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Topic: Tapir Getting a Massage |
Jeff Au Hoy
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Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 5:42 pm |
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| Hi folks, I found this video of a Tapir at the LA Zoo getting a massage. The background music is early electric steel. Is it Aiona? What's the name of the tune? |
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 6:34 pm
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Andy Iona's "Beulah"
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Links to streaming music, websites, YouTube: Links |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 6:35 pm
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If I lay down in the L.A. Zoo could I get a free massage, too ?  |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 7:13 pm
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I liked it regardless of who it was.
The old style fast vibrato.  |
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2007 1:40 am
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Mike Neer is correct; Beulah (My Hawaiian Dancing Queen)
And there is also some singing on this recording, but it was cut short.
Recorded by Andy Iona and his Islanders in Los Angeles on April 25, 1936. |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 2 Oct 2007 3:33 am
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| Derrick, do you think there were more or less Hawaiian dancing queens on Hotel St. back in 1936? |
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2007 10:18 am
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There must have been plenty. I hate to have seen how "Beulah" actually looked like.
Too bad Andy ain't around. There must have been a story behind this.
Here's the lyrics to the song.
Beulah, the hula, dancing Hawaiian queen
La, la, la
Beulah, the hula, the best I've ever seen
La, la, la
With a big opu and waist of sixty two
She shakes it like the old folks do
Baby, lady, she would make you wiggle too
She's got a meaning, and feeling, in her native land
La, la, la
Scheming and dreaming, for a true romance
La, la, la
You can have your blondes, brunettes and redheads too
I want a gal that will be true
Like Beulah, my hula, dancing Hawaiian queen
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 2 Oct 2007 1:56 pm
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| It took me a second, but I recognized that one from a favorite comp I have called "From Honolulu to Hollywood". How unusual to hear it used in this context though. I really love to listen to Andy Iona! |
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2007 2:21 pm
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Jeff, here's a link to one of the last "Dancing Queens" Club I remember in Honolulu called the Glades.
http://www.hawaii.islandgoddess.org/glade.html
The Honolulu Advertiser used to run a advertisement in the Entertainment section. Prince Hanalei was the star of the show. He died sometime in the late 80's or 90's.
But Jeff, I don't think a Hawaiian Queen was looked upon as a male back in 1936; just like how Hawaiian songs during that period have used many times the term, "Happy and Gay". In today's time, it takes on a whole new meaning.
Maybe someone here on Forum that has lived during that period can elaborate on the term 'Hawaiian Dancing Queen"? |
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2007 11:46 am
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| What, no happy ending? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 5 Oct 2007 5:18 pm
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| Dan Sawyer wrote: |
| What, no happy ending? |
The tapir seems happy enough ! |
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