1964 I Remember Blanding Signed? Paul Page and His Paradise Music Mono Poor Cond for Sale

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1964 I Remember Blanding Signed? Paul Page and His Paradise Music Mono Poor Cond For Sale

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1964 I Remember Blanding Signed? Paul Page and His Paradise Music Mono Poor Cond:
$345.00

This is a mono vinyl album released in 1964. The reverse of the sleeve may or may not have been signed by Paul Page; the inscription is dated 1968. The inscription does appear to me to be contemporary with the date. Please do your own research to form your own opinion on this question. The vinyl record itself is in Poor condition, with numerous scratches and smudge marks (untested). This item was acquired at a local estate sale here in OC, CA.

Paul Page (1910-1997) — poet, pagan, and playboy of Polynesian pop and Hapa Haole exotica. Paul Page and his Paradise Music entertained in Polynesian themed restaurants all over Southern California from the late ’30s to the mid-60s, then all the way out to the Kona Coast during the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Paul Page was a singer, piano player, bandleader, writer/composer, radio, and TV host, artist of oils, professional basketball player, and much more. He published many albums during the 1950s-60s and wrote hundreds of songs. Paul Page is really the only one to mix actual, authentic Hawaiian music and other Polynesian and Pacific Ocean influences, with the nomadic feel of the seafaring Anglo, working, sailor man with a sense of American pop sophistication, based in jazz-age.

Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894–June 9, 1957) was an American poet, sometimes described as the "poet laureate of Hawaii." He was also a journalist, cartoonist, author and speaker.

Finding work as an artist in an advertising agency, Blanding published poetry daily in the Honolulu Star Bulletin for an advertiser between 1921 and 1923. These featured local people and events, and became well-known and popular – whether because of or in spite of always mentioning the Aji-No-Moto brand of MSG.

The popularity of these ad-poems led Blanding to follow the advice of newspaper colleagues by publishing a collection of his poetry in 1923. When his privately published 2000 copies quickly sold out, he followed it with a commercially published edition the same year, and with additional verse and prose books. For his fifth book in 1928, he no longer used a local or West Coast publisher, but the New York publisher Dodd, Mead & Company. The result, Vagabond's House, was reviewed promptly by The New York Times, and was a great commercial success. By 1948 it went through nearly fifty printings in several editions that together sold over 150,000 copies.

Blanding was nicknamed in the press as the "Vagabond Poet"and the "Poet Laureate of Aji-No-Moto".

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1964 I Remember Blanding Signed? Paul Page and His Paradise Music Mono Poor Cond For Sale

1964 I Remember Blanding Signed? Paul Page and His Paradise Music Mono Poor Cond: $345.00

1964 I Remember Blanding Signed? Paul Page and His Paradise Music Mono Poor Cond:
$345.00