It’s ukulele time
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain play tonight in Wellington. This is their swinging, finger-popping version of “Wuthering Heights”. There’s loads more on YouTube: their version of the bluegrass standard “Orange Blossom Special” incorporates “Sunshine of Your Love” and “Smoke on the Water; their clever-clogs vocal arrangement of “Life on Mars” incorporates “My Way”, “Born Free” and “Substitute”; “Fly Me to the Moon” is a mash-up with “Killing Me Softly”, “Hotel California”, “I Will Survive” and more. They can really sing, and the podgy old bloke in the middle can really play. Funniest of all is “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” which is faithful to the Morricone soundtrack using only seven ukuleles and voices – astonishing. This clip of it is from their live DVD, Anarchy in the Ukulele. More about them here.
posted by Stephen Stratford at 5:01 PM
5 Comments:
Magnificent.
Returned it to its Yorkshire roots, right enough.
And I never knew what the words were to 'Wuthering Heights' til now.
Brilliant.
Love their 'Satellite of Love' too, especially the bing-bang-bongs. And the woman singer looks like John Cale - bonus points!
Speaking (OK, writing) as someone born on the same day as our Kate, I feel I must object to this sort of nonsense which borders on the criminal.
I don't know how anyone could bring themselves to mock such a wonderful work of art, even if it was the 70s (was it?).
Kate would go into a proper spin if she saw this. I can only hope she hasn't, poor thing.
She did a bit of spinning in the original video, as I recall.
Indeed she did. Spinning is what she does best.
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