78 RPM - Royal Hawaiian Troubadours - Malu Iki Au (Always Ahead) - American Record Company - USA

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Artist:	Royal Hawaiian Troubadours
Label:	American Record Company
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	030975
Date:	1905
Format:	10"
Genre:	Vocal, Folk, World
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
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Early Folk, Ethnic-Hawaiian

Annie Hila (vocals); James Kita, Sam Kupanihi (tenors); Louie Thompson (baritone); with unknown others

Recorded New York, NY 1904 or 1905

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Uploaded By: Mike Gann
Description: American Record Company 030975 label

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Mike Gann 17th Sep 2023		I can't tell you exactly when the recordings were made, but here's some reading material. https://ags.earth/products/royal-hawaiian-troubadours-the-honolulu-students



xiphophilos 17th Sep 2023		I meant this as a real question because I know very little about Hawaiian music. I just happen to own this early Hawaiian recording on Victor. I was hoping you could tell me more about when exactly the Royal Hawaiian Troubadours made these recordings. You are definitely not the only one online who claims that they were the first Hawaiian group that were commercially recorded. I've now checked Tim Gracyk and Frank Hoffmann's "Popular American Recording Pioneers" (2012). On page 119, they write, "By 1904 some Hawaiian troupes were performing in mainland cities, including New York, where American's Hawaiian recordings apparently were made in late 1904 or early 1905. Over two dozen performances were issued on a series of 10 5/8 inch blue single-sided "Indian Label" discs. [...] The American Record Company catalog dated September 1905 introduces the Royal Hawaiian Troubadours as an "orchestra and double quartet of native Hawaiians whose music has charmed America. ... The Troubadours are in America on an educational tour. ... By special arrangement we have secured the following list of the first and only records made by Hawaiians in America." If Gracyk's dating of the recording sessions is right, the American Record Company's promotional hype was not true.



Mike Gann 16th Sep 2023		Okay



xiphophilos 16th Sep 2023		What about W.S. Ellis (a.k.a. William Kuali'i Sumner Ellis) and Ellis Bros. Glee Club? They recorded for Zonophone in July 1904 (DAHR). These recording were released in 1904 as Victor 15008 - 15049; (a 1910 repress of Victor 15014 is here).



Mike Gann 16th Sep 2023		Reportedly, this was the first Hawaiian group to ever record

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