With My Little Ukulele in My Hand / Various

2008 four CD set dedicated to the overlooked and always enchanting music of the ukulele. This is the history of the Ukulele, one of the biggest selling instruments in the UK today. It is being taught in schools instead of the recorder. Some of the greatest recording artists of the 20th century to some of the most obscure had the ukulele in common, spanning Pop, Country, Jazz and Hawaiian. 104 tracks featuring all the main exponents including George Formby, Sol Hoopii, Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards, Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Smeck. Proper.