A lovely song to while away the summer – with some links to stuff that you might find useful for finding and learning other songs!
There are some beautiful ukulele versions of “Sunny” on the internet, both sung and instrumental. None of the versions here have been recorded as a tutorial, with the purpose of teaching someone how to play the song. I just liked these ones. There are many other versions that I liked too but I had to stop somewhere and 10, including Bobby Hebb’s original, seemed like a good place to draw the line.
My top pick for the easiest arrangement to play and sing is by NGUYEN DINH Quoc-Huy.
There are so many fabulous ukers out there on You Tube! A limitation of this list is that consists of YouTube Channels – not individual videos. There are some great ukers, and whole genres, missing simply because I could not find a dedicated YT Channel, eg. no Del Ray, very little uke-blues. The other reason is that I got a bit bored with making lists after the first twenty . . .
But – tell you what – my current favourite uke video is . . . Brittni Paiva – “Tell U What”:
Comments and suggestions for additions are most welcome! There is a comment box below . . .
Many thanks to Andy Seagroatt for sending this link. I thought it was going to be a hat to be worn by the harmonically-challenged musician him/herself, to assist in some magical way. Well, that idea was just plain silly, obviously. This makes much more sense!
Rodney kindly posted this message to us on another part of the website:
If you would like to listen to the YouTube music video of “The Nearness of You” by jazz ukulele artist Benny Chong, do a search of “Nearness of You – Benny Chong”… I’m sure you will enjoy it.
Also listen to “Cute”, “Have You Met Miss Jones?”, and “I’ll Remember April” by Benny… he really cooks on these numbers!
Mahalo and Aloha!
Rodney Inefuku, Hawaii
Here is the link to the first video recommended:
Nearness of You (Benny Chong Live at the Palace Theater)