Post #18876 by KuKuAhu on Thu, Jan 9, 2003 9:31 PM

I'm curious to see if anyone here would be interested in considering an idea that has been rattling 'round in my noggin for awhile. I am the fortunate owner of a mint pair of great "tiki" boxed album sets. Allow me to explain...

The first is a 5 record collection "Songs of the South Seas" the second is "The Sounds of Hawaii" (I'm not positive of the exact title as I'm at work right now. Both are boxed sets from the late sixties and I have never seen them elsewhere. They are not available anymore as far as I can tell.

Between the two of them there are 9 records and a grand total of 108 songs. It is all really great vintage stuff that I have not seen anywhere. The real deal for a true luau.

I get alot of requests from friends that are tiki fiends to put this stuff on a CD for them. So far, I have been reluctant to bother (I guess I'm just lazy or too busy in the bar...maybe I'm a bad friend, I dunno). But it got me thinking that it is a shame to keep these to myself.

Especially when soembody might be willing to trade for a copy.

Now wait....don't stop reading, please. I know this might sound shady, I promise it's not.

Here's what I would do....

In exchange for just about anything cool you have that you might not want (say, duplicate mugs) I'd ship you a burned CD set of all the songs recorded on the best equipment I can lay my mitts on (and I have access to good studio stuff). I'll scan all the artwork and text and include it as well on a zip disc (Or I can make paper copies I suppose, but they'd be small due to album to CD size differences).

You'd have all the music and everything else.

I will not sell these (I'd be on a legal slippery slope as it is burning them for trade I think).

I'd be willing to do whatever it takes to prove the authenticity of the two albums prior to anything changing hands and assure you that this is just an honest idea from a fellow tiki freak.

I'm planning to burn them myself so I can put them on shuffle with my exotica discs anyway, and if enough folks are interested and the legality of trade is moot on such "dead" albums....

I'm really just kicking this around. Any thoughts? It's really no big deal to me if it doesn't sound doable, I mean....I have the albums myself, so it's no loss to me. I just thought it might be a cool thing to do and I might get some mugs for the trouble. Hell, it's not like my college student wallet can afford to collect the way the Ebay nuts do it.

So, watta ya think? I'll post more detailed info on the albums themselves if there is any significant response.

pele

[ Edited by: pele on 2003-01-09 21:34 ]