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Candy
Aloha
USA
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 Posted - 10/10/2007 : 8:21:03 PM
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Looking for the mele, Hula 'O Makee. Unable to find anything online and I feel confident that someone from Taropatch will be able to steer me toward the CD. This would be a mele from the 1950's [or thereabouts]. Thank you for your kokua!
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A hui hou,
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 10/11/2007 : 01:57:13 AM
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So may people have done that mele. Sonny Chillingworth, Hui `Ohana, Clyde "Kindy" Sproat. Try search www.mele.com for the title of the mele and you can fiind so many CDs with that song.
I especially like the story that Clyde Sproat tells about the song and how it came to be written. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2007 : 05:04:05 AM
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The 4 I happen to have are:
Cyril Pahinui - "masters of Slack Key Guitar #1"
Hui 'Ohana - "Young Hawai`i plays Old Hawai`i"
Keola Beamer - "Island Born"
Ray Kane & Yuki Alani Yamauchi - Holo Holo Slack Key
Enjoy,
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Pupule
USA
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Posted - 10/11/2007 : 05:42:16 AM
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I like the version on the last `Ale`a CD, with Makana playing slack key guitar.
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Auntie Maria
Ha`aha`a
USA
1918 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2007 : 07:52:26 AM
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And if you need lyrics and translation:
http://www.huapala.org/Hula/Hula_O_Makee.html |
Auntie Maria
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wdf
Ha`aha`a
USA
1153 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2007 : 08:01:36 AM
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There is tab for it in the Mark Nelson & Keola Beamer book, Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar. There is, also, tab on Mark's website Marks site.
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2007 : 3:41:51 PM
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Peter Moon has it on his instructional VHS "Magic of the Ukulle." And quite well done, of course.
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Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2007 : 3:45:25 PM
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Much better than my spelling of ukulele. It took a great deal of self-discipline to not burn my ukuleles after listening and watching him play it.
(Some say too much discipline, which is odd in my case, was part of my problem.  )
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Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
1597 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2007 : 06:41:43 AM
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quote:
This would be a mele from the 1950's [or thereabouts].
By this I gather you would prefer that the arrangement & style of the music to be similar to what would have been done in 1950. The mele itself is much older than that I think. A version by Gabby Pahinui would be good as he was most popular during the Fifties (until he was re-discovered in the Seventies). His son Cyril does a very traditional version, except for a little extra "swing", AND this recording is on Cyril's next to newest recording titled: Ka Ho`oilina Mau
You can (of course), play samples and get it from:
http://www.mele.com/music/artist/cyril+pahinui/ka+ho%60oilina+mau/
(Our own Auntie Maria)
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2007 : 08:32:33 AM
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When Genoa Keawe sings this it is a show stopper. This is an old Hula Ku‘i song and is in the category of very old. As with a lot of old folk songs it is hard to get an accurate date for composition, but the melody and arrangement of Hula o Makee is shared with at least one other song Ta Maoli, which was published prior to 1900. This was a common practice back then.
When we look at the text for Hula o Makee it is quite apparent that this is another song about love gone astray. The inter-island vessel Makee was a metaphor for a woman who had moved on from one relationship to another. The actual vessel was named in honor a of Capt. James Makee who in addition to being a ships captain was one of King Kalakaua's poker partners. Makee died in 1879, I think that the lyrical content places this no earlier than the middle of Kalakaua's reign.
For those of you wondering when I will be publishing my two texts on slack key they are near completion and I am still trying to get them out this fall. Unfortunately, I will not be able to work on them this month because of jury duty, so if you email me and I don't respond its because of the time constraints that I am facing between family, school and the jury duty.
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 10/13/2007 : 11:00:52 AM
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What Peter said ties in very closely to Kindy Sproat's story on his live recording, although he reports it more literal than metaphorical. Sometimes the stories behind the mele are as interesting as the mele themselves.
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"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2007 : 3:38:22 PM
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The Island Music Source Book lists nearly thirty recordings (I haven't checked carefully for duplicates), including Gabby's on the brown album and a Cyril-Brozman duet (on Four Hands Sweet and Hot), plus Uncle Ray's on Punahele.
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