Acquired at the show at any of Millésium in Epernay January 16, 2011
Ref: CVL. 55,013 - Edited by Coral in France circa 1957
Support: 33 tours 25 cm
8 tracks
A beautiful Sunday in winter, cold, dry and very clear, during a first exit off the year fishing finds recordings.
I was not super optimistic because I knew what to expect at Millésium: a handful of booths outside and twenty others in the room, those flea market, expensive and with little discs. And indeed, only two out of the stands had a few records that could interest me. I found this disc in the first two, but this beautiful piece enough for me. In addition, I had the good surprise to hear me announce a unique price of 1 € for all the hard stand, which in this context to 25 cm in superb condition was totally unexpected and almost correct.
So I caught this beautiful goldfish! The cover is a lot to the charm of this disc. It is signed Max Dufour. He made sure many others, including several for Benny to see in Rock Love Rock 'n' roll .
Danny Stewart was born in Hawaii. Stewart, it's weird for a Hawaiian, but it explained very well because he finds that his father was Irish-écosso. Danny is also known under the name Kalauawa.
addition to the texts on the back of his records, books The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian musican Lorene Ruymar gives us information on his biography: he was born in Honolulu and he left Hawaii in 1929 to accompany a performance by Johnny Noble. He moved to California where he worked extensively in film and radio. He recorded with Alfred Apaka George Kainapau and Bing Crosby. He returned to Hawaii in 1960 to host a radio show and he died there in 1962.
Danny Stewart was considered at the time as a great steel guitar from the Hawaiian, but it seems forgotten now. I suspect that none of the albums released under his name has never been reissued on CD.
These records, he has obviously made towards the end of his career in America in the 1950s. He sings on some, but not on the Hawaiian Reveries, which are entirely instrumental. Given the pedigree of
man, we're not surprised to discover a very clean record, with American, not particularly "roots", tending towards the easy listening. The tempo, marked by the double bass is generally slow, and instrumentation makes great use of steel guitar, effectively supported by the electric guitar and a little ukulele.
The directory is in keeping. It consists of popular tunes of the first third of the twentieth century ( Shine on harvest moon , By the Light of the Silvery Moon , Moonlight and roses , Among My Souvenirs , When Day Is Done ) and songs from Hollywood films whose framework the exotic Hawaii ( My isle of golden dreams , film Lake Placid Serenade and Ka-lu-a , the love song of the film Bird of Paradise ). Pagan Love Song the link between the two since it was originally a hit in 1929 that inspired a Hollywood film of the same title in 1950.
On Tam Tam & Blog enticing melody, there are two other 25 cm Kalauawa Danny Stewart favorite Hawaiian and Dance the hula in the moonlight .
- Blogonzeureux! Slices of life in Pol Dodu shaped washers recordings. My discs improbable is the first collection of these columns.
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