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Topic: Old Tahitian-Hawaiian LP |
David Matzenik
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Posted 4 Jun 2015 12:14 pm |
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Here is a rather nice reminder of what Tahitians liked back in the 1950s. It downloads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FS_Gmuj7vg
When Winston Williams visited the Tuamotus in 1956 he found the people would gather with guitars in the evening and sing. When he returned in 1961 he found they stayed in their huts in the evening and watched TV.
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Brad Bechtel
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Posted 4 Jun 2015 1:11 pm
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According to the label, the steel guitarist is Robert Pihahuna.
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Colin Bolton
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 5:00 am Re: Old Tahitian-Hawaiian LP
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| David Matzenik wrote: |
Here is a rather nice reminder of what Tahitians liked back in the 1950s. It downloads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FS_Gmuj7vg
When Winston Williams visited the Tuamotus in 1956 he found the people would gather with guitars in the evening and sing. When he returned in 1961 he found they stayed in their huts in the evening and watched TV. |
Hi David.
This is a beautiful Tahitian recording, the singers on these recordings are much like those with
some of the Eddie Lund recordings, namely Mila & Loma
Spitz, delightful. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 7:41 am
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This is very enjoyable. Thanks for posting!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 2:07 pm
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Colin, have you heard the Tahitian recordings of Emma Terangi? She sounded a lot like these girls.
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Colin Bolton
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 4:36 pm Tahitian Recordings
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| David Matzenik wrote: |
| Colin, have you heard the Tahitian recordings of Emma Terangi? She sounded a lot like these girls. |
David.
No, but I will certainly make an effort to do so,thanks for the message, I did find several Tahitian
recordings many years ago many of which appeared on French labels as the music was very popular there.
Colin. |
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Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 5 Jun 2015 10:42 pm
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Evocative recording, David, thanks for sharing. I had been searching but have not found many Tahitian recordings with a steel guitar. If you or Colin know of others, please let me know either here or by e-mail.
Hope all is well with you Down Under.
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 4:56 am
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Tahitian popular music was never under the influence of ragtime, jazz, and blues the way Hawaiian music was. But a few Tahitians worked in Honolulu and Hollywood and absorbed those influences through contact with Hawaiians. I think that is how the steel guitar got to Tahiti. There were only a few players and I think there are Hawaiians on some of the recordings.
On the Manuti CD, S65832 Melodies des Atolls (Tahiti Belle Epoch vol 9) there is a little steel guitar by someone named Morito. There is a tiny photo of the Gaston Guilbert recording studio with him in the band.
Perhaps the best known Tahitian outfit in the US and Australia was Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians. They were well known in Hollywood and are credited in the Dorothy Lamour movie 1941 movie Aloma of the South Seas. But Goupil used Hawaiian steelers; Danny Stewart, Bob Nichols, and Sol K. Bright.
Aloma is a must see movie for its sound track. Personally, I love it for its contribution to the genre of island style movie. A poor quality DVD is available on the Internet.
In 2004 Cumquat put out a fabulous CD 2731 of the Goupil band called Toomba! Reloaded. Probably hard to source now.
The Goupils appear to have had a nightclub in San Francisco too, called the Tahitian Hut.
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Wally Pfeifer
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 7:47 am
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 Not to hijack or discredit the ongoing subject but have you listened to any of the Amboina Serenaders, the Krontjong Melodies, the Royal Hawaiian Minstrels, the Mena Moeria Minstrels or varios recordings of Geo DeFretes?
Not Tahitian but nice listening. Several of the mentioned LPs are in my collection along with Tahitian LPs.
All very good.
Wally
Some with too much reverb and some with no reverb.
Good balance.  |
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Colin Bolton
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United Kingdom
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 12:57 pm
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| Wally Pfeifer wrote: |
Not to hijack or discredit the ongoing subject but have you listened to any of the Amboina Serenaders, the Krontjong Melodies, the Royal Hawaiian Minstrels, the Mena Moeria Minstrels or varios recordings of Geo DeFretes?
Not Tahitian but nice listening. Several of the mentioned LPs are in my collection along with Tahitian LPs.
All very good.
Wally
Some with too much reverb and some with no reverb.
Good balance. |
Wally.
I listen to a variety of this music everyday, and not all with steel guitar, Indonesian music heavily
influenced many Dutch players, I am currently trying
to find out who played steel with the Trio Ambisi on
their "Sio Mama" having no luck though.
Colin. |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 1:29 pm
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Hi Wally, yep, love all the players you mention.
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 3:30 pm
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| Is that de Fretes with the "South Sea Melodians" and "The Hawaiian Seniors"? |
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Colin Bolton
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 6 Jun 2015 8:17 pm George De Fretes
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| Mitch Drumm wrote: |
| Is that de Fretes with the "South Sea Melodians" and "The Hawaiian Seniors"? |
Yes I think it is, he also featured with the The Royal Hawaiian Quintet, The Royal Hawaiian Minstrels,
the Mena Moeria Minstrels were blessed with Rudy Wairata. |
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Wally Pfeifer
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2015 4:29 pm
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 Sorry guys. I was planning to list all the LPs I have of Geo DeFretes, Rudi Wairata, Indonesian guitar, the different named groups for your information.
Then I discovered I have way way too many to list and it would take me several hours to list them. their contents and the artists.
Wally Pfeifer |
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