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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 8:54 pm |
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Here is a clip from the 1934 RKO movie, "Down To His Last Yacht." If you don't care for the dance routine, go ahead to 08:05. There are two Hawaiian steel players that I cannot identify. I think this is the recording on which Sol Ho'opi'i based his own rendition, just before he took up electric guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQTNDIVLRo
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 9:14 pm
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Ever have a girl friend that can catch you like a beach ball?  |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 10:42 pm WoW!
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I don't know whether to thank you Ron, or toss rocks at you. Whew!
Was that blond haired guy with bangs that was in the final scene one of the Marks Brothers?  |
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Jack Aldrich
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Washington, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 11:55 pm
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| Hey, Ray! That's Sterling Holloway, of the raspy voice. He narrated a lot of Disney stuff, and (believe it or not) he introduced Rogers and Hart's "Manhattan" in a review in the 20's. I have no idea of what he was doing with that sax. |
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 1:37 am
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| bizarre but strangely compelling. I love the comment "This movie makes Gilligan's Island seem credible."" |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 5:00 am
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| I kept waiting for Kong ... |
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Norman Markowitz
From:
Santa Cruz, California
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 7:51 am
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Here is a nice version, not on steel, but on the 'ukulele with vocals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo0EpXP5pzI
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 8:02 am
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There's Nothing Else To Do In Ma-La-Ka-Mo-Ka-Lu But Love
1935, Cliff Friend & Sidney Mitchell
There's Nothing Else To Do In Ma-La-Ka-Mo-Ka-Lu But Love
All you do is spoon under the tropic moon above
It's just a happy playground of love and romance
All you do is lay 'round
You play all day and then at night you play again
The wiki waki woo in Ma-La-Ka-Mo-Ka-Lu is grand
The lovely way it's done only the natives understand
I'd like to live and love forever and make that little island my land
You have to eat and drink, but all of the time you're thinking of
There's Nothing Else To Do In Ma-La-Ka-Mo-Ka-Lu But Love |
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Norman Markowitz
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Santa Cruz, California
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 8:18 am
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| Thank you Brad. So the information I had that said that Sol Ho'opi'i wrote the song is in error. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 8:39 am
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| Rick Aiello wrote: |
| I kept waiting for Kong ... |
exactly, right from the opening! Besides being a great 'horror' movie, King Kong's first half hour is hilarious. |
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Kekoa Blanchet
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Kaua'i
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 9:11 am
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Incredible!  What a find.
"Sounds like South Sea baloney to me," to quote the second line in this clip.
But 75 years from now, when they look at the music videos being produced today, they'll have the same reaction we have to this one.
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Kekoa Blanchet
From:
Kaua'i
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 9:12 am
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| ...on second thought, it won't take nearly that long. |
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 9:20 am
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| Kekoa, I have that reaction the instant I see any new music video. |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 11:46 am
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Character Actor Sterling Holloway with his sax couldn't even save that one.
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 3 Feb 2012 6:33 pm
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I love all the old South Sea Island musicals. Its time Speilberg did a remake of one. As far as the steel guitar part in this movie is concerned, Les Cook suggests that it is Sol Ho'opi'i playing on the soundtrack, even though it is not his well known recording. I tend to agree. I'm still interested in IDing the guy with the Tricone. He was probably a serious player.
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Mitch Crane
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1000 Oaks, CA
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2012 3:14 pm
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For those of you that are too young to remember...Sterling Hollaway was the voice of "Winnie The Poo", cartoon character. He also played as a not too agressive salesman on a few episodes of "The Andy Griffin Show"
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 6 Feb 2012 8:39 pm
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What a great spectacular for next year's Super Bowl"
Those fertility dances could bring back Hawaiian Music ! |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 10 Feb 2012 9:46 pm
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I kept smelling real popcorn with real butter while I waited patiently expecting any minute for Clyde Beatty to come running through chasing a lion with a chair and a whip. What you never saw a Clyde Beatty Serial. It was right up there with John Wayne in the "The Purple Monster". Strange title since it was in black and white.
My Favorite old Movie |
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Blake Hawkins
From:
Florida
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Posted 11 Feb 2012 7:38 am
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| I liked the "Purple Monster's" girl friend. |
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