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Ukulele UkesterBrown - Hello! Ma Baby (with verses)

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
1 decade 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago

Ukester Brown is an ukulele player from Minnesota who plays "forgotten" songs, not that this one, originally a Tin Pan Alley song, has ever really been forgotten since it keeps appearing in popular culture (the Warner cartoon "One Froggy Evening" (1955), Ninjago episode "Tick Tock", The Cleveland Show...).

http://www.ukesterbrown.com/index.html

YouTube Description:

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone on January 30, 1877, and this song was written 12 years later in 1899, by Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard. The telephone was a quickly accepted technology and at the time this song was written there were 1200 telephone girls at the switches in New York City alone.
This song may be the first song about on-line dating! The singer has never met the girl, but has talked to her and as their relationship grows, she finally allows him to call her by her first name. Protocol would have called for addressing her as "Miss _____,", until they became more "intimate" with each other.

Hundreds of people have covered this song.
Probably the first recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOo-zKk0x4Q

Maybe where I first heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZbq8z9vOk

Probably my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU1MAokrrUk

To the best of my knowledge this song is in public domain and there is a free song practice sheet at ukesterbrown.com for your enjoyment and education.

Mouth Trumpet by Doc Severe's son.