Welcome to John’s Old Time Radio Show!!! Listen To John Heneghan play and talk about 78 rpm records from his collection. Each episode features a different theme and style and some will feature special guests playing records from their collections. Sign up on iTunes to automatically download the show. There will be a new show posted the 1st of every month. Check back and tell your friends!!!
John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK– “GREAT NOVELTY RECORDS”. Fantastic early 78 rpm NOVELTY records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong & Fellow record collector Mark Pollock. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely.
Thanks For The Lobster – Fred Van Eps Banjo
Mama Ines – Havana Novelty Orchestra
Hunting Tigers Out in “Indiah” – Leslie Sarony
Etiquette Blues – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks
Rhapsody In Blues – Borrah Minevitch
I Can’t Sleep In The Movies Anymore – Broadway Merry Makers (Fred Hall & His Sugar Babies)
D D Hoedown – Shell Chemical Corporation
Little Dog Yodel – Ralph Richardson
The Swiss Boy – Smiley Burnette
Singin’ In The Bath Tub – Macy & Smalle
Dinah – Billy Costello
Rubenola – Rudy Wiedoeft
Castration of the Strawberry Roan– The Sons Of The Pioneers
Tom and Jerry in Honolulu – Tom & Jerry
If I Know’d Youse A’ Comin’ I’d Cut My Throat – Cactus Pryor & His Pricklypears
Ape Call – Nervous Norvus(Jimmy Drake)
Mark Pollack & Robert ArmstrongRobert ArmstrongHarry ReserFred HallFred Van EpsBilly Costello
John’s Old Time Radio Show ROBERT ARMSTRONG – “GREAT EARLY HAWAIIAN RECORDS”. Fantastic early 20th Century Hawaiian 78 rpm records from the collection of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Fellow record collector Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid.
Tu-Tu-E, Tu-Tu-Hoi – Kalama’s Quartet featuring Mike Hanapi& Bob Matsu
Ama Ama – Sam Alama
Mona Chimes – Frank Ferera
Hilo March (Mindanao March) – Bennie Nawahi (although Bennie didn’t think this was him in a 1980 interview)
Paahana Hula – Madame Riviere’s Hawaiians
The Rose Of Heaven – Walter Kolomoku’s Honoluluans
I Nikiniki Malie – Kalama’s Quartette featuring Mike Hanapi
Tomi Tomi – Sol K. Bright
The Hula Blues – Jim and Bob (The Genial Hawaiians)
Hula Girl – Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Quartette
Hula Girl – Andrew Aiona’s Novelty Four
La Rosita – Sol K. Bright
Minnehaha – Andy Iona and his Islanders Sam Koki & Dan Stewart
Faa Navenave – Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians
Let’s Go To Honolulu – Kostas Bezo’s White Birds
Oua Oua – Kanui & Lula
Moana Chimes – Sam Ku West and his Royal Hawaiians
Robert ArmstrongCheap Suit SerenadersGood Tone Banjo Boys – Crumb, Armstrong & painting by Robert Armstrongukulele painted by R. ArmstrongSam AlamaSol K BrightYazoo cover by ArmstrongGrass Skirt record cover by ArmstrongKalama’s QuartetDavid Burrows (left), Mike Hanapi (right)JIM & BOBSol HoopiiKanui & LulaSam Ku West
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Pt 2”. Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar & Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Also present are Bennie’s wife Betty and his stepson Norman Peterson as well as Robert Crumb, who is also an interviewee and Spencer Quinn.This episode starts with an interview with Robert Crumb from the present, remembering the day he met Bennie and then the 2nd part of the interview Armstrong recorded with Bennie is played in it’s entirety, unedited.In Part 2 they listen to some of Nawahi’s records that Bennie had including many records he personally recorded which have NEVER BEEN HEARD BEFORE (and are currently lost as far as we know)!!!! There is some background talking but I decided not to edit it or replace the known records with clean tracks because the feel of being “in the room” with those guys seems more important than a perfect record listening scenario.Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid.This is a two part interview of Bennie which will be followed by an episode where Armstrong spins some very fine Hawaiian discs from his collection.
Robert Crumb interview (2021)
Bennie Nawahi interview Part Two
Records played by Bennie (during interview)
Vana Vana– King Nawahi Trio
(The end of) Hawaiian Capers – King Nawahi’s Hawaiians
My Little A-1 Brownie – Charles (Bernard “Slim”) Smith, Nawahi & Benny Goodman
(partial) Guitar Rhythm – Georgia Jumpers
California Blues – Georgia Jumpers
Big Feet Rag – Georgia Jumpers
Ukulele Benny – Georgia Jumpers
Hawaiian Love-Bird – King Nawahi’s Hawaiians w/ Bill Cody
Hula Medley – King Nawahi Trio
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You – Hawaiian Beach Combers
I Get The Blues When It Rains – King Nawahi Trio
Fort Street – Bennie Nawahi
Nola/ Swanee River/ Taps – Bennie Nawahi
My Adobe Hacienda – King Nawahi Trio
Maui Girl – King Nawahi Trio
Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi 1980Good Tone Banjo Boys – Crumb, Armstrong & Spencer Quinn!BENNIE NAWAHI (FAR RIGHT)Bennie NawahiBenny Nawahi
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG”. Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar & Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Also present are Bennie’s wife Betty and his stepson Norman Peterson as well as Robert Crumb, who is also an interviewee and Spencer Quinn.This episode starts with an interview with Robert Armstrong from the present, remembering the day he met Bennie and then the interview he recorded with Bennie is played in it’s entirety, unedited.Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid.This is a two part interview of Bennie which will be followed by an episode where Armstrong spins some very fine Hawaiian discs from his collection.
Honlulu Bound – Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)
Robert Armstrong interview (2021)
Mauna Kea (White Mountain)– King Nawahi’s Hawaiians (1930)
Robert Armstrong interviewsKing Bennie Nawahi (1980)
Ukulele Benny – The Georgia Jumpers (1931)
Robert Armstrong interviewsKing Bennie Nawahi (1980) cont.
Hawaiian Melody – Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)
Robert Armstrong interviewsKing Bennie Nawahi (1980) cont.
Black Boy Blues – QRS Boys (1929)
Robert Armstrong interviews the “King” Bennie Nawahi 1980The “King” Bennie Nawahi
John’s Old Time Radio Show “GREAT HAWAIIAN MUSIC OF KALAMA’S QUARTET”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring guitarist Mike Hanapi and Kalama’s Quartet from John Heneghan’s record collection.
HONOLULU HULA MEDLEY
NA PUA EHA
E LILIU E
HAPA HAOLE HULA GIRL
HEEIA
LEI OHU
ON THE BEACH AT WAIKIKI
WAI O MINEHANA
TU-TU-E, TU-TU-HOI
WAHINE UI
HILO MARCH
KA MAKANI KALI ALOHA
MEDLEY OF HULAS
KAWIKA: LILIU E
INDIANA MARCH
HANO HANO HANALEI
Kalama QuartetKalama’s QuartetDavid Burrows (left), Mike Hanapi (right) / (from Les Cook) – this is the Ilima Islanders which has Hanapi and David Burrows on steel guitars . Bill Kalama is standing behind Mike Hanapi . So , standing left to right it’s Henry Makua, Bob Nawahine, Leo Cummins& Bill Kalama . Seated left Burrows and right is Hanapi. So a similar line up to Kalama’s Qt but not identical
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE MUSIC OF BIG BILL BROONZY”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring Hokum, Blues & Stomps from the great songster vocalist & guitarist William Broonzy from John Heneghan’s record collection.
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE MUSIC OF RILEY PUCKETT”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring Country & Tin Pan Alley tunes from the great songster vocalist & guitarist Riley Puckett from John Heneghan’s record collection.
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE MUSIC OF MEMPHIS MINNIE”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring music by the great Country Blues guitar great Memphis Minnie from John Heneghan’s record collection.
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE MUSIC OF WALTER ‘KID’ SMITH”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring music by the great Congolese guitarist Jean Bosco Mwenda from John Heneghan’s record collection.
John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE GUITAR OF JEAN BOSCO MWENDA”. Fantastic old 78 rpm records featuring music by the great Congolese guitarist Jean Bosco Mwenda from John Heneghan’s record collection.
