{"id":3826,"date":"2021-01-24T01:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T01:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2021-06-01T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:19:08","slug":"otrs-114-the-lost-bennie-nawahi-interview-by-robert-armstrong-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/2021\/01\/24\/otrs-114-the-lost-bennie-nawahi-interview-by-robert-armstrong-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"OTRS 114 \u201cTHE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Pt. 1\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2343\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3826-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/shows\/OTRS114NawahiArmstrong.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/shows\/OTRS114NawahiArmstrong.mp3\">http:\/\/www.eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/shows\/OTRS114NawahiArmstrong.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/shows\/OTRS114NawahiArmstrong.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/?powerpress_pinw=3826-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/shows\/OTRS114NawahiArmstrong.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"OTRS114NawahiArmstrong.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:45:43 &#8212; 193.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John\u2019s Old Time Radio Show \u201cTHE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG\u201d. Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar &amp; Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great &amp; Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Also present are Bennie&#8217;s wife Betty and his stepson Norman Peterson as well as Robert Crumb, who is also an interviewee and Spencer Quinn.<\/strong> <strong>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&#8217;s entirety<\/strong>, <strong>unedited.<\/strong> <strong>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.<\/strong> <strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Honlulu Bound &#8211; Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Robert Armstrong interview (2021)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Mauna Kea (White Mountain)<\/strong> <strong>&#8211; King Nawahi&#8217;s Hawaiians (1930)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Robert Armstrong interviews<\/strong> <strong>King Bennie Nawahi (1980)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Ukulele Benny &#8211; The Georgia Jumpers (1931)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Robert Armstrong interviews<\/strong> <strong>King Bennie Nawahi (1980)<\/strong> cont.<\/li><li><strong>Hawaiian Melody &#8211; Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Robert Armstrong interviews<\/strong> <strong>King Bennie Nawahi (1980)<\/strong> cont.<\/li><li><strong>Black Boy Blues &#8211; QRS Boys (1929)<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview-1024x779.jpeg\" alt=\"Robert Armstrong interviews the &quot;king&quot; Bennie Nawahi\" class=\"wp-image-3828 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview-1024x779.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview-768x584.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview-394x300.jpeg 394w, https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bennie_nawahi-Robert_armstrong-interview.jpeg 1263w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; 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Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar &amp; Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great &amp; Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/2021\/01\/24\/otrs-114-the-lost-bennie-nawahi-interview-by-robert-armstrong-pt-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,110,108,119,4,1],"tags":[124,128],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-78-rpm-records","category-country-blues","category-hawaiian-music","category-interview","category-jazz-2","category-old-time-music","category-uncategorized","tag-78-rpm-records","tag-hawaiian-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastriverstringband.com\/radioshow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}