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Blue Christmas! I made tabs for this today, and am offering tabs publicly for the first time, my finest moment. 💙✨ Please support me on Patreon at any level for access to the tabs. FYI 10% of Patreon earnings go to organizations that support BIPOC folx. 💙🎄✨

Yes this song and this ukulele may in fact be the same age. A perfect match! I fell in love with this song when I found a recording of Nellie McKay performing it. I’ve been working on a fairly straightforward little recording project involving some songs from around 1924 (some of you are may be […]

The Ink Spots! What a pleasure it is to listen to them. (especially when Ella Fitzgerald sits in with them, my favorite!) I love “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” — I originally learned it when I played it at a friend’s wedding — and it was so fun to revisit it […]

Dream a Little Dream of Me: I wonder, have I stayed away from recording this song because Ella Fitzgerald sang it so well? I know her version best but the sweetest Doris Day is also among the many many singers of this song from 1931. In the spirit of honesty I’ll also claim that I […]

Farewell Angelina – a song written by Bob Dylan and covered by many greats including Joan Baez, but here my inspiration comes mainly from Danú’s version. I love Muireann Nic Amhloaibh’s singing. -s

The Puppy Song! I know this Harry Nilsson tune best from the hit 1998 internet-powered Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan charm fest that Nora Ephron directed: You’ve Got Mail. There are some great tunes on that soundtrack. Perhaps a cover album of the movie soundtrack is in order (do people do that?!) Oh how I […]

Hi, hello, as you probably noticed I took last week off from making a video and I missed it so much! I a happy to be back today with another original tune. The tune is original but the words are yet again Sara Teasdale’s.  Part of what has been keeping me busy is that I […]

I love this song. I almost associate the Allison Krauss and Union Station cover with this song more than I do the White Album version. Both versions, I think, will forever be on my comforting nostalgic childhood soundtrack. Along with Paul Simon’s Graceland and Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book, there is the White Album and a […]

Recently I arranged Beautiful Dreamer, a song that is over 150 years old, for ukulele. Stephen Foster wrote it – the sheet music was published posthumously and sold as the last song he ever wrote. But I don’t have anything else to say about that right now, because: What is the deal with the mockery […]

The Magic Ukulele Waltz by Roy Smeck, the wizard of the strings! This song was written in the 30s, I think, although my internet searches are coming up a bit muddled at the moment and I can’t be quite sure so don’t quote me on it 😉 I’ve had this one in my repertoire for […]