Pennies From Heaven
September 2, 2007 – 11:00 am | by nerd's eye viewWelcome to Nerd's Eye View. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Want to know more about this site? See the Meet the Nerd page. And thanks for reading!
Here’s a little video in which I do not entirely mangle this delightful 1936 tune. This is the fourth take. I’m posting it with mistakes, crazy bed head hair, and the dropped last couple of seconds because who do I think I am, Madonna? I have no stylist, video production crew, sound engineer, or, oh, yeah, shame. It’s a .wmv file, you’ll need Windows Media Player to watch it.
Sometime back I learned to play this song for a workshop on alternate chord use and playing by ear. I did not get it. A year or more later, when I sat down to noodle this thing out, it all came together.This isn’t exactly the way we learned it and I’m not playing it by ear, but I did use a lot of what I learned in that class while playing this tune.
If you need a little ear/eyewash after that, here’s Louis Prima and his crew swinging the tune the way it oughts to be done.
Hey, if you showed up at my house with your saxamaphone, we could record this together. That would rule.
Now you, go practice your uke. You know who you are.
[tags]ukulele[/tags]
2 Responses to “Pennies From Heaven”
By lilalia on Sep 2, 2007 | Reply
Hold on, my daughter is learning saxophone. She’s super cool and only twelve. Give her another year or two and then the two of you can rock.
By christina on Sep 2, 2007 | Reply
Madonna ain’t got nothin’ on you, honey! That was a real treat.