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Paul Page and his Paradise Music

Pacific Paradise (2LP)

LabelSubliminal Sounds

Format2LP

GenreLibrary/Soundtracks

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Comes in thick, magazine-style format. 32-page booklet. Paul Page -- poet, pagan, and playboy of Polynesian pop and Hapa Haole exotica. The music on this unusual exotic album, takes you right to the ocean's edge, mingles you with jungle drums and animals, the booming surf, seagulls, and ocean liners in a coral kaleidoscope of sounds. This is the real deal authentic tiki bar soundtrack. Paul Page and his Paradise Music entertained in Polynesian themed restaurants all over Southern California from the late '30s to the mid-60s, then all the way out to the Kona Coast during the late '60s and early '70s. The whole time, he kept leaving behind these little independent albums, recorded specifically for the purpose of selling them to the people coming to his small venue shows... which, when you think about it, is basically what all the most-worthy bands to dig do these days, outside the doting eye of the lame record industry. Dude was so ahead of his time! Paul Page was a singer, piano player, bandleader, writer/composer, radio, and TV host, artist of oils, professional basketball player, and much more. He published many albums during the 1950s-60s and wrote hundreds of songs.

His story has never previously been told and his original recordings are very rare, in fact some of them are completely unknown and undocumented, and much sought after by collectors. Paul Page is really the only one to mix actual, authentic Hawaiian music and other Polynesian and Pacific Ocean influences, with the nomadic feel of the seafaring Anglo working sailor man with a sense of American pop sophistication, based in jazz-age. It is his cheerful insistence to employ every known cliché from the Polynesian pop dictionary that makes his stylings so charming to today's tiki lounger. Subliminal Sounds now brings you the full Paul Page saga on this comprehensive compilation. Includes a 32-page booklet with in-depth liner notes by author and pop historian Domenic Priore, with a foreword by author and urban archeologist Sven Kirsten.

Details
Cat. number: SUBL-124LP
Year: 2018

Format

Gatefold cover ilation. Includes a 32-page booklet with in-depth liner notes by author and pop historian Domenic Priore, with a foreword by author and urban archeologist Sven Kirsten".

Release notes

Gatefold cover "Clear red vinyl. Limited edition of 300 copies . Comes with magazine-style format 32-page booklet. Paul Page — poet, pagan, and playboy of Polynesian pop and Hapa Haole exotica. The music on this unusual exotic album, takes you right to the ocean’s edge, mingles you with jungle drums and animals, the booming surf, seagulls, and ocean liners in a coral kaleidoscope of sounds. This is the real deal authentic tiki bar soundtrack. Paul Page and his Paradise Music entertained in…

Tracklist
A1Pacific Paradise2:55
A2China Nights2:05
A3When Sam Goes Back To Samoa1:55
A4Beyond The Reef1:30
A5The Reef Is Calling2:30
A6Matey1:50
A7Pieces Of Eight2:00
A8Ports O' Call1:45
A9My Fiji Island Queen2:00
A10Castaway1:32
B1Bali Hai1:55
B2The Big Island Says Aloha2:10
B3Sweet Someone2:30
B4Leaves From My Grass House2:25
B5Chicken Kona Kaai2:15
B6Nani Waimea2:00
B7Ala Wai Blues2:19
B8Maui Chimes2:10
B9Please Don't Sing Aloha To Me2:40
C1Hawaiian Honeymoon1:45
C2Blue Lagoon2:55
C3Au-We, Wahine2:10
C4Pago Pago2:40
C5Kissy Ling3:01
C6Sakura - Pagoda Bells2:52
C7Come Back To Hawaii2:00
C8The Sea Is Calling2:45
D1Passport To Paradise2:02
D2The Big Luau In The Sky6:40
D3Mele Of Forgotten Men (A Chanted Story)4:00
D4It's All Wicky Wacky In Hawaii2:00
Pacific Farewell Medley
D5aNow Is The Hour (Maori)
D5bPhilippine Farewell (Philippines)
D5cSayonara (Japan)
D5dE Maururu A Vai (Tahiti)
D5eAloha Oe (Hawaii)
Credits
Paul Page
Artwork By
David Aje Forsberg
Cover, Design, Edited By
Sven Kirsten
Liner Notes, Photography
Domenic Priore
Liner Notes, Research
Paul Sutton
Photography By
Håkan Åkesson
Remastered By
Stefan Kéry
Research, Design