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

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

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..