{"id":1913,"date":"1914-04-14T14:03:34","date_gmt":"1914-04-14T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ottomen.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2015-10-07T06:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:54:32","slug":"sol-hoopii-sacred-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Sol Hoopii Sacred Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later in life, Hawaiian steel guitarist Sol Hoopii became a born-again Christian and spent many years traveling and using music to help him evangelize.\u00a0 During that time he made several records. Here are a few from my collection. These aren&#8217;t as &#8220;hot&#8221; as his earlier work, but there are a couple upbeat b-sides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"640\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/When-Jesus-Comes.mp3'>When Jesus Comes<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/Train-Song.mp3'>Train Song<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/Isle-of-Golden-Dreams.mp3'>Isle of Golden Dreams<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/Ill-Go-with-Him-Hallelujah-Im-Saved.mp3'>I'll Go with Him Hallelujah I'm Saved<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/Hold-My-Hands.mp3'>Hold My Hands<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/Hilo-March.mp3'>Hilo March<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/Kahala-March.mp3'>Kahala March<\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/To-You-My-Lord-Aloha.mp3'>To You My Lord, Aloha<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/When-Jesus-Comes.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"When Jesus Comes\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"When Jesus Comes\\\" from Sacred Records A 14 A by 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Genre: Hawaiian.\",\"meta\":{\"artist\":\"Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Four\",\"album\":\"Eldee Records 133-B\",\"genre\":\"Hawaiian\",\"year\":\"1949\",\"length_formatted\":\"3:02\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/To-You-My-Lord-Aloha-mp3-image.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/To-You-My-Lord-Aloha-mp3-image-150x150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This last side &#8220;To You, My Lord, Aloha&#8221; was an adaptation of the song &#8220;To You, Sweetheart, Aloha&#8221;. I found this record on ebay and amazingly it was autographed on the paper sleeve. In trying to verify it&#8217;s authenticity, I realized the other signature on the record label itself was a of a man named Ray Odegard who toured with him apparently accompanying him on piano. I found a newspaper clipping in an online archive that dates their tour together to withing a couple months of the date on Sol&#8217;s signature. The inscription reads &#8220;Aloha Neu Loa (very much love) to Sister Jensen Sol Hoopii 3\/17\/50 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/verse\/en\/John%2015:13\" target=\"_blank\">John 15.13<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Sol died 3 years later on November 16, 1953.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/IMG_10301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2898 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/IMG_10301-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1030\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/IMG_10301-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/IMG_10301-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/IMG_10301.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/sol_ray.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/sol_ray-300x263.png\" alt=\"sol_ray\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/sol_ray-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/sol_ray-1024x899.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/wp-content\/uploads\/1914\/04\/sol_ray.png 1243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s a video clip of him from near this time:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gb0A2RLE32U\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later in life, Hawaiian steel guitarist Sol Hoopii became a born-again Christian and spent many years traveling and using music to help him evangelize.\u00a0 During that time he made several records. Here are a few from my collection. These aren&#8217;t as &#8220;hot&#8221; as his earlier work, but there are a couple upbeat b-sides. &nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,4],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sacred","tag-sol-hoopii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}