Thursday, 19 June 2025

* Yiddish Uke-Nostalgia: "SKITTISH DOLL"


PARODY LYRICS with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS"Satin Doll" -- Music written in 1953 by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my Satin Doll."
So, could it hurt if she spoke Yiddish?  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2020

To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", for some further recommendations about this song (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.



Couple dancing at their son's Bar Mitzvah party in 1958.



SKITTISH DOLL      

(to the tune of "Satin Doll"


UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

 (Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)



 


















Prospects for Bar Mitzvah celebrations during the 50s.




ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
Click on any chord chart to enlarge and enter thumbnail mode (the slides for both the parody and the original versions can then be enlarged and viewed in any order). 
Readers are aked to honour the original artists' creativity, and to use the slides of the original song-lyrics only to ensure familiarity with the suggested style for the spoof version. 




















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