Inspired by Florida’s famed Mai-Kai restaurant, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry opened the Kahiki Supper Club in 1961. They set out simply to build a nice Polynesian restaurant and ended up establishing the most magnificent one of them all. For nearly forty years, the Kahiki was the undisputed center of tiki culture.

“Kahiki Supper Club – A Polynesian paradise in Columbus” is a 160 page book written and compiled by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, Jeff Chenault and Doub Motz collects stories and images, telling the history of the legendary tiki temple!

Our copies of this book are signed by exotica music expert and Beachcomber Trio LP producer Jeff Chenault. Limited stock!

If you’ve picked up our Beachcomber Trio LP you need this book! Order here

It’s the Third Annual Mr. Jay’s Doo Wop Heaven! Tune in Over Under Sideways Down on LuxuriaMusic.com
for two hours of rare East Coast Doo Wop with your host Lee Joseph and special guest, Mr. Jay!

Dionysus Records announces limited edition color vinyl Bacchus Archives represses of The Beachcomber Trio, The Surf Teens, and The Avengers VI.

ALL THREE AVAILABLE FROM DIONYSUS MAIL ORDER – Links to each LP at the end of each description.

The Beachcomber Trio “Live at Kahiki 1965” limited blue vinyl repress
Previously unreleased until 2010, this long-awaited LP is a live recording of the house band at the legendary Kahiki restaurant. It’s like you are sitting at the bar enjoying a Mai Tai while listening to Marsh Padilla and company play a set of Latin Jazz/Hawaiian/Lounge inspired exotica! First pressing of 500 on black vinyl sold out shortly after release. This is a limited re-pressing of 485 copies on blue vinyl! Purchase here

The Avengers VI “Real Cool Hits” limited white vinyl repress
The Avengers VI were a clean-cut surf band from Anaheim, Calif., whose one and only album, Real Cool Hits, was issued in 1966 as a promo for Good Humor ice cream. The group’s name wasn’t even mentioned on the original cover although it was pictured on the kick drum. The group’s repertoire, which encompassed covers of popular surf instrumentals, mood music, movie themes and some first rate originals, attracted both teens and adults to their appearances in southern California. The long-out of print Bacchus Archives vinyl reissue has itself become collectible, bringing prices of $30 and up, which is why we’ve decided to repress this gem, in an edition of 500 on white vinyl! Purchase here

The Surf Teens “Surf Mania” limited clear vinyl repress
A reissue of the fantastic, but hopelessly rare 1963 album by  Central Californian teens under the guidance of The Revels’ Norman Knowles. Includes five previously unreleased tracks and takes from master tapes and one from a rare 45! The Bacchus Archives LP has been out of print for a number of years. This is a clear vinyl repress in an edition of 500! Purchase here

A very limited amount of these posters will be available at the Bali Hai 60th Anniversary party, October 30, 2014 at Bali Hai, Shelter Island, featuring Creepxotica. Tickets for the event are going FAST! Get your tickets here:

For 60 years, the Bali Hai has help set the culinary bar for San Diego restaurants! To celebrate our 60 years of success, we are throwing a party with live entertainment, including performances by Creepxotica, Desi Realtor, Pride of Polynesian, and live painting by Norm Daniels. Join the festivities and rub elbows with long time customers, our favorite Tiki fanatics, friends and family and community dignitaries while you dine on succulent roasted pig, fried rice, poke, and your beverage of choice!

Tickets to Bali Hai’s 60th Anniversary Celebration are $40 per person, which includes one Limited Release Anniversary Tiki Mug, one drink ticket (including our World Famous Mai Tais), and a ton of fun.

What: Bali Hai’s 60th Anniversary Celebration
Where:Bali Hai Restaurant
2230 Shelter Island Drive
San Diego, CA 92106
When: Thursday, October 30, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Share your Bali Hai Memories! Send your photos and stories to 60th@balihairestaurant.com to be included in their Anniversary slide show!

Tonga Hut Palm Springs kicks off the season with a special Shag Menu Signing Event!

Shag signs the new Tonga Hut Palm Springs menu
Friday, October 3
Signing at 6 PM Sharp
Mid-Century sounds from DJ Lee
Tonga Hut remains open until 2 AM

Tonga Hut Palm Springs
254 N Palm Canyon Dr,
Palm Springs, California 92262
(760) 322-4449
www.tongahut.com/tonga-hut-palm-springs.html

Price:
$25 includes a menu and drink coupon

Shag will be in the house signing his newly designed Tonga Hut drink menus. There will a limited amount available. Get there early; first come first served!

Tonga Hut Palm Springs is the offspring of the Tonga Hut North Hollywood, Opening its’ doors in 1958 during the heyday of tiki culture in Southern California, Tonga Hut is the oldest surviving tiki bar in Los Angeles.

Tonga Hut Palm Springs has been lovingly decorated by artist Tiki Diablo and Chase Marshall (Beauty Bar in L.A. and Cobra Lounge in NYC) with vintage items as well as contemporary contributions from many artists in the tiki community including Leroy Schmaltz from Oceanic Arts, Eric October, Bosko, Kirby, Nelson’s Tiki Hut and “Mad Dog” Mike Gilbert.

Tonga Hut’s menu offers classic Polynesian/Cantonese/American dishes, like you might have found at Don the Beachcomber on old Palm Canyon Drive in the Rat Pack era. The cocktail menu contains more than 40 drinks including classic cocktails, classic tiki drinks as well as numerous original drinks including some that are exclusive to the Palm Springs location.

DJ Lee Joseph heads up the “independent underground” label Dionysus Records, which has specialized in the retro sounds of surf, exotica, garage rock, rockabilly and psychedelia since the mid ‘80s, and has a weekly show called “Over Under Sideways Down” on the mid-century centric LuxuriaMusic.com internet radio station. He has held numerous club residences in Los Angeles, and DJs at the yearly Tiki Oasis event in San Diego. “DJ Lee” brings to Tonga Hut Palm Springs a deep knowledge and collection of era appropriate music from lounge and exotica to French Ye Ye, surf to soul and other “swinging” sounds from the 1950s -1970s, on vinyl of course!

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We’ve just received word that Creepxotica will be headlining the iconic San Diego / Shelter Island’s Bali Hai 60th Anniversary Party! Stay Tuned for more info!

Here’s the playlist and podcast link for Over Under Sideways Down – LuxuriaMusic.com, 9/4/14 – this time a non-themed “random stacks” show of 45 RPM records spanning the late ’50s – late ’60s.  Dig in!

song title – artist – label
Set One –  Girls!
1) All Through The Night – The Paris Sisters – Gregmark
2) Our Corner of the Night – Barbara Streisand (her only good record one she has wiped from her history… excellent 60s Girl Group sound with sitar!) – Columbia
3) Where The Roses Are Growing – Cathy Carroll  – Rotate Records
4) Gonna Get That Man – Sanshers – Kweek
5) Aman Rapido – Angelica Maria – Musart Mexico
6) Take It Easy – Manuel und Draffi – Decca Germany
7) Love Love Love – Sunny and Phylis with the Danes – UNI

Set Two – Japan and Instrumentals
1) song title unknown (it’s in Japanese I can’t read it) Yozo Kayama- Toshiba Records
2) Koi No GT – artist name unknown (it’s in Japanese I can’t read it) – Crown Records
3) Latinia – The Sentinals – Sundazed (reissue of Westco 7″)
4) Buzzzzz – Jimmy Gordon – Challange
5) Fuzzy and Wild – The Ventures – Dolton
6) One Color Blues – Jerry Cole and the Spacemen – Capitol
7) Mowhak Airlines Commercial – custom pressed 45

Set Three – The Exotic Jungle – and Hawaii
1) Arabia – The Delcos – Showcase
2) Jungle Safari – The Knockabouts – Cosmic
3) Blue Congo – Ray Johnson – RCA
4) Safari – Ward Darby – Dot
5) Jungle Fever – Dick Dale – Deltone
6) Mumbo Jumbo – Ken Kennedy – Kanda
7) Mambo Jambo – The Surfers – Orbit
8)Hawaiian Rock –  Tommy Sands – Capitol

Set Four – Garage etc…
1) I Can Hear The Grass Grow – The Blues Magoos – Mercury
2) Everything – The Quiet Jungle – Yorksville
3) Nothin’ – The Ugly Ducklings – Yorksville
4) It’s My Pride – The Guess Who – King
5) She Done Moved – The Spats – ABC
6) Double Yellow Line –  The Music Machine  – Original Sound
7) Try to Understand – The Seeds – GNP
8) La Cubera – Sama y los Manchos – Del Ray
9) Sookie Sookie – Steppenwolf – Dunhill (mono 45 version)

Set Five – Funk ‘n’ Soul
1) Purple Haze – Johnny Jones and the King Casuals – Cream
2) Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire – The Pack – Capitol
3) Ain’t That Bad – Pancho Villa and The Bandits – Symbal Records
4) Getting the Corners – The TSU Tornadoes – Atlantic
5) Lookin’ for my Pig – Joe Tex – Parrot
6) Gimme Some Pt 1 – General Crook – Down to Earth Records
7) Keep On Keeping On – Nolan Porter – Lizard

Fin – Floor Fillers
1) Sweetness – Boneshaker – London
2) I’m Alive – Don Fardon – Youngblood