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Hawaiian Hula Song w/Steel Guitar: Kalua Islanders with Maurice and Esme Ash - 1940's
Weirdo Video Exclusive A seductive beauty does the hula while a duo play on guitar and slide. During the last third of the song, the rhythm picks up, becoming swingy. Where Hawaiian traditional and jazz meet, it fuses into a pseudo-western swing. Although the soundie Hawaiian Hula Song (1947) has repeatedly been identified as featuring Ray Kinney, with the dancer supposedly being Ana Lani, these are actually the Kalua Islanders with Maurice and Esme Ash.This soundie was recorded in England. Staged as a moody Hawaiian night, it opens with Esme dancing the hula very seductively as Maurice, accompanying himself on rhythm guita, sings "Au-we Wahine," written by Paul Page. After an English language introduction in praise of the girl who dances on the beach, it goes into an Hawaiian language lyric, as moodily done as the atmospherics of the night setting. Sitting stage left beside Maurice, on Hawaiian steel guitar, is Ronnie Saunders. The instrumental that follows the vocals is an up-tempo arrangement of "South Sea Lullabies" to give greater attention to Ronnie Saunders' Hawaiian guitar.
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