{"id":2235,"date":"2015-01-13T01:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2015-01-13T01:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:53:10","slug":"duke-kahanamoku-and-a-couple-other-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Duke Kahanamoku (and a couple other songs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from Waikiki, and you can’t come away from there not hearing about Duke Kahanamoku<\/a>. There’s a big statue of him there next to the beach. He was a legendary surfer from the early 20th century. Maybe the most famous surfer ever. Anyway,\u00a0 while I was there I found a Sol Hoopii record on ebay with a\u00a0 song about Duke that I didn’t know existed! What Luck! So I’ll share that with you below (as well as the B side of that record and another record I bought from the same seller).<\/p>\n

Incidentally, no one there seemed to know Sol Hoopii or play his style of music there at all. No compilations at the record shops. No bands (that I saw down in the tourist areas anyway) playing Hot jazz at all. I wish there were more bands at the hotels etc playing 1930s style hawaiian music rather than the newer easy-listening singer-songwriter style… maybe that’s just what the tourists want now. Well, EXCEPT I did find a great radio show, Territorial Airwaves<\/a>, that does play a LOT of the great old historical Hawaiian music from the 78 era. You can listen to Territorial Airwaves online from anywhere at anytime here!<\/a> (it’s also broadcast on all Hawaiian Airlines flights). They did a whole show about Sol Hoopii<\/a> (where he played the Duke Kahanamoku track and gave a little more context than I have here) and released a nice collection of his music on CD<\/a> a while back which you should buy. It contains a very nice biography of Sol in it.<\/p>\n

So here’s 2 78 records from Sol Hoopii and His Novelty Quartet:<\/p>\n

Duke Kahanamoku<\/a><\/p>\n

Opelu (Feast Song)<\/a><\/p>\n

Orange Grove In California<\/a><\/p>\n

Ten Tiny Toes – One Baby Nose (That’s all I’m Living For)<\/a><\/p>\n

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I just got back from Waikiki, and you can’t come away from there not hearing about Duke Kahanamoku. There’s a big statue of him there next to the beach. He was a legendary surfer from the early 20th century. Maybe the most famous surfer ever. Anyway,\u00a0 while I was there I found a Sol Hoopii […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,50,4],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brunswick","tag-regal-zonophone","tag-sol-hoopii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryjim.com\/jimsoldrecords\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}