Honeymoon In Hawaii
Hawaii
Nearer Than You Think...
Lovelier Than You Dream
Honey Moon In Hawaii
The Hilo Hawaiians
Voices From Paradise HH 1960
Produced by Trade Wind Tours Of Hawaii
The Hilo Hawaiians:
Bunny Brown
Kihei Brown
Arthur Kaua
Mona Kalima
This was an expensive and complex print project produced, presumably, as a handout to folks who signed on to take a tour with Trade Wind Tours. There are many full color pages in the "insert" that the material had to be coil bound to hold the piece together.
From the back, inside cover: Honeymoon In Hawaii is the first major recording presentation of the Hilo Hawaiians. The album met with immediate success, both in the Islands and on the Mainland, and became in ensuing months a collector's piece with music connoisseurs who treasure the unique harmony of a most unusual group.
Unusual is meant, in the truest sense of the word.
The Hilo harmony, a rich blend of distinctively Hawaiian sounds that reach back through history to the beginnings of ancient Hawaiian music, now has leaped far beyond the broad, sandy shores of the land of pineapple, orchid and volcano.
It has enraptured audiences in the entertainment halls of Hilo, Honolulu, London, Paris, Germany and Scotland. It spread to other peoples of the world during the Hilo Hawaiian's featured engagement at the Seattle World's Fair. There, the group became a favorite with Fair-going music lovers from such diverse nations as Finland, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Mexico.
With those who see and hear the Hilo Hawaiians, one point is unanimous: Hilo music transcends national and language barriers – a true international bond among men.
The enormous repertoire of Bunny Brown, Kihei Brown, Arthur Kaua, Mona Kalima and Buddy Brown seldom ceases to amaze an audience. As quick as you can say "aloha," the Hiloans will switch from their vast stock of Hawaiian story-songs to a popular or folk song of the particular country they are in. They play them all – from spiritual to jazz, from cowboy to rock 'n' roll.
Beyond sheer musical accomplishment, however, it is the Hilo Hawaiians' views on life, success and their fellow men that set them apart from most. A full, meaningful life in their hawaiian minds cannot be measured in term of dollars, for the fade in the face of rewards from their jobs, families, the bright expression of a child in an orphanage, the beaming eyes of an audience which understands another language.
You must know them intimately before they will admit they have rejected offers which range into the mid figures. But they will readily admit that one of their most important successes occurred in New York, on the way to their first European tour. Playing for the Hiroshima maidens who were undergoing treatment for atomic-blast injuries, the Hilo group suddenly switched from Hawaiian to native Japanese songs.
Smiles flashed to the faces of the long-sullen but now flabbergasted maidens. And to the Hilo Hawaiians, it was a million-dollar smile, in anybody's language.
Haole Hula
Hole Walmea
He Aloha No O Honolulu
Hawaii Calls
Enchanted Isles
Nani Waialeale
Ke Kali Nei Au (Wedding Song)
Medley: Waipio, Makalapua Kuu Ipo
E Hui He'i Mai
Hilo March
Aloha Oe
