K
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Sven,
I know we were talking about this at the Mai-Kai, and this thread is far too long for my gin-infused brain to sort though it all, but it seems to me you owe it to yourself and our little group of tiki obsessive-compulsives to do a CD that is evolutionary of "tiki style" music. The BOT explain this, so why not do a sort of sound track to the book?
Start with primitives like Sol Hoopii and move on Mr. Hapa-Haole himself; Harry Owens' Sweet Lieilani. Then do Crosby's Blue Hawaii, Dorothy Lamour's Moon of Manakoora and (you know this was coming) Frances Langford's "In Waikiki", and carry on to Genoa Keawe on 49th State Records and then something from Webley Edwards' Hawaii Calls with the surf crashing on Waikiki beach including a little Alfred Apaka and some Haunani Kahalewewai. Do your Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman and on to Don Ho (who buried exotica with the Vietnam war dead). The odd stuff that never went mainstream (like Paul Page) is interesting, but is it intellectually honest in terms of pop culture influence? I like surf music, but being a Hawaiian kid, I don't think of it as island stuff. It is oh so California.
Sorry to be so contrary, but to me tiki style music was an evolution thing that peaked in 1959 with Quiet Village. IMHO your CD should reflect what the patrons of Don's and Vic's were listening to from the 30's though the 60's. Please don't end the set with Margaritaville, no matter how much you may be tempted.
KG
Where do you get those Hawaiian thing-a-ma-jigs? You know, those hula do-dads.
[ Edited by: Kailuageoff 2010-03-05 18:29 ]
[ Edited by: Kailuageoff 2010-03-05 18:30 ]
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