1914 1st REC' TOOTS PAKA HAWAIIAN Company Lia Ika Wai / Kaowe Ake COLUMBIA A1571
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A series of great early Hawaiian Recordings on 78 rpm records
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The very first record by Toots Paka Hawaiian Company recorded on 6/18/1914 in New York
Hawaiian Guitar and flute, tenor singing
July is credited with introducing the Hawaiian steel guitar to the United States, and Juliana, his mother, was said to have been a favorite singer of Queen Lili’uokalani.
Lia ika wai mapuna A lonely spring
Kaowe ake kai The roaring sea
Toots Paka Hawaiian Company (Musical group)
Description: Vocal and instrumental ensemble (Hawaiian)
Language: Hawaiian
6/18/1914 New York, New York Columbia A1571
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Iolai Kealoha "July" Paka, born in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii, on 31 July 1874; died in Los Angeles County, California on 11 May 1943; married in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on 21 October 1903, Hannah Toots Jones; entertainer.
Perhaps a few people still remember the names of Island musicians July Paka (and his wife, Hannah “Toots” Paka) and Juliana Walanika.July is credited with introducing the Hawaiian steel guitar to the United States, and Juliana, his mother, was said to have been a favorite singer of Queen Lili’uokalani.
July, educated at the Royal School (originally the Chiefs’ Children’s School), was a courteous and polished gentleman, as well as a fine musician. He sang at Queen Lili’uokalani’s funeral in 1917.
At 24, he took his steel guitar and Hawaiian music to the Mainland in 1899. The Hawaiian musicians played in vaudeville and at expositions, fairs, revivals, clubs and theaters throughout the United States and Canada. While in San Francisco that same year (where he was making a recording at the Edison plant with five other Hawaiian musicians, possibly the first group ever to record Hawaiian music) he met and married Toots Jones, a dancer featured in a touring Broadway show.
Toots learned Hawaiian words and hula, designed costumes deliberately exposing her ankles, used her Big City showmanship and, with July’s music, created the group Toots Paka’s Hawaiians.
They were an instant hit and became one of the most famous touring Hawaiian troupes on the Mainland during the first quarter century.
In 1935, the 11-member “Toots Paka’s Hawaiians” played the high spot of the evening (30 minutes) at the exclusive costume ball in Madison Square Garden. Others on the program were Ethel and John Barrymore, Eva LaGalliene, the Dolly Sisters and Anna Pavlova.
Toots and July were retired by the 1930s. They died a year apart, in Santa Monica, Calif., where they lived for almost 20 years: Toots in 1942, age 71; and July in 1943, age, 69
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