Tandy Mackenzie and His Hawaiian Music, undated

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One 16-inch shellac phonodisc

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Randy Riddle note: I couldn't find out much about this program. It may be an audition disc for a proposed series or the show could have been broadcast and I couldn't find newspaper listings for it. Tandy MacKenzie was a respected operatic tenor from Hawaii. Throughout the 30s and 40s, he worked with opera companies in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Europe - he even had a couple of chances to join the Met, but those appear to have been sabotaged by his wife. Sadly, he died in near poverty in the 1963. In the 1930s, he had small roles in the films "San Francisco", "The Great Ziegfeld" and "A Night at the Opera". A collection of his memorabilia and recordings are housed at the Kamehameha Schools Archive and his papers are at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dale E. Hall, from the University of Hawaii, wrote a bio of MacKenzie for the "Hawaiian Journal of History". The two programs on the disc have Mackenzie singing songs of his native Hawaii, with a more traditional popular Hawaiian accompaniment. MacKenzie was a proponent of traditional Hawaiian music; the show features more pop-oriented selections with a Hawaiian theme and more traditional upbeat Hawaiian tunes done by a smaller group. The announcer is the same one heard on the "Ports of Call" program, so it may have been recorded in Hollywood or Los Angeles. Pgm 1 https://randsesotericotr.podbean.com/e/tandy-mackenzie-and-his-hawaiian-music-pgm-1/ Pgm 2 https://randsesotericotr.podbean.com/e/tandy-mackenzie-and-his-hawaiian-music-pgm-2/

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