{"id":6029,"date":"2011-09-19T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T00:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2011-09-19T19:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T00:29:49","slug":"on-george-harrison-and-the-pirate-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6029","title":{"rendered":"On George Harrison and “The Pirate Song”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s another International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and while I normally post a bootleg video of George Harrison’s performance of “The Pirate Song” on Eric Idle’s Rutland Weekend Television<\/i>, this morning I found something far more interesting.<\/p>\n

A ukulele cover of “The Pirate Song”!<\/p>\n

Yes, the things that amuse me…<\/p>\n

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This cover is by someone named Ukulele Ray<\/a>, and until this morning I’d never heard of him.<\/p>\n

It turns out, he’s done an entire album of George Harrison covers, If Not For Uke: A Ukulele Tribute to George Harrison<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, I bought the mp3s from Amazon.<\/p>\n

It’s fun. I probably won’t listen to it very often, but that’s not a criticism of the album, as it’s clearly done with a lot of love and a lot of fun. There’s feeling to the musicianship, and the cover of “Here Comes the Sun” is positively lovely. And “The Pirate Song” is delightfully demented.<\/p>\n

On that note…<\/p>\n

Yarrr! Avast! Ahoy! Hand me me grog!<\/p>\n

Okay, that’s out of my system for another year. :)_<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s another International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and while I normally post a bootleg video of George Harrison’s performance of “The Pirate Song” on Eric Idle’s Rutland Weekend Television, this morning I found something far more interesting. A ukulele cover of “The Pirate Song”! Yes, the things that amuse me… This cover is byContinue reading “On George Harrison and “The Pirate Song””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[565,60,772,800],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-eric-idle","tag-george-harrison","tag-talk-like-a-pirate","tag-ukulele","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}