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"Ukulele Lady" is a popular standard, an old evergreen song by Gus Kahn and Richard A. Whiting. Published in 1925, the song was first made famous by Vaughn De Leath. [1]It has been recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra with vocals by the Southern Fall Colored Quartet on June 3, 1925 (catalog No. 19690B); Frank Crumit recorded June 10, 1925 for Victor Records (catalog No. 19701); Lee Morse in ...
The song, renamed "(I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You", was released on May 10, 1993 by Virgin Records, and eventually climbed to No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, staying there for seven weeks, becoming their 4th and last top 10 hit. It also topped the charts of 11 other countries, including Australia, Austria, the Netherlands, New ...
[7] [8] [9] [3] According to the sheet music published by Alfred Publishing Inc., it is set in the time signature of common time, with a medium funk tempo of 112 beats per minute. The song is composed in the key of F major, with Madonna's vocals spanning from A 3 to C 5. It follows a basic sequence of F–E ♭ 9 –E ♭ /G–Gm 7 –F as its ...
The banjo ukulele, also known as the banjolele or banjo uke, is a four-stringed musical instrument with a small banjo -type body and a fretted ukulele neck. The earliest known banjoleles were built by John A. Bolander [ 1] and by Alvin D. Keech, [ 2] both in 1917. The instrument achieved its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, and ...
Ukulele Songs. (2011) Earthling. (2022) Ukulele Songs is the second solo studio album by American singer and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. It was released on May 31, 2011. [ 1] The album is composed of original songs and new arrangements of several standards. [ 2]
[10] [11] The version by Waretini is on his Now is the Hour album released in 2012, and he was also the subject of a television series titled Now Is the Hour on Māori Television about his career. [12] The song achieved world-wide popularity in 1948, when no less than seven recordings of the song reached the Billboard charts in the USA.
Ukulele. The ukulele ( / ˌjuːkəˈleɪli / YOO-kə-LAY-lee; from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ], approximately OO-koo-LEH-leh ), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976) is a ukulele virtuoso and composer from Hawaii [ a] known for his fast and complex finger work. [ 2] His music combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, folk, and flamenco. [ 3] Shimabukuro has written numerous original compositions, including the entire soundtracks to two ...