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2007-04-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve White 2007-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Unique Honolulu history, Thanks Don..always got a lift from you and the band. RIP DON

Caught his act in Waikiki [Honolulu] in the 70s, once with her highness and another with some rock band friends from the mainland. [leaving out the sad ones] The good memories of Hawaii = party, surf, flying around the islands, diving, fishing, bearded clams and ..did I say party?

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-15 06:10|| 2007-04-15 06:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Donald Tai Loy Ho, who is was Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.

Fixed that for 'em. He isn't anything more than a legend now (my grandparents used to love Don Ho and mercilessly forced us kids to watch him whenever he was on TV).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-04-15 12:25|| 2007-04-15 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Went to a Don Ho show in the first couple days of 2002. He'd been sick or otherwise MIA for a while, and this was his first concert back. It was a little sad, since it was held in a smallish banquet room, and was only half full. You got the feeling Don wasn't the draw he used to be.

He sat at a desk and twiddled knobs, and occasionally sang. Most of the singing was done by other people. There was a little round Portuguese guy with an enormous voice, who was terrific. And a Japanese (I think) banjo player who sang "Locky Top". No kidding. Good player, but maybe he should pick other material.

Don sang "Tiny Bubbles", his signature tune, and confessed that he hated the song. Toward the end he sang "Born Free" (I believe it was), and during the song -- in the actual middle of the phrase -- he was talking on the phone. We couldn't hear what he was saying into the phone, but we guessed he was ordering his post-show pizza:

Cause yoooou're -- large sausage and mushroom -- boooorn -- Italian sausage this time, dammit -- freeeeeeee -- and an order of crazy bread.

I enjoyed the show, in an anthropological sort of way, but I wished I could've seen it in an outdoor tiki hut with a bunch of sloshed Midwesterners in leis. My mistake, I realize now, was in not being drunker at the time.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-04-15 12:56|| 2007-04-15 12:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Don Ho Dead at 76

I blame Imus.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-15 16:55|| 2007-04-15 16:55|| Front Page Top

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