When I started dating the woman who would later become my wife, I told a friend how she turned me on to The Smiths.  He said, “you must be in love to like that crap.”  Guess I was, and still am, cause I still like that crap, and even enjoy this mocking parody of them….

Buy @ Amazon: Mitch Benn

Buy @ Amazon: The Smiths (for those who have fallen like me)

YouTube Channel: PhilDoleman

Lyrics: Mitch Benn Never Went Through a Smiths Phase

Must admit that I am glad Gus and Fin went to the archives for this video rather than acting it out themselves….

Buy @ Amazon: The Beatles

YouTube Channel: GUGUG

Chords: The Beatles Cry for a Shadow – Guitar Tab with Chords

Nice mix of live performance and backstage antics from April Showers….

Buy @ Amazon: April Shower

Web Site: http://www.myspace.com/aprilshowerband

A new song from her forthcoming 2010 album….

Buy @ Amazon: Victoria Vox

YouTube Channel: victoriavox

Degcon’s instrumental duet with the Hubble Telescope as an entry into The Jumping Flea’s very plainly stated “Play the Beatles, Win a Uke” contest….

Buy @ Amazon: The Beatles

YouTube Channel: degcon

Chords and Lyrics: The Beatles Across the Universe – Ukulele

Armelle’s excellent interview with Al Wood, the undisputed “World’s Most Handsome Ukulele Blogger Whose Abbreviated Web Site Name is a Pun for a Very Insulting Phrase on this Side of the Pond“,  featured this cover of one of my favorite songs of all time….

Buy @ Amazon: Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Web Site: www.UkuleleHunt.com

YouTube Channel: Woodshed1

Tabs: Al, really looking forward to your tab of this song (hint, hint)

The well deserved winner of the Bosko & Honey “Join the Safari” contest….

YouTube Channel: MrJaynickel

Agathe & Fine (rhymes with Bagette & Teen) with yet another video too good to pass up….

Buy @ Amazon: Beirut

YouTube Channel: Peyrson

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/folkyfrenchies

Sebi applies his patented multi-track skills to Cyndi Lauper’s Goonies theme song….

Buy @ Amazon: The Goonies

Buy @ Amazon: Cyndi Lauper

YouTube Channel: monsterbazz

Chords and Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper The Goonies R Good Enough – Ukulele (Sebi says he plays it a half step down in C#m)

Thanks to AnnaUK for the heads up on this great video!

Another one that I figure you already know about, but just in case, Curt Sheller is a great ukulele (and guitar) player, teacher and author.  In this video, part of his online lesson series for Solo Ukulele, Curt takes a basic I IV V I chord progression and embellishes it with additional notes from the C major scale.

YouTube Channel: curtyourtube

Web Site: www.curtsheller.com (for members, now FREE) members.curtsheller.com

Interview: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34529