First off, how weird is that word?  Ukulele?  It’s fun to say, right?  Try to spell it, without looking at it.  You totally can’t.  It makes no sense.

Tonight I’m going to a ukulele jamboree or rodeo or open mic thing.  I have no idea really.  I was just told there would be ukuleles & I said “I’m in.”  That’s about all it takes, the promise of a ukulele.  I’m not a lady with what you’d call “high standards” or even “low standards”.

Not convinced that ukuleles are awesome?  Check out this good shit.

Is there any better music for a singalong jamboree than bluegrass?  And how much do you want to visit Bill’s Pickin’ Parlor?

Your thoughts?

Let’s check in with Ike & Tina Turner & see what they have to say about all this.

In the previous versions, Stagger Lee loses his “brand new Stetson hat” to Billy.  Ike & Tina have him losing his “brand new Cadillac.”  They play higher stakes dice in Ike & Tina’s world.

But who’s right?  I feel like Lyle Lovett would be the perfect person to adjudicate this, but he has yet to weigh in, so we’ll get another white person’s perspective, courtesy of Huey Lewis & the News.

And now, don’t you all want to listen to Power of Love?  Because that song is awesome.

The song “Stagger Lee”.  If you’re a lady my age, you probably first heard it in the movie “Shag”.  Remember how much you loved that movie?  I wish I could dance like Pudge.  And how happy were you that Carson ended up with Buzz?  It was like Sex & the City for teenaged girls.  Think about it: you have the socialite, the slutty one, the uptight Senator’s daughter, and the girl who’s prettier than everyone thinks she is.

Anyway, the version of Stagger Lee used in the movie is the bowdlerized version, which was recorded at Dick Clark’s request.  Apparently, fighting over a woman is better than murdering a man because of a dice game.  Whatever Dick Clark. Lloyd Price had a #1 hit with the original.

And here’s Wilson Pickett, making it a Wilson Pickett song.  Can’t you just imagine him busting into the chorus of Land of 1000 Dances?