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Ukulele LadyBette Midler

Released: September 15, 1998

Songwriter: Richard Whiting Gus Kahn

Producer: Arif Mardin

[Verse 1]
I saw the splendor of the moonlight on Honolulu Bay
There's something tender in the moonlight on Honolulu Bay
And all the beaches are full of peaches
Who bring their ukes along
And in the glimmer of the moonlight
They love to sing this song

[Chorus]
If you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady like-a you
If you want to linger where it's shady, ukulele lady linger too
If you kiss a ukulele lady while you promise ever to be true
And she see another ukulele lady fool around with you

Maybe she'll sigh, maybe she'll cry
Maybe she will find somebody else
By and by

To sing to when it's cool and shady, where the tricky, wicky, wackies woo
If you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady like a you

[Verse 2]
Someday I'm going
Where eyes are glowing
And lips were made to kiss
To see somebody in the moonlight
And to hear the songs I missed

[Chorus]
If you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady like a you, you, you
If want to linger where it's shady, ukulele lady linger too
If you kiss a ukulele lady, while you promise ever to be true, true, true
And she see another ukulele lady fool around with you

Well, maybe she will sigh, maybe she will cry
Ah, but maybe she will find somebody else
By and by

To sing to when it's cool and shady, where the tricky wicky wackies woo, woo, woo
If you like a ukulele lady, ukulele lady like-a you
Like-a me like I like-a you, and we like-a both the same
I'd like to say this very day
Ukulele lady like-a you

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.

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