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Tagged: Hawaiian music
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Hawaiian music had a burst of popularity in Australia with a string of recordings made between 1926 and 1955.
In 1924 Hawaiian musician and entrepreneur Ernest Ka’ai toured a show called 'A Night in...
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This is one of the Sydney recordings by touring Hawaiian artists David and Queenie Kaili, also known as The Hawaiian Entertainers. It is a formative recording of Australian Hawaiian music and one of...
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The greatest song of the whole Australian Hawaiian genre has to be 'I Lost my Heart on Hayman Island'. It was written by prolific songwriter John Ashe and has been recorded at least five times. While...
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One of the fascinating things about this music is that the Hawaiian Club performers didn’t feel any obligation to perform exclusively Hawaiian-themed material. Certainly they recorded songs like '...
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Over the next few years hints that the performers of Hawaiian music were actually in Australia crept in occasionally. In 1947 Keith Branch and his South Sea Islanders recorded 'Where the Blue Gums...
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There were few female singers who recorded Hawaiian music in this period. Bernice Lynch was the daughter of one of the Hawaiian Club founders in the early 1930s. She recorded a mix of Hawaiian and...
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What is noticeably absent in the Australian Hawaiian music recordings of the 1930s and 40s is any sense of Australianness in the songs themselves. Local Hawaiian performers mostly performed material...
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Working on the variety circuit at the time of Ernest Ka’ai’s second Australian show in 1926 was a young entertainer named Charles Wade, who learnt the basics of Hawaiian music and ukulele playing...
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In 1950 The Royal Hayman Hotel on Hayman Island produced a double-sided 12” 78 with John O’Connor and George Watson’s Hawaiians performing 'Pack Up a Dream and Head for Hayman Island' on one side and...
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From 1939, another Hawaiian Club recording this time with: Eric Kahn, bass; Norm Scott, ukulele; Neville Kahn, steel guitar; Johnny Wade, Spanish guitar and vocals. There is a more sophisticated...