You’ll find endless ukulele covers of this song on ukulele including versions from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder with Sleater Kinney’s Janet Weiss and Cathy and Sarah Lee Guthrie (Cathy Guthrie also recorded a version as part of Folk Uke). Although Steve Martin does a good job with the miming, the uke is provided by jazz ukulele legend Lyle Ritz. Tonight You Belong to Me was written in the heyday of the ukulele, but it wasn’t until the song was used in the film The Jerk that it became almost exclusively associated with the ukulele.

Written by: Billy Rose and Lee David in 1926.Įssential version: Lyle Ritz, Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. This is a list of those ukulele songs that no uker can get away from. But, more often than not, they are songs that have been taken and performed so memorably on the uke that it will be thought of as a ukulele song from that day on. Occasionally, these were written for the ukulele. There are certain songs that will be forever associated with the ukulele. A song everyone tells you to play when they find out you’re a ukelelist. A song primarily associated with the ukulele.Ģ.

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