weekend uke blogging - the beatles edition

With all the hype surrounding the rereleased remastered remixed albums and the video game and all, you might be sick of the Beatles this week. Too damn bad. Everyone is still talking about them for a very good reason - because their songs sound great on ukulele, that's why


the (sort of) original (lets just say the late 70s were an odd time)


the cover (with very funky bass and scat singing!)




the original



the cover (with clarinet and bystanders)

It's been a hard day's night Not everyone enjoyed the band as much as I did

I saw this band at a Xmas party in our Tokyo suburb. It was a spot-on Beatle tribute band made up of four local government employees. They had the whole thing down cold -- the same matching suits, the same instruments, even the same boots as the Beatles. They even managed the same vocal harmonies, no easy feat! I was quite enjoying them until about their fourth or fifth number, the chorus of which went like this: "Rub, rub me do. You know I rub you. I always be two, so pea-e-e-e-e-e-ease, rub me do. "

I couldn't really concentrate too well after that, what with the wine coming out of my nose and my sides aching. It was all I could do not to start requesting Rutles songs.

h/t to Steve Resume