Sal and Friends Select Sing-Along Songs

On February 11th, the Cleveland Jumping Fleas will be presenting a program titled Ukulele Sing-Along! at the Fairview Park Library.  On the library's calendar the program is described thusly:  "Join the Cleveland Jumping Flea ukulele group for a fun evening of songs and laughter. You'll enjoy singing along as the Fleas play a variety of catchy tunes and merry melodies."  The target audience is, according to the calendar, "Seniors, Adults, Families."  In other words, we could be playing just about anything for just about anybody!  This makes the task of selecting songs a bit of a challenge.  Should we aim to please seniors who might come because they enjoyed the ukulele when it was popular in their younger years?  Or should we do a bunch of songs that families with young kids would like?  How can we find songs that just about anybody would be able to (and happy to) sing along with!?

Who is up for such a challenge?  That would be me, Bruce, and Lynn!  We compiled a very long list of songs we considered sing-along material.   We are now engaged in cutting that list down to 90 minutes of music.  So many good songs are being cut...  But never fear, we're keeping lots of great ones!

After several hours of conversation about music (and many other things), I took these photos of Bruce and Lynn with Sal.  You can see that even after all the work we did -- trying out various versions of songs and giving them thumbs up or down, etc. -- we were still a happy (or shall I say goofy) bunch. 

We'll be meeting again this Sunday to make the final song selections!

Bruce and Lynn with their ukes -- and Sal -- at the end of our selection session.  This meeting took place in my dining/music room.  Notice the photos of Sal with famous ukers -- and other musicians -- on the wall behind.

These guys are so much fun to work with!