1/3/2023 0 Comments Hawaii music chartsThe volume is also filled with shots of singles (though a bit too small to make out some of the credits, which might’ve been interesting), picture sleeves, singles from foreign countries, posters, ads for concerts, and a few extended artist bios. For example, he tells us that the Association played Waikiki in 1973, yet he lists three of their singles from the ’60s. Another section lists records by mainland acts who performed in Hawaii, but the singles Tourville chooses to represent them usually make no sense. the band America did their last Warner Brothers album on Kauai, so two singles from 1977’s “Harbor” are listed). The author alphabetically lists artists who were either based in Hawaii or who recorded there (e.g. It’s a self-published paperback called “Hawaii A Go-Go: The ’50s-’80s Rock, Pop, & Contemporary Hawaiian Singles/45 Record Discography.” So I was excited when I recently learned that in 2009, Tom Tourville of Iowa of all places (he spent some time in the Islands) researched pop, rock, jazz, dance, and exotica singles issued in the state from the ’50s through the ’80s (thankfully, he left out the Hawaiian language records, which I’ve never cared for). Most of those became popular only in the 50 th state.įor a long time, there was no source that chronicled those records released in Hawaii. Those of us who grew up in Hawaii not only heard many of the “mainland” hits that were popular all over the country but records put out by local musicians which inevitably had an Island flavor and style.
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