Comments on: Halle Hula

Halle Hula

cortex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:09:13 -0800

When Elvis Met Leonard. Nothing but uke, vox, and questionable taste.

I can't really do Elvis, but this is the right territory, anyway. I thought about looking up some hula music to try up the verisimilitude, but then I, uh, didn't.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:10:30 -0800

Lyrics:

They say that there's a secret dance
That leads to tropical romance
I hope you'll let me demonstrate it to ya

It goes like this, just move your feet
and shake your hips to the island beat
and lose your self inside the halle hula

Halle hula
Halle hula
Halle hula
Halle huuu-uuu-laaa

Your drink is strong, your skin is tanned
You see her barefoot on the sand
The moonlight and her beauty sock it to ya

Your eyes connect, the tide rolls in
Above the ocean's gentle din
You hear the rhythmic strains of halle hula

Halle hula

Some say that love is hard to find
But I don't pay them any mind
It's easy when the music's moving through ya

The tiki torch, the swinging hips
The grass-skirt girls with ruby lips
And from their mouths they sing the halle hula

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:18:46 -0800

What the hell is wrong with you?

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:21:06 -0800

Man, you are absolutely DESTROYING this challenge. And I mean that in the frat boy sense.

By: Squid Voltaire

Squid Voltaire — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:25:30 -0800

!!!!!

By: dblslash

dblslash — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:27:27 -0800

/me claps

By: _dario

_dario — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:43:26 -0800

I have a fever, and the only prescription is more ~~cowbell~~ lap steel.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:44:08 -0800

That'll do, pig.

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:53:19 -0800

I don't think I could love this anymore than I already do. If I wore a hat it'd be off to you, sir.

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:53:53 -0800

(But it needs a Ukulele tag!)

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:08:43 -0800

(Of all the tags to forget! Fixed.)

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:28:04 -0800

What the *hell* is wrong with you?

What the hell is *wrong* with you?

*What* the hell is wrong with you?

What the hell is wrong with you*?*

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:28:50 -0800

We should put out a MetaFilter ukulele album! This site has made more use of the instrument than any place I have ever seen.

Of course, I suppose the fact that I have uploaded, like, 90 songs featuring the ukulele might have something to do with that.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:46:21 -0800

Yeah, I was gonna say, of all the people to What at me for posting a song featuring ukulele and falsetto vox...

A uke album would be neat.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:56:33 -0800

So I'm a massive hypocrite.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:57:04 -0800

Nonsense. I think you've lost weight, actually.

By: askmeaboutLOOM

askmeaboutLOOM — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:58:32 -0800

Dammit, Cortex, you have three out before we even have a chance to do one! Stop being so prolific!

Just kidding, don't ever stop. Keep that Uke going crazy!

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:04:25 -0800

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
This is now my ringtone.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:27:17 -0800

I kneel before your awesomeness.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:08:31 -0800

Yes, yes, yes. Just yes.

By: miratime

miratime — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:09:28 -0800

Oh my God. Amazing.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:58:28 -0800

This is going to be your big break. It is the best thing that you or anyone else has ever done.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:32:21 -0800

Leonard Cohen is still alive, right? 'Cuz he really needs to hear this (and the other submissions)!

*I know I have a grass skirt and a lei around here somewhere..)

By: mexican

mexican — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:20:09 -0800

i want to criticize this for being more of a march than a hula, but i the concept is too strong. awesome.

By: umbú

umbú — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:52:30 -0800

holy fuck this is perfect.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:31:02 -0800

Hey, cortex, I'm trying to learn to play uke, and I wonder if you might be willing to post the chords for this at some point?

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:50:24 -0800

Yeah, Leonard Cohen absolutely needs to hear this one. Aloha! Perfect.

By: Not Supplied

Not Supplied — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:10:27 -0800

Nice one man. Miles better than the original.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:03:21 -0800

Hey, cortex, I'm trying to learn to play uke, and I wonder if you might be willing to post the chords for this at some point?

Sure thing: here they are, in glorious Handwrite-O-Vision.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:10:15 -0800

They say that there's a secret dance
That leads to tropical romance

That alone is whole song. What a find.

By: waviolet

waviolet — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:49:34 -0800

Part II and a finale
The world needs "the" Ukulele chorus

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:10:54 -0800

Sure thing: here they are, in glorious Handwrite-O-Vision.

Where do I download that Handwrite-O-Vision program? As a rank amateur, if I do not use that tuning (I'm trying to stick to gcea for now) can I keep the names of the chords the same and just change the finger shapes, or do I need to do some transposition magic?

By: umbú

umbú — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:30:25 -0800

You can keep them the same, Rock Steady.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:33:11 -0800

Nevermind, figured it out on my owns. Thanks a ton for doing that, cortex.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:34:07 -0800

Those three minutes were spent trying to contort my fingers into an F#7th.

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:44:43 -0800

Well I was about to come back here all confused and accuse Cortex of mislabeling his chords a step higher than they really are. Then I realized he was tabbing for Soprano Uke and I play Concert Uke. Yikes.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:11:32 -0800

Yeah, and if you don't mind being a step down, you can just keep the fingerings the same and play it in C instead of D.

Yikes.

Pwned!

I ran into another uke player at a music thing recently and he helpfully offered to tune up my uke while I was doing some other pre-show stuff and apparently was not aware that default soprano tuning is a step higher, so I ended up having to helpfully retune the damn thing on stage and that was pretty neat.

He was kind of an odd guy in general, though. You can call him Slim!

By: that girl

that girl — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:52:51 -0800

This is entirely completely glorious. If I was only musical enough to figure out how to play this on the koto . . .

By: desuetude

desuetude — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:10:48 -0800

/swoon

By: ichthuz

ichthuz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:55:16 -0800

JESUS YOU ARE AWESOME

anyone who can imitate elvis and dylan in the same challenge wins

By: brianstorms

brianstorms — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:23:06 -0800

Only suggestion I'd make is with the title... either Hale Hula ("hale" is "house" in Hawaiian) or "Haole Hula" ("haole" is "foreigner" in Hawaiian)

By: divabat

divabat — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:47:01 -0800

oh. my. goodness. oh man. bahahahaha.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:42:24 -0800

I want nothing more than to direct a full 50s dance number to this oh yes it shall me mine.