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Topic: Wout Steenhuis wrote Wai O Minnehaha ? |
basilh
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Bo Legg
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Posted 9 Oct 2008 6:48 pm |
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| I don't know. Sounds great. What's O Minnehaha? |
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basilh
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Posted 9 Oct 2008 6:53 pm
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| "Wai O Minehaha" (The Waters of Minnehaha) Recorded by Hal Aloma and also Andy Iona .. I must admit I really prefer Andy's version Click to Play Andy's |
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 9 Oct 2008 6:58 pm
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| I'm not trying to be mean here but I'm sure I heard part of that in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Posted 9 Oct 2008 8:03 pm Great version by Andy!
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| Hearing the hot clarinet solos makes me wish Joaquin was ripping those leads. |
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Roger Shackelton
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Posted 9 Oct 2008 11:17 pm Minnehaha
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Minnehaha is a fictional Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha.
The name is often incorrectly said to mean "Laughing Water", though in reality it translates to
"Waterfall"
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Ron !
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 5:48 am
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Basil.....maybe he did instrumental arrangements of this song....but as far as I know didn't Wout write this song.He had some great instrumentals but IMO writing a song like that was far above his level.
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Tamara James
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 6:02 am cartoons and classical music
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| Stuart Legg wrote: |
| I'm not trying to be mean here but I'm sure I heard part of that in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. |
You are correct about cartoons. They contain much classical music. I miss the cartoon station. |
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 6:23 am
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha
Because Minnehaha is part of Hawaiian legend there seem to be many tunes which have her name as part of the title.
Wout Steenhuis -now there's a name from the past. I'd forgotten all about him. Is he still playing ?
Last edited by Alan Brookes on 10 Oct 2008 1:53 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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basilh
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 6:51 am
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| Ron Steenwijk wrote: |
Basil.....maybe he did instrumental arrangements of this song....but as far as I know didn't Wout write this song.He had some great instrumentals but IMO writing a song like that was far above his level.
Ron |
I THINK I agree with you Ron, that is if you're saying Wout DIDN'T write this song. As an arrangement of his own, he would be entitled to put Trad Arr. Steenhuis, but not to claim as in the article pictured above, that he ACTUALLY wrote it.. It was written decades before Wout recorded it.
But even the "Trad Arr" Is somewhat of a liberty being as the writer and publisher are common knowledge.
Robert Wai‘ale‘ale, 1920 Which is, I think, somewhat before Wout was born.. |
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Ron !
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 6:58 am
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Yes Basil.....but it sure does not have that distinctive "Steenhuis" playing on it.
Usually you can pick him right out of the bunch but that is not the case with this song.
Wout is/was (don't know if he still is amongst us) capable to write his own arrangements in sort of like a weird way.I have not heard about Wout in decades.....that is till you put this up.
A very underestimated player IMO.
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 2:03 pm
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Does this confuse the issue ?....
http://www.huapala.org/Wai/Wai_Minehaha.html
Wai O Minehaha - Words & music by Robert Waialeale
Aia i ka uka a o Mânâwaiopuna
Nâ wai pâlua i ke alo pali
Ua `ike i ka wailele a`o Mopua
I ke ani i ka lau o ka makani
Hui:
Pulu au i ka hunahuna wai
Wai kaulana a`o Minehaha
I laila ku`u `upu ku`u li`a ana
I ka wailele o Mânâwaiopuna
There in the uplands of Mânâwaiopuna
The two streams before the face of the cliff
I have seen the waterfall of Mopua
Swayed by the movement of the wind
Chorus
Wet was I by the spray of the water
The famous water of Minehaha
There is my pride, my joy
The waterfall of Mânâwaiopuna
Source: Kings's Hawaiian Melodies - The composer, the father of singer-composer Lena Machado, praises the beauty of this waterfall in the uplands of Kaua`i. Translated by Mary Pukui. Copyright 1948 Charles E. King |
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Alan Miller
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Posted 11 Oct 2008 2:32 pm
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| Wout steinhuis passed away several years ago here in uk, even after many years away from the public eye he still made the national news bulletins on his passing. |
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 11 Oct 2008 4:39 pm
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I'm sad to hear that, but I somewhat expected it.  He must have been getting on in years. |
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Larry Bressington
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Nebraska
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Posted 12 Oct 2008 3:22 pm
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Back in England years ago, it was almost impossible to hear any Pedal steel or buy a record of it.
I bought one of wout's LP'S, so i could at least hear some steel guitar, it wasent my passion the hawiian guitar, but he made some of the best recorded hawiian music, He also understood that in the buissnesss world of selling music, that melodies sold, over hot licks, many a player has proven that, holding back their mastery of vituoso chops, to be commercial, ask Hank Marvin and the shadows.
I think wout was dutch[ Holland] please correct me if i'm wrong.  |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 6:39 am
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Yes, Wout was a Nederlander, which you can tell from the spelling of his name Steenhuis.
So, is the song by Robert Waialeale the same one that Wout did an instrumental of, or another tune with the same name ? |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Nov 2008 11:47 pm
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Did we eventually resolve this ? Is it traditional ? Was it written by Wout Steenhuis, by Robert Waialeale, or by someone else ?  |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2008 6:52 am
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And,,, from the record label: "AROHA."
Is that the Chinese pronunciation? |
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