Whispering Sands - The René Paulo Group

 

Blue Velvet

Whispering Sands

The René Paulo Group

Production: Richard Vaughn

Cover Photograph: Werner Stoy, Camera Hawaii

Recording and 3 Dimensional Sound Process: Richard Vaughn

HIFI RECORDS, INC. Life Series ALBUM L1019

1964

From the back cover: In 1905 Theodore Roosevelt declared, "This Century will be the Century of the Pacific." And from Oceania – mighty span of the world's largest ocean – have come the legends, the magnificent spectrum of exotic places, people and customs – and antidote to the pressures of this delirious, atomic age. The historic 1935 flight of Pan American's China Clipper" from San Francisco to Manila via Honolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam heralded the dawn of a new age for us all. Today, majestic, screaming jets can whisk you from a city of millions to the whispering black sand of Kalapana on the Orchid Island of Hawaii where the haunting echo of lovers who were part of a royal Polynesian heritage once walked, loved and dreamed.

And we, who are strangers on those Pacific shores, absorb the elixir of Polynesia and strive to retain our impressions of Hawaii Ne through the music of its son, find that need fulfilled creatively in the soaring, delicate and celestial sound of the René Paulo Group.

Not by accident, sheer calculation or even commercialism can you create a sound like René Paulo. It is the combination of a man's inborn talent, destiny and rare breeding of Pacifica – a blending that reaches from the far Western Pacific to the "Mile of Romance" called Waikiki. This is the René Paulo sound – his second album on HIFI Records.

The versatility of René Paulo is not limited to Pacifica – for in this beautiful new recording The Group walks with you in the whispering sands of our exotic Island state, then recalls the strains of Wagon Wheels, includes the international favorite More, and adds new melancholy to Blue Velvet. You will renew memories with standards and add some new musical forties in this album.

Whispering Sands is for those who have been to Hawaii and captured that elusive wisp of Paradise, for those who have seen and heard the René Paulo Group at the Shell Bar of the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It is for those who have yet to see the Hawaii I love and to become friends with a sensitive, creative musician named René Paulo. 

By Happy! – Tony Lease

Tony Lease is the noted radio narrator of poetry, philosophy and travel, whose program "Lease On Life," is beloved by millions in the Southern California area, and which is shortly to be released World Wide. He is the founding director of International Radio Tours, a unique group travel plan designed for radio stations who wish to conduct tours as a public service for their listeners and help create better understanding of the world in which we live.

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