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Sophie Madeleine plays "Don't Think Twice It's All Right" on ukulele

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:01 pm Mon, Nov 30, 2009

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Here's Sophie Madeleine (aka Balls of the Rocky and Balls duo) playing Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice It's All Right" on the ukulele.

Previously:
  • Sophie Madeleine plays "The Beard Song" on ukulele - Boing Boing
  • Rocky and Balls record song for charity
  • Rocky and Balls perform "Gaysong" - Boing Boing
  • Love Cake, a baking song by Rocky and Balls - Boing Boing
  • Paulina Sinaga plays "Don't Bogart Me" on Ukulele - Boing Boing
  • Brittni Paiva plays "Glass Ball Slack Key" on ukulele - Boing Boing
  • Sarahsukulele plays "Object of the Game" on ukulele - Boing Boing
  • hawaii82 plays "in your hawaiian way" on ukulele
  • Megan plays "You and I" on ukulele - Boing Boing

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • hadlock

    @#13, $150 for a decent condenser mic isn’t a whole lot when you consider that it captures 100% of the sound coming out of your $300+ uke. There’s no point in recording a $300 uke when your $10 walmart mic makes it sound like a $80 walmart uke.

  • PeaceLove

    Yes indeedy, she is a doll. Thanks Mark. Keep ‘em coming!

  • Anonymous

    Looks just like a Telefunken U47!

  • robotnixon

    I’m pretty sure Bob Dylan was put on this earth to write this song for Mike Ness to cover.

    This is making me rethink my assertion.

  • tylersweeney

    the uke almost made a comeback.
    only to be buried beneath a pile of pretty girls with cute voices.

  • mermaid

    She’s cute and all, nice voice, but the execution, meh.

  • Anonymous

    :O this is the most beautiful of all the uke girls. im in love

  • taiki24

    I like it! Very sweet. I love the sound of ululele.

  • rockiemosley

    I am so in love. She is simply awesome. What a beautiful voice.

  • BikerRay

    Hey, hadlock, I was told there’d be no math.
    I was wondering how she would get around the “once loved a woman, a child I’m told” line.

  • awwhoneybear

    i’ve never watched any of these videos you’ve posted until now. i can see why you love this stuff! what a gorgeous voice and simple sound. *girlcrushswoon*

  • SlashMatrix

    @airdrummer

    I disagree. To me, the lyrics and inflection at that point seem to reflect a wistful mindset- “Still, I wish that there was something you would do or say…” i.e. “Wouldn’t it be great if!… no, it wouldn’t change things at this point.” I think it’s kind of interesting how a little inflection like that can be indicative of layered emotion in a narrative.

    But then again, maybe my interpretation says more about me than it does about her.

  • Gloria

    Where are the fat, old, pimply women playing ukeleles?

    :(

  • collincouv

    Yes, she sounds very good…but, can we please STOP with the ukulele covers. The “pretty girl playing a hip-hop or rock/folk cover” thing that’s been going on here is getting very tired. This manufactured cutesy-quirkiness is becoming quite a cliche. Mix it up… Cut down on the cutesy!

  • petergarner

    This is one of the things the Internet does best: no multi-track recording, no video production; just a pretty girl with a lovely voice, her instrument, a mic and a great song. Before the web, this would have only been seen by a few dozen people in a coffee house. Now the whole world can see it, yet it retains 90 percent of the intimacy of the coffee-house setting.

    Made my day.

  • SlashMatrix

    Yeah! Play some SKYNYRD, Man!!!

    I’m only joking… please don’t.

  • RedShirt77

    I agree she is pretty, that the song is beautiful, and that the uke girls are enjoyable.

    One question…

    Why the heck does she get a professional mic and film in her bedroom?

    She under house arrest?

  • airdrummer

    sorry, she’s beautiful (same thing that drives the palindrones;-), she’s got great voice, uke’s are in…

    but her inflection @ ~1:39 (“do or say/tooooo make me change…”), while it takes great advantage of her tremolo (worked 4 joan baez;-) seems to mock the heartache of this song…

    • Orpheus84

      I’m going to go ahead and respectfully disagree with you there, airdrummer – I think the way Sophie’s handled the song and slowed the pace makes it a lot more thoughtful and heartfelt than his Bobness himself even, at least from this version:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUy-EIIe-s&feature=fvw

  • Anonymous

    some of you guys are just awful. it’s a simple production, done in under 4 minutes, and put on the web.
    It’s not a friggin mtv video. Enjoy it for what it is.