Christmas

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I hadn’t had a home cooked meal or played, and lost so badly to a seven year old at wii, in quite sometime. Onward though, I bet you didn’t think i’d come up with one for U. I almost didn’t, but I remembered someone that everyone knows, probably without knowing.

U is for…Ukulele Ike

Ukulele Ike – “I’m a bear in a lady’s boudoir”

Even Though his real name was Cliff Edwards he went by Ukelele Ike for quite sometime in his professional career. He sung such classics as “Singing in the Rain” and “When You Wish Upon a Star”. He was also the voice of Jiminy Cricket. Told you you’d know him.

I picked this song though because of the lyrics, in the 1930s this stuff was considered to be pretty risque, here’s the first verse:

“You may talk about your colleges, fair Harvard and old Yale, And all the universities who’s banners brave the gale,And all the football heroes, their glory and renown;I never went to college, but I know I’ve been to town.I may not be a football hero,But I’m a star with the beautiful girls;You never see me in the thick of a fight,‘Cause I do my scoring mostly at night.”

“I’m a bear in a ladies boudoir”

-RR