Hawaiian Magic - Ken Griffin

 

Song Of The Islands

Hawaiian Magic

Ken Griffin At The Organ

Columbia CL 1062 & CS 9444

1967

From the back cover: Born in Columbia, Missouri, Ken Griffin first studied the violin, and at an early age was playing in theatre orchestras. When he was seventeen, however, the musical possibilities of the organ were explained to him, and he at once began to teach himself the complexities of that almost inexhaustible instrument. So carefully did he study that within a year he was a competent organist, and he continued his growth as an artist through long experience playing in motion picture houses.

When electrical developments made organ portable, he began playing in hotels and clubs throughout the midwest, and kept in practice during the war by playing on chapel organs, spending long hours after the army day playing for his own amusement. 

After the war he began making records, and with a single side – You Can't Be True, Dear – established himself as one of the enduring stars in the records world.

Island Magic

Song Off The Islands

King's Serenade

A Song Of Old Hawaii

Drifting And Dreaming

Now Is the Hour

Harbor Lights

Golden Sands And Slivery Sea

Sweet Leilani

Blue Hawaii

Red Sails In The Sunset

Aloha Oe