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Topic: Can you identify the year and the badge they're wearing |
basilh
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 1:17 am |
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A question from Professor Anthony Lis about Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians:-
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concerning a photo in Johnny Bond’s 1978 attempt at a Jimmie Rodgers discography (pretty much superseded by Nolan Porterfield’s biography the following year).
On one of Bond's pages detailing the McIntire/Rodgers recordings, he includes this picture, labelling it as “Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians”, with no year or other information provided. (Unfortunately, Bond doesn't provide any "picture credits" for any of his photos.)
I’ve enlarged and cropped the photo, which was originally tall and wide enough to show everyone’s shoes and a bit of a tree or bush to the left of the ukulele-player. Perhaps this photo was originally in a scrapbook (say, of Rodgers’s widow?), as the corners were originally white (matching those old-fashioned photo-holders people used to use). I “painted them over” while scanning and cropping the photo at SDSU’s instructional media lab.
Have you ever seen this photo? Could it be from the same time as Malia’s photo? (Hard to tell if everyone has the same instruments they were holding in that photo.) I haven’t seen many pictures of Dick, but I’m pretty sure that’s him on steel, and young Al on bass, but I’m not sure if that is Daniel Kuaana on uke--any thoughts? And any idea what the logo-patches might stand for? (There appears to be lettering on them, which I cannot make out, even using a large TV-style magnifier I own.)
Just some WILD speculation--might Lani have given this (perhaps publicity) photo to Rodgers as a “memento” of their recording together? (Pure speculation, of course!) If only someone could identify those badges--it
almost make the Hawaiians look like they’re wearing uniforms . . . could they have perhaps being playing on some sort of Los Angeles harbor cruise-ship at the time? Some well-known L. A. restaurant that had its own
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OK, so in a nutshell,
1. The Year
2. The personnel
3. Identify the badges
I've definitely seen those badges before !
BTW Google has gone ... . .-.. .-.. -.-- today specifically ! 
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Mike Neer
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 5:50 am
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That doesn't look like Dick McIntire to my eyes.
I would say the year would be early to mid-30s. The tricone could be as old as 1928 but the Gibson archtop (at least that's what it appears to be) looks like an L-7 or L-12 which was introduced circa 1932. I say it's an L-7 L-12 because of the headstock shape and the fact that it's bound, but what do I know?
The badges, I haven't a clue....
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c c johnson
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 6:59 am
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| george kainapau on uke, lane mcintyre on guitar???? cc |
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Mike Neer
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 7:16 am
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If you have Bob Brozman's book on Nationals, there is pic on p.138 which is a still from "Waikiki Wedding" with Bing Crosby. They are wearing the same suits and it is the same personnel. It is a clearer photo--I'll see if I can scan it.
That may be Lani McIntire on Tricone.
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 9:30 am
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A variation photo (of the one Mike mentioned, surely from the same photo session)is also reproduced full page size in Stacy Phillips' "The Art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar".
FWIW, the caption credits:
George Kainapau (ukulele)
Al McIntire,(bass)
Bob Nichols,(National Tricone steel guitar)
Lani McIntire,(guitar)
Date must be c.1937 when the film Waikiki Wedding was released. |
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Scott Thomas
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 27 Apr 2009 12:41 pm
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| If my memory is correct it seemed that sometimes in the fouties there were remote radio shows from the 7-Seas. I was just a kid and into Hawaiian music. I could be wrong. |
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George Keoki Lake
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Posted 28 Apr 2009 11:33 am
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| AMAZING ... all the great info which has come up. As most of us suspected, DICK McINTIRE is NOT the steel guitarist. Lani McIntire,(seldom if ever played steel on recordings), is the r/guitarist. He used the great Bobby Nichols on the majority of his recordings. |
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