Exotic Tiki Island Podcast with Tiki Brian – Show 45

The Ukadelics visit the Hurricane Hut Lounge

Originally published March 2, 2016

Aloha and welcome to another episode of the Exotic Tiki Island Podcast. This episode, we’ll be traveling to the island on a magic carpet and we’ll enjoy a live performance at the Hurricane Hut Lounge on Exotic Tiki Island.

Show 45 – A Far East Magic Carpet Ride to the Island

Tracklist

Girl Friend of Whirling Dervish – Markko Polo Adventurers
Lazy Afternoon- Ethel Azama
Halavah – Rex Kona
Windows Of The East – Ron Goodwin
Keep Your Eyes On The Hands – Todaro & Johnston
Moon of Manakoora – The Surfers
I Want To Learn To Speak Hawaiian – Don Kalana and the Tahitians
Golden Sands Of Waikiki – Hiram Olsen Trio
The Exotic Sandy Warner – Sad Salamanders
Voodoo – Truus
Swamp Fire – Martin Denny
Koko Head (Pele’s Creation) – Milt Raskin and his Exotic Percussion
Bacoa 96 remaster – Les Baxter
Adventures in Paradise – The Ukadelics
Surfin’ Lessons – The Ukadelics
Luau Tango – The Ukadelics
Tiki Party – The Ukadelics
I’ll Remember April – Cal Tjader
Exotica / Voodoo Love remaster – Martin Denny
Exotic Exile – Ryan Love
Womp – Sunday Combo

Transcript

The Exotic Tiki Island Podcast Show number 45.

That’s a lot of shows.

Aloha, friends, and welcome to another fantastic episode of the Exotic Tiki Island Podcast. I’m your host, Tiki Brian, and I’d like to invite all of you to visit a tropical island paradise with swaying palm trees, cool, gentle ocean breezes, and golden sandy beaches. This magical place is none other than Exotic Tiki Island, and we’re going to travel there in just a moment as we play vintage Hawaiian, exotica, and tiki music from my personal vinyl and digital collection.

This episode of The Exotic Tiki Island Podcast is sponsored by This Is Vintage Now, Volume 2 and Hotep Nephty. We’ll be right back after a few words about our sponsors. Imagine yourself by the pool, drinking hand at a mid-century resort on an island far away.

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That’s H-O-T-E-P-N-E-F-T-I, mahalo.

Aloha. You’re listening to Tiki Brian and The Exotic Tiki Island Podcast.

Okay, welcome back to Show 45 of the ETI Podcast. Before we begin, I’d like to say mahalo to some of the listeners who made generous donations over the past month to help me offset the expensive cost of producing the show and making it available for everyone to enjoy. Big mahalos go out to Mike Tompkins, Alan Adler, Kelly and Paul, Richard Teske, Charlene Hall, Kip Messick, Nick Zappara, Nate Eagle, Benjamin Debnam, James Heldrith, Andy Udelavis, Julie Komizak, Jim Jensen, and Bradley Krago.

All of these regular listeners make donations to help keep the podcast and ETI radio going. If any of you other listeners enjoy the show as much as they do, you can visit the official exotictikiisland.com website and click on the donation button to make a donation. Any amount is appreciated.

Mahalo!

Alright friends, let’s get on with the show. Today, Captain Scotty B is going to escort all of us to the island by way of his, are you ready for this, magic carpet. You heard it right, a magic carpet.

Here comes Captain Scotty B now on his rug. Over here Captain, bring her down into this open area so we can all climb aboard.

Coming in for a landing Tiki Brian, stand clear.

What a perfect landing, Captain.

I almost flipped it over. I’m still getting used to flying this contraption.

I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it Captain with more practice.

I sure hope so. Okay, is everyone ready to climb aboard my magic carpet? Hold on tight, let’s take an exotic Far East ride to exotic Tiki Island.

Thank Hang on, friends.

I’m going to land this rug on the main beach.

Welcome, Wahinis and Coneys to the main beach on Exotic Tiki Island. The water temperature is 79 degrees, with an air temperature of 80, and a calm trade wind blowing in from the South Pacific. Captain, I think it’s time to make a Tiki cocktail and start our adventure.

I couldn’t agree more, Tiki Brian. Today, our featured ETI cocktail is the Passion Fizz cocktail. This is what you’ll need to make the Passion Fizz cocktail.

One and a half ounces of the Golden Rum, that’s Cock Spur Rum. One ounce of Passion Fruit Syrup, and Club Soda. A sprig of spearmint for garnish, and a lime wedge for garnish.

And this is how we’ll make the Passion Fizz cocktail. Fill rocks glass or your favorite Tiki mug with crushed ice, add the rum and syrup, and then top off with Club Soda. Stir, then garnish with spearmint and lime wedge, and enjoy!

Excellent cocktail, captain! And listeners, you can make this tiki drink and enjoy it along with us by going to the official exotictikiisland.com website and click on the Tiki Drinks and Cocktails located at the top menu bar of the webpage. And feel free to leave comments and let us know how you like the Passion Fizz cocktail.

Now that we have our drink, let’s play some music that compliments our surroundings on this Paradise Isle.

Captain, look, what’s that washing up on the beach?

I think this is another one of those lost audio tape containers from David Gaston’s upcoming This Is Vintage Now Volume 2 CD. Remember in our last episode when we found two other containers of audio tapes?

You’re right, Captain. So now we’ve recovered three of the four audio tapes. I’ll contact David now on the shortwave, and let him know we found another container.

This is Tiki Brian calling David Gaston. Come in, David. Do you read me?

Over.

I hear you, Tiki Brian. Over.

We found another container with an audio tape for your upcoming This Is Vintage Now Volume 2 compilation CD. Over.

Fantastic. This is three of four missing audio tapes recovered now. Which one did you find?

Over.

This one says The Exotic Sandy Warner by The Sad Salamanders.

Excellent. So glad to have that one back. That song was written as a tribute to Sandy Warner, who’s the cover model on 14 different Martin Denny albums, and it’s called The Exotica Girl.

Feel free to play that one for your friends if you like. Over.

Mahalo, David. I’ll play it for them now. And the captain and I will keep a sharp eye out for that fourth missing container.

Over.

Sounds great, Tiki Brian. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Over and out.

Over and out, David. Friends, let’s head up towards the Hurricane Hut Lounge as we listen to another track from the upcoming This Is Vintage Now Volume 2 compilation CD. Again, this one’s called The Exotic Sandy Warriner by The Sad Salamanders.

Enjoy!

Brian, look, up ahead, I can see the Hurricane Hut Lounge.

Yes, Captain, I see it too. Let’s go inside and enjoy another Tiki cocktail and find out what’s happening in the lounge today.

Aloha, Wotanese and Connie’s. Welcome to the Hurricane Hut Lounge. And now, please welcome the Ukadelics, here tonight playing some songs from their new CD.

Aloha, Hurricane Hut Lounge. We are, in fact, the Ukadelics, Seattle’s favorite eight-member 1960s tropical lounge ukulele orchestra. Thanks for joining us here.

We’d now like to take you on an adventure to paradise.

And that was the theme to the ABC TV show Adventures in Paradise, created by James Mishner and running from 1959 to 1962. We play plenty of well-loved luau songs in our shows, but now the lovely Lisa is stepping up to the mic to sing a Ukadelix original, written by band members Kevin Wilson and Marnie Cohen Vance. Take it away, Lisa.

And that song is called Surfin Lessons, a Ucadelic’s original. It’s got a great beat and you can really drink to it. It featured the siren call of Charlene Hall on the background vocals.

She plays Melodica on this next original tune. Hit it, gang!

Thanks, folks. Hey, all of these great songs are featured on our latest CD, Runaway Pineapple Truck, which you can order directly from us through the yukadelix.com or off our Facebook page. Just $10 plus shipping.

You can find out all about us there and upcoming shows like The One in Tacoma on April 16th at the world-famous Javajive. We’ll be having a big old tiki party. Speaking of tiki parties.

Thanks, folks. It’s been a great night. We’ve really enjoyed playing for y’all here in the Hurricane Hut Lounge.

I’d like to quickly introduce the band. Off on my far right, Craig Keenard on banjo ukulele. Next to him, Charlene Hall on ukulele and bongos and vocals.

We got Lisa Bolero on ukulele and percussion and vocals. In the far back corner, we have our voodoo hula princess, Julie Miller on an armload of percussion instruments. Next to her, the international man of mystery, Jeff Ringer on drums and ukulele.

Marnie Cohen Vance on the bass and also vocals. To my left, Kevin Wilson on slide guitar and baritone ukulele. I am your host, Cap and Cook.

Thanks for joining us on this crazy adventure.

Wow, another amazing show right here at the Hurricane Hut Lounge. And friends, be sure to visit the official Ukadelix website to purchase your copy of their new CD titled Runaway Pineapple Truck. Their website is www.theukadelix.com.

I’ll post a link in the show notes, and be sure to tell them that you heard their music on Tiki Brian’s Exotic Tiki Island Podcast Show. Well friends, it’s starting to get late, so let’s make our way back to the main beach and prepare for our magic carpet ride home right after these important messages.

Aloha everyone, this is Tiki Brian. I’d like to let everybody know about ETI Radio. ETI Radio starts on the first Friday of each month at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and goes through Sunday evening.

Featured in that broadcast is our hour-long Aloha Friday Live Happy Hour Show from the Blue Whale Tiki Bar here on Exotic Tiki Island. The live broadcast begins at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time with encore presentations throughout the weekend. I hope all of you can check it out.

For more info on ETI Radio and the Aloha Friday Live Happy Hour Broadcast, you can visit the official exotictikiisland.com website and click on ETI Radio. Mahalo!

When do you enjoy listening to Exotic Tiki Island? Is it after a hard day’s work or just to help you kick back on the weekends? If you enjoy it, how about buying Tiki Brian a Mai Tai for all the hard work he puts into this wonderful podcast?

Just go to exotictikiisland.com and click the donation button. It’s much appreciated. Aloha!

You are listening to Tiki Brian and The Exotic Tiki Island Podcast.

Welcome back to the podcast. Grab your tiki drinks and let’s head to the main beach.

We have arrived back on the main beach, and sadly, it’s time to go-

Tiki Brian, look!

Another one of those This Is Vintage Now, Volume 2 audio containers has washed up on the main beach!

Hey, look at that! We recovered the last missing container. Let me quickly contact David and let him know the good news.

This is Tiki Brian calling David Gaston. Come in, David. Are you there?

Over.

I’m right here, Tiki Brian. Did you find the last missing container? Over.

I sure did, David. And it’s in perfect shape, too. Over.

That’s wonderful. Well, there’s only one tape left, and that’s Sunday Combo’s Womp. Sunday Combo is a really fantastic bachelor pack group from the Netherlands.

Over.

And that’s what the container says. Sunday Combo. Womp.

Shall we go ahead and play that one, too? Over.

Absolutely. Go ahead. Well, fellas, thanks to you and your friends.

We have all the master tapes now. So we’ll start mastering This Is Vintage Now Volume 2, and we’ll make it available as soon as we can. Mahalo for your help, fellas.

I owe you my time next time we get together. This is David Gaston. Over and out.

You’re very welcome, David. Aloha. Over and out.

Well, friends, it looks like we only have time for one more song. But before we go, I want to say mahalo to all of you for listening and supporting the show. And with that being said, it’s time to say aloha, and we’ll be back again soon with more fun, adventure, and of course, music from my personal collection and show 46 of The Exotic Tiki Island Podcast.

Until then, friends, enjoy the song Womp by Sundae Combo from the upcoming This Is Vintage Now Volume 2 CD, available soon from their website, www.thisisvintagenow.com. We’ll see you soon, friends. Aloha.