bit of a challenge.

[redpaul1]

The Stover/Kailimai classic from 1915

[YorkSteve]

I have done a couple of Half Man Half Biscuit songs before, and it's fair to say they have been met with a mixture of vague amusement and total bewilderment. So here's another one. It's only short, but you will have to stick around to the very end to find out what on earth it has to do with Hawaii.

[Mezcalero]

Great theme, and thanks for hosting Randy. Like a few others, my relationship with the ukulele had nothing to do with Hawaii, but it has been fun exploring Hawaiian songs and artists, and listening to seasonistas bringing their versions of Aloha! I was exposed to this song at one of the monthly uke meetups here in Houston. Dug up the chart and gave it a go.

[AlanDP]

[Harry122]

Ah, you folks are doing the trick! I'm getting into the Aloha Spirit in a big way! Here's the amazing songs so far:

New Land (Hawaii) • BirdsEyeViewOfMyUke
The Hula Hula Boys • jp888then
Kona Daze Uke • weerpool14
Diamond Head • jp888then
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy • Turtledrum
Waimanalo Blues • pabrizzer
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian • Old Gardener Guy
Hawaiian Echoes • Recovering Bassist
Ukulele Dream Girl ... Er, Boy • Limousin Lil
Song of the Islands • UkeintheHeartofTexas
Hawaiian Holiday • pabrizzer
Surfin' USA • Rick Henderson
Aloha Week Hula • Jazzbanjorex
Holiday in Waikiki • Rick Henderson
Little Brown Gal • Jazzbanjorex
Making Love Ukulele Style • Jazzbanjorex
I Like Mountain Music • Recovering Bassist
Honolulu Baby • redpaul101
O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian • redpaul101
Hukilau Song • ktschp
Henehene Kou 'Aka (For You and I) • Christopher Fonda
Apocalyptic Paradise Blues • Old Gardener Guy
Rock A Hula Ba • UkingViking
I Want To Learn To Speak Hawaiian • UkeintheHeartofTexas
Hawaiian Cowboy • Recovering Bassist
On The Beach At Waikiki • redpaul101
Petty Session • steve phillips
Molokai Slide • Kevin Griffin
White Sandy Beach of Hawaii • UkeintheHeartofTexas

[Barbablanca]

Great minds think alike! I see that Pabrizzer (Brian) has written a song about a trip to Hawaii that left a lot to be desired.

When I saw it I was busy with a similar idea. Only in mine the person woke up thinking they were in Hawaii, but they were in the Caribbean, having got on the wrong plane (or the plane having been hijacked to Cuba while he slept). I thought the idea was different enough that Pa wouldn't mind. Then it struck me that unless I set it in the 1960s, there was little chance of either event occurring in the real world. Too much security these day to be able to get on the wrong plane and no-one has hijacked a plane to Cuba in half a century.

So, I rehashed the idea and went with a modern day tourist seeking to find the real Hawaii.... But still caught up in the dream of a Hawaii that no longer exists.

Dedicated to Brian, here is:

[bird's eye view of my ukelele]

huge thanks to redpaul, who put me on to a great chord sheet for this song http://www.ukemaker.com/songfiles/HonoluluBabyCv2.pdf



and for anyone like myself who can't get enough of people falling over suitcases, and oliver hardy landing on his ukulele, that classic clip from the film "sons of the desert"...