Edited from the 2nd episode of "Hawaii calls" Hilo Hattie sings her heart out from the Makapu'u beach park lookout with "Mānana" aka "Rabbit island" in the background
Aloha Hilo Hattie and Kokua Films Hawaii !!!! Thanks for posting this ole video of Hilo Hattie !!! I remember her as a youngster~~~so happy and good fun !!!! Thanks again for this blessed memory and this video !!!! Robert S.J. Hu Sept. 16, 2020.
I was maybe 11 or 12 years old, living on Oahu back in about 1955/56. Our class at at school (Nimitz Elementary) learned to do this dance, both boys and girls. I can remember the first few lines, if badly. Those wre the best two years as a boy.
I, too, attended Nimitz Elementary and Pearl Harbor Elementary schools back in the 1950s. In the 1960-1961, school year, I went to Aliamanu. My family moved around a lot as my dad was in the Navy. In March 2019, my wife and I moved to Molokai. We bought a house in Maunaloa and live here in retirement. Full-time residents of our 50th State!
@@andymckane7271 Fascinating, to meet someone who paralleled - if only for a moment - my life. Yes, my mother was married to a navy man back then. After I 'grew up' I counted the MANY moves and schools up to my 18th year. About 35-40 moves, and roughly 40 different schools. Kinda messed me up a bit. I never knew what the teachers were talking about since everywhere we moved the schools had different books and schedules. Did you live in Radford Terrace on Oahu? And what year(s)?
@@robertgraham399 I lived in Radford Terrance. We lived on McMurray Circle, as I recall. Probably lived there in 1959 and 1960. My parents, without any business sense whatsoever, purchased a house in Foster Village. We moved from Radford Terrace to 1337 Kukila Street in Foster V. We lived on Kukila Street in 1961. That same year we moved to the New York City area when my dad left the Navy for a residency in Radiology at Bronx VA hospital. When my parents sold the house in Foster Village, some months after we had arrived in New York, they sold it at a loss! Three years later they did the same with the house in Crestwood NY. After that we lived in Salt Lake City for two years. Once again they bought a house. And once again they lost money on the house. As a child, I always loved Navy housing. We lived in a Quonset Hut near P.H. once or twice between the two times we lived on Oahu (mid 1950's, and again in 1959),. I was born in 1948. I was eleven years old and living on Oahu when Hawaii became our 50th state. I attended 19 schools thru high school. But I got a great education, as far as I'm concerned (despite poor grades) from all the different places we lived.
A classic! She had so much life and energy, but she must have been lip syncing. I doubt they had the tech back then to record outdoors without all the background noise.
+Jody Y Most likely she did lip sync this however, seeing how the Lavalier Microphone small enough to be hidden while attached to the body did not exist until 1953 and was 0.75 inches and required a cord to connect to the audio recorder - there are claims that the wireless mic this size and smaller came out in 1951 then 1953 and 1957 by numerous inventors and companies which would have been time enough for this production to use one for this clip however the first registered patent for wireless body mic was in 1964. Hawaii calls ran from 1961-1970 so it could have been possible but I'm sure you are right, besides lip syncing was more easier if the person could pull it off and fool the viewer/s.
+KOKUA FILMS HAWAII I figure even if she wore a wireless body mic, it would have picked up all the movement of her clothes, and since they had to record the other singers and instruments without picking up the sound of the wind, waves or traffic, it would have been much easier to do it all in a studio. In all of the old musical films, the singing was always dubbed so they could control the sound and the editing of the shots. Mahalo for all the interesting info and insights you provide!
