[78-L] Love On A Shoestring^

[simmonssomer]

"Bite me over once...bite me over twice.."

Al Simmons

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From: <davdieh at aol.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Love On A Shoestring^


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> Ja, Das Fledelaus!
> David Diehl
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> So, flying louse.
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> dl
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> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> It is.
>> An uku is a flea, politely. Impolitely, it's a head louse.
>> And lele means "to fly, jump, leap, hop, swing, bounce, or burst forth"
>> among other things.
>> So, "jumping flea" is not an incorrect translation.
>> Lelele me ka 'oli'oli (Jumping for joy),
>> M
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>> *******
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>> David Lennick wrote:
>>> Now, how about pronouncing it? Is it "oo-koo-lay-lee" as Arthur Godfrey 
>>> says?
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>>> Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii.
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>>> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
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>>>> Sheesh. At least you guys are spelling it right! Although I've heard
>>>> arguments that "ukelele" is also correct. But they're wrawng. So very
>>>> wrawng.
>>>> M
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>>>> *******
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>>>> David Lennick wrote:
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>>>>> Michael Biel wrote:
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>>>>>> RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
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>>>>>>> From: "David Lennick"
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>>>>>>>> Forwarding an inquiry from another list. Does anybody know if there 
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>>>>>>>> such a song, and particularly a recording of it that features a 
>>>>>>>> ukulele?
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>>>>>>> The Captain and Tennille did such a song in 1980.  I just listened 
>>>>>>> to it
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>>>>>>> could hear no ukulele.
>>>>>>> RayK
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>>>>>> Ah, but did you not hear a ukulele?  That could be different from
>>>>>> hearing a "no ukulele".  A banjo is a no ukulele.  A trombone is a no
>>>>>> ukulele.
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>>>>>> Mike (we don't need no steenkin' ukulele) Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
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>>>>> Why a ukulele? Why a no a bandura?
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