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Hawaiiian music in the Netherlands. As a vinyl collector, 20 years ago you regularly encountered National Ukuleles, and fewer Vox Humana Steel guitars, at markets and fairs. Silent remnants of the Hawaiian Hausse from 1945 to 1950, The Kilima Hawaiians were the most famous group and hundreds of impersonators succeeded them. The real musicians of Hawaiian music, I think, were of course not these sugar-sweet Dutchmen, no they were Rudi Wiarata, and George Fretes, but you will of course have expected that from me! Here The Honolulu Queens on 78er from 1941 on the Nederlands Kristal label. They were the first to make a recording in this style in the Netherlands. The band consisted of the three Indian sisters Opontoweil. Beautiful girls also that is why father supported the girls as Chaperone / Manager. English-language records were not allowed to be made of the new bosses in the country. Here a compromise, sung in English, but with a Dutch title, namely The Silver Sea, becomes Ruischend Water. Not very lucky, father died in 1942 and the last album was recorded in 1946. That year, Elly, the real musician on the couple's "hawaiian guitar", died of a brain tumor. They miss the battle after 1945. The Hawaiian boom started in Indonesia because of the apparently easier access people in the South Seas had to American music culture. When the Indian Rock'n'roll was born, a direct successor to this style, the next generation did the same, but with the new Rockn'Roll sounds from the USA. Hawaiian music became all the rage in the early decades of the 19th century under the influence of Hawaii guitarist Joseph Kekuku. Joseph's howling "Slack Key" slide sound on a laptop guitar had another major influence on the first Blues "Slide guitar" guitarists who copied it and made it "their own" around 1900. For further information see the books "Haring and Hawaii" Lutgard Mutsears the general history 1925 to 1992 Inteview with Poppy the only living Honolulu Queen in March 2010 http://www.tongtongfestival.nl/?p=1214 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EyZTdZ2mGA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg5Psr2ltto Joe .
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