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Hawaii Calls: Webley Edwards presents A Merry Hawaiian Christmas...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

This endeavor stars Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani, a citizen remarkable, if not for his voice, then at least for courage in signing his kindergarten drawings. The album also features a number of other bilinguists, who sing every few lines of most of the cuts in "ear-caressing" Hawaiian and the rest in plain old English. The result is jarring, to say the least; not to disparage our compatriots to the southwest, but consider the following phonetic interpretation of "Jingle Bells...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

Then there's the song which seems to have been translated from the English into Hawaiian and back into English by someone who speaks only Finnish. Suffice it to say that these are the key ingredients in this version of the "Twelve Days of Christmas...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...water polo, a holdover from an era when the team was not a team but really just a semi-serious club. With his departure Hall leaves the team primarily in the hands of a California contingent. Guerra, Munatones, Phil Atkinson and Graham all hail from the Golden State and Hawaiian Fasi also comes from the West Coast. With this central core the aquamen should be able to continue the team's progress...

Author: By Marcol L. Quazzo, | Title: Houston Hall | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...lightweight first boat certainly was not dressed for the harsh conditions. All eight rowers and the coxswain sported bright Hawaiian sports shirts, each a variation of the loud floral motif...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Men's Lightweights Sweep Tail Novice Heavies Place 4th, 5th | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

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