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Grass Skirt Records
artwork, layout Claire Armstrong
artwork, layout Patty Graves
artwork, layout Robert Armstrong
restoration [sound restoration] Ted Kendall
Pressed By Downstream Ltd
In 1925 SOL HOOPII recorded his first 78s for the obscure Hollywood Record Company. These highly influential performances forever changed the face of Hawaiian steel guitar and are reissued here for the first time, digitally remastered, together with the remaining Hawaiian recordings for the label by Coppock's Hawaiians, Charles Fredericks and Charlie Diamond. - Liner Notes 2007


The artists appeared on the original shellac recordings under different names. Sol Hoopii: Waikiki Hawaiian Trio, Sol Hoopii and His Hawaiian Trio, Hawaiian Syncopators, Hollywood Trio. -- Coppock's Hawaiians: Coppock's Hawaiian Quartet. -- Charles Frederick's Hawaiians: Charles Frederick's Honolulu Syncopators and Hawaiian Wayfarers - Information was taken from the booklet of the CD.

Barcode: 827912061864
Rights Society: MCPS



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