Post #672185 by tikicleen on Sun, Mar 24, 2013 8:38 PM

neat to see this thread (even though it seems i am a few years late in finding it).

i dove head first into figuring out hillbilly hawaiian tunes for hooptylau in 2006 - when we explored pollardville (the old stockton islander building which turned into "chicken kitchen" before it was closed down/torn down).

this was the list of songs on the hooptylau cd i made for the event. i'm pretty sure you have all covered these songs already in this thread;

1. hawaiian cowboy ~ slim whitman
2. saddle tramp ~ marty robbins
3. hawaiian war chant ~ bob wills
4. rhumba boogie ~ ernest tubb & hank snow
5. hula rock ~ hank snow the singing ranger & his rainbow ranch boys
6. beyond the reef ~ santo & johnny
7. bop a hula ~ jimmy c. newman
8. hawaii's calling me ~ marty robbins
9. my little grass shack in kealekekua hawaii ~ teresa brewer
   10.hilo march ~ hula hawaiians
   11.geisha girl ~ hank locklin
   12.pearly shells ~ slim whitman
   13.lovely hula hands ~ junior brown
   14.sweet leilani ~ jack de mello
   15.my hula baby ~ cowboy copas
   16.hawaiian bells ~ marty robbins
   17.hula love ~ buddy knox
   18.choo choo ch'boogie ~ bill haley
   19.my isle of golden dreams ~ chet atkins & hank snow
   20.everybody does it in hawaii ~ hank snow
   21.hillbilly hula girl ~ junior brown
   22.now is the hour (maori farewell song) ~ burl ives
   23.anarchy in the uk ~ ukelele orchestra of great britain (not exactly in theme, but i couldnt resist)

i wish i could someday catch spike's band. it's sad that we were in school together and never knew of eachother (and obviously were the ones pissing off eachother at the thrift stores for grabbing the tiki mugs before the other).

interesting to see TO this year to go this theme! ha! to make it more authentic, they should hold it in modesto.