Sunday, 29 June 2025

o) French Plural Uke-Song: "MAUX-DE-TEXTE", headachy lyricx


PARODY-LYRICS,  see also the previous posts on this blog:
"Ewe-Yew-You", "Jeux-de-Mots", and "Jeux-de-Mots, Encore".

ORIGINAL SONG: "Do-Re-Mi", Rodgers and Hammerstein 1959, performed by Julie Andrews and the cast of "The Sound of Music".

French Version of the Musical
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2014.

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE


MAUX-DE-TEXTE

 (to the tune of "Do-Re-Mi")




UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT
























Thursday, 19 June 2025

Yiddish Uke-Nostalgia: "SKITTISH DOLL"


PARODY LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "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, July 2017.

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.





Monday, 9 June 2025

o) Uke-Song: "R-I-C-E" (rest, ice, compression, elevation) -- a seniors' sports injury ballad





PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "YMCA", Village People, 1978.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, April 2014.

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE
(You can also view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords, at the  parody-lyrics site where they were originally posted online)  at AmIRight.com Post"R-I-C-E"









RICE is a mnemonic for 4 elements used to treat soft-tissue and other injuries.



R-I-C-E            
          
(to the tune of "Y-M-C-A")



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