{"id":98648,"date":"2012-10-25T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98648\/halloween-ukulele\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T23:05:21","slug":"halloween-ukulele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98648\/halloween-ukulele\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Ukulele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">May I be the first to wish a Happy Hallowsgivingmas to you all.\u00a0 I think we\u2019ve all sort of gotten used to Thanksgiving being lumped in with Christmas &amp; Hannukah as part of the \u201cHoliday season\u201d, but nowadays, it seems like Halloween is getting stepped on by the upcoming winter holidays too.\u00a0 At my store, we put out our Christmas trees back on October 1st.\u00a0 I wandered through the Xmas section last night and found myself humming Holiday songs and actually wondering when would be too early to start posting Christmas songs on YouTube.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">So I\u2019m already in the holiday spirit, so it\u2019s no surprise that I felt compelled to sing a second Halloween song for this year (My first being the Thriller cover).\u00a0 This next song is a cover of a song written by Ukulele Bartt, one of the West Coast\u2019s preeminent ukulele personalities.\u00a0 I got a chance to meet Bartt Warburton at the San Diego Ukulele Festival, and when I thought of covering his tune, he was gracious enough to send me the chords.\u00a0 Thanks, Bartt! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zombie Love Song: Cover of a Ukulele Bartt Tune\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ob4bmU6JnL0?list=UUv3bcDHU6nuwh2HX-f0l7pQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Now, I do feel the need to note that this is not the first time I have used a cemetery as background for a ukulele video.\u00a0 In the past though, it has been for somber songs about death and war.\u00a0 For those of you who might find the cemetery background offensive for a humorous song, I am sorry.\u00a0 I did at least give special thanks to Reuben and Paula Hurt as well as \u201cBoeschoten\u201d (deceased).<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus to the bonus, I&#8217;m also going to post another Halloween song that I made 3 or 4 years ago, also for an Ukulele Underground contest.  Sympathy for the Devil:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><object><\/object><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May I be the first to wish a Happy Hallowsgivingmas to you all.\u00a0 I think we\u2019ve all sort of gotten used to Thanksgiving being lumped in with Christmas &amp; Hannukah as part of the \u201cHoliday season\u201d, but nowadays, it seems like Halloween is getting stepped on by the upcoming winter holidays too.\u00a0 At my store, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,2],"tags":[5740,76,81],"class_list":["post-98648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-holidays","category-other","tag-devil","tag-halloween","tag-joko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}