Post #489459 by Kaiwaza on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 4:44 PM

My personnal record colecting tastes are a bit odd & I have always had a GREAT love of the budget labels....Crown, Diplomat, Spin-O-Rama & a dozen other labels mostly sold in grocery stores & department stores. In the pop music field, they'd usually have one or two tracks by a known artist, and slap them on a record with 8 other tracks by some unknown person or studio orchestra and package it to look like it was all by the known artist "PETULA CLARK....and others" Anyway, obviously there weren't any "known" Hawaiian stars at the time, so they made up ridiculoius artist & song titles and took about 40 songs and repackaged them into 1,000 LPs. Today, I'm just posting some of my faves from the budget category, mostly because they actually did some fun cover art.

Obviously, we all love the tiki action here. They folks at Wyncote records need to be given special recognition for their multiple spellings of "Hawaii" & "Hawaiian". So MANY of the LPs have a variety of misspellings on the labels & liner notes.."Hawai","Hawaiia","Hawiin", etc etc. I mean, really, is it THAT difficult??

I've always found this a lovely cover. One LP of MANY containing a rip-off version of Any Williams "Hawaiian Wedding Song."

I'm guessing this one is actually somewhat rare. I've only seen it once. It's a later budget release..post 1970 as it features an orchestral "Hawaii Five-0" attached to the usual suspects. Kind of a groovy image.

Even Montgomery Ward stores got into the budget label Hawaiian action. This picture was, of course, used on many budget LPs. "Montgomery Ward Presents Aloha From The Islands"

Paradise is a state of mind.

[ Edited by: Kaiwaza 2009-10-21 17:00 ]