The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise - Johnny Moore

Gene Lockhart wrote the words for The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise with another fellow Canadian, Eric Seitz, a classical pianist who conceived the melody at the age of twelve.Gene Lockharts daughter June, played the mother in the hit, Lost In Space in the good old days of TV. This song has been around since 1919 but really hit its stride when Les Paul and Mary Ford took it to the heights of hitdom in 1950 when Les used his electronic inventions and considerable guitar skills to modernize this quiet old melody.
Here, at age 70 my father displays his virtuosity on his 50s era Martin uke , the sounds of which I grew up with. Unfortunately, arthritis has claimed the speed he used to have in his hands when he played the uke professionally. That aside,he still plays today as he approaches his 91st birthday. I apologize for the quality of the recording. It was never meant for publication and is really the only example I have on video.
Here, in Canada, he played guitar, banjo and ukulele in the back up band on the first evolution of Singalong Jubilee for two seasons. Many talents came out of that CBC television show, including one Ann Murray, another Nova Scotian who is better known.
BTW, that's a little bit of "Song of the Islands" also titled "Na Lei O Hawaii" by Charles E. King at the end.

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[BeareTube]

Fantastic!

A virtuoso indeed! A great ukulele player with such a sweet, fluent strumming style!!

Thats exactly how I like the uke to sound.

Wonderful, wonderful video. Thats made my day.

This one's a favourite definitely!

:-)

[Elwood2911]

Thank you very much. You will have made my father's day when he sees this. I don't have any other video material ... but I am digging through my old audio tapes for some more of the good stuff. Back in the 60's I had a reel to reel recorder with three speeds and echo. We recorded some stuff for our own amazement withsome overdubs and out of speed stuff with the uke ( a la Les Paul) and that's where I realized Les Paul's genius ... what he was able to achieve wasn't easy.

[ukulelezaza]

Your father is twice as old in this video as I am today. I can only hope I'll be able to make music like that when I'm an old man! Thanks for uploading.

[Elwood2911]

I grew up with it but I didn't get that gift. He's still playing a bit ... 91 in a few months. I have some audio I could upload as well. I've always preferred the ukulele over guitar, banjo and everything else that was in the house when I was growing up.

I'm glad you like it and I know he will appreciate your kind words.

[williamoxner]

Thanks Paul, for posting your Dad and his Uke playing this song..

[pattyfromtoledo]

I love this version of one of my favorite songs ~ and thank you for the history! So cool to me that June Lockhart's Dadwrote the lyrics!

[jimbo17480]

That's my uncle Johnny and I'm here to tell you he can play anything with strings and then some! It brings a tear to my eye and big smile to face , thanks Paul great job.

little Jimmy lol

keep the good work, it's great!!!!

[KDUS]

at A'16 the song isn't "aloha Oe" but "Song of the Islands" also titled "Na Lei O Hawaii" by Charles E. King, and this is an extremely good rendition by the way - with an excellent demonstration of that vintage tremolo !

Thanks a lot for sharing all those videos and recordings

[agar1956]

How wonderful that you at least have this film of your father. What a delight to hear such an authentic style. Thanks for this and your audio recordings too.

[LStrachey]

great work!!

[Freak478625]

WOW, think I've got a lot of things to learn (again). Great song, strummed smooth & wonderful :-) Thanks for sharing.