Paul Page and his Paradise Music Pacific Paradise - Double LP with 32 page booklet! Paul Page -- poet, pagan, and playboy of Polynesian pop and Hapa Haole exotica.
The music on this unusual exotic album, takes you right to the ocean's edge, mingles you with jungle drums and animals, the booming surf, seagulls, and ocean liners in a coral kaleidoscope of sounds.
Paul Page and his Paradise Music entertained in Polynesian themed restaurants all over Southern California from the late '30s to the mid-60s, then all the way out to the Kona Coast during the late '60s and early '70s.
The whole time, he kept leaving behind these little independent albums, recorded specifically for the purpose of selling them to the people coming to his small venue shows... which, when you think about it, is basically what all the most-worthy bands to dig do these days, outside the doting eye of the lame record industry. Dude was so ahead of his time!
Paul Page was a singer, piano player, bandleader, writer/composer, radio, and TV host, artist of oils, professional basketball player, and much more.
He published many albums during the 1950s-60s and wrote hundreds of songs.
His story has never previously been told and his original recordings are very rare, in fact some of them are completely unknown and undocumented, and much sought after by collectors.
Paul Page is really the only one to mix actual, authentic Hawaiian music and other Polynesian and Pacific Ocean influences, with the nomadic feel of the seafaring Anglo working sailor man with a sense of American pop sophistication, based in jazz-age.
It is his cheerful insistence to employ every known cliché from the Polynesian pop dictionary that makes his stylings so charming to today's tiki lounger.
Subliminal Sounds now brings you the full Paul Page saga on this comprehensive compilation.
Includes a 32-page booklet with in-depth liner notes by author and pop historian Domenic Priore, with a foreword by author and urban archeologist Sven Kirsten.
Track Listing:
A1. Pacific Paradise
A2. China Nights
A3. When Sam Goes Back To Samoa
A4. Beyond The Reef
A5. The Reef Is Calling
A6. Matey
A7. Pieces Of Eight
A8. Ports O' Call
A9. My Fiji Island Queen
A10. Castaway
B1. Bali Hai
B2. The Big Island Says Aloha
B3. Sweet Someone
B4. Leaves From My Grass House
B5. Chicken Kona Kaai
B6. Nani Waime
B7. Ala Wai Blues
B8. Maui Chimes
B9. Please Don't Sing Aloha To Me
C1. Hawaiian Honeymoon
C2. Blue Lagoon
C3. Au-We, Wahine
C4. Pago Pago
C5. Kissy Ling
C6. Sakura - Pagoda Bells
C7. Come Back To Hawaii
C8. The Sea Is Calling
D1. Passport To Paradise
D2. The Big Luau In The Sky
D3. Mele Of Forgotten Men
D4. It's All Wicky Wacky In Hawaii
D5. Pacific Farewell Medley
Product Code: SUB124LP
