Season of the 'Ukulele (SOTU) 642 - Much Love for the PNDub (2024)

This sweet song was written for the 1993 movie "Sleepless in Seattle", and was nominated for an Oscar (though it lost to a song from a different Tom Hanks movie).

It plays during the scene where Meg Ryan's Annie, who lives in Baltimore, is in Seattle basically stalking Tom Hanks' Sam and his little son Jonah. But it's all good because she's a nice person and they end up together.

"A Wink and a Smile", by Marc Shaiman and Ramsey McLean, performed by Harry Connick, Jr.

this is a random one.
i was thinking to make something about the Zero/Nothing theme, and i looked at the portrait of Alfred Hitchco*ck which i had painted recently,
and this is what i just did.

I also read that he sexually harrassed his female actresses. If that's true - Yuck!

At one point in the video i thought i looked like Alfred. Yuck yuck!

Oh i came back to share a funny thing...
So i let the video editing app generate lyrics for me. And at the start when i threw my cap away- the generated captions were : "What The F*** Do You Think I Am." Seriously. That made me laugh. It also generated some random words at the end when i was not singing. Something like "Oh Yeah!"....

joo said:

this is a random one.
i was thinking to make something about the Zero/Nothing theme, and i looked at the portrait of Alfred Hitchco*ck which i had painted recently,
and this is what i just did.

I also read that he sexually harrassed his female actresses. If that's true - Yuck!

At one point in the video i thought i looked like Alfred. Yuck yuck!

Oh i came back to share a funny thing...
So i let the video editing app generate lyrics for me. And at the start when i threw my cap away- the generated captions were : "What The F*** Do You Think I Am." Seriously. That made me laugh. It also generated some random words at the end when i was not singing. Something like "Oh Yeah!"....

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Oh! I am sure most of the stories about Hitchco*ck's women are absolutely true, but that wouldn't stop me having either of your wonderful portraits of Hitch on my wall, if you ever wanted to sell them. He was quite cruel to Tippi after she refused his advances. There was also a French actress, Brigitte Auber he similarly made advances to who wasn't much over 3 years older than his daughter, Pat, in fact Brigitte is still with us at the age of 99!

Daughter Pat appeared in several of Hitchco*ck's TV productions and films, in fact several stories by Roald Dahl, who shared AH's cruel sense of humour, were televised by Hitchco*ck, as were several by Robert Bloch, who also wrote the original story of Psycho, which both Pat and Alfred, in his usual cameo, eventually appeared in. Well, that's un œuf about Alfred!

UkeCan1 said:

It plays during the scene where Meg Ryan's Annie, who lives in Baltimore, is in Seattle basically stalking Tom Hanks' Sam and his little son Jonah. But it's all good because she's a nice person and they end up together.

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TOTAL STALKER!!

If you're still looking for ideas for Pacific Northwest Bands, look no further!

Hello again, Chris! This was a moment of sheer escapism for me. I recorded it at about 8.00 p.m. when there was no moonlight - although it WAS getting slightly dark - I hadn't had dinner and I was about to embark on a mission to find whatever poor, hapless animal Seamus had been pursuing round the kitchen for the last half hour. (It hasn't appeared yet and Seamus has lost interest and gone to sleep.) Anyway, it was my attempt to bring a little romance into my life ... but never mind! (Oh, and the song was recorded by Eddie Vedder, so I guess it qualifies.)

Time for an attempt at some grunge from me.

baconsalad said:

Is Vancouver Canada counted in the 'area'?

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Yes, see post #5 quoted below...

redpaul1 said:

British Columbia? It's pacific & North-West ;-)

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Approved! I grew up visiting Vancouver BC more than most other places in the US, including Portland or other places in WA. Let's do it!

Thanks Chris, welcome back to the gray and the rain! Summer is coming soon tho, and we’ll have our two weeks of sun

My entry for the week is ‘Dream A Little Dream’; the connection to the PNW is that at some point Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam fame) released an album called ‘Ukulele Songs’ where it was just him singing love songs on a ukulele. And he covered this in the album!

hands_on_lanzon said:

... or any form of zero, zilch, zip, nada, nothing
The Playlist

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Thank you for hosting this week. I'm in the boonies in my campervan with my dog but we got wifi.

Down by the Water by The Decemberists. Don't know much about this band except what I read this morning but they are from Portland. Almost gave up on the video as I played so badly as soon as the camera was on but I at least made it all the way through this take.

hands_on_lanzon said:

TOTAL STALKER!!

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"Sleepless in Seattle" was a huge hit, but even in '93, it was such a weird movie.

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Anyway, to respond to your ... request? ... suggestion? ... request-adjacent nudge? ....

On yesterday's video, stalwart YouTube commenter friend Ken Smith suggested Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska", which I suspected was a bit far afield from the intended PNW. Our hands-on host dropped by to concur.

But then he had to go and look up the lyrics, and discovered ... the song's protagonists go "North to Alaska" from ... Seattle!

So then I kind of had to go and learn it.

It proved harder than it sounded. Worse, I discovered a pre-release version of the song (called "Go North!" on YouTube ... which has a third verse that's not in the released single ... and that third verse is by far the coolest part of the song ... and of course it's not in any of the charts ... so I had to make my own.

I've spent way more time on this today than I ever planned. So please listen all the way through if you listen, so you catch the fun third verse!

Dream of the Archer by Seattle band Heart.