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TRACK LIST

Helen Louise & Palakiko Ferreira 01 - Moana Lua - Hawaiian Hula Medley Listen Ford's Hawaiian Orchestra 02 - Kahola March Listen 03 - Aloha Oe Listen Samuel Siegel & Marie Caveny 04 - Kuu Ipo I Ka Hee Pue Listen Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra 05 - Hawaiian Rainbow Listen Hilo Serenaders 06 - After Every Party (Vocal: V. Dalhart) Listen Frank Ferera & John Paaluhi 07 - St. Louis Blues Listen 08 - Southern Blues Listen Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra 09 - Aloha (Means I Love You) Listen The Four Aristocrats 10 - Don't Sing Aloha When I Go Listen Aloha Land Serenaders 11 - Honolulu Home Sweet Home Listen 12 - Lonely Nights in Hawaii Listen Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra 13 - Honolulu Moon Listen Roy Smeck 14 - Twighlight Echoes Listen Shaw's Hawaiian Orchestra 15 - The Hula Blues Listen 16 - Hawaiian Bluebird Listen Mid Pacific Hawaiians 17 - Maile Lau Liilii Listen 18 - Hanohano Hawaii Listen

DOCD-1111 Hawaiian Rainbow - Hawaiian Music on Edison Records (1916 – 1929)

Various artists.
Genres: Hawaiian, Hawaiian guitar, steel guitar, world music.

Informative booklet notes by Gillian Atkinson.
Discography.

‘Hawaiian Rainbow’ is the latest CD in the Document ASA (American Sound Archives) series featuring previously unissued recordings produced by the Edison Company between the years of 1914-1929. Hawaiian music had been recorded as early as the 1890s but was not especially popular or influential until 1912 when Richard Walton Tully’s Play Bird of Paradise hit the Broadway stage sparking an explosion of interest.  Next came the appearance of Keoki Awai's Royal Hawaiian Quartette at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco. In late 1915 Victor began issuing Hawaiian discs on a monthly basis. By 1916 all companies, not least Edison, recorded Hawaiian or pseudo-Hawaiian numbers. An article titled "Hawaiian Music Universally Popular," included in the September 1916 issue of Edison Phonograph Monthly, asks, "Two years ago what did the public know about Hawaiian Music, Ukuleles, Hula Hula Dances? Since then Hawaiian music and American versions of it have taken the United States by storm...”