[Dixielandjazz] Ukelele Madness (now morphing into a ukulele question)

[Don Ingle]

W1AB at aol.com wrote:
> 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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Seratan Yob -  produced by Red Ingle but released without using his name 
or playing on it because of union strike. They used members of the 
Pasadena Uke Club, and DJ-Radio talent Jim Hawthorne. It was done 
because they needed a B side to go with an already recorded (pre-strike) 
side.
It can be found on the "Red Ingle and the Natural Seven: Tim-Tay-Shun " 
CD carried by Amazon and others. 28 sides of other very funny numbers.
Don Ingle