The Sky is Blue (ukulele original)

[joelelske]

left this song up while I was going about my business on the internet. very relaxing. and those solos were pretty sick. good job

[russbuss415]

@joelelske thanks very much. glad you liked it.

[shepherdbaba]

nice.

[russbuss415]

@shepherdbaba thanks!

[BlueShoues]

Cool video, might try something similar. I also wrote a silly uke song.

[russbuss415]

@BlueShoues thanks for watching!

[1ferronato]

Great Song, Great Video and Great Ukulele Sound!!!

I put my original ukulele song on my channel! i would appreciate if you check it out!

[russbuss415]

@1ferronato thanks for watching!

[ctrymaus]

Very cute. :-)

[russbuss415]

thanks Mousie!

[sorapyper]

very nice voice :) and lyrics.

so cute!

[russbuss415]

many thanks!

[SoLucasIam]

DUDE !! :D that song is so sick! :):) SO original, i loved it and the video was great! make more! :)

[russbuss415]

thanks for thinking so. cheers!

[ruth7784]

That's made me smile, such a sweet story :-) Very imaginative! I like songs that tell a story :-) Liked the solos too and great job with the animation! :-) x

[russbuss415]

thanks very much Ruth! glad you liked the silly story :)

[DojoGuamBoy15]

dude, that was freakin awesom, lifted my spirits. rated 5 ,thanks for your support too bro. god bless you and your UKE i hope its ok. lol. PEACE. DOJO.

[russbuss415]

many thanks Dojo! i'm glad you liked it. cheers!

[anonplace]

Great song and a nice voyage into an amazing world. I liked the uke solos too.

[russbuss415]

thanks for the comment! your original songs are truly inspiring.

[shmitty985]

i LOVED this ! great job russ !!!

[russbuss415]

thanks shmitty! glad you liked it.

[ken6675]

great song love the animation.

[russbuss415]

thanks Ken!

[robfaricelli]

I love vids with mermen. It maybe the beer bringing out my emotions but I can't stop crying. Great job Russ, seriously.

[russbuss415]

haha, thanks Rob!

[colmes69]

sick!!!

[russbuss415]

tahnks!

[flazmdee]

GREAT tune! GREAT playing! GREAT effects!!!

[russbuss415]

thanks for the comment!

[mugambismonkey]

You have been so productive, Russel! Love this song. The animation is awesome. Great solo, too!

[russbuss415]

yeah, i've been sort of productive. i have some more videos coming out soon. thanks for the comment. i'm glad you liked it!

[irvingjohn]

I come back to this vid almost daily.. that solo is freaking sick!

[russbuss415]

thanks John! i'm glad you like this silly ass song :) cheers!

[HaileISela]

"mary mary, please don't you cry

my world is salty enough"

brilliant!

it's a nice song and splendid video. But dropping Ukes are somehow hard to handle for me...

good job!

[russbuss415]

thanks R! i drop that uke a lot!

[GrumpyCoyoteTunes]

Just so f*ing good Russ. CourserShark was amazing too.

[russbuss415]

thanks Grumps! the animation was a little mickey fluky but i'm glad it sort of worked out.

[BarleyC]

Back again - just love watching this!

[russbuss415]

thanks much Colin!

[04Capati]

love it!!! Especially 1:45-2:04

[russbuss415]

thank for watching!

[keonepax]

Wow, this is so good in so many ways! I liked when your room was suddenly flooded with water.

The ending demonstrates one of the good things about the Fluke!

[russbuss415]

thanks John! i'm glad you liked it. and yes, this fluke gets dropped a LOT!

[monkeyswithladders]

Nice job Russ. You did some nice animation and I really liked the picking in this song. I have to admit I cringed irl when I saw the fluke start to tilt over though, haha

[russbuss415]

thanks Jon, glad you liked it! i've dropped the fluke too many times to care anymore. it's pretty tough.

[RoyJover0]

I never knew your dog was half shark! Great song and vid. What kind of mic is that? I'm starting to get tired of my MacBook's built-in mic.

[russbuss415]

thanks Roy! actually, my shark is half dog :)

it's a Blue Snowball usb condenser mic. works really well right out of the box.

[menehunenyc]

I wish I had more time to watch your vids, and make my own. Clever you are Russ, time well spent I think.Great storysong!!

[russbuss415]

thanks muchly Kevin!

[SnowLashes]

This is the coolest song! Love the story, playing, everything!!

[russbuss415]

thanks for the kind words!

[frannydeschanel]

Nice! Looks like you've caught the animation bug as well!

[russbuss415]

thanks franny! only yours are much better. i wish i could draw.

[ukulelezo]

Truly a love story for the ages. Will there be a part 2?

[russbuss415]

thanks for watching this silly video. part 2 may or may not happen. we'll see how George and Mary work out.

[uke5417]

A whole lot of ocean magic...

Love this song.

(Should've been the official song to the recent Maker Faire, too.)

[russbuss415]

thanks Bruce! i just looked up the Maker Faire, i really missed out :(

[mctrmt]

How sweet! I hope the homemade scuba works!

[russbuss415]

thanks mctrmt! the seamade sclba device is still patent pending.

[beeejums]

If you made a CD, I'd buy it.

[russbuss415]

lolz, thanks dude!

[theBradlands]

Great song. So creative.

Animation was terrific, Russ. (loved the Dog-shark) . And the solo playing was superb!

[russbuss415]

thanks Brad! glad you liked it.

[JustaMidwesternGuy]

Wow!  Love the song and animation, very impressed at your creativity.

[russbuss415]

thanks for the nice comment!

[HoBoFrench]

dans mes favoris, bonne chanson, vraiment cool

[russbuss415]

Merci beaucoup!

[Sheepstar15]

Fantastic song and animation. Great stuff from a great player as always. 5* from me :)

Anna

[russbuss415]

many thanks to you Anna!

[rightonpard]

Fantasically well done, and I really laughed when I saw your Russ-bus Russbuss shirt, brilliant!

[russbuss415]

thanks mate! the shirt was a gift from adellethegreat :)

[crwlddotorg]

And there goes the ukulele. =P

Great job. One of your bests, no doubt.

[russbuss415]

thanks Carlos!

[hoosierhiver]

Great vid and gerat song!

[russbuss415]

many thanks Mike!

[chipswow]

HAHAHAHAHA

I really love what you're doin =)

[russbuss415]

thanks much chipswow!

[casetone2514]

Great song Russ and my (stetson) hat goes off to you for the animation. For me life is too short for animation.

I like your orange crocs - mine are boring black.

5stars

[russbuss415]

thanks Tony!  stetsons and crocs unite!

[sweetnessnnm08]

russ.....the animation is great....along with the tune!!! =0)

[russbuss415]

thanks muchly sweetness!

[mjs004]

Love this Russ! the animation was perfect! Great job on the uke solos as well! Hope your uke was okay with the fall there at the end!!!!!!

[russbuss415]

thanks Mike!  the fluke falls over allllll the time. one of the reasons it's such a great uke. it can really take a beating and still sound fine.

[fourteentwelve]

Wow Russ! I love this. What a lovely song - great lyrics and story, and I loved your solos. And the animation is awesome!! Loved the Corser Shark! Straight to my favourites because I know I'll be watching this many more times!

[russbuss415]

thanks for the comment and fave Michelle! the corser shark waves his fin at you :)

[maxevancejpn]

Great song Russ!

MAX

[russbuss415]

thanks for the comment Max!

[psesinkclee]

I'm digging the lyrics Russ! Nice job!

[russbuss415]

thanks man!  glad you liked it.

[unclejeff64]

cool video russ! nice solo too!

[russbuss415]

thanks mucho Jeff!

[okvolleyball]

great job there Russ .

[russbuss415]

thanks Stephen!

[DonfromMT]

Brilliant, Russ, and fun as well. Glad you "wasted" all those hours for our entertainment.  I was entertained, indeed. 5 starfish for you!

[russbuss415]

thanks for the starfish Don! it was worth the hours of pain if only to learn a few things about editing.

[Gregparkerblues]

Song ends with hope.You must "really mean" strangers from well different backgrounds.(Because its out of order to condone cross-order/class relationships!) Great, Russ!

[russbuss415]

thanks Greg!

hmmm, is it metaphoric or literal? let me ask George.

[Zwoko]

Love it!

Wonderful song Russ!

[russbuss415]

thank you Zwoko!

[JohnMichaelHumphreys]

groovy, loving the tune

[russbuss415]

thanks much JMH!

[imdanhoover]

very cool song..i've seen that mary walking down the beach too...very easy on the eyes...love the smash the ukulele ending..very punk...cheers

[russbuss415]

thanks Dan! the best i could do was Mary gliding eerily down the beach :)

[UKISOCIETY]

LOLz @ Corser the dogfish!

Excellent idea for the breathing apparatus! You don't get those kind of lyrics in a love song anymore.

[russbuss415]

thanks AlanCakes McButterworth!  george is the macguyver of the sea.

[adellethegreat]

Beware the Corser shark!

Russ fantastic f-ing job on the animation! I wondered what happened to this song... it was well worth the wait.

[russbuss415]

thanks Adelle! did i mention most of this was written on the plane ride to adellapalooza?

[deach69]

Poor Fluke.

"mary mary, please don't you cry

my world is salty enough" - too cool! T__T

Awesome song, animation and solos! It was worth the wait.

[russbuss415]

lolz, thanks deach! glad you liked it. hope your indian buffet lunch was salty enough.

[ukuleleoversoul]

Hahaha! Awesome! I remember you showed me this song a while back.

Lovin the orange crocs as well sir. nohomo

[russbuss415]

YES mahaloz Aldrine! the song resurfaces with a brand new mahulicious animation!

[weegingayin]

Love always finds a way... by the way this is a first... every fairytale I have ever heard of features a mermaid but never a merman, so you have turned the world upside down

[russbuss415]

thank you weegingayin! i felt there needed to be an anti "little mermaid" story.

[SaddleSoreSista1]

Too Beautiful, and Corser is really a fish and not a dog. Love the animation and editing. What a really fun song, with a great solo as well.

[russbuss415]

thanks V! corser looks mostly like a cat, but sometimes he is shark-like when he smells citrus or beef jerky.

[jmmquah]

Loved it Russ, great melody, performance, playing, editiing!

James

P.s its killing me...who's the blue underwater villian? Something is screaming at me from my childhood!

[russbuss415]

thanks for the kind words James! mer-man from he-man!!

[jmmquah]

That's him! Thank God!

[josephhoh]

silly song but sad too. You look much younger too, baby-face...:)

[russbuss415]

thanks Joseph! a happy kind of sad i hope. as for the baby-face, there's this painting in the attic, nevermind...

[RabekaJo]

Cute song and nice graphics you added like the effects...keep up the good work :-)

[russbuss415]

thanks RabekaJo, glad you liked it!

[nemoAUS]

Great Video my hero. Love the props ad editing. Love the Mermaid and your solos!! You seriously need to teach me how to edit like you :(

5 stars!!

[russbuss415]

haha, thanks Nam! i'll be happy to share what little i know of video editing.  ask away!

[UnluckyMum]

Love this song Russ, its such a cool story :)

[russbuss415]

many thanks Caroline!

[kennymelodica]

nicely done ! love the lyrics -

[russbuss415]

mucho thankos Kenny!

[BaronK69]

Aw! Aren't you the cutest thing alive!

Love the song and lyrics and vid. (hope your fluke didn't break)

[russbuss415]

thanks Baron! i knew you had a fondness for cheesy love songs.

[BaronK69]

Yeah, I'm like a softboiled egg: A thin hard shell and then just mush inside...

[krabbers]

sun sea sand and love

what more does a song need?

top stuff

[russbuss415]

indeed, thanks muchly krabbers!

[shanifawni]

aw.

im too tired to say something useful...

but,

yay! corser shark! haha

[russbuss415]

thanks Shani! the corser shark is all bark and some bite.

[seeso]

It's so great to see you continuing to write songs. These lyrics are excellent, and the animation was really fun. Great job on the solo as well! Can't wait for the next original.

[russbuss415]

thanks seeso! i wouldn't have attempted songwriting in the first place without your encouragement.

[suppressivefire]

awesome playing! did you get a new camera it seems like a super nice picture!

[russbuss415]

thanks much! the video was captured with my flip minoHD, which i then downsampled to a lower resolution 720x480.

[doogey9]

You're a talented chap Russ!

5* for sure....I loved it :)

Plus, you play a fluke and like comfortable sandals.....you're alright in my book! :)

Todd

p.s. my fluke has done that a few times....no harm done...yet

[russbuss415]

thanks for the kind words Todd! yeah, i've dropped my fluke off of tables before too. i'm a klutz.

[BarleyC]

Russ, this is brilliant! Great song, and innovative animation! What did you use to animate?

5*!

[russbuss415]

thanks much Colin! your great videos have inspired me to try something new. i used Sony Vegas, which i'm still trying to get the hang of. i've only used it for split screen collabs in the past. but it works really well for animation.

[BarleyC]

Cheers, but this animation is so much better than my primitive stuff - really like the mix with live action, too! Sony Vegas, eh...

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Fantastic Russ. A wonderful little fun song and great animation. A lot of work, I think.

[russbuss415]

thanks Ken! lets just say i didn't get any gardening done this weekend :)

[snowcooley]

That animation is adorable, just like the song!

[russbuss415]

thanks for the kind words!

[JTPokie]

Great!

Ahhhh  I cringed when I saw the fluke start to go over....

Gah!

[russbuss415]

haha, thanks JT!

[irvingjohn]

Definitely Russ stylin right here. Really cool song. The animations are sweet as. Your videos are getting better and better. And I'm really, really loving the solos lately. The one at 1:44 seriously kicked ass.

[russbuss415]

hey thanks John! the editing almost drove me to sobriety. almost.

[TrowaRF]

That's a very nice tune. Loved the picking parts especially.

[russbuss415]

thanks much! glad you liked it.

[Jaspersukulele]

kwel tune

ouc fluke fell

[russbuss415]

thanks Jasper!  fluke is okay :)

[boozelele]

hahaha, good one. I can see now why you want to take your fluke to indy...you just throw it around! Great song man.

[russbuss415]

thanks boozie! this fluke has been dropped so many times, it's ridiculous.