Buddy Fo had been an entertainer most of his life. He started out as a young man by putting together a four-part harmony group called The Invitations. They regularly entertained with such notable artists as Gabby Pahinui, Martin Denny, Andy Williams and Don Ho. They were the first group out of Hawaii to go to Los Angeles and record in a major recording studio. The Invitations recordings are still considered a major achievement in the history of Hawaiian music. Buddy went on to become a headliner/stand-up entertainer in Waikiki for years. During this time frame, the top three entertainers in Waikiki were; Don Ho, Kui Lee and Buddy Fo. Buddy eventually moved to Maui where he once again became a headliner at the Kaanapali Beach hotel for five years and then a Hawaiian cowboy show at the Maui Tropical Plantation for ten years. He was even the top radio personality for fifteen years on Maui radio, known as, "The Maui Bud". Buddy was called out of retirement by Don Ho, who told him that his expertise in music and knowledge of a time gone by should be shared. Buddy joined the Don Ho show and then went on to perform with his wife, Sammi, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel's Mai Tai Bar. In 2003, he won a Na Hoku Lifetime Achievement Award and had his final album nominated for a 2006 Na Hoku. Buddy passed away in 2011 and is missed by many music fans around the world. Of the many songs that received a great deal of radio airplay in Hawaii was "Malia My Tita" off of his 1965 album "Kiss Me Love".
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Buddy Fo (1965)
Buddy Fo had been an entertainer most of his life. He started out as a young man by putting together a four-part harmony group called The Invitations. They regularly entertained with such notable artists as Gabby Pahinui, Martin Denny, Andy Williams and Don Ho. They were the first group out of Hawaii to go to Los Angeles and record in a major recording studio. The Invitations recordings are still considered a major achievement in the history of Hawaiian music. Buddy went on to become a headliner/stand-up entertainer in Waikiki for years. During this time frame, the top three entertainers in Waikiki were; Don Ho, Kui Lee and Buddy Fo. Buddy eventually moved to Maui where he once again became a headliner at the Kaanapali Beach hotel for five years and then a Hawaiian cowboy show at the Maui Tropical Plantation for ten years. He was even the top radio personality for fifteen years on Maui radio, known as, "The Maui Bud". Buddy was called out of retirement by Don Ho, who told him that his expertise in music and knowledge of a time gone by should be shared. Buddy joined the Don Ho show and then went on to perform with his wife, Sammi, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel's Mai Tai Bar. In 2003, he won a Na Hoku Lifetime Achievement Award and had his final album nominated for a 2006 Na Hoku. Buddy passed away in 2011 and is missed by many music fans around the world. Of the many songs that received a great deal of radio airplay in Hawaii was "Malia My Tita" off of his 1965 album "Kiss Me Love".
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Trickster (1977)
The musical group Trickster released two albums between 1977 and 1981 on Jet Records that have long been a staple on The Time Machine broadcast. Guitarist Phil Bates and pianist Colin Hewinson composed the songs. Drummer Paul Elliot and bassist Mike Sheppard made up the rest of this talented quartet. Mike Sheppard had departed the band before the second album and was replaced by bassist John Fincham. Guitarist Michael Groth rounded out the band when it from being a quartet to a quintet. The song "Miles And Miles Away" is off of their first album.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from John Alagia (2007)
The Maui radio airwaves were introduced to John Alagia's "Honey Come Home" in early 2007. John had featured his song on his MySpace Music profile and The Time Machine Radio Crew immediately started playing it on the air and began to get heavy airplay on a handful of Maui radio stations and has remained one of the most played songs for the last five years on The Time Machine broadcast. The arrangement of the song has been stated by radio hosts Summer Blue, Jenny Leong and Michael McCartney as a tune that would have easily been on "Beatles 65". It has all the love and affection behind it like any Beatles classic which truly makes "Honey Come Home" a timeless song. The music world will have to wait for John Alagia to release an album because he is so busy behind the recording console as a producer and engineer for other artists like Rachael Yamagata, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Lifehouse, Mandy Moore, Madi Diaz, Terra Naomi, Ben Lee, Liz Phair, Katherine McPhee, Vertical Horizon, Mieka Pauley, Brett Dennon, Josh Kelly, Evermore, BoDeans, Shawn Colvin, Ben Folds Five, Lenka and the Dave Matthews Band. The song was featured on the motion picture soundtrack of the 2007 remake of "The Heartbreak Kid" starring Ben Stiller.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Welcome to Soufflé Pop. Serving Pop Soufflés For Your Listening Pleasure...
Soufflé Pop was coined during a radio interview on The Time Machine, a daily broadcast on the island of Maui, between host Michael McCartney and singer-songwriter Michael Oliver. In discussing the musical influences and songwriting craft behind the 2011 album "Yin & Yanxiety" by Michael Oliver & The Sacred Band, Oliver mentioned the word soufflé when describing putting a song together. This resulted in McCartney suggesting to create yet another musical niche genre called "Soufflé Pop".
Soufflé Pop would bring a number of influences to the musical table including; Baroque Pop (The Left Banke, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Sagittarius, The Bee Gees [late sixties/early seventies]), MOR Pop (Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Lee Hazelwood, Harry Nilsson, The Carpenters), Power Pop (Raspberries, Badfinger, The Knack, Mike Viola & Candy Butchers), Singer-Songwriter (Laura Nyro, Carole King, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Aimee Mann, Rachael Yamagata, Billy Joel, Rupert Holmes), Bubblegum (Archies, Josie & The Pussycats, Bay City Rollers, Tommy Roe, The Lemon Pipers), Rockabilly (Robert Gordon, Stray Cats, Marshall Crenshaw), Sunshine Pop (The Cowsills, The Association, Small Circle of Friends, Curt Boettcher, Millennium), Classic Sixties & Seventies Pop, "The Three B's" that Richard Carpenter cited as major influences (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach) and overall melodic rock and pop that can be a near whisper of raw emotion to a full blown orchestral arrangement or simply the loudest joyful jangle guitar and power chords that deliver the musical goods (The Who, The Kinks). Beatles inspired bands who who continued the eclectic sounds of the Fab Four into their own stamp after the Beatles went their separate ways (Electric Light Orchestra, Klaatu, Cheap Trick, Pilot, Supertramp).
We don't know if this term for a musical genre has already been thought up in the past since we couldn't find anything on the internet (aside from a title used by the band Muse) but we figured that since this began with a conversation between rocker Michael Oliver and radio host Michael McCartney, we might as well kick off this website with a song from Michael Oliver & The Sacred Band. Oliver confessed to having done his musical mining from The Archies, Fleetwood Mac and Marshal Crenshaw for "Tell Me What You're Dreaming", a song which includes the vocal talents of Alex Lynne making a beautiful harmony that is meant to be turned up and have you sing along.
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