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Category: Music
Artist: Various Artists
Publisher: Proper Box UK
Studio: Proper Box UK
Manufacturer: Proper Box UK
Label: Proper Box UK
Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 5 x 0.8
UPC: 805520021401
EAN: 0805520021401
ASIN: B0013FDEDG
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Kai Maia O Ka Maoli - Kekupuohi | | • | Medley of Hulas | | • | The Wang Wang Blues - Mueller, Gus | | • | Palolo - King | | • | Lepe 'Ula' Ula - Traditional | | • | Farewell Blues - Mares | | • | Tickling the Strings - Nawahi | | • | Uheuhene - King | | • | Ellis March - Traditional | | • | E Mama Ea - Kaehu | | • | He Aloha No O Honolulu - Saks | | • | My Girl from the South Sea Isles - Nawahi | | • | Mauna Kea - Traditional | | • | Ukulele Benny - Nawahi | | • | Guitar Rhythm - Nawahi | | • | Hilo E - Heanu | | • | Lei Ohu - Akiu | | • | I Like You - Long | | • | Minnehaha (Hawaiian Stomp) - Waialeale | | • | Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai - Noble | | • | Hula Blues - Noble | | • | Kaneohe - Noble | | • | Hame Pila - Noble | | • | Tiger Shark - Hodgkinson, P.B. | | • | Hilo March - Traditional | | • | Kawika - Traditional |
Disc 2
| • | Hard Hearted Hannah - Ager | | • | Somebody Loves Me - Gershwin, G~Gershwi | | • | Fascinatin' Rhythm - Gershwin, Ira | | • | Oh, Lady Be Good - Gershwin, Ira | | • | Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter? - Revere | | • | Dinah - Lewis | | • | Sunday - Styne, Jule | | • | I'm Tellin' the Birds, I'm Tellin' the Bees - Friend | | • | (I'm Crying 'Cause I Know I'm) Losing You - Friend, Cliff | | • | Halfway to Heaven - Robinson, J. Russel | | • | That's My Weakness Now - Green, Bud | | • | I Can't Make Her Happy (That Old Girl of Mine) - Pollack | | • | Good Little, Bad Little You - Stept, Sam | | • | Singin' in the Rain - Freed, Arthur | | • | Hush My Mouth (If I Ain't Goin' South) - Hoffman | | • | Love Is Just Around the Corner - Robin, Leo | | • | One Little Kiss - Kalmar | | • | Somebody Loves Me - Gershwin, G~Gershwi | | • | Breezin' Along with the Breeze - Gillespie, H. | | • | So Is Your Old Lady - Burke, Joe | | • | Half a Moon - Dowling | | • | 'Deed I Do - Hirsch, Walter | | • | Oh, How She Could Play the Ukulele! - Davis, Benny | | • | Crazy Words, Crazy Tune - Ager, Milton | | • | Me and My Shadow - Dreyer | | • | Magnolia - Henderson |
Disc 3
| • | Chinese Laundry Blues - Cottrell | | • | I Told My Baby with My Ukulele - Formby | | • | Sitting on the Ice in the Ice Rink - Cottrell | | • | With My Little Ukulele in My Hand - Cottrell | | • | Swimmin' with the Wimmin' - Cottrell | | • | The Wedding of Mr. Wu - Cottrell | | • | Fanlight Fanny - Formby | | • | Riding in the TT Races - Cliffe | | • | We All Share and Share Alike - Gifford | | • | When I'm Cleaning Windows - Formby | | • | Leaning on a Lamp Post - Gay | | • | With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock - Gifford | | • | The Lancashire Toreador - Gifford | | • | Oh Dear Mother - Gifford | | • | Hindoo Man - Formby | | • | Hi-Tiddly-Hi-Ti Island - Stanley | | • | Our Sergeant Major - Formby | | • | Springtime's Here Again - Formby | | • | I Wonder Who's Under Her Balcony Now? - Formby | | • | I Blew a Little Blast on My Whistle - Formby | | • | Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt - Formby | | • | It's a Grand and Healthy Life - Formby | | • | It's Turned out Nice Again - Formby | | • | Mr. Wu's a Window Cleaner Now - Formby | | • | I'm the Ukulele Man - MacDougall | | • | We've Been a Long Time Gone - Formby |
Disc 4
| • | Ukulele Lady - Whiting, Richard | | • | 12th Street Rag - Bowman | | • | Tiger Rag - LaRocca | | • | Nifty Pickin' | | • | Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea - Richards | | • | Everybody Does It in Hawaii - McWilliams, Elsie | | • | For the Sake of Days Gone By - Rodgers | | • | I'm Lonesome Too - Rodgers | | • | Looking for a New Mama - Rodgers | | • | Moonlight and Skies - Rodgers | | • | Take Me Back Again - Rodgers | | • | The One Rose - McIntire, Lani | | • | Train Whistle Blues - Rodgers | | • | Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues - Rodgers, Jimmie | | • | Whisper Your Mother's Name - Rodgers | | • | Why Should I Be Lonely? - Rodgers | | • | My Time Ain't Long - Rodgers | | • | Ukulele Bounce | | • | To You, Sweetheart, Aloha - Owens, Harry | | • | On Coconut Island - Anderson, R. Alex | | • | Nobody's Darling But Mine - Davis, Jimmie | | • | The Greatest Mistake of My Life - Nelson, James | | • | Blue Hawaii - Robin, Leo | | • | Sweet Leilani - Owens, Harry | | • | Ritz Cracker - Ritz | | • | Playmates - Dowell |
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Album Description
2008 four CD set dedicated to the overlooked and always enchanting music of the ukulele. This is the history of the Ukulele, one of the biggest selling instruments in the UK today. It is being taught in schools instead of the recorder. Some of the greatest recording artists of the 20th century to some of the most obscure had the ukulele in common, spanning Pop, Country, Jazz and Hawaiian. 104 tracks featuring all the main exponents including George Formby, Sol Hoopii, Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards, Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Smeck. Proper.
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Vintage music featuring the ukulele March 28, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The ukulele, like the steel guitar, evolved in Hawaii from a musical instrument taken there from outside. In the case of the ukulele, its ancestor is a Madeiran instrument called the braghuinha. Although it has never been a major contributor to pop music since the dawn of rock'n'roll (name me a big hit since 1955 featuring the ukulele), there were some major stars in the twenties and thirties who played the ukulele, most notably Cliff Edwards in America and George Formby in Britain, both well-represented in this excellent boxed set. As with all the boxed sets on the Proper label, there is a booklet with extensive liner notes.
The first CD begins with a 1916 instrumental recording by Helen Louise and Frank Ferera's Hawaiians, with subsequent tracks by a variety of performers dated between 1927 and 1939, except the final track on the CD that dates from 1947. Among those featured are Madame Riviere's Hawaiians with Rose Kaohu as their lead singer, represented by three tracks. They made good music although Rose's vocals sound a little on the shrill side. Benjamin Nawahi plays ukulele on five tracks for three different groups (King Nawahi's Hawaiian's, Hawaiian Beach Combers, Georgia Jumpers). Sol Hoopii, who briefly worked with Benjamin Nawahi as a teenager, established his own reputation as a top musician. Sol began as a ukulele player but switched to steel guitar for his own recordings. Nevertheless, he always had a ukulele player among his musicians, so they qualify for inclusion and five of them are included. Other great musicians from the era make up the rest of the first CD.
America's most famous exponent of the ukulele (Cliff Edwards) gets most of the second CD, with the rest of that CD being devoted to Johnny Marvin, though not always under his own name. Cliff is largely forgotten now but he was a huge star in his heyday. He was the original singer (in 1929) of Singin' in the rain, which provided him with his second and biggest American number one hit. That song and 17 others here, including Cliff's first American number one (I can't give you anything but love), show that Cliff Edwards deserved all the success he achieved. Cliff later became the voice of Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio. Johnny Marvin is represented by six tracks under his own name (including the American number one hit Breezin' along with the breeze), one under a pseudonym (Honey Duke and his uke) and one as a member of the Knickerbockers.
The third CD is devoted exclusively to the music of George Formby, so prolific that his complete recordings occupy two 5-CD boxed sets England's Famed Clown Prince of Song and The War and Postwar Years. I'd probably enjoy listening to all of his music but I'm quite content with the 26 tracks included here. These include Leaning on a lamp post (later revived by Herman's Hermits), When I'm cleaning windows and the title track of this box, With my little ukulele in my hand, the last two named being among several of George Formby's songs that the BBC banned. It quickly became clear, even in those depression-hit thirties, that a BBC ban helped sales so George was quite happy with the situation. One of the other features of George's songs (that I didn't know till I read the liner notes) was that he created a Chinese character (Mr Wu) and wrote several songs about him including Chinese laundry blues, The wedding of Mr Wu and Mr Wu's a window cleaner now.
The fourth and final CD opens with Ukulele lady, a ballad by an excellent but largely forgotten female singer, Vaughn De Leath. Despite the title of that song, I don't think she really was a ukulele lady. Rather, she sang a variety of different types of material. Among her other notable recordings, she was the original singer of Are you lonesome tonight? I subsequently bought and reviewed Ukulele Lady, which includes all her essential recordings, but the demise of ASV means that this compilation is now out of print.
Half of the fourth and final CD here is occupied by Jimmie Rodgers, the singing brakeman. He played ukulele himself on one track (Dear old sunny south by the sea) and later used Hawaiian musicians for some of his recordings, but anybody looking for his greatest hits should look elsewhere. As I already own a boxed set of Jimmie's music Recordings 1927-1933 containing 110 of the 111 songs that he recorded, I didn't expect to find anything of his to interest me here, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover (after I'd already bought the box) that the only song missing from the boxed set (My time ain't long) is included here. Well, I was never going to buy a CD just to get that song, but I'm glad it's here. Multi-instrumentalist Roy Smeck is represented by four tracks, these being 12th Street rag (from 1928), Tiger rag, Nifty pickin' (both 1932) and Ukelele bounce (from 1949). Two tracks each by Louis Armstrong,Bing Crosby, Jimmie Davis and Lyle Ritz complete the CD. I was certainly surprised to find that Louis Armstrong recorded any music utilising the ukulele, but he apparently recorded four such tracks.
I'd never given the ukulele much thought although I'd always intended to buy a George Formby compilation some day. Once I saw this box, I realized that it was a must-have, even with my limited resources. The George Formby music is brilliant but it in no way overshadows the rest of the music here.
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