[Dixielandjazz] Ukelele Madness (now morphing into a ukulele question)
W1AB at aol.com
W1AB at aol.com
Mon Apr 26 11:07:03 PDT 2010
In a message dated 4/26/2010 12:55:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com writes:
for Ukelele Madness programs use this link
_http://jazzhotbigstep.com/18501.html_
(http://jazzhotbigstep.com/18501.html)
Fun!
That reminds me to ask a question....
From 1942 until 1944 there was a strike of the American Federation of
Musicians, to force the issue of paying royalties to instrumental
performers on recordings. During that strike, recordings didn't have any
instrumental music.
However, record producers figured out that, by AFM definition, the
ukulele was NOT a musical instrument. Some recordings used ukuleles. One of
the early ones had a voice-over during the ukulele chorus (as I recall)
that said the ukulele was not a musical instrument and was, therefore, allowed
on the recording. As a seven-year-old, that tickled my funnybone.
Can anyone tell me what recording that was? If I could identify it, I
might be able to track down a copy of the 78 rpm record (sigh...).
Many thanks.
Al B
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