Jim and Liz Beloff are about to release the second book in the "one song a day" series, this one being called the Leap Year Edition, with 366 songs.
Earlier this year, Jim asked for suggestions for the book contents and I send him a few that I thought would be good numbers. This version is reported to be targeted more toward clubs and group singing than solo performances. So it might be good for our purposes.
Some of us have the current issue, the 365 day version, and it has a lot of advantages, principally being that the complete melody line is provided so one can see the timing and the proper inflections to be put into your voice, but not surprisingly it has some disadvantages too, such as a frequent use of the hymnal style of stacking lyrics and having extra lyrics simply printing at the bottom of the page. Most of us prefer to have each chorus or bridge printed alone -- much easier to follow.
Another advantage -- all the songs are arranged for ease of playing with a uke. They are somewhat simplified compared to some very complex guitar arrangements, but some songs do require you to work a bit harder than a lot of simple three chord songs.
The big disadvantage to using it as a club book is that we will all have some songs that we like to play and these would end up being in a ring binder -- so we would have two books.
I'll bring my copy of the 365 day edition to the club meeting and if anyone wants to join me in getting the 366 day version, we can save a couple pennies by ordering as a group. At about $25 for 366 songs, all arranged for a uke, this is a very good price for a fake book.
Here is the link where you can see the songs in the 365 day edition. Click on the "song list"
http://www.fleamarketmusic.com/store/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=258
Here is the link to pre-order the latest version (but w/o the song list)
http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Ukulele-Leap-Year/dp/1458482685/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349358218&sr=1-1&keywords=leap+year+daily+ukulele
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