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In "The Singing Cab Driver" Myrtle K. Hilo has recorded the kind of songs which are heard not perhaps at a tourist luau in Waikiki but more likely at an informal party at someone's home. These are fun songs mostly and Myrtle has fun singing them. Some of them are sentimental, though . . . and these you'll hear during the last hours of that Hawaiian party when most of the guests have gone and memories of "Sweet Someone" somehow seem appropriate.
There are two brand new songs — "Keiki No Punalu'u" which tells of the affection of a young boy for a baby bird which he raised to adulthood and "Waiahole E" describing the effects of a potent reddish beverage favored by residents of Waiahole on Oahu. Both songs were written by Myrtle's uncle, Albert Woodward. The rest of the album is made up of "rascal" songs, the enjoyment of which is derived as much from their fine rhythm as from the risqué meaning of the Hawaiian words.
So if you would like to attend a real Hawaiian party, raise your glass high and join the fun with Myrtle K. Hilo, the "singing cab driver." |