Post #663667 by Hwnmusiclives on Thu, Jan 10, 2013 12:35 PM

Thanks for a welcome filled with "aloha!"

I hope I didn't overstate the "seriousness" of my blog or the topics there. I love mid-century Polynesian pop as much as anyone, and not only is my collection filled with it, in some ways I have a very personal connection with it. It is very much the kind of music my family band played for mainland audiences. My father used to do gigs in NYC with Sam Makia (whom you know from records by that name as well as Johnny Poi and His Surfboarders or Kamuela and His South Sea Islanders or Tiny and His Hawaiian Bubbles...) And his children and grandchildren are still my friends. Dad knew Johnny Pineapple and scores of the guys from that era. So I do not scoff at that music, and it will be featured on my blog. I am also an aficionado of the musicians from Hawaii who did other kinds of pop. I have met and chatted with members of The Surfers, The Society of Seven, and - almost daily, through Facebook - two of the remaining Aliis from Don Ho's famed group. And nearly 20 years ago now I worked with David Greenberg at Rykodisc on the first reissues of the Arthur Lyman albums on CD.

I didn't want to give the impression that the blog would be too high brow! :)

I love Auntie Geri and have her CDs. And Geri and I share in common that we both appeared on the Hawaii-based TV program "Pakele Live!" Please send her my aloha from the East Coast.

And as for Hawaiian Hi-Fi on Live365, I read about a year's worth of posts on this forum until I fell asleep last night, and I arrived at work today to crank up the station - which I have been listening to for 7 hours straight now. I am delighted - and ashamed - to admit that I discovered a group on this broadcast that I had never heard of before - and immediately jumped over to our friend's place, Haku's House of Jump and Rattle, and shelled out way too much money for it.

[ Edited by: Hwnmusiclives 2013-01-10 12:43 ]