anuenue – Ukulele Guy

Video: Poontang! (yup, poontang)

Now that I got your attention... Nah, I'm not joking. This really is a poontang video. Heh. I'm having a pretty good time here using the word poontang in a somewhat legitimate manner...... POONTANG!

Ok. I think I got that out of my system. We can start for real. As you may or may not know, I'm a freaking sucker for novelty songs. I know what you are thinking, "Wait a minute, he likes ukuleles and novelty music? High school must have been awesome for him!" Surprisingly enough, it wasn't, but that's neither here nor there.

On one of my various novelty compilations, I first heard the song Poontang by the Treniers and I was amazed! Frankly, I wasn't even sure the word poontang existed in 1953. Turns out, it did. After I heard the song I did a little bit of research and it sounds like The Treniers were pretty much party animals. The drank and recorded rad songs. In fact, to promote this song, they made custom labels for beer cans that said something like "Sweet Alabama Poontang" on them. Then they sent the beer to radio station disc jockeys to get them to play it. Freaking rad!

Anyway, I've been wanting to make a video for this for ages but kept putting it off. So, today I just grabbed my aNueNue Banjolele and my Flip and busted out this video in a single take. Boosh!

If you want to hear the original, check out this video:

And if you wanna play along (and who wouldn't, right?) here's some chords that I wrote up for Poontang!

Poontang by The Treniers
covered by Ukulele Guy

                  10 9 8 8 
...POON is a hug!
                  10 9 8 8 
TANG is a kiss!
C x7 (5433)
F          
I've been marooned on an isle in the South Pacific
Bb
Missing my loving each night
C
Now that I'm home I'll go right
                    E  F
Out and get me some POON-TANG!
F
Tired of talking to tigers and kangaroos,
Bb
Or singing a song to a goose.
C
Now that I'm home on the loose,
                  E   F
Gonna get me some POONTANG!

Bb 
Now Poon is a hug. I wanted a hug so badly
      D# (3331)
I was Blowing my tropical top.
C
A Tang is a kiss, I wanted a kiss so badly
       C                 E
Wanted Poontang never to stop.
F
I don't want to eat And I don't want to sleep;
Bb
I've got a yen that I'm dying to please.
C
Till I get weak in the knees,
                  E   F
Gonna get me that Poontang.
F
POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!
Bb
POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!
C
POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!

F
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
F
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
Bb
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
F
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
C
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!

Rock break.

Bb
A Poon is a hug. I wanted a hug so badly
D#
I was blowin' my tropical top.
C
A Tang is a kiss, I wanted a kiss so badly
                    E
Want-a-Poontang never to stop.
F#
I don't want to eat and I don't want to sleep;
B
I've got a yen that I'm dying to please
C#
Till I get weak in the knees,
                  F   F#
Gonna get me that Poontang.

POON-TANG!

POON-TANG!

Gonna get me some, gonna get me song... poon tang!

Video: You Didn’t Have a Girl (the making of)

Hmm.. I totally thought I had posted this song already, but it looks like I was wrong. So, here's the deal. This Christmas, Erika (my wife) and I agreed to not spend very much money on presents for each other. So, I had to sort of get creative. Luckily, I'm the king of pulling a song out of my hat with a moment's notice. And, this time I had helpers!

Or, rather, anti-helpers as the case may be. You see, I decided to involve my two sons in the recording process. In hindsight, this was a terrible idea, but the end result turned out great. It was just incredibly painful. They fight like cats and dogs on a good day and (as you can tell from their jammies) it was getting on in the day.

Anyhoo, I made the process even more painful by videotaping parts of the recording "session" with my Flip MinoHD. I had actually forgotten that I had done this until I found the videos today. So, I decided to finally give Adobe Premiere a shot and try and do some video editing. This is my first editing attempt so please be gentle. You should just be lucky I wasn't doing "star wipes" all over the place. Also, I guess I have to figure out how to edit it without that black border around the whole thing. If you are an Premiere genius, then I welcome your input.

If you want to hear the finished product, then give this a listen: Ukulele Guy - You Didn't Have a Girl

Oh yeah, and I was using my aNueNue Banjolele in this song.

NOTE: Of course, after I already uploaded this video and wrote the post I realized what I did wrong in Premiere. The next video won't have those annoying black bars around it. I'm not sure I'm going to re-do it, though, because I don't see a way to do that easily without starting all the way over. And, I'm way to lazy for that.

The aNueNue U-900 Ukuleles are HERE!

You remember these adorable guys?

Well, it looks like aNueNue has released U-900 Ukuleles. Yup, and the one for the bear is even an pineapple uke! These are just starting to trickle in, but we're likely to see more in the coming days and weeks.

Here check out a picture. This is what the U-900 Rabbit Soprano Ukulele looks like:

And as if that weren't adorable enough, check out the case for that uke:

And, of course, the Bear needs his uke to be a pineapple shape, right? Yup. Take a gander:

And here's the case for the Bear:

aNueNue U-900 Bear Pineapple Ukulele Case

So, if you are looking for one of these little beauties, then just check below. This page will update to show you which aNueNue U-900 Ukuleles are available on eBay at all times! Warm up your refresh button! 😉

Oh yeah, and if you have my name for Xmas.... GET ME ONE OF THESE!

Video : You Must Be Out of Your Mind by The Magnetic Fields

Well the good thing about my new aNueNue Banjo Ukulele is that it doesn't take much convincing to get myself motivated enough to do a video. I mean, chances are the uke is already in my hands, so I just have to turn on the camera. I seriously cannot get enough of my aNueNue!

Anyway, the song I did today was You Must Be Out of Your Mind by The Magnetic Fields. This is definitely my favorite song of the Realism record. On an only somewhat related note, does anyone know when the Magnetic Fields movie is supposed to come out? When my wife and I saw them in Seattle they had some cameras with them so I'm kind of hoping the footage from that show makes an appearance. Maybe you'll even be able to see when Stephin Merritt walked offstage and right over to the person who had just finished videotaping "Papa was a Rodeo". That guy got some harsh words, no doubt.

Anyway, you might notice that I switched the 2nd and 3rd verse. This wasn't intentional, but I didn't feel like doing it over just because of that. So, consider it an alternate rendition.

Here's the tabs:


You Must Be Out of Your Mind
by Magnetic Fields

F  - 2010
C  - 0003
Bb - 3211
Gm - 0231
Dm - 2210

INTRO: F  C  Bb  F

F           Bb            C         F   C   Bb   F
You think I'll run, not walk, to you

F           Bb            C         F
Why would I want to talk to you?

Gm                Bb
I want you crawling back to me

F                   C
Down on your knees, yeah

Gm           Bb
Like an appendectomy

C
Sans anesthesia

F         C       Dm          Bb
If you think you can leave the past     behind

F           C            Bb    F
You must be out of your mind

F         C     Dm      Bb
If you think you can simply press rewind

F           C            Bb
You must be out of your mind, son

F           C            Bb    F
You must be out of your mind

You want what you turned off turned on
You call it sunset, now it's dawn
You can't go round just saying stuff
Because it's pretty
And I no longer drink enough
To think you're witty...

You want to kindle that old flame
I don't remember your real name
It must be something scandalous
Lurks in your shallows
If you need a Santa Claus
To buy your gallows...

Video: Five Foot Two on aNueNue Concert Banjo Ukulele

Ok. Now that we got that damned guinea pig quiet, I can actually play my new aNueNue banjo uke. I picked this standard because I feel the Warner Bros. frog would appreciate it. Now, I just have to remember which corner stone I buried him in so he doesn't bankrupt some poor bastard in the future. Expect many more videos with this particular ukulele. It is my new favorite. When I finally get my novelty band off the ground, I plan to play this aNueNue for most of the songs. Something about it paired with a stomp box and possibly kazoo... I just know that's gonna sound bitchin'.