Johnny Pineapple & His Orchestra - "Hawaiian Holiday" (1965) - Pickwick
Aloha Friends,
No one gets a party started quite like Johnny Pineapple. Actually, before we got this LP we never heard of the guy, but boy are we impressed! This guy is like the Duke Ellington of Luau Music!
From what we candelineate ascertain, Johnny Pineapple was born David Haonohi on the isle of Hawaii. He became an expert steel guitar player which eventually landed him gigs at New York's Stork Club and the Polynesian Room of Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel.
Now we have dozens of generic-sounding Hawaiian Holiday-type LPs. All are fun, to an extent, but most are not very good or very memorable. This one is different. Expert arrangements that are big on atmosphere and big on ethereal-sounding steel guitar, with subtle flourishes of acoustic guitar, percussion and Ellington-style pianos gently wading in the background. Check out "The Pretty Mermaid of the Southeastern Sea"...
or the sublime, "Paradise Isle".
This album is the soundtrack to a perfect Hawaiian Sunset: after a long day of luau's, scuba diving and drinking out of pineapples, you pass out on the beach with the salty ocean air kissing your sun-drenched skin and hear the gentle and soothing notes of Johnny Pineapple's band.
Plus check out those pearly white smiles on the album cover! Johnny Pineapple must have a heck of a dental plan, kids!
Thanks for the record Marilyn!
RATING: 4.5 Pretty Mermaids of the Southeastern Seas out of 5
No one gets a party started quite like Johnny Pineapple. Actually, before we got this LP we never heard of the guy, but boy are we impressed! This guy is like the Duke Ellington of Luau Music!
From what we can
Now we have dozens of generic-sounding Hawaiian Holiday-type LPs. All are fun, to an extent, but most are not very good or very memorable. This one is different. Expert arrangements that are big on atmosphere and big on ethereal-sounding steel guitar, with subtle flourishes of acoustic guitar, percussion and Ellington-style pianos gently wading in the background. Check out "The Pretty Mermaid of the Southeastern Sea"...
or the sublime, "Paradise Isle".
This album is the soundtrack to a perfect Hawaiian Sunset: after a long day of luau's, scuba diving and drinking out of pineapples, you pass out on the beach with the salty ocean air kissing your sun-drenched skin and hear the gentle and soothing notes of Johnny Pineapple's band.
Plus check out those pearly white smiles on the album cover! Johnny Pineapple must have a heck of a dental plan, kids!
Thanks for the record Marilyn!
RATING: 4.5 Pretty Mermaids of the Southeastern Seas out of 5
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