Fantastic! Ian played an older recording of this tune a week or two ago on his Wednesday evening show on Luxuria Radio (and if you're not listening to Luxuria you're really missing out -- www.luxuriamusic.com).
Gary, this really speaks to Ian's true musical leanings, coming so soon upon the heels of his rock n roll career as it does.
When I found this one, I also found one of him of recent vintage in his back yard at home as part of a Chicago all-ages dance show. Ian's interacting with a young lad with a sock puppet, singing Teddy Bear's Picnic with uke, made for a very nice bookmark effect with the video you posted here.
This is the song I heard that made me want to play uke. It was in a MacArthur video of Bill Irwin's "The Regard of Flight". His stage manager, Doug Skinner, played uke and did ventriloquism when nobody was around to stop him.
Fantastic! Ian played an older recording of this tune a week or two ago on his Wednesday evening show on Luxuria Radio (and if you're not listening to Luxuria you're really missing out -- www.luxuriamusic.com).
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When I found this one, I also found one of him of recent vintage in his back yard at home as part of a Chicago all-ages dance show. Ian's interacting with a young
lad with a sock puppet, singing Teddy Bear's Picnic with uke, made for a very nice bookmark effect with the video you posted here.
Ron, link please.
ReplyDeleteThis is the song I heard that made me want to play uke. It was in a MacArthur video of Bill Irwin's "The Regard of Flight". His stage manager, Doug Skinner, played uke and did ventriloquism when nobody was around to stop him.
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I never did learn to play the song, though. This duet is great.
YouTube of Irwin and Skinner:
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Anyone know the location of the obligato lyrics?
ReplyDelete@Gary: http://www.jbott.com/hompasa1.html
ReplyDeleteFurther YouTube exploration yields this version, the whole shebang (uke-less): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z32AEuLEilc
Such a good find, it's my current "trying to work this up" song.
Fyi, Ian included Pasadena in his Ukulele Heaven Songbook. http://www.picklehead.com/ian/songbooks.html
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