Summer may be nearly over, but there’s still one more weekend (a long on, at that) to throw that luau…
A great little album of vocal hula music, done in a very traditional style. A couple tracks devolve into kitsch (“Little Brown Gal” is amusingly racist) but most are lovely. Produced by Tommy Kearns, who seems to have been a big name in Hawaiian music, although I can’t find much about him online; maybe some Hawaiian buffs can fill us in. Dig the instructional diagrams on the album’s reverse side. And as always, enjoy!
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Beautiful! I really love this Hapa Haole stuff. Redesign looks great, too. Good work!
Thanks
ahhhhh ill put it the best way i can um……….
WHAT?
This also looks fabulous, could you repost it too?
Mr. Mondoux
I stumbled onto your site quite by accident but was quick to learn that not all things about Hawaii on the internet are lovely and innocent.
I read no further than one paragraph when I saw your reference to the title of a song “Little Brown Girl” and the remark of it being racist.
A great little album of vocal hula music, done in a very traditional style. A couple tracks devolve into kitsch (”Little Brown Gal” is amusingly racist) but most are lovely. Produced by Tommy Kearns, who seems to have been a big name in Hawaiian music, although I can’t find much about him online; maybe some Hawaiian buffs can fill us in. Dig the instructional diagrams on the album’s reverse side. And as always, enjoy!
It is a sad time that we live in and made even sadder by the likes of you and you comments. I am sure the person that wrote the song was not thinking “how can I make this a racist song degrading women and Hawaiians, oh let me think maybe if I say little brown girl I can scold the world for being so racist”.
It is people like you that make the world what it is because you perceive everything through your little RACIST colored glasses. Oh I beg your pardon did I say COLORED glasses maybe I should have said earth tone tinted equalizing lenses. You racist I am sure you hate white people.
You are sickening and your site is sickening you RACIST pig. You are the RACIST as you see everything as bad and evil. Maybe the darkness of space is disrespectful to Blacks or Afros or what ever you refer to them by.
Or may Casa Blanca will be offensive to you because maybe we will have a black man as president in a WHITE house. You little sick minded worm.
These are the facts ASS HOLE.
1. Hawaiian people are brown by birth and they are proud of it.
2. Millions upon millions of people save and scrimp for years to go to Hawaii to get a tan. Yes white folk want to be brown too.
3. Sun Tan lotion companies have made billions selling lotions to white people so they too can be tan, brown, or whatever when they lay on the beach at Waikiki.
4. In case you don’t know Hawaiians don’t mind being the beautiful brown complexion people they are. It is scum like you that wants them to feel ashamed of their birthright.
5. Should they be ashamed of being brown? Only a racist like you would know!
6. Take off your little racist colored glasses you ass hole.
7. Give it a rest you little man and let the world heal and take what is given every day and make something beautiful.
8. It is people like you that bring on hate and disdain for the people of the world.
9. Hawaii is beautiful but you are not and you do it a disservice.
Lighten up freak!
Oh and did I forget something Mr. Mondoux form you sir name I can only assume you are French on that note I rest my case YOU ASS HOLE.
Yeah, because assuming that French people are racist assholes isn’t racist or asshole-esque at all. P.S. Where does it say anywhere that Mondoux is your “sir name”?
Can you repost the Hawaiian LPs that you have. JoAnn Castle came out fine, the others look good too, but there is no link.Thanks.
Dear GARY
This is the REAL MR.MONDOUX
The HULA debate above has caught my eye. Whatever overintoxicated hyperbolic crazy argument you are having with this blog is NOT my concern! MY NAME is that of a fellow blogger with tech probs last year. I DEEPLY RESENT my name being falsely dragged through this ridiculous RACIST themed junk.
AND BY THE WAY – could not MR.UNPLEASANT himself have indicated this stupid error of GARY’s intead of continuing the Mr.Mondoux tag. My good name – yes-french by canadian heritage – does not make me an automatic ASSHOLE, does it.
I strongly request a clear posting by your blog about the confused identity. If I found these stupid remarks to my name than anyone else would, too. Clear my name of your private argument right now. Thank you for youe cooperation.
Robert Mondoux (yes, it’s french ;( )
robert_mondoux@yahoo.com
Dear GARY
(This rude guy has – of course – no return adress. how convinient)
This is the REAL MR.MONDOUX
The HULA debate 2006 (Racist\not racist)above has caught my eye.
http://www.unpleasant.org/2006/08/27/various-artists-lovely-hula-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-34716
Whatever overintoxicated hyperbolic crazy argument you are having with this blog (Unpleasant)is NOT my concern! MY NAME is that of a fellow blogger with tech probs last year.read it again!
I DEEPLY RESENT my name being falsely dragged through this ridiculous RACIST themed junk.
AND BY THE WAY – could not MR.UNPLEASANT himself (or both guys – JKS and SCOOTER)have indicated this stupid error of GARY’s intead of continuing the Mr.Mondoux tag.
My good name – yes-french by canadian heritage – does not make me an automatic ASSHOLE, does it.
I strongly request a clear posting by your blog about the confused identity. If I found these stupid remarks to my name than anyone else would, too. Clear my name of your private argument right now. Thank you for your cooperation.
I expect to see a response in the beginning of 2009 on UNPLEASANT.ORG – a site I regularly visit for great vinyl recordings. I am in fact a FAN, so help me here, guys.
Robert Mondoux (yes, it’s french ;( )
robert_mondoux@yahoo.com
If the full album was posted before, is there any chance of a repost? This and the other Hawai’ian album look like a potential good listen. If not, thanks for the sample tune at least, appreciate it.