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unusual facts about Ukulele


In the Key of Disney

Probyn Gregory - Vocals, Slide guitar, Trumpet, Banjo, Organ, Vibraphone, Electric Guitar, Nylon String Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric 12-String Guitar, Guitar solo (on track 8), Ukulele, Tannerin, Toy instruments


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7 Seconds of Love

Joel Veitch (aka Stallion Explosion): singer, ukulele, fireballs

Annual Ukulele Festival

Sakuma located Lyle Ritz in California and convinced him to pick up the ukulele again and come play at the festival that year.

Antsy Pants

Antsy Pants is an American band featuring Kimya Dawson on lead vocals and Leo Bear Creek on vocals & ukulele.

Betty Boop, M.D.

The recording artist was long time assumed to be Cliff Edwards aka "Ukulele Ike"; it is certainly in the style which he made famous.

Bill Scott

Billy "Uke" Scott (1923–2004), British music hall performer and ukulele player

Bob Berryhill

In 1960, when Bob was 13 he took a trip to the Hawaiian Islands and learned to surf and play ukulele.

Chord bible

Members belonging to the chordophone family include the guitar, piano, banjo, organ, mandolin, ukulele, Harp, balalaika and many other regional speciality instruments.

Fatal Cruise

For this episode, Poncie Ponce played his ukulele and sang "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover", while Connie Stevens sang "You Do Something to Me" with the Shell Bar band accompanying her.

Forgot to Laugh

Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou – Songwriter, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Producer, Programming, Ukulele,

Greg Hawkes

Since 2001 Hawkes has been playing and experimenting with the ukulele, including renditions of The Cars songs My Best Friend's Girl, Drive, Tonight She Comes, and You Might Think.

Helge Schneider

Schneider is a multi-instrumentalist, playing various instruments such as the Hammond organ, acoustic and electric guitar, ukulele, drums, piano, accordion, trumpet, cello, saxophone, clarinet and others.

Herb Ohta

Herb Ohta aka Ohta-San is an American Ukulele player born in 1934 in Hawaii who has recorded solo, as a group and with Andre Popp on the A&M Records label, which was co-owned by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.

Jim Beloff

The 5th UKEtopia featured such performers as Ian Whitcomb, Janet Klein, and Peter Brooke Turner of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain as well as the traditional finale of Beloff and his wife leading the audience in song and ukulele playing.

John Nee

In August 2007, Nee announced his obsession with the ukulele while on RTÉ Radio 1 presenter Dave Fanning's show, Drivetime with Dave.

Kaimuki High School

Other Kaimuki musicians include Randy Borden of Jon and Randy, Troy Fernandez of Kaʻau Crater Boys, Richard Natto of Toma-Natto and now the Society of Seven, and all the members of Kapena, including Kelly Boy DeLima and Jake Shimabukuro the ukulele virtuoso.

Kate Is Enough

It was steasingly suggested that Isaacs prove his devotion to a radio show by having his character say "ukulele" onscreen, which was a case of "Challenge accepted!"

Let George Do It!

At the start of World War II, musician George Hepplewhite (George Formby) gets on a boat thinking he is on his way to Blackpool, but arrives in Bergen, Norway instead, where he is mistaken for another ukulele player.

Loney, Dear

Loney, Dear did a Ukulele Session for the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, recorded in New York.

Malihini Holiday

For this episode, Poncie Ponce plays the ukulele and sings You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, while Connie Stevens sings Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with the Shell Bar band.

Matao guitar

Matao also made bass guitars, ukuleles, and banjos, and band instruments for school orchestras including drums, brass (trumpet and trombones), strings (violins, cellos) & woodwinds, (clarinet, flute).

May Singhi Breen

In 2000 May Singhi Breen was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame along with Cliff Edwards and the founder of Kamaka Ukulele, Sam Kamaka.

New York Ukulele Ensemble

Appearances by the New York Ukulele Ensemble included New York City's Art Parade and the thirty-first annual Village Halloween Costume Ball at the Theater for the New City in 2007, and the Gershwin Hotel's Living Room Series and the New York Ukulele Fest, which was founded by Uke Jackson, in 2006.

Nihon Ukulele Association

Following World War II, Haida met Herb Ohta, an American Marine stationed in Japan, and a serious ukulele player.

Ozzie Kotani

He learned how to play the 'ukulele in fourth grade, but his interest in kī hō‘alu, or Hawaiian slack key guitar, was sparked in high school when he heard Keola Beamer on the radio.

Peter DeRose

In 1923 he met ukulele musician May Singhi Breen (1895–1970) performing on radio with a female ukulele group known as the "Syncopators."

Sleepercar

Heinrich would go on to perform pedal steel guitar on the Sparta album Threes, Ukulele on Ward's Quiet EP, and finally pedestal for Sleepercar.

Standard Songs for Average People

Pat McLaughlin – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, ukulele, harmony vocals, baritone guitar

The Pain Teens

Blood moved to New York City that year and began playing solo gigs on her ukulele doing 1920's tunes and original music, forming several groups, including The Moonlighters in 1998.

Then There Were Three

For this episode, Poncie Ponce played the ukulele and sang Mele Anna Kaapu Wahine and Sweet Georgia Brown solo, then did a duet with Connie Stevens of the Hawaiian Wedding Song.

Ukulele Songs from the North Devon Coast

Ukulele Songs From the North Devon Coast is an EP by the British singer/songwriter Darren Hayman.

Y Pants

The trio, made up of photographer/musician Barbara Ess, visual artist Virginia Piersol, and filmmaker Gail Vachon, developed a unique sound via their acoustic toy instrumentation of toy piano, ukulele and a paper-headed Mickey Mouse drum kit, augmented by electric bass guitar, Casio keyboards and various low-tech effects.


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