James Bond played Hawaiian guitar

Andrew Roblin · From: Various places

News flash: Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books, which drew on Fleming's career in the British secret service, played Hawaiian guitar.

"...his idea of artistic endeavor was playing the Hawaiian guitar (he took lessons from an Italian woman). He liked to put his feet up to a record of the Royal Hawaiian Serenaders when, as he put it 'I should have been outdoors killing something'....his favorite song--indicative of his leisure pursuits, perhaps--was the popular 'Does Your Mother Know You're Out, Cecilia" by the baritone Whispering Jack Smith."

--"Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond," Andrew Lycett, Times Publishing Inc., Atlanta, 1995, p. 24.

Josh Cho · From: New York, NY (orig. Honolulu, HI)

Mark Eaton · Posted 19 Sep 2009 8:21 am

Now that's cool! Cool

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Steve Cunningham · From: Atlanta, GA

It's my understanding that Albert R. Broccoli played a pretty mean uke... Rolling Eyes

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