Good songbook recommendations?

twinkletoes posted on Sep 20, 2006 at 05:25PM

Hi all. The "what are you playing thread" got me wondering about good songbooks that you might use.

I know there's lots of great tab sites out there, but sometimes I can't find what I'm looking for or I just want a nice collection of tunes.

I'm a big Beatles fan so I have a lot of Beatles songbooks.

But I'm interested in finding a songbook with some of the fun, popular Hawaiian songs. Any recs?

3 replies

	papa said: If you're looking for contemporary Hawaiian songs and the so-called 'hapa haole' songs (English words), He Mele Aloha is a great, great collection: http://www.booklineshawaii.com/book/bmuu/256404.html Note that the collection only provides chords and lyrics. This is not a fakebook as it doesn't even provide the melody in musical notation. posted 3 years ago.

	ukemike said: Big fan of Alligator Boogaloo. They have songs online (chords and words). But they also have a songbook called Jiminy Kokopo's Ukulele Sing and Strum Fun Book. This book rocks and it's loads of fun too. Here's the link: http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/jiminyy/index.html It includes some excerpts from the book. I think Amazon carries it too. posted 3 years ago.

	coffeenut said: Nice. I didn't know about the Aligatorboogalo book. It looks good. posted 3 years ago.