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...inspection for commercial use), the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (Hawaii Kai will replace large crop areas), the Hawaii Yacht Club (he wanted to call his club the Hawaii Kai Yacht Club), the airlines (he threatened to start his own airline to the mainland), and his radio station's disc jockey, J. Akuhead Pupule, Hawaii's most popular disc jockey-whom Kaiser fired last week. Asked the Honolulu Advertiser in an editorial: "Who's running Hawaii?" The paper indicated that Kaiser was-and it did not like...
...minor complaints must be filed, one of them however having nothing to do with the quality of the music. The piano accompaniment, although sparingly used, detracts some what from the general excellence of the disc. While they may be perfectly fine in live performances, the pianos, at least in this recording, tinkle and boom like refugees from an amateur music hall. Also, the picture on the front of the album, while it is a striking photograph of the Glee Club in action, is definitely not a portrait of the Glee Club members (1959-60), that made this recording. But then...
Travelers who have seen such strikingly dissimilar buildings as Cairo's Nile Hilton hotel, Los Angeles' disc-shaped Sports Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...
...twenty songs on the disc are about equally divided between the comic and the sentimental, with two tentative rock and roll numbers. The Dunces make swirling noises for the sentimental songs, and go bum-bum for the comic. Some of each group were written by Dunces, but this doesn't make much difference...
...Glee Club and Choral Society have just issued a 12-inch record of Sixteenth Century music, mostly Palestrina, with selections of Byrd, Lassus, and Amerio (Cambridge, CRS405). Some of this is a reissue of an earlier 10-inch disc. The major section, which is new, is Palestrina's Stabat Mater, sung with freshness and purity...