![]() ![]() ![]() Then, bringing it home, there’s “Hawaii Goes Eclectic 1925–57,” with oddball classics given retro-contemporary versions by Armstrong (“Pidgin English Hula”), Ken Emerson (“Hapa Haole Hula Girl”), Orville Johnson (“I Wonder Where My Little Hula Girl Has Gone”), Janet Klein (“Yiddish Hula Boy”), and Ian Whitcomb (“Honolulu Stomp”).įrom start to finish, the box is packed with uke. That means unlikely early appearances by Gracie Allen (“Honolulu”), Louis Armstrong (“On a Coconut Island”), Betty Boop (“Betty the Hula Dancer”), and Slim Whitman (“Hawaiian Cowboy”), topped decades later by the tiki-crazed excess of Arthur Lyman (“Jungle Drums”), Martin Denny (“Banana Choo Choo”) and Santo & Johnny (“Adventures in Paradise”) on “Splendor in the Grass Shack 1958–74.” Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, there’s a wide range of music from the mainland too, with the whole surfboard tilted toward eccentricity. Like any self-respecting hula collection, this one has plenty of chestnuts from steel guitarists such as Sol Hoopii, King Bennie Nawahi, and Tau Moe, gathered on discs called “Hawaiian Classics 1920–1940” and “From Hollywood to Honolulu 1931–1957.” But because Hulaland is targeted at “the tourist, not the purist,” and because it’s co-curated by Robert Armstrong of R.
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