[78-L] Hawaiiian Jazz Question - Mal?

[Andrea Walsh]

I'd like to hear it too!

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>wrote:

> Dave -
> This version I know from nothing.
> However "Ka-Lu-A" was written in 1921 by Jerome Kern and Anne Caldwell
> for the stage play "Good Morning Dearie" and was picked up by Hawaiian
> musicians and adopted. So it's now considered a Hawaiian standard. A
> song it is coupled with on many 78s, from the same play, is "Blue Danube
> Blues".
> I'd like to hear it. Maybe I could identify the steel guitarist.
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> David Weiner wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Recently got a puzzling 11-inch Victor vinyl test - one sided - the label
> > says only 90056-1 - Orchestra - Wards - Hawaiianized Jazz.
> >
> >
> >
> > Around the outer rim is inscribed PBS-90056-1 - Ka Lu Aa - N.W. Auer (or
> > Ayer).  I assume it dates from late 1935, going by the matrix.  It's a
> nice
> > big band with strings featuring a prominent Hawaiian guitar throughout,
> at a
> > snappy tempo. It ain't in the Victor Master Book..
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>