Songs well-fitted for the Banjo Uke?

[kkimura]

Washington Square, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAwqhnqSAc

[SteveZ]

"Do you know what it means to miss New Orleangs" is my banjo-uke warm-up piece. Otherwise, just about everything gets BU time.
https://youtu.be/Xhkxy3ei8os
https://youtu.be/5pafQdX0jYg

[brUKEman]

Sloop John B & This Land is your Land work really well on the Banjo Uke

[bariukish]

When a "Train" song comes up in one of my music books, I reach for my banjolele. Think, City of New Orleans and Freight Train, among others. Of course, any Stephen Foster song would without a banjo should be a federal crime.

[kvehe]

LOL, Ukuleles Aren't Allowed in Bluegrass.

[Cliff E]

St James Infirmary

A group I belong to is working on it, and one fellow has a banjo uke - it sounds great.

Thanks for pointing this out - a future project for my banjo!

[Jerryc41]

Hmmm.... I'm trying to teach myself "Dueling Banjos"

Yes! It's not very hard. I can play the slow introductory part, but I'm not going to attempt the fast section. I watched that part of the movie recently - the duet was too long and boring. I guess I had remembered it differently.

[Jerryc41]

Washington Square, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAwqhnqSAc

Very nice.

[captain-janeway]

Yes! It's not very hard. I can play the slow introductory part, but I'm not going to attempt the fast section. I watched that part of the movie recently - the duet was too long and boring. I guess I had remembered it differently.

Sounds pretty good on the new banjo uke!

[acmespaceship]

I don't know how old you are but back in the 60's, "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" by the Herman's Hermits might be a good one to try. It was played on a banjo.

Pretty much anything recorded by Herman's Hermits works nicely on banjo uke. A lot of the British Invasion music-hall new Edwardian stuff. If the lead singer had mod hair and wore a ruffled shirt (I'm thinking of you, Davy Jones) it loves a banjo uke. I get by with a little help from my friends when I'm 64.

Most of the Tin Pan Alley songs of the 20s and 30s sound good on banjo uke. When the red red robin comes bob-bob-bobbin. Dixieland and bluegrass, of course. Plus anything you might expect to hear played on a lonely front porch in the Mississippi delta. Tishomingo Blues.

In fact, and this is for the OP and all the rest of us on this thread, almost anything can be made to sound good on a banjo uke. It doesn't have to be all yowza yowza yowza! The trick with a banjo uke is to listen and adjust your playing accordingly, not just bash away with a loud strum. Think of Kermit on his log, strumming with a light hand and a little fingerpicking, nice and relaxed and wistful. :-)