A Company of Four

I'm not one to keep a box unopened, but amongst the Horde of Plastic that surrounds me these four entrappies are held in their casements as mute testimony to the folly of the fleshers..

Aloha Hawaii Pt 3 - Get Down To The Beach

Like that coconut floating across the grand pacific, people drifted onto the Islands and settled into pastimes involving group beach assembling with wild abandon and fragrant flowers dangling.
At somepoint someone returned back to the water but this time with a plank beneath them, thus starting stiff competition from those left on the sandy shores. All they had left to their advantage was a sexy swaying of the hips and an overflowing tikibar..

Hawaii the Fabulous Fiftieth State - Sam Makia & the Makapuu Beach Boys

Kapp Records - date unknown

Tomi Tomi - Bill Wolfgramme & His Islanders - Viking - date unknown

Na Mele O Hawaii - Kamehameha Alumni Glee Club - Capital - date unknown

Solid Gold Guitar Goes Hawaiian - Al Caiola - United Artists - 1966?

Honolulu Honky Tonk - Frankie Carle - RCA - 1962

Hawaiian Blossoms - Haleloke Kahauolopua & Arthur Godfrey

Columbia - date unknown

Hawaiian Gold - Tennessee Guitars - SSS International - 1974

Aloha Hawaii - The Waikiki Beach Boys - Music For Pleasure - 1969

The Magic Organ Goes To Hawaii - Papa Joe Productions - Interfusion - 1977

Hawaiian Romance - The Island Serenaders - Palace Records - date unknown

Hawaiian Holiday - Hal Aloma and his Hawaiians - Coronet - date unknown

Hawaiian Holiday with Johnny Pineapple & His Orch. - Allegro - 1965

Authentic Hawaiian Favourites - Arthur Lyman - Olympic - 1979

Steel Guitar and Accordions - Shirley Watts - EMS - date unknown

Living Strings Play Music of Hawaii - Camden - 1966

Hawaiian Memories - The Polynesians - Crown Records - date unknown

Enchantment from Hawaii - The Hawaiian Islanders - Columbia - date unknown

Hawaiian Moonlight - Lani McIntire - Pickwick/33 - date unknown

Recorded Live at a Hawaiian Luau Party - Tiny and his Hawaiian Bubbles

Rainbow Records - date unknown

to be continued

Port & Dogs = Portdogs

While the plastic fantastic of Squeakies have been my mainstay in toy collecting (pics coming soon or see Boiling Point of Plastic post) every now and then a piece of harden ceramic just pulls on the heart-strings and calls out from some overcrowded bric and brac shelf..

These odd fellows are most engaging and I would love to covet more but in this day and age they seem to have found alternate accommodation in pricey 20th Century vintage-hand dwellings. And even there they are well hidden, preoccupied with decantering.

After a night on the Port these are The Dogs That I Let Out...

hoping to one day have little cups for all..

New Finds on Enmore Road

While I remember, a quick pop into The Cat Protection Soc Op-Shop, Enmore Rd, last Thursday just as they were closing scored this pair of Digger boots ($30) and an ancient (or well used) Mavis Thomas train of the Wooden variety.
Although Lego now reigns supreme in the household, Kaspar still has a firm attraction to Thomas and his workforce, as those who have viewed my KBlocks galleries in Facebook since he first started his preparation for a future engineering degree, can attest..
It seems that of late I am finding old boots that actually fit well and may mean that I can give back to the ether an assorted variety of toe crunchers, blister makers and bad decision fashion choices..

They may not be your fashion but they suit mine...

Aloha Hawaii Pt 2 - Tres Coconut Trees

While up in the balmy Top North late last year Kaspar and I were indulging in some tropical sand when a coconut made itself known to us between water and high tide line. I pondered in the lazy way that North Queenslanders had imprinted on me, that just possibly this nut had bobbed all the way from those Volcanic Islands (with possibly a Nene goose clinging on). This took up several minutes of beach combing until I turned around and realised just what type of tree was creating the welcome shade...

Hi-Fi in Hawaii - The Hawaiian Hula Boys - Columbia - date unknown

Moon over Hawaii - Al Caiola and his Orchestra & Chorus

Readers Digest - 1963

Hawaian Vol 2 - The Waikiki 12 - Boulevard - 1971

Hawaii - Les Adams and his Fabulous hawaiians - Astor - 1965

Hawaiian Sunset - Arthur Lyman - HiFi Records - date unknown

Hawaiian Sunset Vol II - Arthur Lyman - HiFi Records - date unknown

Lord of Paradise - Bud Tutmarc - Word - 1984

The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett Take you to Hawaii - Tommy Garrett - Axis - 1962

Hawaiian Magic - Wout Steenhuis and the Kontikis - Columbia - 1965

Farewaell Hawaii - The Kilima Hawaiians - Avan-Guard - 1966

Hawaiian Honeymoon - The Waikikis - CBS - 1965

Hawaii's Sunset Melodies - Various - Waikiki Records - date unknown

Songs of Hawaii - Leo Addeo and his Orchestra - RCA - 1963

to be continued

Aloha Hawaii Pt 1 - Ukes & Leis

The next few posts will concentrate on that Big Island - Hawaii. Having found many a platter on the Eastern Seaboard of NSW over the years I will assume that we must hold some closeness to those sandy shores... possibly many albums came from the Manly to Palm Beach strip once the cocktail parties had run their course and pineapple on a pizza was at last universally acknowledged..
In this first into part I present a sampling of string instruments and straw hats..

Beyond the Reef - Leon Pops Orchestra - Festival - date unknown

Hawaii Calls: Favourite Instrumentals of the Islands - Al Kealoha Perry 

Capital - date unknown

15 Hawaiian Favourites - Oono Kalana and The Troubadores - Scrapbook - 1978

50 Guitars Visit Hawaii - The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett - United Artists - 1968

to be continued

Castanets A Clackin'

Here's a small but immodest Old & New World collection of Lecuonaian Ladies with roses in their teeth and tambourines over their fleshy shoulders...

 Spanish Castanets - Emma Maleras & her Spanish Ballet - World Record Club - date unknown

A Spanish Fiesta - Carlos Montoya - W&G - date unknown

The Music of Lecuona - Stanley Black & his Orchestra - Decca - date unknown

The Breeze and I - D'Artega and his Orchestra - Festival - date unknown

Tropical Fire - Orquestra Cristobal Chavez - Regal - date unknown

The Mystery and Romance of Gypsy Music From All Over the World

Various (incl. 101 Strings) - W&G - date unknown

Gypsy Campfires - 101 Strings - W&G - date unknown

to be continued..

The Great White Bite

This is one collection that I wished I'd been involved with in my childhood, but since that happened two decades before these aquatics crawled into Fission City, I'll have to be satisfied with the occasional find as happened in Lismore of late. Like to thank Cash for increasing my herring swarm to orca proportions, including the fantastic battle car (minus killer teeth) as seen below..
If this interests your tastebuds like any good seafood banquet should, then hit google or jump to this link here to wet your appetite.. then grab some sushimi and settle back to good ol' '90s entertainment!

Now that's way better than Turtles...

Pure terror - even without the teeth..

I'm not sure which came first - these Mattel monstrousniceties or the US TV animated series from 1994, but most likely they went arm-in-arm, reaching for parents pockets like a Great White hunting seal wallets.

So far only two VHS collections of 6 episodes from the 40 produced have fallen into my hands.. but like a binoculared lifeguard, I'm always on the lookout..