Tiki Central / Tiki Music / Honolulu Rock-A Roll-A (aka the Hulabilly Thread ??)
Post #651566 by Bruddah Bear on Tue, Sep 11, 2012 1:57 AM
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I must have missed this thread when you first started it, sorry it took two years for more songs to be brought to folks attention. Thanks for starting it and keeping it alive until I could mine my music collection and wrack my memory for artists and songs. Still working on it, I know there's more out there. Vague shadowy misty watercolor memories... Since my father was born and raised in Texas, Country & Western was a part of the aural environment in my youth. Mom was born and raised in SoCal, she liked a pretty wide range of music too. I grew up with quite an eclectic taste in music thanks to my parents tastes.
Oy!! OK, I went back and added "Slack Key Guitar" to the comparison of styles so that people can hear the differences between them. Slack Key style being younger than Hawaiian Steel by a number of decades (to my mind something like 50 years?), it should never be confused with Hawaiian Steel.
Yeah, there are songs I hear and think "this would be a good one for ... to cover," as well. There's one from the Big Band era that I think The Hula Girls could really do a rocking version of. You have to imagine it re-orchestrated for the band though. It really bounces. "Tee-um, Tee-um, Tee-i, Tahiti" Cab Calloway & His Orchestra 1938 There were a number of Big Band era standards that were rearranged into Rock & Roll hits way back when... Think about it.
Hopefully sometime soon. :)
Spike, I'm glad I could share it with more people, so many folks know "Sleep Walk" but have no idea who Santo & Johnny are or that they wrote and recorded other just as awesome (or better in the case of "Tear Drop") songs. OK, I have some more tunes fer y'all... Jenks "Tex" Carman (again)... Chet Atkins... Hawaiian Wedding Song On a resonator, no less. Pu, Uana Hulu (Remembering Gabby) Tribute to Hawaiian Slack Key artist Gabby Pahinui. Bill Justis... Tamouré A Tahitian song. Duane Eddy... Gidget Goes Hawaiian Yeah, I know... Ford also recorded an album of Hawaiian songs titled "Aloha" Bill Nettles... Hula Hula Woogie This one is fun. J.D.Orr & The Lonesome Valley Boys (no bio found)... I'll keep looking... Bear *Edit - Fixed link to Cab Calloway song. [ Edited by: Brudda Bear 2012-09-14 01:49 ] |