Maui Chant
Pickwick/33 PC-3018
1960
From the back cover: Johnny Pineapple is a true Hawaiian. He was born David Haonohi in Honolulu and he is in every way as Hawaiian as the name he has taken. The son of a judge, he received his early education at Kamehameha, the birth place of the steel guitar. Later he received his degree from Oregon State University. A student of music from his early youth, he began his climb to the heights of the music world as a vacationing college freshman in San Francisco. From that time on, his future was cast in making popular the music of his native land. Over 15 years ago he signed with the Sherman Billingsley at the Stork Club and remained on the bill for two years before the demand for his music took him afield for other triumphs. It was our great pleasure to first see his act shortly after he starred at the opening of the exotic Polynesian Room of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, an engagement that covered 19 months before his adopted home in New York lured him back. To see and hear Johnny and his South Pacific revue one time is enough to make Pineapple fans of anyone, just as it did us.
Paradise Isle
Hilo March
My Hawaiian Kula La Ni
Na Ka Pueo
I Hear Hawaii Calling
Pretty Mermaid Of The Southern Sea
Maui Chant
Aloha Oe E Kuu Lei
My Tane
Yowza! Another great Hawaiian Island selection! Really pretty and relaxing! Where's my Tiki cocktail?
ReplyDeleteAh, Pickwick. My mom worked at Keel Mfg., in Hauppauge, Long Island, NY during the late 1970's and early 1980's pressing LPs and also doing the exciting manual labor of sliding records into their sleeves. Once pressed, all the packaging was done by hand.
ReplyDeleteI even got to meet "Bugs" Bower, Pickwick's house producer, at a funeral once in the 1990's. I regret not interviewing him!
Thanks for sharing Tony!
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