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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.

1. Tu-Tu-E, Tu-Tu-Hoi – Kalama’s Quartet featuring Mike Hanapi & Bob Matsu
2. Ama Ama – Sam Alama
3. Mona Chimes – Frank Ferera
4. Hilo March (Mindanao March) – Bennie Nawahi (although Bennie didn’t think this was him in a 1980 interview)
5. Paahana Hula – Madame Riviere’s Hawaiians
6. The Rose Of Heaven – Walter Kolomoku’s Honoluluans
7. I Nikiniki Malie – Kalama’s Quartette featuring Mike Hanapi
8. Tomi Tomi – Sol K. Bright
9. The Hula Blues – Jim and Bob (The Genial Hawaiians)
10. Hula Girl – Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Quartette
11. Hula Girl – Andrew Aiona’s Novelty Four
12. La Rosita – Sol K. Bright
13. Minnehaha – Andy Iona and his Islanders Sam Koki & Dan Stewart
14. Faa Navenave – Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians
15. Let’s Go To Honolulu – Kostas Bezo’s White Birds
16. Oua Oua – Kanui & Lula
17. Moana Chimes – Sam Ku West and his Royal Hawaiians