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Topic: 1950s Hawaiian rock & roll...? |
Doug Beaumier
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David Knutson
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Posted 18 Aug 2019 12:57 pm |
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Many thanks for sharing those, Doug. I never knew that Mickey hid a bar inside his glove.  And I love the surfing dogs (Goofy and the other one).
So if that stuff was happening in '57, it would likely have been pretty influential on the surf music artists of the early '60s. I'm thinking Ventures, Dick Dale, etc. What a nice find.
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Doug Beaumier
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Mitch Drumm
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Steve Waltz
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Posted 19 Aug 2019 10:54 am
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I have the 2nd song of the original post linked above on a record of a different name. I think I read that the label would employ a group of musicians to record a number of tunes. The label would release the songs on records with fake names over and over again on low budget records that sold at random places like gas stations. Sometimes they would just change the order and titles of the songs and the artwork and call it a new record. The one I have says sounds of Hawaii but has a picture of people from The Dominica Republic that were on an add from an airline that flew to that area. It looks a bit strange.
When I originally heard the song linked on my record, I immediately thought it was a cool tune regardless of the odd way it was created and was kind of surprised I had not heard of it before. There is another one on the back side similar to it from the same players. |
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Jeremy DeHart
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 19 Aug 2019 11:20 am
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This is also my experience Steve. It seems I have no less than 4 different albums all with these same songs on them! To me it's no wonder people got burned out on Hawaiian music in the 50's due to these types of shenanigans.
However that Australian stuff is a real gas! That's the real deal! |
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Nic Neufeld
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Doug Beaumier
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Posted 19 Aug 2019 4:27 pm
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I didn't realize that there were so many 1950s Hawaiian "rock" records out there! It seems like an odd mix... two genres of music that don't go together very well.
Regarding the no-name, low budget albums... Bobbe Seymour played pedal steel guitar on an album called "Happy Steel Guitar" back in 1976. He said the entire album was recorded in just 4 hours... 6:00 to 10:00 PM in a Nashville studio. He said the producer passed out drunk two hours into the session! I bought the album at a Sears store back in the 70s. It was in the discount bin, $1.49 !! It was all instrumental covers of popular country songs. Bobbe said it sold well internationally. The musicians were not listed on the album and I didn't know Bobbe was the player until he mentioned it here on the forum 30 years later.
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Nic Neufeld
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Posted 19 Aug 2019 5:21 pm
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Many thanks for sharing those, Doug. I never knew that Mickey hid a bar inside his glove. And I love the surfing dogs (Goofy and the other one).
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Maybe a bit off topic...a classic short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdIaEQCUVbk
I'd known it since I was a kid...but didn't know the tunes so much (the intro slide is over Na Lei O Hawaii, and then obviously, On the Beach at Waikiki, ending with Aloha 'Oe naturally).
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Doug Beaumier
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