Day One: "A" - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)

Here's a Wikipedia article about the song.

Notes

1. One of my goals is to improve my singing over the course of the year spent recording these tunes. As you can hear, the bar is pretty low! I'm still recovering from a nasty bronchial infection, and my vocal folds are still irritated.
2. For those of you who read music: The tune is supposed to swing. The two ways of notating swing rhythm, are straight eighth note and the dotted eighth/sixteenth combination. This song uses the latter. In the two measures that contain straight eighths, I performed them as written (even though none of the recordings I listened to did).
3. The Beloffs often use the so-called "Hawaiian" D7 for ease of playing. With one exception, I opted to do the barred version. I also fretted the fourth string on E minor chords (i.e. playing B instead of G). I want to get better at using more of the fretboard, and the fingerings I chose to use for these two chords can be used all the way up (and down) it.
4. I struggled with the e in the measure, "you're okay." It's harmonized with a G7 chord, and I have difficulty resisting the urge to sing a whole step lower or a half step higher (d or f, which are notes of the chord). If I were leading the song, I'd probably just resolve on the d and assume that nobody would notice.

Whew! That was fun . . . but it was also nerve-wracking. However, I resisted the urge to do multiple takes. Instead, I turned the recorder on, kept it on when I had to start over (once . . . honest!), and edited the beginning and the end of the recording. My goal is to chronicle progress, not to post perfectly polished performances! 

The song can be found on page 13 of The Daily Ukulele: Leap Year Edition.