Legendary Surfers made me aware of the Wax Cylinder Preservation Project, which features many a hawaiian recording from back in the days.
Hawaiian Guitar cylinders
Ukulele cylinders
Xylophone cylinders
Marimba cylinders
Hawaii topic cylinders
while we’re at it:
Japanese cylinders
Guitar cylinders
And they sent this article right along, which describes the dawn of modern surfing in the islands, in the 1910s.
Darrell Brogdon writes:
To celebrate the 500th broadcast of The Retro Cocktail Hour, Kansas Public Radio presents Waitiki, the Boston-based tiki-tainment band, in concert at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall.
It’ll be an exotic, once-in-a-lifetime South Pacific sound adventure like no other, featuring classic music by Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Robert Drasnin, Augie Colon, Gene Rains and others, plus original tunes by the band. Besides the unforgettable music, there’ll be a full service Tiki bar and a dance floor, so come early and party all night!
go to the Retro Cocktail Hour website here
Virani from Paris has a nice Flickr photostream with pics form Berlin Wassermusik 08 here.
Here’s a great find, Rock Hudson checking out the linernotes to Dominic Frontiere’s Pagan Festival LP, while resting in Doris Day’s lap on the set of Pillow Talk.
Search for Doris Day and Rock Hudson at www.mptv.net/.
