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“I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” was
the most popular song in
America in 1909. The melody of the song was written by Harold Orlob,
who at the time was working as an arranger for Joseph E. Howard, a
popular vaudeville entertainer. Howard made it his theme song and took
full credit for writing it himself. When Howard’s screen
biography
(also named “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”) was released in 1947,
Orlob began legal action against Howard for rights to the song. An
agreement was reached in which Orlob was granted co-author status.
After the movie’s release the song became popular once again and was
the second most popular song in the U.S. in 1947.
This
classic song has been recorded by many artists including Ray Charles,
and it was one of Perry Como’s biggest hits in the 1950s (Perry Como: Greatest Hits).
I
created the arrangements to this song and recorded it playing a
baritone uke with re-entrant tuning (dGBE), so instead of the bari uke
having an identical tuning to the first four strings of a guitar, the
fourth string (D) is tuned an octave higher, which gives it the same
relational sound of a standard uke (My Dog Has Fleas). To tune
re-entrant like this on a baritone uke you need a lighter fourth
string. I use another baritone uke first string for the fourth and tune
it to D instead of E.
If
you have more than one baritone uke you might want to tune one with a
low D and another with a high D. That’s what I do although I almost
always play with the high D. Keep in mind though if you only have one
baritone uke and it has a low D string that you can play these baritone
uke arrangements and any others that I arrange with either a high D or
a low D. They will sound fine either way and the tablature remains the
same although the standard notation would be slightly different because
of the D string being an octave lower.
I
have provided three different arrangements of “I Wonder Who’s Kissing
Her Now” for baritone uke. The MP3 (available below) features the
Fingerstyle Solo.
If
you have any questions about this or any other ukulele arrangement on
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