Post #782539 by Prikli Pear on Fri, Dec 22, 2017 7:16 AM

I checked in on the Great 78 Project last night and was happy to discover that they've uploaded a bunch of vintage Calypso music has been uploaded at https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?&and[]=subject%3A%22Calypso%22. Calypso isn't tiki per se, but I know there's some overlap among listeners. If your only exposure to Calypso is through Harry Belafonte's polished studio work (which is great, BTW) you may be surprised at how raw, subversive and sometimes amusingly crude the genre could be.

And for the purists, they've uploaded another 25 vintage Hawiian musical selections since I last posted on this. I also found another two songs listed under "Hawiian traditional" that don't show up in the general Hawiian search: https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?&and[]=subject%3A%22Hawaiian%20traditional%22 plus "Lei From Hawaii" tagged as a "Bawdy" song https://archive.org/details/78_lei-from-hawaii_d.-carper-the-don-carper-quintette-shed-house-boys_gbia0000057b

Finally, there are a few uploads listed under "Caribbean," which seems to be a mash-up of several styles of the era: https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?&and[]=subject%3A%22Caribbean%22 ("Caribbean Caprice" by Alan Logan strikes me as a kind of proto-Esquivel, so that's interesting in and of itself).

Merry Christmas everyone! :lol: