Wow, that was…just…wow. You can tell how emotional this movie was just from that song. You know how some songs are just classics? This will be one that Koreans will know of and sing forever, as long as there is a Korea.
I realized in the wee hours that I needed to do some serious music therapy in the wake of SEVEN DAY QUEEN and my string of finale fatalities.
Auwe! Had you heard the news that Roland Cazimero died a month ago? (No, that was Mahi Beamer!) Eddie Kamae passed in January, methinks. Auwe!
My favorite version of “Kimo Hula” is by Dennis Pavao, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’d heard him perform at Kanikapila circa 1986 or so. What a voice!!! — Actually, I love Mahi Beamer’s tenor falsetto. It’s apropos to hear him sing his grandma’s composition.
I really needed to hear the Makaha Sons, Peter Moon Band, and Rev. Dennis Kamakahi (whom I heard in NYC about 10-15 years ago). I got to attend Kanikapila at UH-Manoa’s Andrews Amphitheater in the late ’80s-early ’90s. Under the stars, with a nahenahe rain coming down the valley. I thought I was gonna have a heart attack when I saw Brother Frank Hewitt’s kane kahiko hula. Holy smokes. It was early in his career, and raised a lot of eyebrows. Now it’s no big thing. I saw some videos of his halau at Merry Monarch a while back — I think on YT.
Oh! I stumbled across Andy Bumatai’s YT channel. He has short “Pidgin 101” videos that are reminiscent of Peppo’s Pidgin to Da Max!!! Hilarious! I think I saw him performing stand-up at Ala Moana the week after I arrived in Honolulu in 1980. Local ethnic humor totally flummoxed me. He discusses it in several of these videos. (I went to college one town over from Newark, NJ. Island humor would have been fightin’ words back home.) Uncle Andy dispenses lots of great food for thought. It is so good to hear his local saturi. Dang, I just realized that Pidgin has its own version of aegyo, too. Omo!
I heard Jon and Randy play at Ala Moana in 1980, too. Got to hear the Makaha Sons at the East-West Center. The Hawaiian Renaissance was in full swing by the time I got there. Alas, Gabby passed a couple of weeks before Kanikapila the first fall I was in Hawai’i, so I never got to hear him play live, but I did get to hear Martin and Bla. What an incredible musical family.
Sorry to blather. It’s nice to talk story with someone who loves Kimo Henderson as much as I do. My samchoon used to teach at UH-Hilo, and I got over there a couple of times to visit. I love the Big Island. Mom’s cousin used to live up near Kamuela. I loved it there in cattle country.
Sorry for the late reply. This is awesome! Thank you for sharing <3. I had to ask my mom about the names and the bands because she is more familiar with them :).
I'm only familiar with Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and his "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" medley after he died.
I've been listening to more Kimo Henderson songs thanks to you and my mom. She loves him to pieces so she kept a lot of his older songs.
Many of the standard bearers of the Hawaiian Renaissance in music and hula have been entering the realm of spirit in recent years. I’m just grateful I got to hear and see some of them perform.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the slack key. Do you maybe mean Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawaii? (The incomparable Gabby Pahinui was a member, as was a teenage Dennis Kamakahi.)
“Kimo Henderson Hula” was composed by Helen Desha Beamer and is a paean to the hospitable home of one of her neighbors on the Big Island, James Henderson.
If you like IZ’s music, be sure to check out the links to the Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau, the group with whom he performed before going solo. No ka ‘oi! “Hawai’i ’78” and “Rusty Old Steampipes” are two of their songs that I first heard in 1980, and they still give me chickenskin. I included ” Hawaii ’78” from the terrific album Live at Hank’s Place in Kaimuki, Honolulu. IZ’s hyung, Skippy, performs on it as well. All I can say is these guys sound like angels. “Mehameha/White Sandy Beach” is simply stunning.
Enjoy the music for a cheap trip to the Islands — minus the jet lag! 😉
Rod MacDonald (acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead vocal): “Stop the War” Fast Folk Musical Magazine, v3 n6/7 (Aug/Sept 1986), 5:16.
Recorded live at The Bottom Line, New York City, 10 May 1986 (second show).
The Band:
Mark Dann, electric guitar
Jeff Hardy, string bass
Howie Wyeth, drums
The Ensemble:
Shawn Colvin, John Gorka, Jack Hardy, Lucy Kaplanski, Christine Lavin, Rod MacDonald, David Massengill, Nikki Matheson, Richard Meyer, Willie Nininger, Germana Pucci
The Crew:
Stage Manager: Beverly Bark
Recording Engineers: Bill Kollar, Jay Rosen
The link to the rollicking live version of “Stop the War” doesn’t work. Sorry! It had been reachable via the Smithsonian Institution and Folkways Records websites.
Rod MacDonald’s studio version of “Stop the War” appears on his album White Buffalo.
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 12:07 PM
[ENG SUB] 160424 Fantastic Duo
Lee Sun Hee feat. Kyuhyun – “Fate” Live
[KING AND THE CLOWN OST]
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x46yzsu
Ally
August 13, 2017 at 5:13 AM
Wow, that was…just…wow. You can tell how emotional this movie was just from that song. You know how some songs are just classics? This will be one that Koreans will know of and sing forever, as long as there is a Korea.
PakalanaPikake
August 15, 2017 at 10:26 PM
@Ally,
If there were one song that I could learn to sing in Korean, Lee Sun-hee’s “Fate” is it. Well, that and “Ijen Anneyeong.”
IMHO, “Fate” is a perfect distillation of THE KING AND THE CLOWN.
PakalanaPikake
September 2, 2017 at 4:53 PM
Here’s another link that still works. With warmest aloha to KyuHyunVN (Jo KyuHyun’s Vietnamese fansite).
https://www.facebook.com/KyuHyunVN/videos/983797678371341/
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 11:28 AM
이선희(Lee Sun Hee) – 인연(Fate) [Kor&Eng Lyrics] – Live
[THE KING AND THE CLOWN OST]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqt_d39dBw
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 10:02 AM
The Brothers Cazimero – “Home in the Islands”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKn9MXwd6GA
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 9:57 AM
Don MacLean: “Oh My, What A Shame,” Don MacLean (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuTDTne54hg
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 7:17 AM
Mahi Beamer: “Kimo Henderson Hula” by Helen Desha Beamer, Hawaiian Classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IypYI_wHqs
kiara
August 12, 2017 at 12:36 PM
Love it! Thanks for sharing <3.
My favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRGZN849nA and the only song that I can really dance to. It's the surfer in me I guess lol.
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 4:00 PM
Aloha, Kiara!
I realized in the wee hours that I needed to do some serious music therapy in the wake of SEVEN DAY QUEEN and my string of finale fatalities.
Auwe! Had you heard the news that Roland Cazimero died a month ago? (No, that was Mahi Beamer!) Eddie Kamae passed in January, methinks. Auwe!
My favorite version of “Kimo Hula” is by Dennis Pavao, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’d heard him perform at Kanikapila circa 1986 or so. What a voice!!! — Actually, I love Mahi Beamer’s tenor falsetto. It’s apropos to hear him sing his grandma’s composition.
I really needed to hear the Makaha Sons, Peter Moon Band, and Rev. Dennis Kamakahi (whom I heard in NYC about 10-15 years ago). I got to attend Kanikapila at UH-Manoa’s Andrews Amphitheater in the late ’80s-early ’90s. Under the stars, with a nahenahe rain coming down the valley. I thought I was gonna have a heart attack when I saw Brother Frank Hewitt’s kane kahiko hula. Holy smokes. It was early in his career, and raised a lot of eyebrows. Now it’s no big thing. I saw some videos of his halau at Merry Monarch a while back — I think on YT.
Oh! I stumbled across Andy Bumatai’s YT channel. He has short “Pidgin 101” videos that are reminiscent of Peppo’s Pidgin to Da Max!!! Hilarious! I think I saw him performing stand-up at Ala Moana the week after I arrived in Honolulu in 1980. Local ethnic humor totally flummoxed me. He discusses it in several of these videos. (I went to college one town over from Newark, NJ. Island humor would have been fightin’ words back home.) Uncle Andy dispenses lots of great food for thought. It is so good to hear his local saturi. Dang, I just realized that Pidgin has its own version of aegyo, too. Omo!
I heard Jon and Randy play at Ala Moana in 1980, too. Got to hear the Makaha Sons at the East-West Center. The Hawaiian Renaissance was in full swing by the time I got there. Alas, Gabby passed a couple of weeks before Kanikapila the first fall I was in Hawai’i, so I never got to hear him play live, but I did get to hear Martin and Bla. What an incredible musical family.
Sorry to blather. It’s nice to talk story with someone who loves Kimo Henderson as much as I do. My samchoon used to teach at UH-Hilo, and I got over there a couple of times to visit. I love the Big Island. Mom’s cousin used to live up near Kamuela. I loved it there in cattle country.
kiara
August 15, 2017 at 9:57 AM
Sorry for the late reply. This is awesome! Thank you for sharing <3. I had to ask my mom about the names and the bands because she is more familiar with them :).
I'm only familiar with Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and his "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" medley after he died.
I've been listening to more Kimo Henderson songs thanks to you and my mom. She loves him to pieces so she kept a lot of his older songs.
PakalanaPikake
August 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM
Aloha, Kiara (and your Mom)!
Many of the standard bearers of the Hawaiian Renaissance in music and hula have been entering the realm of spirit in recent years. I’m just grateful I got to hear and see some of them perform.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the slack key. Do you maybe mean Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawaii? (The incomparable Gabby Pahinui was a member, as was a teenage Dennis Kamakahi.)
“Kimo Henderson Hula” was composed by Helen Desha Beamer and is a paean to the hospitable home of one of her neighbors on the Big Island, James Henderson.
If you like IZ’s music, be sure to check out the links to the Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau, the group with whom he performed before going solo. No ka ‘oi! “Hawai’i ’78” and “Rusty Old Steampipes” are two of their songs that I first heard in 1980, and they still give me chickenskin. I included ” Hawaii ’78” from the terrific album Live at Hank’s Place in Kaimuki, Honolulu. IZ’s hyung, Skippy, performs on it as well. All I can say is these guys sound like angels. “Mehameha/White Sandy Beach” is simply stunning.
Enjoy the music for a cheap trip to the Islands — minus the jet lag! 😉
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 6:49 AM
Dennis Pavao: “Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka ‘Aina I Ka Pono” [“The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness”], Ka Leo Ki’eki’e (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILyG-mD-CvQ
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 6:33 AM
Keola and Kapono Beamer: Honolulu City Lights, title track (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akNbC7hcblw
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 6:25 AM
Gabby Pahinui: “Hi’ilawe,” The Best Of the Gabby Band, 1972-1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJu3JUrgnZY
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 6:14 AM
The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band: “Moonlight Lady,”
The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Vol. 1 (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teyfBnDZwTk
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 6:08 AM
The Peter Moon Band, Featuring Cyril Pahinui: “Lepe ʻUlaʻula,” Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsOaeEsh8M
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 5:39 AM
Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau: “Hawaii 78,” Live at Hank’s Place (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI92lW8yUus
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 5:29 AM
Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau: “Mehameha/White Sandy Beach,” Ho’oluana album (1999)
English translation in first comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAeqXnb9beE
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 4:05 AM
Sunday Manoa: “Kawika,” Guave Jam (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0X40GZA_r4&index=24&list=PL558DbmqE_QEtI5AvdSXk7fZYYhAGJDIA
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 3:59 AM
Sons of Hawaii: “E Ku’u Morning Dew,” The Best Of, Volume 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6C5b2VTiAE&index=14&list=PL558DbmqE_QEtI5AvdSXk7fZYYhAGJDIA
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 3:53 AM
Olomana: “Ku’u Home O Kahalu’u,” Like a Seabird in the Wind (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0hkdyU1tY&index=196&list=PL558DbmqE_QEtI5AvdSXk7fZYYhAGJDIA
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 3:40 AM
Country Comfort: “Waimanalo Blues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u0pM8W5KTo&list=PL558DbmqE_QEtI5AvdSXk7fZYYhAGJDIA&index=156
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 3:35 AM
Sons of Hawaii: “Wahine ‘Ilikea,” The Best Of, Volume 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an01NFWLLlE&index=137&list=PL558DbmqE_QEtI5AvdSXk7fZYYhAGJDIA
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 3:24 AM
Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau: “Rusty Old Steampipes,” Makaha Bash 3: Live At The Shell (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahrDqsEU7d8&index=97&list=PL558DbmqE_QEtI5AvdSXk7fZYYhAGJDIA
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 2:22 AM
Jack Hardy: “Houston Street,” Mirror of My Madness album (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bqQtu6lhE&index=2&list=PLfxxWYuig9LyBS1bjRhUczYuihGKxMLes
NYC’s finest folkie. 😉
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 2:15 AM
Rod MacDonald (acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead vocal): “Stop the War”
Fast Folk Musical Magazine, v3 n6/7 (Aug/Sept 1986), 5:16.
Liner notes below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xD-ePbE3U
PakalanaPikake
August 12, 2017 at 2:16 AM
Rod MacDonald (acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead vocal): “Stop the War”
Fast Folk Musical Magazine, v3 n6/7 (Aug/Sept 1986), 5:16.
Recorded live at The Bottom Line, New York City, 10 May 1986 (second show).
The Band:
Mark Dann, electric guitar
Jeff Hardy, string bass
Howie Wyeth, drums
The Ensemble:
Shawn Colvin, John Gorka, Jack Hardy, Lucy Kaplanski, Christine Lavin, Rod MacDonald, David Massengill, Nikki Matheson, Richard Meyer, Willie Nininger, Germana Pucci
The Crew:
Stage Manager: Beverly Bark
Recording Engineers: Bill Kollar, Jay Rosen
Issued by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2004.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/fast-folk-musical-magazine-vol-3-no-7-live-at-the-bottom-line/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian
PDF of full text w/liner notes available from above link.
PakalanaPikake
August 16, 2017 at 12:12 AM
The link to the rollicking live version of “Stop the War” doesn’t work. Sorry! It had been reachable via the Smithsonian Institution and Folkways Records websites.
Rod MacDonald’s studio version of “Stop the War” appears on his album White Buffalo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY7Bf4ji9m8