Unwanted and Alone! “Yellow Bird” Cover by Longville Tom Adams

"Yellow Bird" … lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman 1957 to the tune "Choucoune” by Michel Mauléart Monton 1893. What a great example of an enduring evolving song about being left by a love who has chosen a flashier person. This song was sung by the Norman Luboff Choir, the Mills Brothers, The Joy Makers, Roger Williams, Lawrence Welk and featured on Here's Lucy and Murphy Brown TV series. Favorite for Longville Tom Adams was the recording on The Brothers Four album. It was The Brothers Four folk group's first album; which was played over and over again on the hifi stereo after it came to the house via the Columbia Record Club.

Wouldn't you know it? Longville Tom Adams holds to his beloved, well established standard managing to get maybe one out of three notes right playing his ukulele. And, come now, Brother Adams, what's up with that black Duluth Trading Company earflap cap?

The instrument:
Kala KA-SMHC
Concert size
All Solid mahogany top, back and sides
Nubone nut and saddle
Rosewood fingerboard

This uke is another thrift store find. It's very playable. It has a rich, warm tone with okay sustain. The tortoise shell plastic binding and the oh so touchable satin finish help make this a keeper.