Those Were the Days / Remembering You - All in the Family theme song (ukulele cover)

Don't be the drunk racist uncle talking politics at the wedding and waxing poetic about Herbert Hoover. Don't be that guy.
For Season 649 of the Ukulele, the good old days, and 648, inappropriate wedding songs.
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[@CasparHarmer]

Lovely! Beautifully played - that picking pattern is lovely. And of course... the reality of nostalgia is not what gets sung about :) (also I promise not to be that uncle)

[@UkeCan1]

Thanks, Caspar! I think I pretty much have one standard picking pattern that I taught myself a million years ago, and then I do different variations on it to suit the style and rhythm of the song. I sometimes worry it makes everything I do sound the same, so it's encouraging to hear you liked it here. I did some tutorials on it if you want to know more. I did not really expect you would be that uncle at the wedding - thanks for confirming! 😆

[@kensmith5694]

Yes, it is a song about longing for a past that never really existed. It is a common thing. When we were young our parents took care of the bad things so we were not aware of them. The great depression and the world wars and the Vietnam war and on and on were things of the real past. Politicians often win over voters with a promise to take the world back to that happy past that was never real. Forward looking ones promise a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. Being about the future it is less of a myth than the one about the past.

[@UkeCan1]

@@kensmith5694 Very very well said. Thank you!

[@ilaimpress]

I never knew there was a second verse!

[@UkeCan1]

I know, right? It was on the chart I had so I sang it. I think it was sung in some later seasons, or in the closing theme ... something....

[@PHJimY]

Sorry Wendy, I didn't see that you had already done this before I did it. I didn't get in character like you did though. Nice job.

[@UkeCan1]

Thanks, Jim! No worries - additional versions are always welcome. I love your sweet straight version.

[@desertpavement510]

Yeah! Busy out that Joisey accent!

[@UkeCan1]

@@desertpavement510 Haha ... it's supposed to be a New Yawk accent ... which is really the same thing, it turns out. No kidding - some expert studied it recently and determined that people who think they can tell a NJ accent from a NY accent from a Brooklyn accent, etc, are fooling themselves, and that there actually is no such regional distinction. 😆

[@UkeCan1]

Also for the record, I don't have that accent! Where I grew up the people who talked like that all came from New York, actually. I always thought no one in my family did. And then one day, long after my father died and I hadn't heard his voice in years, I watched a video of him and was shocked to discover he had a bit of a New York accent that I'd never noticed! (He grew up in City Island, da Bronx.)