Post #112146 by bongofury on Thu, Sep 2, 2004 8:55 PM

I have these 2 lps by Paul Page. No dates on either, but in the photo from the 2nd lp he looks a little older and a little pissed off. Mostly original songs, with some nice steel from Bernie Kaai Lewis. The interesting part is that he does a lot of poetry over the music, kind of like Eden Ahbez.

Some interseting info on the back of the second lp. The youngest newspaper editor, semi-pro basketball in Ohio, a radio show in Alaska, worked for NBC in Chicago, a photo model, published a nationally distributed Polynesian newspaper (The Beacon) monthly from his office in San Pedro, a prize winning artist (he did the art on his albums) hosted a nightly all stereo, Polynesian radio show (KMLA) in Los Angeles, and wrote, directed, and starred in the very first Polynesian televesion show in 1949. Whew!

There is also a reference to being featured in a Lon Chaney Jr., Universal mystery "playing the part of a Hawaiian and singing a chant he wrote for the film". Anyone know what film?

First lp says entertains nightly at the Hammond organ in Bill Leveloff's famous Turf Club In Pico-Rivera, CA. Also has an ad for an astrology record by Paul Page.

[ Edited by: bongofury on 2004-09-02 20:58 ]