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AMONG MY HAWAIIAN SOUVENIRS

GENOA KEAWE
An original 49th State records release from 1956
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<Original Liner Notes are presented with the current release>
THE ORIGINAL 1956 LINER NOTES
Genoa Keawe and Hawaiian music are synonymous.  She has ruled the radio lanes and television waves of Hawaii all the ten years she has been singing in public.  Her pleasant personality, innate modesty, pleasing smile, her love for people, and her native style soprano voice have endeared her to all Hawaii.  So popular is her singing that Genoa Keawe and Her Hula Maids have the unique record of performing in the same night club on continuous engagement three and four years on a stretch......

<From the current liner notes...>
Here now firmly in the 21^st Century it is natural to look back over the millennium that was the 20^th Century and compile lists of the best and brightest and most significant people of the previous 100 years.  When it comes to Hawaiian music, Genoa Keawe is unquestionably one of those all-time greats.  Her name alone evokes images of Hawaiian music performed in the traditional style.  Genoa Keawe inspired several generations of Hawaiian entertainers and more than anyone else kept the tradition of female Hawaiian falsetto singing alive.....
<Much more annotation with album>

Everyone’s favorite Aunty passed away on February 25, 2008 at
her home in Papakolea.  She was 89. 

Genoa Keawe may be gone but she will never be forgotten. 
Now, it’s time to go back in time and enjoy Genoa singing 12 classic Hawaiian and hapa-haole standards including her debut recording of “Among My Hawaiian Souvenirs”.  This is the original “49^th State” recording made in 1956.

SONG LISTING - AMONG MY HAWAIIAN SOUVENIRS
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AMONG MY HAWAIIAN SOUVENIRS
MAILE SWING
BEAUTIFUL KAHANA w/Gary Aiko
E MAMA E
LEI ALOHA LEI MAKAMAE w/ Gary Aiko
MY YELLOW GINGER LEI
KAMALANI KEAUKAHA
KE KALI NEI AU w/ Gary Aiko
(HAWAIIAN WEDDING SONG)
OLD PLANTATION
MELEANA E
KALAMAULA
ALOHA OE

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AMONG MY HAWAIIAN SOUVENIRS


JOHN BERGER - HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Among My Hawaiian Souvenirs"
Genoa Keawe
(HanaOla)

No one does reissues of out-of-print Hawaiian records better than Michael Cord's HanaOla Records organization. Keawe made these recordings in 1956, for instance, but the sound quality is excellent. The liner notes include the original annotation along
with five pages of up-to-the-minute background information.
The songs are Hawaiian and hapa-haole standards -- those that were new back in 1956 have since achieved that status -- and Keawe makes each of them her own.
Who could have anticipated then that she'd still be singing them 50 years later?

Aside from the beauty of these timeless performances, it's also interesting to hear how
Keawe holds a single pure note for extended periods on "E Mama E" and "Kalamaula."
These recordings show that she was using that technique years before
"'Alika" became her signature number.

Keawe's three duets with her son, Gary Aiko, are exquisite as well.