Rare Recording & Label COPPOCK'S HAWAIIAN QUARTET Sunset Records 78 STEEL GUITAR

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Coppock's Hawaiian Quartette
on SUNSET RECORDS (1925)

John Coppock was an early Hawaiian Steel Guitarist.

 I've been reviewing a large collection of 78 records and this is the rarest recording I've come across so far. Condition seems Very Good but I'm not familiar with record grading. I'm also without a record player and I made no attempt to clean it. The label, for what its worth, is also in Very Good shape - free from much rubbing or wear. Write with any questions. If you're unhappy - returns can be made.

I was only able to track down the recordings by Coppock's Hawaiian Quartette as having been reproduced on a CD compilation released in 2007 titled: Sol Hoopii In Hollywood - His First Recordings 1925. There's absolutely no "Coppock's Hawaiians" or John Coppock recordings I could find on youtube or anywhere else on the internet.

The songs are: Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again" and "The Prisoner's Song". Recorded on the rare Sunset label in Los Angeles in 1925.

Here's some pared down info I found from various sources on John Coppock:

"THE TINY TOWN of Peshastin, Washington, was the base for a homegrown Hawaiian music group formed by guitarist John Coppock & his high-school pals around 1919. The positive reception they got after playing a few gigs there & in nearby burgs like Leavenworth and Wenatchee encouraged him enough to head off to Hollywood in 1923. It was there that he formed a new quartet and began climbing the ladder to stardom. By 1924 Coppock's Hawaiians had added one genuine Hawaiian musician -- the ukulele ace, Dave Mahuka -- and soon scored their own weekly radio show. In 1925 the band cut a 78rpm disc for one of the West Coast's very first labels, Sunset Records, & they became one of the top acts of their type on the So-Cal scene." 

"In 1923 Coppock headed off to California where he ended up performing with Roscoe Karns' Bird of Paradise extravaganza, with Dick McIntire, and for Irene West's show. By 1925 ~ in the midst of the expanding Hawaiian music craze ~ his brother Paul joined him in Hollywood, they formed Coppock's Hawaiians and they played lots of prominent gigs. "Johnny" Coppock began to achieve notoriety as a steeler, accepted opportunities to audition for the movies and a position with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, and befriended many top musicians ~ including the Sons of the Pioneers and two of the most famous Hawaiian steel guitarists of the era, Andy Iona and Sol Ho'opi'i. Both Ho'opi'i's group and Coppock's Hawaiians made a bit of history that same year when they each cut recordings for the Hollywood and Sunset Records family of labels, which were one of the very first half-dozen active labels on the West Coast. For their part, Coppock's Hawaiians recorded "Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again" and "The Prisoner's Song." [Note: the Sunset label mistakenly credits Mahuka as vocalist rather than brother Paul Coppock".
 
78 Record Measures 10 Inches.
Condition: Very Good. Please Examine Photos.

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