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Welcome to Season 374, "Now uke talkin', or as I'm calling it, the AlanDP nightmare Season! This week is about performing recitations, aka spoken word, type songs while being accompanied on the ukulele. You do not need to talk the entire song, though you can if you wish, but just a couple of lines of spoken word will suffice, you can sing the rest of it. It is "legal" to record your spoken word portion separately, but I am looking for folks to talk lyrics out as the same time they are playing ukulele, as talking and playing at the same time is it's own unique skill set, and can be quite challenging. Several artists, especially in the country field, were famous for doing recitations, such as Hank Williams, Porter Wagoner, Bill Anderson, Red Sovine, and others. Just reading poetry or literature while playing at the same time works well, about any song can be turned into a recitation. Since we have Seasonistas from all over the world participating here, spoken word in any language is acceptable, and encouraged!
Regular rules and times apply for this week. Original very welcome, other instruments welcome, long as ukulele is prominent. There is a 4 song limit.
I am doing a twist on the judging this week, as along with myself, my wife Ann Marie will be the judges. She is very much not a musician, but she does like recitations She's a wild card though, I have no idea who she will pick, and why. We are both going to select our top 4, place those 8 selections in a jar, and draw out a winner. So, if any of our top four selections are the same, that person(s) will have an increased chance of winning the drawing.
What is the prize you ask? Why it's this T shirt, the winner will be able to select what gender, size, and color they want.
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/3114641-ukulele-the-instrument-for-intelligent-people-t-sh
So, that's about it, have fun with it! I'm looking forward to how this will go. There is still plenty of time left to contribute songs to Keith's excellent single word titles Season. In the meantime, here's an example of a recitation I recorded.
Here's the Playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCHCDi7I1iI0exb7rM0gAFa1BsUSpCDy3
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