Bill Martino - The Hula Hula Boys

Warren Zevon's 'The Hula Hula Boys', a nice simple song for showing that a Polk-a-lay-lee, one of those 'kooky ukes' from the 60s, can actually be played.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• polk-a-lay-lee
• ukulele
• zevon
• martino

[rclifford13]

hey bill, its rob here

this is a beautiful uke. although a bit...large?

[BillMartino]

You're not wrong, Rob, but that might be an advantage if I were to use it for busking. Can you imagine the damage it could do to a heckler?

[BeareTube]

Hey Bill, careful you don't poke someone's eye out with that thing! It sure is 'kooky' and sounds surprisingly good given its elongated, snakey attitude.

Mmmm, I like that song too, especially the chorus. And I just have to get me one of those ukulele shirts.

Thanks for posting!

;)

[BillMartino]

Hey there BeareTube! Thanks for the kind comments, and sorry it's taken me so long to reply.

I've just won a Singing Treholipee on eBay, so I might chuck a demo of that up here in the next few weeks.

Cheers,

Bill

[FleetwoodHack]

MY favorite Zevon song. Great job brother.

[BillMartino]

Thanks, FleetwoodHack, and I love your name.

[paperbulletspress]

Love this! Warren Zevon is my favorite musician of all time, and I was lucky enough to see him live about 20 times. And now I'm learning the uke, so I'm so excited to see this--where would I find the uke chords for this? I must learn to play it! Thanks again, lovely tribute to Warren to have this being played (and the uke is almost Seussian--lovely!)

[WZflagsalute]

I think he'd be quite pleased,too.

[olsongirl5]

Love this song! Love how you do it!

[brenoobr]

so what do you call that? is it a soprano, bill? i really dont know anything about ukuleles... sadly, we don't have any in my country...

[NickandJamie]

I've got one of these, although mine is brown and light brown :)

[ReallyBigFatLarry]

Fantastic, really brightened up my week!

Thanks for keeping Zevon with us all.

[hoosierhiver]

Man,I've always wanted one of those.