The Beatles Complete on Ukulele

I've been following this site assidulously since first finding it a few months ago:

http://www.thebeatlescompleteonukulele.blogspot.com/

Every week, they post an mp3 of a Beatles song done on ukulele. They're working their way through the entire catalogue, 185 songs in all. I think most of the artists are just semi-professional, but a couple of weeks ago they posted something from Victor Spinetti, and just last week there was a (really good) version of "I Should Have Known Better" by Samantha Fox. In true Beatles style, there's even been a break-up between the two guys who run the site. (I continue to follow David's continuation of the original site; the other guy, Roger, went somewhere else.) Anyway, they've got a schedule of upcoming posts down the left side of the page, and if you look way down the road, they're got Paul McCartney lined up for a cover of "Something" on July 24, 2012, followed by "Everybody" finishing up with "The End" the following week. This is really quite an amazing site.

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Looking forward to Rev no9

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The essays are very readable and knowledgable too.

I really like the Because version and the accompanying essay.

Yeah, I rather like some of these. Some are crap. The whole ukulele thing's a bit of a red herring, it's often incredibly far down in the mix.

I've been downloading everything, but I haven't listened to a whole lot yet--I'm going to burn everything onto CD at some point. But I had the same impression: "There's a ukulele here?" And yeah, the accompanying write-ups are very thorough. I'm just amazed at how much work has gone into the whole project.

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i hate all of the music on this website (tbh only listened to like three), but the essays are quite interesting and worth a return visit i guess.

Marc iv, do you hate Beatles songs, or just the covers? Just askin'...

I find with Beatles covers, even more so than with other covers, the less like the original, the better chance you have of coming up with something. Trying to cover a Beatles song faithfully is usually a dead end. So from the small amount I've sampled from the Ukulele site, where some of it was unrecognizable, I'm hopeful. I started obsessively collecting Beatles covers online about five years ago. I sometimes wish I'd never started--it's endless. I'm up to almost 300 albums' worth, and another 500+ loose songs. So that's a big factor in why I find this site so useful and interesting.