{"id":703,"date":"2007-09-02T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2007-09-02T11:34:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T18:34:38","slug":"pennies-from-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/02\/pennies-from-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennies From Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little video in which I do not entirely mangle this delightful 1936 tune. This is the fourth take. I&#8217;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&#8217;s a .wmv file, you&#8217;ll need Windows Media Player to watch it.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t exactly the way we learned it and I&#8217;m not playing it by ear, but I did use a lot of what I learned in that class while playing this tune.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a little ear\/eyewash after that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EzahOCCt78o\">here&#8217;s<\/a> Louis Prima and his crew swinging the tune the way it oughts to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, if you showed up at my house with your saxamaphone, we could record this together. That would rule.<\/p>\n<p>Now you, go practice your uke. You know who you are.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]ukulele[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little video in which I do not entirely mangle this delightful 1936 tune. This is the fourth take. I&#8217;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, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Pennies From Heaven\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/02\/pennies-from-heaven\/#more-703\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pennies From Heaven\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerdio","category-ukulele","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}