Exotic Tiki Island Podcast with Tiki Brian – Show 55.5
A South Pacific Medley of Hawaiian & Exotica Tunes from Exotic Tiki Island
Originally published February 1, 2019
Aloha and welcome to another episode of the Exotic Tiki Island Podcast. I’m your host Tiki Brian. Welcome to show 55.5. Prepare yourselves once again, to travel back in time to the Island as I share more Vintage Hawaiian, Exotica and island related music from my personal LP collection.
Tracklist
- South Sea Rose – Daphne Walker
- Pacific Paradise – Paul Page
- Blue Hawaii – Bill Woldgramm and His Hawaiians with Millie Bradfield
- By the Sea – The Mellomen
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- Goodbye, Hawaii – Felix Mendelssohn
- Hapa Haole Hula Girl – Lucky Luck
- Adventures In Paradise –
- Bird Of Paradise – Les Baxter
- Lovely Island at Hawaii – Danny Stewart
- Coral Isle – The Polynesians
- Golden Voice of Waikiki – Kawehi
- Hapa Haole Hula Medley – Mango
- Hawaii 5-0 TV theme –
- Cream Pie – From Sponge Bob Square Pants
- Along the Way to Waikiki – Bing Crosby
- Don’t dig that Fish & Poi –
- Eatinig of the Poi – Kahulanui
- Warm Night Wind – Robert Drasnin
- Voodoo Dreams – Les Baxter
- Tradewind – Eden Ahbez
- Moon and Starts – Alika Lyman Group
- Breakfast at Martin Dennys – The Reerb Syndicate
- Exotic Interlude – Homelife
- Hano Hano – The Surfmen
- Waikiki – Harold Hakuole & The Villagers
- Hula Blues –
- Beautiful Mahealani Moon – Benjamin Rogers
- Hawaii – Trudy Richards
- Hawaiian Lei Song – Ruth Wallis
- Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula – Felix Mendelssohn
- Ukulele Lady – A.P. Sharpe’s Honolulu Hawaiians
- Sophisticated Hula – George Naope
- Pretty Maui Girl – Hal Aloma And His Hawaiian Orch.
- My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii – Dorothy Lamour
- An Occasional Man – Don Tiki
- Hula Hula Twist – I Belli Di Waikiki
- Me Rock a Hula – Bill Haley and His Comets
- Les B. On a HiFi – Acapulco Radio
- Honolulu Baby – I Belli Di Waikiki
- Rock Around The Island – The Hula Girls
- Aloha Oe – I Belli Di Waikiki
Transcript
Aloha, and welcome to the Exotic Tiki Island Podcast. I’m your host, Tiki Brian, and this is show 55 and a half. You know, it’s been about one year since my last podcast show, and I’m very excited to release a new episode.
Now, for those of you who follow the podcast, I’m sure you know that in our last show, show number 55, our plane went down as we were traveling to Exotic Tiki Island. We survived the plane crash and ended up on a nearby island that were inhabited by headhunters. Unfortunately, we were surrounded by headhunters while trying to take their outrigger canoes in order to get off the island.
And that’s how the show ended. Well, I’m happy to say that the captain and I are working on a conclusion of the last episode and will release it as soon as it’s finished. But in the meantime, I’ve decided to release another episode in between show 55 and 56.
So I’m calling this episode 55.5. So for the next hour, I want you to sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite Tiki cocktail as I play for you a special South Pacific medley of tunes from the Exotic Tiki Island. I’ll be back at the end of the show to say aloha.
In the meantime, enjoy. Enjoy.
Far out across the Blue Pacific, by Hawaii’s Enchanted Isle, a land of green valleys, sheltered by friendly hills, and black sand beaches washed with creamy surf, where flowers paint the landscape in a rainbow of color, and the trade winds play soft music in the palm branches. Hawaii, the very name suggests fun and gay activity, but it is also America’s most important outpost, crossroads of the Pacific, port of call for ships and airliners of all nations. Once too remote for all but a handful of visitors, today there’s a new highway to Hawaii, United Airlines Main Line Airway, which brings these magic islands as close as your next door neighbor.
From 75 mainland cities, United’s DC-6 Main Liners converge on California, the real starting point of your Hawaiian holiday.
Aloha, ladies and gentlemen. Again, the ship’s bell invites you to adventure in paradise. Hawaii.
Paradise of the Pacific. Land of beauty. Land of contrast.
Black lava wastes. Hibiscus blooms. Red berries over a crater’s rim.
Fiery volcanoes under smiling skies.
In this tortured, materialistic world of ours, breathes there a man, heart so hardened, that it has no room for a secret and cherished dream, a dream of ineffable beauty and tranquility, sun and seascapes, leisure and laughter and listsome lasses, a faraway place, a paradise on earth. A dream for some, perhaps, but a dream that can be converted to reality on the South Sea Isle of Tahiti.
Let’s have a brief moment here between songs to go over to the nearby ocean to hear the waves of Waikiki.
Steel guitars up here send their soft notes out to join the background of the ocean. The softly whispering waves of Waikiki have been booming a bit this week. As we hear them now, they are rolling in a long endless parade of waves from the protecting reef out there, and swirling in on the yellow sands of Waikiki.
Temperature here, 79 in the air, 71 in the ocean. As the sound of these waves go out to you and to our own people who are away, we send our aloha, and wish that you were with us here in Hawaii, beside these waves.
Waves and steel guitars, sounds that mean you’re hearing us from the islands, and the white e-cone.
Visitors sometimes ask us what it’s like to live in Hawaii all the time. We sometimes answer that it’s like living inside a rainbow. But it’s an island tradition that once you’ve lived here, no matter how far away you go, the islands will call you and call you until they finally pull you back.
The South Seas, enchanted archipelagos of Eden. From earliest times, the islands of illusion. To the first explorers, Like Captain Cook, The South Seas represented a challenging quest for the unknown.
To the missionaries who followed, They were a hunting ground for souls. To artists such as Paul Gauguin, The South Seas meant one vast painter’s palette of beauty and color. To writers like Melville, Conrad, and Stevenson, they were a living source book, teeming with romantic adventure.
All right, all of you listening from wherever it is you are, you’re listening to Nigel Greenwater on the Global Broadcasting Service, broadcasting globally around the globe since 1928. Now we are in for a treat today, boys and girls, as I’m going to share with you all news of a very special anniversary. A friend of mine and a friend to all travelers, Trader Sam, has built himself quite a watering hole.
So I’m here to share with you my five favorite items in no particular order that you can find on your next voyage to the one and only Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar.
Here’s an item for the young people in your family who like the big beat in their music. Out here in our Pacific Islands, there are hundreds of different kinds of beat and rhythm in the music of Polynesia. And it is a scientific fact that almost any new rhythm and beat you can think of can be found somewhere in some old Polynesian song.
There’s a rather odd beat and rhythm from the South Pacific and what we like here is White Ct Beach Very Much.
The I Radio. Broadcasting to the South Seas and beyond.
Aloha!
I’ve always loved the tropical way of living. You mean without working for it. Oh, can you know I mean the romance of it.
The natives enjoy the beautiful things in life. So do I. You’re beautiful Cynthia.
These fragrant blossoms were growing only this morning in a garden. But in this garden, this flower lay, they are now more than just blossoms.
And here are the steel guitars.
Waves are rolling pretty high out there beyond the coral reef, and moving along to the shore in long, lazy roars of blue and green and white. Odd-rigged canoes and surfboard riders, there must be a hundred surfboard riders out there at this moment. The waves come on in to splash gently on the yellow sands of Waikiki Beach.
That’s a time for a wish, and we make it. Wish you were with us here in Hawaii on this fine day. The temperature here in the air is 80, in the ocean it’s 72, and that’s paradise.
Waves and steel guitars, the sounds that mean you’re hearing us from the islands, as Hawaii calls them.
While we’re listening to modern tunes, here’s another I’m sure you’ll know because it became a hit over here. I think it was in the early 30s.
Lay down. Skinny weeny. I knew it.
I’m gonna be the main chorus. Come on. Come on.
They only want you to join in the marriage dance. I don’t like getting married, okay?
Aloha, listeners! I hope you enjoyed that South Pacific medley as much as I did. I’d like to thank you for listening.
And if you like the music and want to hear more, you can always tune in to my online radio show. It’s called ETI Radio, and I broadcast on the first Friday of each month, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, and the show lasts all weekend long. You can visit the official exotictikiisland.com website and find out how you can tune in each month.
Well, friends, that’s all for this episode. Mahalo for listening, and I’ll be back soon with show 56 of the Exotic Tiki Island Podcast. Aloha!
