![]() When the Saints Go Marching In (New Intro Jan. Ukes of London Melange (Arranged by John) Signs by Five Man Electrical Band (Val’s Version) Morningside of the Mountain (Val’s Version) Gotta Lot of Rhythm in My Soul (Key of G) Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains (Revised) Ukulele Chord Chart (Michelle Kiba Version) Individual Songs (All of these songs are included within the November 2021 songbook above) Ukes of London – Beatles Songbook with Bookmarks (July 2020) Chord Chart Songbook November 2021 – Merged File – with Bookmarks Beatles Songbook with Bookmarks ( Suitable for printing or to use on a tablet/cell phone) Merged File of the Songbook with Bookmarks (Suitable for printing or to use on a tablet/cell phone) Please click here for important information regarding using the songbook on a tablet or on a cell phone. Sometimes the rhythms may be a little challenging, but for the most part these are the same key as the originals, so you can play along and get the hang of them.If you are new to the group, you will need to download the November 2021 songbook and the July 2020 Beatles songbook. For the most part these are simple songs, a good number of 3 or 4 chord songs, and they are songs that *everyone* knows. I won’t say too much about the songs or the songsheets themselves. So you can blame me if your favourites are missing! Here’s the list of songs included (with links to individual song sheets). Nine updated song sheets plus the word processing files for these songs Word Processing.zip: Ghost Riders in the Sky (Am Em).pdf Harvest Moon (Neil Young) (C G).pdf I Heard It In The Graveyard (Am Dm).pdf In the Hall of the Halloween King (Am Em). This is a selection of Elvis songs that (a) I love, and (b) I think are familiar to others (the plan is to use this for a future ukulele artist evening). We wish you Peace and Joy A video of Take Me Home, Country Roads by Dr. Well, to be honest, it was all down to personal taste. 2020 Holiday Greetings from the Glastonbury Ukulele Band. The number of songs Elvis sung and recorded has been estimated in the 700-1000 range, so how do you cut that down to 19 songs (that’s the number in this songbook). That, I guess, is the hallmark of a true talent, a true star. Even songs that had been written for, and recorded by, others, Elvis took and made them his own. But the songs that he chose, or had chosen for him, includes a ridiculous number of stone-cold classics. Despite one or two credits, Elvis wasn’t really a songwriter. And what a legacy of song he left behind. There will never be another Elvis, in the same way there will never be another Beatles, because it’s not just about the talent – it’s about a combination of circumstances, in particularly the cultural and societal expectations and climate, that made these artists the huge stars that they became.īut artists like Elvis are nothing without the songs. But the timing was right, the circumstances were right, and Elvis benefited from that. Yes, clearly he had talent, and certainly a great deal of charisma. ![]() And obviously that was a significant contributor to his untimely death, another tragic precedent that Elvis set for the tortured star.Īt the same time, it’s also fair to say that, to a certain extent, Elvis was in the right place at the right time. ![]() And he was the template for the musical superstar, so many of whom would follow in his footsteps and shadow. The combination of rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, country and gospel that he stumbled on in the mid-50s set a trajectory for music that we are still living with today. It’s probably fair to say that without Elvis, popular music would not be what it is today. But it’s probably fair to say that it wouldn’t add anything to the millions upon millions of words that have already been written about this man.
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