Hawaiian Love Thoughts

The other day we went to The Last Record Store. So far their dollar vinyl bin has not let me down. This time out I bought a record called Hawaiian Favorites. Roughly 23% of all Hawaiian records you can buy for a dollar have this title, the rest are called Hawaiian Holiday. My first Hawaiian record was, in fact, Hawaiian Holiday, red vinyl, given to me by that nice boy.

This week's catch turned out completely fabulous: the recording itself is of pseudo Hawaiian wacky Speedy West style slurpy steel, and the music is a rip off of compositions that everybody knows, given titles that would not raise the eyebrows of someone looking for royalties. Would you suspect that Hawaiian Love Thoughts was Blue Hawaii? Anyway, the jacket is almost better than the music.

Did you know that recordings on the Curio label have tonal qualities paralleled only in the most expensive recordings? Well you do now. Curio is the kind of company that will tell you the brand of mics that were used to record, the specs for the lathe that was used to master, and will let you, the owner of a Curio recording, know to periodically clean the record with a soft cloth. They won't tell you which band made the sounds on the record, but whatever on that small detail. I can't wait to listen to side two.