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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
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 Posted - 05/17/2011 : 9:18:33 PM
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| Don't forget Hawai'i 78 by Iz. He Hawaiian and the topic is Hawaiian sooo? |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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walterotter
Aloha
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/22/2011 : 08:12:56 AM
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fascinating topic not qualified to give an expert opinion so feel free to correct me when I say that Hawaiin music seems to me to have embraced a myriad of influences from the Polynesian's onwards, the Christian ministries, Portugese folk music amongst the many immigrants and the Paniola cowboys all playing their part and it seems reading the biographies of Hawaiin musicians that American jazz of the early 1900s seeped in as well and maybe the odd lick of blues will crop up but depends what you mean by blues, there are so many styles of blues as there are arguments about who invented jazz.
Who invented Hawaiin music I'm not sure but the earliest exponents musta landed in them double hulled canoes long before everyone else showed up . . .
Mike in the shires
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dagan
Aloha
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dagan
Aloha
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 05/30/2011 : 06:37:26 AM
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markwitz
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2011 : 08:06:57 AM
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I think this would qualify as Hawaiian Blues. The Sons Of Hawai'i do it, but the version that Leabert Lindsey does is a real heart render. A song of a love affair ending.
The following info was copied from the www.huapala.org website
Honesakala - by Thomas Lindsay
Ho`oheno kêia no ka honesakala
Ke `ala mua ho`i a`u i honi ai
Ho`opa`a ia ma ku`u pu`uwai
Me kahi pôkê a kâua i kui ai
Hui:
`Ike au i ka `ono o ka wai `oia pua
`Upu a`e ka mana`o e ki`i hou e `ako
`A`ohe kani leo na manu o `Ola`a
Ua la`ahia au me ka kuhi hewa
Ua waiho iho au i kahi lei ua mae
I ho`ailona nou e `ike iho ai
He `u`a keia ua hiki mai nei
Ke ahu mai nei kamaheu hele hewa
`A`ole no ku`u `ike `ana i ka nani
Wau a`e ka`ena wale a`e ai
He maka`u nui ko`u pulu i ka ua
O `elo`elo ho`i a loa`a i ke anu
This is a love song for the honeysuckle
Whose fragrance I first smelled
Held fast (our love) within my heart
With the flowers we strung together
Chorus:
I tasted the honey within the flower
And thought to pick some more
But the birds of `Ola`a no longer sing
For I found myself mistaken
I left my lei already wilted
As a token for you to see
A worthless person had already come
The signs of the mischief maker lie all about
It isn't because of the beauty I saw
That I make idle boasts
But I was afraid of being wet in the rain
And the drenching will give me a cold
Source: Clyde Kindey Sproat - Translated by Mary Puku'i - Composer Thomas Lindsey, a young Waimea cowboy from Parker Ranch, was in love with a lady from Kohala. He rode through Kawaihae uka where stonewalls along the way were laden with honeysuckle. He fashioned leis and bouquets of honeysuckle whenever he visited her. Parker Ranch selected him to go for higher education on the mainland; so he went to visit his lady with the usual leis. While there, he proposed to her and she accepted. Upon his return, after two years, he saddled up and hastily rode down with his leis for her. Arriving at her home, he saw a dried lei and someone's boots where his ought to be. Leaving his lei of honeysuckle at her doorstep, he rode away for the last time. Not long after this song was published, Lindsey, while working the cattle up on Hualalai, was thrown from his horse and died of head injuries sustained in the accident. He was 23 years old. |
"The music of the Hawaiians, the most fascinating in the world, is still in my ears and
haunts me sleeping and waking."
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Shawny
Akahai
USA
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Posted - 06/18/2011 : 09:26:01 AM
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Great topic!
Yes, I did figure the question was based more on content rather than actual musical styling.. I was actually planning on doing a recording with a list of songs that in terms of content would be considered Blues songs.. Alekoki was on that list for sure, as was a few others that were mentioned.. I was gonna do blues arrangements on all these songs, since this question was actually asked by someone I knew a while back, and I thought it might be interesting to try as a concept project... It would certainly be met with some objection by many traditionalists.. But again, this was a concept thing.. And it might've breathed some interesting life into some songs..
Anyway, I just thought I'd say something here, because this is definitely an interesting topic for me to read..
Have a good one..
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Shawny
Akahai
USA
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Posted - 06/18/2011 : 09:29:38 AM
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Oh yes!! I forgot, one other song that stuck out to me back then, some 6 years ago when I was plotting this crazy idea, wich yes, has still not actually come to fruition.. Lei Hinahina... It could arguably be a blues song... I've heard many blues songs where a guy is talking down some girl's new boyfriend, or whatever he might be to her.
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wcerto
Ahonui
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wcerto
Ahonui
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"The Blues" in Hawaiian Music
