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Well, now I find that lizardonuke has posted the UOGB version of Candy on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__C6FYt1FA4

Not sure if the ukulele feedback in the middle is deliberate but it seems to send the singer off-key. Never mind, for this beautiful version, Kitty Lux we love you.

Veering off-topic again, but it seems to fit here nicely, YouTube have a version of WGO by Elizabeth Mitchell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rGK-d04ks&NR=1

It's got the spirit a lot of covers lack (and could be how it would have sounded with John on viola and Nico on harmonium)

Nice link, thanks

There's a review on the BBC 'Today' programme 10th Dec 2009 - it will be available on iPlayer for one week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... 0_12_2009/

Slide or click your way to 2hr 23 min 45 seconds - it lasts about five minutes

Late September 2009 - here in the UK, the BBC is using 'I'm waiting for the man' as the backing track in the trailer for the new series of 'Never mind the Buzzcocks' (a pop quiz of sorts). I guess it was chosen because they are waiting for a new quizmaster - the team captains are seen looking glumly...

And they recorded it!

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Ukulele+Or ... at+Britain

Go to the album 'The Ukule Variations' if you want proof. I stll cannot find a web version to download or play though.

In the 80s I saw the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain play 'Candy Says' - they played it straight, it was very moving.

It's a shame it's not on YouTube - but this link should take you to their version of 'Satellite of Love' .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEdH1tNP51Q

I met Mo in the early nineties - briefly when I climbed onto the stage at The Grand in Clapham, UK; it was legitimate, they had tee-shirts for sale and invited everyone up. Mo seemed a bit retiring, maybe bemused at the large crowd. On stage she had said you couldn't get her album in UK, I said you ...