Jumpin' Jim's Ukulele Favorites: Ukulele Solo (Paperback)

~ Jim Beloff (Author), Hal Leonard Corp. (Creator)

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Contents: Aba Daba Honeymoon * The Birth of the Blues * The Boy Next Door * By the Light of the Silvery Moon * Bye Bye Blackbird * Dancing in the Dark * Deep Purple * Don't Blame Me * Don't Get Unused to Me * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?) * Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight (Goodnight, It's Time to Go) * Hi-lili, Hi-lo * I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Always Chasing Rainbows * I'm in the Mood for Love * If They Can Put Man on Moon(Belo * Mairzy Doats * More Than You Know * Once in a While * Over the Rainbow * Ramona * That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) * Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me * The Ukulele Song * We're off to See the Wizard * When I Grow Too Old to Dream * The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa! Baa! Baa!) * Whispering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (November 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793520509
• ISBN-13: 978-0793520503
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #652,325 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A handy book for the ukulele fan, March 23, 2002

By	Michael J Edelman (Huntington Woods, MI USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Jim Beloff is a one-man ukulele rennaisance who (among other things) collects old ukulele tunes and edits them, adding chord symbols and publishing them in books like this. This particular collection is one of my favorites, along with Beloff's "Ukulele Gems". Both books offer around 30 tunes and a very complete set of chord charts for the price of a couple of sets of strings. Not bad.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beloff's "Ukulele Favorites", March 6, 2009

By	L. Garrett (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This is a review for "Jumpin' Jim's Ukulele Favorites." The only reason I rated it two stars rather than one is that it isn't completely useless. I recommend any of Jim Beloff's other books, but not this one. There are several reasons.

1. There are 30 songs in the book, but only nine are in standard C (GCEA) tuning. The rest are in ADF#B (which was common many decades ago) and FBbDG, which has never been common. Of those nine, two are compositions by Mr. Beloff and another is a song that isn't a standard, so actually there are only six of the thirty that anyone has heard of and which are in C tuning. Not very useful for the vast majority of ukulele players.
2. The quality is inconsistant. Chord diagrams vary from song to song (there are at least four different styles of chord digaram), as does the print quality. It looks almost as though these songs were copied from various music books and pasted into this volume. It gives the feeling of not being a quality piece of work, and one on which neither care nor much effort was spent.
3. Despite having songs in three different tunings, and the fact that only nine songs are in C tuning, the only chord chart included is for C tuning. The majority of songs are in D tuning, so why not include a chord chart for that? Well, all of Mr. Beloff's other books have the C tuning chart, so apparently Mr. Beloff felt it was easier just to paste that in and ignore the tuning for the majority of songs in this volume.
4. Virtually none of these songs includes more than one verse, a singular exception being one of Mr. Beloff's pieces. Those, like me, who purchase music books in the hope of obtaining complete lyrics to songs are out of luck.

Most of these songs can be found in other volumes or online in standard tuning and often with more complete lyrics. If you really enjoy alternate tunings, just go to ebay and buy old music books. They're more professionally done, are likely to have more complete lyrics, and will probably cost less. Don't waste your money on this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another strong collection for ukulele, August 15, 2006

By	Swing Crazy "swingcrazy" (Sandpoint, ID USA) - See all my reviews

If you like jazz standards and love the ukulele, here's another fine collection from Jim Beloff. I personally would start with his Ukulele Gems book, as I think the tunes are a little cooler. That, of course, is a purely subjective measure, I realize. I guess the fact that I own both books means I think this one is pretty good, as well. The songs run the gamut from easy to pretty challenging. Affordable, fun and filled with enough material to keep the average ukester busy for a long time. As the other reviewer noted, Jim has been a wonderful proponent of ukulele music. Do a search under his name -- you'll find a wealth of books, etc., worth looking into.