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Tennessee Valley Uke Club's Ukefest 2018 Playlist

Draft 21 July 2018

 

Bye Bye Love, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

Note: Felice Bryant (August 7, 1925 -- April 22, 2003) and Boudleaux Bryant (February 13, 1920 -- June 26, 1987) were an American wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music. They are perhaps best known for their song "Rocky Top", plus the Everly Brothers' hits "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".

Hawaii Calls, Harry Owens (#H04 in Hawaiian Songs)

Note: This was the theme song for the radio program of the same name. The show introduced and popularized Hawaiian music, both traditional and hapa-haole styles, around the world. A Version with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians, featuring Ray Kinney, is at Archive.org (with an impossibly long URL).

 

Obituary, LA Times:

Harry Owens of 'Hawaii Calls' Dies at 84

December 13, 1986|Burt A. Folkart | Times Staff Writer

Harry Owens, whose "Hawaii Calls" radio broadcasts became a vicarious vacation to those lush tropic isles for millions of Americans during the bleak days of the Depression, died early Friday in Eugene, Ore.

His wife, Helene, said he died at Sacred Heart Hospital and was 84. The Owenses had maintained homes in Eugene and Palm Springs since the veteran conductor-composer's retirement about 15 years ago.

Owens will be remembered by some as the band leader who organized The Royal Hawaiians orchestra at the hotel of the same name in Waikiki in 1933.

But he will be remembered by nearly all as the composer of "Sweet Leilani," a song he wrote for his daughter the day she was born in 1934. It won an Academy Award for Owens when sung by Bing Crosby in the picture "Waikiki Wedding" in 1937. More than 20 million recordings of the song have been sold, with Crosby's alone accounting for 5 million copies.

 

Little Grass Shack / Little Brown Girl Medley by "A Bunch of Coconuts" at the Tiki Terrace on May 27, 2010.

Often performed reversed as Little Brown Girl / Little Grass Shack:

My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii by Ray Conniff and the Singers

My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii by Dorothy Lamour and the Crew Chiefs

 

Little Brown Gal by Ray Kinney

Little Brown Gal by Charles Kaipo

 

Love Potion Number 9 by The Clovers, 1959

Love Potion Number 9 by The Searchers, 1964

Love Potion Number 9 by The Ventures, 1965, Instrumental, Live Concert in Japan

 

Moloka'i Slide (Tad Suckling) (#H55 in Hawaiian Songs)

On the Road Again, Willie Nelson, 1979 (#513 in the Songbook)

 

Return to Sender (Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott) by Elvis Presley, 1962.

 

They Call the Wind Mariah (Alan J. Lerner / Frederick Loewe)

 

Backup Songs

 

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Ukefest 2018 Strum-along Playlist

 

Amazing Grace, Rev. John Newton, 1779

 

Best Day of My Life by American Authors

 

Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, 1967

 

Jambalaya by Hank Williams, 1950

 

The Lion Sleeps Tonight ("Mbube" which means "Lion" in Zulu), by Solomon Linda, 1939

Note: The song was written and recorded originally by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube". Composed in Zulu, it was adapted and covered internationally by many 1950s and '60s pop and folk revival artists, including the Weavers, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba and the Kingston Trio. In 1961, it became a number one hit in the United States as adapted in English with the best-known version by the doo-wop group the Tokens. Source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight.

 

When The Saints Go Marching In, James McParkland

 

You Are My Sunshine, Charles Mitchell / Jennifer Garthwaite

 

Petey Mack Songs:

Blue Moon of Kentucky, Bill Monroe (1946); Elvis Presley (July 6, 1954)

 

That's Alright Mama, Arthur Crudup, 1946. A Rolling Stone magazine article argued in a 2004 article that Presley's recording of "That's All Right" was the first rock-and-roll record. Rolling Stone, No. 951 (June 24, 2004), pp. 84-85.