UKULELE CLASSICS

1989 - I LOVE THIS ONE - It started out as... A birthday song for my wife - who said she loved 20s & 30s music - Which I foolishly assumed was Rudy Valee but was more like the Boswell Sisters - So, of course, I tapped into my 'Inner Paul' & tried singing with a Mid-Atlantic Accent & used words I wasn't sure of...  it wasn't until recently that I realized how the melody remains constant through 4 Chord Changes - and I've been slowly realizing how perfectly compact this one-minute & thirty second song is... 
'Dahling', Please! Do Listen to Paul McCartney's 'You Gave Me The Answer' 'We knicked a few tricks that one 

KISSIN THE BIRTHDAY GIRL

Enough Of The Blue Horizon
Enough Of The Whole Wide World
Nothing's As Appetizing As
Kissing The Birthday Girl
Her Lips Are Sweet
And Awfully Discreet
You’ll Die Right On The Spot
I’ll Bet You A Dollar
That Under Your Collar
You’ll Find That You Are Hot

You Can Have Carol Lombard 
You Can Have Milton Berle
I’ll Be Up In The Cheap Seats
Kissing The Birthday Girl
None Can Compare
And I Don’t Want To Share
Her Lips With Anyone
One Look In Her Eyes
My Composure Belies
That I Have Come Undone

Enough Of The Blue Horizon
Enough Of The Whole Wide World
Nothing’s As Appetizing As
Kissing The Birthday Girl

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Richard Goldman's Album

KISSING THE BIRTHDAY GIRL

1992 - I wrote this for my oldest son's first birthday - 

IF I HAD A LITTLE BABY

If I Had A Little Baby  
If I Had A Little Boy
Then I’d Have A Little Baby Boy 
A Baby Boy – A Baby Boy

If I Had A Little Water  
If I Took A Little Fall
Then I’d Have A Little Waterfall
A Waterfall – A Waterfall

You Make Your Mom & Daddy So Happy 
Like A Dream Come True
They Know They’re Lucky Just To
Have A Little Kid Like You

If I Had An Old Lady  
And An Owl That Said “Who”
Then I’d Have An Old Lady Who
Old Lady Who – Old Lady Who

If I Said Everything Was Dandy  
And It Turned Out That I Was Lyin’
I’d Be A Little Dandelion
A Dandy Lion – A Dandy Lyin'

You Make Your Mom & Daddy So Happy 
Like A Dream Come True
They Know They’re Lucky Just To
Have A Little Kid Like You

If I Had A Little Sugar 
If I Had A Little Plum
Then I’d Have A Little Sugarplum
A Sugarplum – A Sugarplum

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IF I HAD A LITTLE BABY

Cover Of  A 1961 Ricky Nelson Hit Written by Gene Pitney

Recorded In 2014 
With My Six-String Hawaiin Mele, Ukulele 
& A Small Film-Canister 
Half-Filled With Marijuana Seeds 
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At Age 11, My Bedroom Closet Door 
Had A Full-Length Mirror
I Would Stand In Front Of It & 
Learn To Sing Like Ricky Nelson
& Gene Pitney & Bobby Vee
I Was Raised On Pop

HELLO MARY LOU

I Said Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart
Sweet Mary Lou
I'm So In Love With You
I Knew Mary Lou
We'd Never Part
So Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart

You Passed Me By One Sunny Day
Flashed Those Big Brown Eyes My Way
And Ooh I Wanted You Forever More
Now I'm Not One That Gets Around
I Swear My Feet Stuck To The Ground
And Though I Never Did Meet You Before
I Said "Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart
Sweet Mary Lou
I'm So In Love With You"
I Knew Mary Lou
We'd Never Part
So Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart

I Saw Your Lips I Heard Your Voice
Believe Me I Just Had No Choice
Wild Horses Couldn't Make Me Stay Away
I Thought About A Moonlit Night
Arms Around You, Good & Tight
That's All I Had To See For Me To Say
"Hey, Hey Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart
Sweet Mary Lou
I'm So In Love With You"
I Knew Mary Lou
We'd Never Part
So, Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart
I Said, Hello Mary Lou
Goodbye Heart

Songwriters: Cayet Mangiaracina / Gene Pitney

HELLO MARY LOU

2018
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The Gun Lobby Owns Many Of Our Politicans
But Polls Indicate Americans May Have A Conscience
Some Folks Think We Should
Be Able to Modify How Many Bullets 
The General Public Can Shoot Per Second
We Have Speed Limits For Driving
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WE DON'T TALK ABOUT GUNS AFTER A SHOOTIN' 

We Can Talk About Race 
After A Lootin’
But Not About Guns 
After A Shootin’
You Can Talk About Religion 
& The Flag You’re Salutin’
But We Don’t Talk About Guns 
After A Shootin’
No, We Can’t  
No, We Can’t
No, We Can’t Talk About Guns, Guns, Guns 
No, We Can’t  
No, We Can’t
We’ll Have To Leave It At That  
With A Rat-A-Tat-Tat 

We Hear A Lot About Grains 
& People Talk About Gluten
But We Don’t Talk About Guns
After A Shootin’
We Can Talk About Spies 
With Vladimir Putin
Before Talking About Guns 
After A Shootin’
No, We Can’t  
No, We Can’t
No, We Can’t Talk About Guns, Guns, Guns
No, We Can’t  
No We Can’t
We’ll Have To Leave It At That  
With A Rat-A-Tat-Tat

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WE DON'T TALK ABOUT GUNS AFTER A SHOOTIN'

2004  
Family Vacation To Maui
One Day My Wife & I Bought Ourselves 
A Mele 6-String Ukuele
(As Pictured Here)
Mele Was A Ukulele Luthier On Maui
We Drove From 'Tourist Town' 
Through A Dense Rain Forest To A Clearing 
Where The Sweetest Thatched Roof Shop
Sold These Gorgous Sounding Ukes 
I Like 'Jangly' & The 6-String Caught My Ear 
And I Literally Took It Back To Our Friend's Home 
And Bashed Out 'Pukalani' 
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Cheers To Our Fabulous Hosts 
Gail & Piet In Upcountry, Maui
And The Incredibly Swift 
Weather Changes In Kula
And The Half-Filled Film Cannister  
Of Marijuana Seeds 
Used For A 'Shaker' Percussion Sound
And Also This Early Mix ProvidesThe Sound Of 
One-Hand Clapping...
It's The Same "Take" I Used For 'Dreadful Sorrow'
But Its An Earlier Mix  
No Solo'd Vocals 
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Pukalani Was The Sight Of My Last Enjoyable Round Of Golf  
That's Now Close To 20 Years Ago 
I Played With A Friend Of Our Hosts 
I Was Good In My Teens
But I've Always Hated Golf... 
Even As A Teenager It Felt Like An Addiction
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Golf... Like Caviar, Oysters & Richard Goldman Songs
Is Not For Everyone


PUKALANI

Here Comes A Big Fat Cloud 
Climbing Over The Mountain & It's
White & Wispy & It’s 
Crawling Over The Ridge & It’s
Climbing Over The Mountain 
Faster Than I Can Climb Over The Mountain &
Sometimes Mother Nature’s 
Just A Son-Of-A-Bitch Here In

Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay

The Wind’s Picking Up & 
The Air’s Cooling Down 
And I Can Feel The Freaking Moisture That's Just
Dripping In The Air & I Got
No Way Of Stopping That
Big Fat Cloud As It
Rolls Over The Mountain & 
Curls Up My Hair & I Go

Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani 
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay

Well, The Whole Thing Makes Me Wonder What The Hell 
Happened To The Sun & 
Isn’t It Supposed To Burn Through That
Wispy Little Sucker And
Maybe That Ball Of Fire Just Had 
Somewhere Else To Be Or 
Maybe It Couldn't Give A Damn About The
Curlin' Of My Hair And I Go

Pukalani - Uke-a-lani  
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani  
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay
Pukalani - Uke-a-lani  
Ay-yay-e-yay-ay...

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PUKALANI

There's No-Fi - Like Lo-Fi
Some 'Sound' Advice 
I've Been Writing & Recording Songs 
Since I Was 14 In 1964
When I Began 
I Couldn't Read Or Write Music
So In Order To Remember It 
I Had To Record It... 
In The 60's, It Was On A Reel-To-Reel 
By The Late '70s, I Realized 
I Had To Be My Own Favorite Artist  
And Keep Track Of The Songs I'd Written 
To Keep Me Company In My Old Age
So - This Is A Musical Diary Of My Life 
For The Last 60 Years
By Clicking "Playlists" 
You Can Follow A Progression
By The Decades