thank you so much for posting this! as a new englander i have love this song forever and love to listen to martin denny. this is such an incredibly beautiful time capsule.
Thanks for posting this. Just so everyone knows, the Les Baxter version was first, not Martin Denny's. It first appeared in 1951 on Baxter's album "Le Sacre du Sauvage" (reissued as "The Ritual of the Savage"). Martin Denny recorded it in December of 1956. It became a hit for Denny in 1959, peaking at #2 on the Billboard charts in that same year. In other words, Baxter's was the original version, but Denny's was the hit version.
On this day in 1959 {May 4th} Martin Denny performed "Quiet Village" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'... One month earlier on April 7th, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #4 and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100... He had three other records make the Top 100; "Martinique" {#88 in 1959}, "The Enchanted Sea" {#28 in 1959}, and "The Taste of Honey" {#50 in 1962}... "Quiet Village" was a track from the album of the same name; the album was his 9th studio album, and between 1957 and 1990 he released thirty eight studio albums... Mr. Denny passed away on March 2nd, 2005 at the age of 93... May he R.I.P.
Wow! What a great video this is. I'm such a fan of Martin Denny's music. Although I've never seen this video before and I love the song Quiet Village plus, I got to see Martin Denny himself in this video, this is really a treat to watch. Thanks again for this video. :)
I was a frequent visitor to Don The Beachcomber in Honolulu in 1958 when Martin Denny and his band were the hit scene of the town. Great music that I play frequently.
My parents had the Martin Denny album Quiet Village back in the early 1960s. I still remember listening to it back then as a child and I still consider it one of my favorites. It brings back really fond memories.
I remember this song playing on our RCA Hi-Fi by way of a 45 record. My older sisters used it as the music to one of their "modern dance" routines in high school. Even though I was the only boy, there was not a shortage of older brothers hanging around. Oh, to be a kid in the 50's. THANKS FOR THE POST AND THE MEMORY!!
Sweet! I've been a Martin Denny fan forever but have never seen a single clip of him 'til now. The best thing about You Tube is when you come upon a vintage performance that you had resigned yourself to never seeing and had given up even looking for. This made my day!
Oh, great. I used to have this on a tape somewhere. Had a fabulous summer holiday in Cornwall (Land's End) with my girlfriend at the time. We just used to blast this out on a loop from a 1965 Old English White Morris Minor throughout. It was a really hot summer too. Thanks very much for posting.
Hawaii is a dangerous place for European looking tourists...Many attacked by gangs of An!*mals....AVOID!!!!.... I'd rather go to a resort in the Philippines....
I remember my mother had this record in 62 on Oahu, and the Polynesian Cultural Center looked a bit like these people. It was very small and no one thought it would take off but after a few years it did and ended up being a popular thing to go see, as BYU dancers from different island keep all of that music and dancing from that time as part of the cultures from each polynesian group.
This is wonderful to see. I had no idea that this existed. Thanks so much for posting. The folks that enjoy this might also enjoy the Arthur Lyman clip I posted. Thanks Again. mb
Thanks for posting this. Just so everyone knows, the Les Baxter version was first, not Martin Denny's. It first appeared in 1951 on Baxter's album "Le Sacre du Sauvage" (reissued as "The Ritual of the Savage"). Martin Denny recorded it in December of 1956. It became a hit for Denny in 1959, peaking at #2 on the Billboard charts in that same year. In other words, Baxter's was the original version, but Denny's was the hit version. REPOST thanks! 2023 now i have some of the Vinyls@
To clarify a statement made in a much earlier post, Les Baxter wrote this tune, and had a hit with it in the very early '50s, years before Denny covered it, and 'made it his own'.
I did get to see Don Tiki in Columbus, Ohio of all places. It was 2000 and they were closing the Kahiki Supper Club, one of the last great Polynesian-themed restaurants. Don Tiki opened with footage of Martin Denny playing the opening notes on his piano at home of Quiet Village. The lights came up on stage and there was the resplendent Don Tiki segueing from the opening notes into the body of the song. Quite an experience. This footage is priceless.
Martin Denny's 45 version entered Billboard's national pop-chart in April of '59. Got all the way to # 4. That what was great about Top 40 radio in those days...
Dear Stuart Thomas, My you must be old, I was born in 1956, and I am already old. . I must say you were very fortunate to have experienced the lovely sound and -did you go there, then to see; the naturally beautiful environment? Mahlo.
I really was glad to find this Good to know that footage of Denny and his group exist.The host of that show was Webley Edwards,I love it.I believe that is Julis Wechter on vibes he replaced Arthur Lyman when he left Denny to start his own group.He and Denny remained freind's ,I read wher Denny spread his ashes in the sea off the Beach of Waikiki when Arthur died.Musician Martin Denny, the father of the influential genre of pop called "exotica," died March 2005 at home in Hawai'i Kai. He was 93
+Steve Harborne I have the album, it came from my dad's collection after he passed away and this album reminds me so much of my past years as a child, Martin Denny created some wonderful music^^^^>>>>*****
Today they have boom boxes and car radios that cause earth quakes but I remember back in yesteryear in the late 50s and early 60s that I used to hear this on car radios coming down the street. So vintage, so nice......so hip back in the day.....
“One night while performing "Quiet Village" those frogs, in the pond behind the stage, started croaking very loudly. As soon as we stopped playing, they stopped croaking!! thought "Was it a coincidence or what? When we repeated "Quiet Village," they started broaking again! The guys in the band thought it was really funny so they joined in with the frogs, doing these bird calls like we were back in a jungle somewhere. The whole thing just cracked up the audience. The next evening when somebody asked me if I would do that song with the birds and the frogs I was kind of mystified. Then I realized this guy was serious! He thought those effects were really part of the show. So at the rehearsals I had the boys do different birdcalls, spacing them about every four measures. Because they bach had different voices, it sounded like we had several species of birds making noises. I would do the frog sound on a guiro- a small grooved cylindrical instrument that looks like a potato masher. I'd rub a pen or a pencil on it, which made a sound just like a frog - "ribet, ribet, pibet, ribet," and from that point on people started requesting "Quiet Village repeat edly. Uttle did those frogs know that they would in time be responsible for earning Liberty Records over two million dollars!” - Martin Denny
I heard this tune a long time ago before I knew anything of Denny and Exotica and for some reason I always associated this with Africa. I would have never expected Hawaii
Actually I think the man on the vibes was Buddy Fo. I heard that he replaced Wechter when Wechter returned to here to Los Angeles to go back doing session work, and later work with Herb Alpertr.
Nice to know Martin Denny chose musicians from the Asia Pacific region. Thought this was very exotic and mysterious music that one had to get to Hawaii, China or Malaysia to get more music like so. Until I discovered later I was myself a native brown skinned girlie living on an "exotic island" in the Asia Pacific rim. Ha ha!
I'm doing research for a biography of Webley Edwards and Hawaii Calls. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who heard or visited the program. Or if you have photos or home movies of the program. Or anything else associated with it. :)
Wow! I've been a tiki-phile and a fan of exotica music for many years but this is the first time I've seen any Martin Denny footage anywhere! Where did ya find this? Thanks for putting it out there for all to come and find!
Thanks for posting this Forthorton! I am a long time fan of Martin Denny and am hoping to find a 16mm print of this film clip. If you have any info drop me a note!! Thanks, Hunter founder Highway Cinema p.s. Ahola to all of the Don Tiki tribe!!!
You don't by any chance have a higher resolution version of this? Impossible to find. Did your copy come from videotape? If so, can you redigitize for cleanup? I would be happy to assist with the drudgery.
I believe the almost-equally famous (at least for a while) Arthur Lyman came up through Martin Denny's band. Was he native or non-native? This video is a pleasure! Thanks to forthorton for posting it.
All of Martin Denny's classic exotica music is fantastic. Anyone digging this should seek out a goo vinyl copy of "The Sounds of Exotic Island" by The Surfmen. Terrific album cover too (Google it). Also has jungle sounds and exotic instruments. Released around 1960. Fascinating stuff.
Growing up in the 50s I remember this as a very popular tune in elementary school talent shows for young dancers. I admit I know nothing of music theory, but it seems to these ears anyway that too many sections are "out of tune." I had the Martin Denny 45 rpm cover (Les Baxter composed and did the original) and thought it was due to overplaying, creating pops and scratches etc. Then in the age of The Internet and mp3s I downloaded the original. It stills sounds like the keyboard player in certain places is hitting the wrong notes, chords, or is off key. In the TH-cam above some of the longer sections occur at 1:35-1:59; and at the 2:05-2:18 sections; 2:43-2:50 is especially poor (to me). In the DM hit version downloaded from Amazon years ago, the offending section is 1:28-1:40. The above TH-cam version I guess I can write-off as bad production value, but comparing it to the DM recorded version maybe it written that way. I listened to Ferrante & Teicher's version, (full symphonic, and unlikely to be heard in any "quiet village" )and after the exotic intro beat it seems that the very first chord is "off," but matches DM in "off chordness" in most of the same places. I listened to the ORIGINAL by composer Les Baxter. It sounds like "Quiet Village on Mars," and what I thought were "off" notes (1:22-1:35 TH-cam) seem to be as written. Finally, I listened to Arthur Lyman's version which I liked, but it played like all of the above. Obviously these competent musicians couldn't ALL misplay this tune! Like I said I know little or nothing about music theory, but I bet there is some term for it like contrachord, counternote, or something. I mean if I were listening to say John Coltrane playing Quiet Village, then well, I get it; it is supposed to be that way. Is it my ears? I have 756 albums, or 5110 "tracks," including limited popular classical "tracks." QV is the ONLY track where I cringe during certain sections.
interesting thoughts. just from listening i'd say the pianochords - which i guess your talking about - they are usual "jazzchords". they sound strange since they are probably composed of strange intervals like seconds and sevenths, but they don't sound theoretically wrong to me . i would have to play it on an instrument to be sure, though. (since i don't have the best-trained ears)
Yes Teb, not being a musician I would never say the piano chords are "theoretically wrong," I just don't know. They just sound discordant to these untrained ears. Since all cover versions play it basically the same way, I have to accept that, that's the way it is.
Only went Honolulu a week in 1971.Nice.I heard it's now overcrowded and like my hometown,Seattle,it's got homelessness problems.Plutocrats ruin paradise.Oops,I'm off subject like these videos tend to do,huh?
I’m 75 years old, and I remember my father playing this song when I was a kid. I’ll always love it.
thank you so much for posting this! as a new englander i have love this song forever and love to listen to martin denny. this is such an incredibly beautiful time capsule.
Thanks for posting this. Just so everyone knows, the Les Baxter version was first, not Martin Denny's. It first appeared in 1951 on Baxter's album "Le Sacre du Sauvage" (reissued as "The Ritual of the Savage"). Martin Denny recorded it in December of 1956. It became a hit for Denny in 1959, peaking at #2 on the Billboard charts in that same year. In other words, Baxter's was the original version, but Denny's was the hit version.
On this day in 1959 {May 4th} Martin Denny performed "Quiet Village" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
One month earlier on April 7th, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #4 and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100...
He had three other records make the Top 100; "Martinique" {#88 in 1959}, "The Enchanted Sea" {#28 in 1959}, and "The Taste of Honey" {#50 in 1962}...
"Quiet Village" was a track from the album of the same name; the album was his 9th studio album, and between 1957 and 1990 he released thirty eight studio albums...
Mr. Denny passed away on March 2nd, 2005 at the age of 93...
May he R.I.P.
Wow! What a great video this is. I'm such a fan of Martin Denny's music. Although I've never seen this video before and I love the song Quiet Village plus, I got to see Martin Denny himself in this video, this is really a treat to watch. Thanks again for this video. :)
I was a frequent visitor to Don The Beachcomber in Honolulu in 1958 when Martin Denny and his band were the hit scene of the town. Great music that I play frequently.
My parents had the Martin Denny album Quiet Village back in the early 1960s. I still remember listening to it back then as a child and I still consider it one of my favorites. It brings back really fond memories.
I remember this song playing on our RCA Hi-Fi by way of a 45 record. My older sisters used it as the music to one of their "modern dance" routines in high school. Even though I was the only boy, there was not a shortage of older brothers hanging around. Oh, to be a kid in the 50's.
THANKS FOR THE POST AND THE MEMORY!!
When I was 6 my father taught me how to dance, standing on his feet. This was one of my favorite songs from that album... OH my... 50 years ago
Sweet! I've been a Martin Denny fan forever but have never seen a single clip of him 'til now. The best thing about You Tube is when you come upon a vintage performance that you had resigned yourself to never seeing and had given up even looking for. This made my day!
Oh, great. I used to have this on a tape somewhere. Had a fabulous summer holiday in Cornwall (Land's End) with my girlfriend at the time. We just used to blast this out on a loop from a 1965 Old English White Morris Minor throughout. It was a really hot summer too. Thanks very much for posting.
Love you papa :) im proud to see you in this video.
who (in the vid) is your father, that your talking about?
My pops was the bassist, Ted Blake...I have this album,so cool!
My grandpa played bass for him!
Wow I love it! I love Martin Denny. I love Mai Tais and Zombies. I love Hawaii. I'm going to buy a plane ticket right now.
Hawaii is a dangerous place for European looking tourists...Many attacked by gangs of An!*mals....AVOID!!!!....
I'd rather go to a resort in the Philippines....
My mom had a recording of this beautiful song when I was a kid in the '50s, possibly by the same band. Thanks for posting!
I remember my mother had this record in 62 on Oahu, and the Polynesian Cultural Center looked a bit like these people. It was very small and no one thought it would take off but after a few years it did and ended up being a popular thing to go see, as BYU dancers from different island keep all of that music and dancing from that time as part of the cultures from each polynesian group.
Loved this album as a kid, surprised I didn't wear out the vinyl. I was born in 1955. , Just found it tucked away after 40+ years.
I've always loved this tune. Thanks for posting
This is wonderful to see. I had no idea that this existed. Thanks so much for posting. The folks that enjoy this might also enjoy the Arthur Lyman clip I posted. Thanks Again. mb
Thanks for posting this. Just so everyone knows, the Les Baxter version was first, not Martin Denny's. It first appeared in 1951 on Baxter's album "Le Sacre du Sauvage" (reissued as "The Ritual of the Savage"). Martin Denny recorded it in December of 1956. It became a hit for Denny in 1959, peaking at #2 on the Billboard charts in that same year. In other words, Baxter's was the original version, but Denny's was the hit version. REPOST thanks! 2023 now i have some of the Vinyls@
my late uncle and aunt used to hear this on the radio many years ago.
To clarify a statement made in a much earlier post, Les Baxter wrote this tune, and had a hit with it in the very early '50s, years before Denny covered it, and 'made it his own'.
Fantastic! Thanks so much for this great piece of Exotica history.
Quite village Radio is a superb radio channel!
I did get to see Don Tiki in Columbus, Ohio of all places. It was 2000 and they were closing the Kahiki Supper Club, one of the last great Polynesian-themed restaurants. Don Tiki opened with footage of Martin Denny playing the opening notes on his piano at home of Quiet Village. The lights came up on stage and there was the resplendent Don Tiki segueing from the opening notes into the body of the song. Quite an experience. This footage is priceless.
Martin Denny's 45 version entered Billboard's national pop-chart in April of '59. Got all the way to # 4. That what was great about Top 40 radio in those days...
Dear Stuart Thomas,
My you must be old, I was born in 1956, and I am already old.
.
I must say you were very fortunate to have experienced the lovely sound and -did you go there, then to see; the naturally beautiful environment?
Mahlo.
I really was glad to find this Good to know that footage of Denny and his group exist.The host of that show was Webley Edwards,I love it.I believe that is Julis Wechter on vibes he replaced Arthur Lyman when he left Denny to start his own group.He and Denny remained freind's ,I read wher Denny spread his ashes in the sea off the Beach of Waikiki when Arthur died.Musician Martin Denny, the father of the influential genre of pop called "exotica," died March 2005 at home in Hawai'i Kai. He was 93
this is awesome! so satisfying on many levels!!! thanks for posting!
this is a true gem, I LOVE this video!
My mother had this record when i was a wee thing i loved it on the flip side was The Llamas Serenade,yes i still have the record.
+Steve Harborne I have the album, it came from my dad's collection after he passed away and this album reminds me so much of my past years as a child, Martin Denny created some wonderful music^^^^>>>>*****
+mohair ellis the music was exotic and hipnotic to a child of seven
Coool thank you. I love this stuff!!!
I'm pretty sure the guy at the beginning is Webley Edwards. He had a popular radio show in Hawaii and produced a few of his own Tiki records...
This was my fifties Hawaiian dream. It's so great to hear it again.
I remember the Les Baxter one when i was a little tyke, thanks for posting the original!
Soothing -if I ever go to Hawaii, I'm going to make sure I listen to this.
Today they have boom boxes and car radios that cause earth quakes but I remember back in yesteryear in the late 50s and early 60s that I used to hear this on car radios coming down the street. So vintage, so nice......so hip back in the day.....
my dad found this album and we used to play it over and over when I was a kid back in the 1960s. I heard it was very popular with the GIs overseas.
I got Quiet Village recorded, but it was by Arthur Lyman. It is similar to the one on Hawaii Calls.
fantastic! thanks!
sick clip
Love the critter sounds!
“One night while performing "Quiet Village" those frogs, in the pond behind the stage, started croaking very loudly. As soon as we stopped playing, they stopped croaking!! thought "Was it a coincidence or what? When we repeated "Quiet Village," they started broaking again! The guys in the band thought it was really funny so they joined in with the frogs, doing these bird calls like we were back in a jungle somewhere. The whole thing just cracked up the audience. The next evening when somebody asked me if I would do that song with the birds and the frogs I was kind of mystified. Then I realized this guy was serious! He thought those effects were really part of the show. So at the rehearsals I had the boys do different birdcalls, spacing them about every four measures. Because they bach had different voices, it sounded like we had several species of birds making noises. I would do the frog sound on a guiro- a small grooved cylindrical instrument that looks like a potato masher. I'd rub a pen or a pencil on it, which made a sound just like a frog - "ribet, ribet, pibet, ribet," and from that point on people started requesting "Quiet Village repeat edly. Uttle did those frogs know that they would in time be responsible for earning Liberty Records over two million dollars!” - Martin Denny
I heard this tune a long time ago before I knew anything of Denny and Exotica and for some reason I always associated this with Africa. I would have never expected Hawaii
Actually I think the man on the vibes was Buddy Fo. I heard that he replaced Wechter when Wechter returned to here to Los Angeles to go back doing session work, and later work with Herb Alpertr.
Thank you for that information! I always thought that Les Baxter's version was the original!
Nice to know Martin Denny chose musicians from the Asia Pacific region. Thought this was very exotic and mysterious music that one had to get to Hawaii, China or Malaysia to get more music like so. Until I discovered later I was myself a native brown skinned girlie living on an "exotic island" in the Asia Pacific rim. Ha ha!
WOW! Just found this video ...That's my Dad , Ted Blake playing the upright. I have the original Vinyl.
I'm doing research for a biography of Webley Edwards and Hawaii Calls. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who heard or visited the program. Or if you have photos or home movies of the program. Or anything else associated with it. :)
Bring it back !
Merci :)
Wow! I've been a tiki-phile and a fan of exotica music for many years but this is the first time I've seen any Martin Denny footage anywhere! Where did ya find this? Thanks for putting it out there for all to come and find!
Yes it is. The used this at the very begining of Pee Wee's Playhouse just slightly changed for the show.
How fabulous, Melbourne has the LuWoW bar... it's as close as Ill get to those days....
It's a quiet place to stay and dream!
Thanks for posting this Forthorton! I am a long time fan of Martin Denny and am hoping to find a 16mm print of this film clip. If you have any info drop me a note!!
Thanks,
Hunter
founder Highway Cinema
p.s. Ahola to all of the Don Tiki tribe!!!
Anyone know precisely where on O’ahu this was filmed? It’s not the same space they filmed Kodak Hula Show is it?
Danny Gatton did a killer version of this one too. It's incredible.
it's a nice version. stayed true to the exotica sound, but with totally different instrumentation. very nice approach by Gatton.
Does anyone know the name of the song that plays during the opening of this video??? El Guincho samples it on his record.... so cool.
You don't by any chance have a higher resolution version of this? Impossible to find. Did your copy come from videotape? If so, can you redigitize for cleanup? I would be happy to assist with the drudgery.
Hey Wyatt, any luck getting that? I have the original vinyl...my dad Ted Blake is the bassist.
Quiet Village- on a submarine!
dam good music!
Wow!!!
right on denny!
I believe the almost-equally famous (at least for a while) Arthur Lyman came up through Martin Denny's band. Was he native or non-native?
This video is a pleasure! Thanks to forthorton for posting it.
Arthur was originally a mixed White/Polynesian guy from Hawaii.... like Don Ho...
Chef-d'oeuvre
Que de bons souvenirs (générique de "la vie des animaux") !
JFM
Awesomeness
Now this is music...I love Led Zeppelin, but this stuff is the goods. Lay back and ride that wave baby.....
does anyone know where to find beat from another world? i can't find it anywhere.
have you heard exotic moog? they did a bunch of moog versions of their early songs, including this one. campy.
Martin Denny has got to be the only musician cited as an influence by both Throbbing Gristle and Jimmy Buffet.
All of Martin Denny's classic exotica music is fantastic. Anyone digging this should seek out a goo vinyl copy of "The Sounds of Exotic Island" by The Surfmen. Terrific album cover too (Google it). Also has jungle sounds and exotic instruments. Released around 1960. Fascinating stuff.
FROM THE BANYAN COURT AT THE OLD "ALA MOANA HOTEL" ON WAIKIKI
what year was this film recorded?
Denny was truly The High Priest.
sweet....
Let’s go back to being these kinda humans
Growing up in the 50s I remember this as a very popular tune in elementary school talent shows for young dancers. I admit I know nothing of music theory, but it seems to these ears anyway that too many sections are "out of tune." I had the Martin Denny 45 rpm cover (Les Baxter composed and did the original) and thought it was due to overplaying, creating pops and scratches etc. Then in the age of The Internet and mp3s I downloaded the original. It stills sounds like the keyboard player in certain places is hitting the wrong notes, chords, or is off key. In the TH-cam above some of the longer sections occur at 1:35-1:59; and at the 2:05-2:18 sections; 2:43-2:50 is especially poor (to me). In the DM hit version downloaded from Amazon years ago, the offending section is 1:28-1:40. The above TH-cam version I guess I can write-off as bad production value, but comparing it to the DM recorded version maybe it written that way. I listened to Ferrante & Teicher's version, (full symphonic, and unlikely to be heard in any "quiet village" )and after the exotic intro beat it seems that the very first chord is "off," but matches DM in "off chordness" in most of the same places. I listened to the ORIGINAL by composer Les Baxter. It sounds like "Quiet Village on Mars," and what I thought were "off" notes (1:22-1:35 TH-cam) seem to be as written. Finally, I listened to Arthur Lyman's version which I liked, but it played like all of the above. Obviously these competent musicians couldn't ALL misplay this tune! Like I said I know little or nothing about music theory, but I bet there is some term for it like contrachord, counternote, or something. I mean if I were listening to say John Coltrane playing Quiet Village, then well, I get it; it is supposed to be that way. Is it my ears? I have 756 albums, or 5110 "tracks," including limited popular classical "tracks." QV is the ONLY track where I cringe during certain sections.
interesting thoughts. just from listening i'd say the pianochords - which i guess your talking about - they are usual "jazzchords". they sound strange since they are probably composed of strange intervals like seconds and sevenths, but they don't sound theoretically wrong to me . i would have to play it on an instrument to be sure, though. (since i don't have the best-trained ears)
Yes Teb, not being a musician I would never say the piano chords are "theoretically wrong," I just don't know. They just sound discordant to these untrained ears. Since all cover versions play it basically the same way, I have to accept that, that's the way it is.
Lived By Ft Derussy when not flying Hawaiian Villager every night
Martin Denny is a great musician. This particular song - for me - was best interpreted by Arthur Lyman.
@GarfieldGoose Back then, he was able to split
himself, be in two places at once!
It was the 'spice'!
had no idea---so the take out order in between sets was Chicago pizza--not poi poi?!
This song was sampled by El Guincho!
Gee I'm just so confused! I love both versions regardless-I was just a wee tyke when Denney's version came out.
no MAMES!, pura cajeta... super cachondo...
The whole clip is in color, but the years have not been kind to it...not unlike myself.
Talk about yer beat-boxing!
Mark Mothersbaugh must have been listening to a lot of Martin Denny when he wrote the music for Pee Wee's Playhouse.
@atomicmichael .... well said.
this is the theme song to pee wee's playhouse, just un-improvised
Only went Honolulu a week in 1971.Nice.I heard it's now overcrowded and like my hometown,Seattle,it's got homelessness problems.Plutocrats ruin paradise.Oops,I'm off subject like these videos tend to do,huh?
Pee Wee's Playhouse
now I know why I'm drawn to this kind of music!!
Hawaii is the most recent state to join the union, on August 21, 1959
just saying....
Needs a steel guitar like Jerry Bird or Noel Boggs!
Put paper down on the floor, before playing this.
ooops I meant to add kudos to your comment but pushed the "thumbs down" button instead....
Sorry! obviously I thought your comment was awesome
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Hated Waikiki. Too commercialized and crowded. Love Maui and Molokai.
Love the critter sounds!