Aloha Hawaii Pt 5 - Into the Waters of Paradise

Lapping up on those once pristine shores, under tropical sun or enchanting moonlight, these lonesome Fridays gaze longingly for the salty embrace of passing sailors - lost between mountain and shoreline perpetually standing like silent sentinels whose beacons could run skippers to reef..

Beyond The Reef - Blue Hawaiians plus Strings - JVC - 1972

The Romance of Hawaii - Webley Edwards & Hal Aloma - Pickwick/33 - date unknown

Hawaiian Album - Ray Conniff - Music For Pleasure - 1975

Hawaii's Greatest Hits - Prince Kalua and The Troplical Islanders

Epic - date unknown

Sleepy Lagoon and Tamoure - The Waikikis - Concert Hall - date unknown

In a Hawaiian Paradise - 101 Strings & the Beachcomber Chorus

Somerset - date unknown

Aloha Hawaii Pt 4 - Flowers & Faces

Once you're down there on the beach, whatcha gonna do..? If you are of the female persuasion then it's obvious by these following platters that you would blend into the foliage or at least wear a string of such around your comely neck...

Blue Hawaii 2 - Orchestra Roberto Delgado - Polydor - date unknown

Hawaii Calls - Webley Edwards - World Record Club - date unknown

Hawaiian Album - Ray Conniff - CBS - date unknown

Blue Hawaii - Billy Vaughn & his Orchestra - London - date unknown

The Magic of Hawaii - The Polynesians - Custom Records - date unknown

White Ginger Blossoms - The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

Calender - date unknown

Songs of the Islands - Sam and his Islanders - Surrey - date unknown

Living Strings Play the Music of Hawaii - Pickwick - 1966

Sweet Leilani - artist unknown - Custom Records - date unknown

The Best of Hawaii - Various Artists - date unknown

More Hawaii in Hi-Fi - Leo Addeo and his Orchestra - Camden - date unknown

Hawaiian Favourites - Sam Makia - Springboard - date unknown

Romance in Hawaii - The Dimensions in Sound Orchestra - Golden Hour - date unknown

Hawaii - The Moana Quartet & The Ping Pongs - W&G - date unknown

Next we look at even more exotic practices down on the beach..

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..

My First Exotic

People who see my Black Plastic Horde often ask "What was the first record you got that started you collecting all this junk?"
Well, first off I would correct their limited opinion on what is Quality that surrounds them, and then point to this particular platter that was purchased during a hiatus to the Mountains of Blue (Springwood) during the heady years of 1984>5.
It was really an open slather of opshop and secondhand store bonanza in those past times, and many records, books, toys and 'junk' gathered from those days hold special memory to me. To find many of those objects and similar d'jour can be near impossible today unless one is willing to pay high bloodmoney across a counter.
We all live in hope....

How could I not be tempted...

East Of Suez - 101 Strings - Pye Golden Guinea - date unkown

Ports of Pleasure

Although not my first exotic acquisition Les Baxter's so titled printed square opened the doors of perception that extended the world musical boundaries beyond what was available in the Rock A>Z categories.
Following is a quicky tour around the world as we knew it then (or at least to the late 60's), starting with Sir Les and finishing with Roger's Wide Wonderful World vision..

Ports of Pleasure - Les Baxter - Capital - 1957

African Jazz - Les Baxter - Capital - unknown date

Ritual of the Savage - Les Baxter - Capital - date unknown

Strings, Guitars, Voices! - Les Baxter - Pickwick/33 - after 1960

Ports of Paradise - Alfred Newman & Ken Darby - Capital - 1960

Tour of the World - Les Petits Chanteurs A' La Croix De Bois

Parlophone - 1957

Many Moods of Arthur Lyman - Arthur Lyman - Hifirecords - date unknown

Taboo - Arthur Lyman - Hifirecords - date unknown

Taboo Vol. 2 - Arthur Lyman - Hifirecords - date unknown

Bwana a - Arthur Lyman - Hifirecords - date unknown

South Pacific - Johnny Douglas Orchestra

- World Record Light Music - date unknown

South Pacific - Marc La Salle Orchestra 

- Astor - date unknown

Far Away Places - Enoch Light Orchestra - Command - 1961

Far Away Places Volume 2 - Enoch Light Orchestra

 Command -  after 1961

Tropicana - Hugo Blanco - Karussell - date unknown

Stereo Spectacular!! - Milt Rogers Orchestra - Calendar - date unknown

It's a Big, Wide, Wonderful World - Roger Williams 

London Records - date unknown

Working along the same musical vein I also include this gaggle of National Anthems...

National Anthems of the World Volume 1 - Michael Reynolds 

Major records - date unknown

National Anthems and Their Stories - DickWhittinghill & Camarata

Disneyland - 1965

Sample of interior art and Australian page

...and while I'm at it I'll also include these last two 101 Strings Quad Spectrum Sound Series releases

101 Strings - Astor- date unknown

Les Baxter & 101 Strings - Astor - date unknown

This brings us back to Les Baxter after our journey around the world at many exotic ports of call. Soon I'll be posting more of Les, as he and his Orc fit into other collections waiting to be recorded..