Season 596: There are more questions than answers

[UkeCan1]

A conversation about holiday travel destinations in the aftermath of 595 led to this song being mentioned (and seconded). I thought, "That's a question song!"

It's also, it appears, an answer song! Says the all-knowing Wikipedia, "The song is said to be a response to 'C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E' recorded in 1928 by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra."

It's also a simple two-chord song (Fm-C7), so here's an early morning Verandah Jam day 47 quickie, from what I'm intending to be my last day on the old verandah. Now back to packing!

Though many of us are most familiar with the They Might Be Giants cover, which I'm channeling here, this is in fact a 1953 novelty song by Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, originally performed by The Four Lads - their first gold record, that peaked at #10 on the Billboard charts.

In the spirit of 595, since this is a simple song that just repeats, I've stopped at one time through.

 

[ukulele extra cheese]

How can you lose?

 

[jtsteam]

Seasonistas, you have excelled yourselves. It's only been a couple of days, but there's already been so many great songs, and my favourite thing is that people have posted originals songs with questions and people have responed with songs answering those questions. It's been wonderful!

Despite all the other rubbish going on on these forums telling us that we're doing everything wrong: No. We're doing everything right. There is no other way a thing can have lasted this long. This is a fantastic thing we've got going and if UU don't like it, that's their problem. Please keep sending things!

Apologies to people who have posted tonight, I won't be commenting until I'm in a less grumpy mood, but I bet your submissions are great. Keep strumming. And sorry for starting that techie thread. Apparently it was a terrible mistake.

 

[Ruthonthecoast]

Seasonistas, you have excelled yourselves. It's only been a couple of days, but there's already been so many great songs, and my favourite thing is that people have posted originals songs with questions and people have responed with songs answering those questions. It's been wonderful!

Despite all the other rubbish going on on these forums telling us that we're doing everything wrong: No. We're doing everything right. There is no other way a thing can have lasted this long. This is a fantastic thing we've got going and if UU don't like it, that's their problem. Please keep sending things!

Apologies to people who have posted tonight, I won't be commenting until I'm in a less grumpy mood, but I bet your submissions are great. Keep strumming. And sorry for starting that techie thread. Apparently it was a terrible mistake.

Edwin – question - what do you do when folks are getting you down? Answer – stay the course, keep on Truckin. Or in our case, keep on singing, and uking! SOTU will always prevail because of dedicated folks like you, the faithful regulars, and the occasionals like me. Aloha Seasonistas! Love you all around the globe.

 

[jtsteam]

Edwin – question - what do you do when folks are getting you down? Answer – stay the course, keep on Truckin. Or in our case, keep on singing, and uking! SOTU will always prevail because of dedicated folks like you, the faithful regulars, and the occasionals like me. Aloha Seasonistas! Love you all around the globe.

I am absolutely going to stay the course. You folks are brilliant and this is my favourite corner of the internet. I'm not going to let the fact that the UU management apparently don't want us to have fun here stop me doing this thing that I really love that has kept me going the last almost three years now. I'm just going to stop donating and send my spare cash elsewhere.

UU's loss is already Cupar food bank's gain, because I've just upped my donation to them as a result of spending less here. Well done UU! You're keeping the less privileged people near where I live stay fed.

 

[mountain goat]

a Mark Seymour song (aussie fella - he of Hunters & Collectors fame)
that appeared on Vika & Linda's (sisters - & 2 more aussie music legends) debut LP in 1994.
woke up in the middle of the night & it was on the radio & i remembered
how much i always adored it! so when i got up this morning i headed straight for the closest
uke & took a swing...

 

[Canada Jim]

How Long Blues - Leroy Carr

My late buddy George used to play this song a lot.

 

[Mark Suszko]

Feel free to comment, or not, wherever you choose.

 

[Mark Suszko]

Joo: that was the start of what could be a smash Broadway number; I hope you flesh it out to a longer length, it kicks butt.

 

[TCK]

Gerry and the Pacemakers get here yet? If not here ya go!!

 

[Mark Suszko]

Very nice cover of When I'm 64: the picking is on point.

 

[wee_ginga_yin]

What are they doing in heaven right now?

Washington Phillips a gospel singer from Texas, is a bit of an enigma, basically because of the controversy surrounding how he achieved the unique sound of his songs. People have long wondered an debated if he played a fretless zither or a Dolceola
Scholarly articles have been written on the subject e.g.
EXHUMING THE LEGEND OF WASHINGTON PHILLIPS by Michael Corcoran

EXHUMING THE LEGEND OF WASHINGTON PHILLIPS

www.minermusic.com

 

[joo]

Rodriguez asking some questions.

This songlet is my response to John's (Flatbaroque here, jp888then on YouTube) video quoted here.
He played a song called Crucify Your Mind by Rodriguez.
My response is NOT to the song, but to John's painting on the wall, and vibe and mood the image of his video gave me.

Here are the words :
There's a lone fish adrift on a porcelain cloud.
A desert is brewing in a beige coffee mug.
Green arms held captive in an icicle womb.
On a mosaic of greens, yellows and blues.

A miracle stands silent on wonky legs.
The man's hoodie isn't weather-proof.
Vincent's chair whispered something to Matisse's wall -
Why try to fix it, when it ain't broke?


I scribbled a drawing of John with his ukulele when I was watching him played Crucify Your Mind. It was a soulful cover of an awesome song.

(EDIT : also, Edwin, i just want to say how much I appreciate all the things you have done for the Seasons. You are a caring, talented, funny, totally awesome fellow participant in this forum and I want to say this to you - THANK YOU!)

 

[YorkSteve]

A question from The Waterboys

 

[jtsteam]

Morning (for me at least) all! I'm all caught up with the playlist now. As ever, lots of great stuff to listen to here, do take a look at the playlist when you get the chance. I'm particularly enjoying some of the response songs that are starting to come in to the questions being posted. We are also learning that a song doesn't necessarily have to be long to be entertaining!

Meanwhile, I ignored that other thread. It's a silly thing to be arguing about. Keep doing whatever you do, the way you've always enjoyed doing it, just remember to play your uke while you're at it.

 

[LimousinLil]

(EDIT : also, Edwin, i just want to say how much I appreciate all the things you have done for the Seasons. You are a caring, talented, funny, totally awesome fellow participant in this forum and I want to say this to you - THANK YOU!)

AGREED!

 

[One Man And His Uke]

Thanks for hosting Edwin. Here’s one that I’ve no business trying to cover really but I had a go. This is, to my mind, one of the great break up songs. Like Al Green doing How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?, ( a good choice for this season too) or Bonnie Raitt doing I Can’t Make You Love Me, this is right up there with those pinnacles of utter misery . From Regina Spektor’s 2012 album, the only one I possess, and must remedy that, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. Do try and look up the original if you can, it is utterly wonderful, lyrically and musically. Most likely the only one I will be doing this week. Then probably bowing out over the Summer school hols as my 13 year old won’t give me much time for Seasons. I’ll try to look in and comment when I can.

 

[joo]

You know how TCK (Dave) loves asking us to play and sing with him? I always do when I know the song.
As I was going through the thread today checking out the videos and commenting, I decided to record myself singing and playing the uke along with him.
a CCR song, Have You Ever Seen The Rain. Dave's post is #39

 

[YorkSteve]

Another one from me and the plastic uke. All about blokes who punch above their weight.

 

[UkeCan1]

Final Verandah Jam - day 47 part 2. "Is She Really Getting Out of Here?" The tune may be familiar, the answer lies within.

On my way home to my new place, nearly 11pm, just before I turned into my driveway, two wallabies crossed the road right in front of me. This is the first time I've seen a wallaby at all in this area, in 2-1/2 years. I think I'm going to like this new neighborhood.

Sabine was asking this morning (my time) what has happened to my sweet little chili pepper uke, since she hasn't appeared in my most recent videos. So this uke and a tripod stand for my phone were two of the last things I kept at the old place until after everything else was out.



EDIT: Lol, and now you're going to think I stole the tune from Steve! GMTA.