The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Hey Listeners,
Well if you've listened to my show you may know I'm somewhat fascinated by the ukulele. I think my interest began around the time George Harrison died and I read about his lifelong interest in the uke. Then I heard Jake Shimabukuro's cover of the classic George / Beatles tune and I was hooked. I gave myself a uke for my 50th birthday and I promised myself I would learn to play.
I attended a few of the local uke jam sessions in town and that is where I met Ron Gentry. Ron has organized Richmond's first annual uke fest scheduled for this weekend at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center. Ron and Richard Koch from the center were supposed to join me in the studio, but the storm and their good sense kept them away. However they did help me select most of tonight's music. So keep it tuned here for the uke show and get ready for ths weekend's festival.
Also I will have two sets of passes to give away as well as a uke. I'll tell you how you can win them.
The Haberdasher
t's A Ukulele Cathy Fink Rockin' The Uke My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Eddie Bush's Biltmore Trio Hawaiian Memories Hula Girl Sol Hoopi Hawaiian Memories Ram On Paul and Linda McCartney Ram Eleanor Rigby Gerald Ross Ukulele Stomp While My Guitar Gently Weeps Jake Shimabukuro Gently Weeps I Love a Ukulele Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys Ready For You Nobody's Sweetheart Skeedaddle The Ghost of Mose Ukulele Lady Jim Kweskin Greatest Hits Weenie Man Skeedaddle The Ghost of Mose Hula Medley R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders Chasin Rainbows Tonight You Belong To Me Jim Beloff and Liz Beloff Rare Air Dark Eyes Cathy Fink Rockin' The Uke Seven Days to Rock Cathy Fink When The Rain Comes Down 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy) Bruce Springsteen The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle Seaside Bar Song Bruce Springsteen Tracks 7 Nights to Rock Nick Lowe Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World Victoria Vox and Her Jumping Flea Sleepless Nights Eddie Vedder Ukulele Songs Dirty Frank Pearl Jam Lost Dogs: Rarities and B Sides All Of Me Bill Tapia Livin' It Live The Girl From Ipanema Lyle Ritz No Frills - Jazz Ukulele and Bass I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire Gerald Ross Swing Ukulele Sweet Georgia Brown Gerald Ross Moonlight and Shadows Shine Janet Klein Paradise Wobble Lou Lou's Back In Town Yes Yes Boys Why Say No Whenever You're Lonesome Skeedaddle The Ghost of Mose Stormy Monday T-Bone Walker Living The Blues: Blues Legends