Post #95552 by kooche on Wed, Jun 9, 2004 4:32 PM

let's face it...rains came to light late in history for Decca...they'd been pressing vinyl for 30+ possibly 40 years when these records were published...they just got sloppy and lazy...being that hawaiian music was so popular early on in the last century maybe they had made the assumtion that hawaiian tunes such as these were a thing of the past...

to me the rains group is much less of a hook riddled sound that that of the wonderful martin denny group or the like ...rains is WAY more relaxed (is that possible?) and more subtle...quiter in many ways...his records are obviously not populating sales bins like the baxter denny and lyman pressings are...he must not have seen the success that these staple groups did and most likely went into exotica before them as a pioneer and passed sadly unnoticed save for his contemporaries and people like us...it might be up to us fellow listeners to deduce what we can from what is left...near to nothing in so far as liner notes go...if we give it time (a relative term indeed) something will present itself...

all i can say to you is this...i have my eyes on the ebay community and the next rains record i DON'T have that pops up for auction will be mine...this i solemnly swear! you have been warned but know this also ...i'll share the treasures that lie in the grooves of this future record of mine in the form of mp3s