Years ago, working for a small AM, I preceded the fellow that did a Sunday
Hawaiian show- you may of heard of him- he called himself "the gentle one"...
I often lingered (as I'm known to do) and chat, talk story, listen to 'ol kine
stories he told me...
He did alot of his show in Hawaiian and most of the time kept to pretty
traditional stuff... now and then though he proved he was "with it" by
playing something new-
on one of those accasions when he got "frisky" and decided to play a new
Peter Moon song, he got a call from a listener who read him the riot act
for daring to "not play real hawaiian music", and she was loud- could hear
her from across the turntables where I was standing- he thanked her,
hung up, and with skipping a beat-
he opened the mic- and said "we've just had a request to play that song again-
and since I like it so much too- here it comes again-
he reached over, lifted the tone-arm and dropped the needle right at the
start and we heard Peter sing it again...
and he did it all in a very sincere voice- so smooth- so sweet-
I sure miss him... he's gone now- no doubt playing favorites for his
fans "up there"...
You shoulda seen my face though when he did it
Thinking of you Moses!
Hawaiian show- you may of heard of him- he called himself "the gentle one"...
I often lingered (as I'm known to do) and chat, talk story, listen to 'ol kine
stories he told me...
He did alot of his show in Hawaiian and most of the time kept to pretty
traditional stuff... now and then though he proved he was "with it" by
playing something new-
on one of those accasions when he got "frisky" and decided to play a new
Peter Moon song, he got a call from a listener who read him the riot act
for daring to "not play real hawaiian music", and she was loud- could hear
her from across the turntables where I was standing- he thanked her,
hung up, and with skipping a beat-
he opened the mic- and said "we've just had a request to play that song again-
and since I like it so much too- here it comes again-
he reached over, lifted the tone-arm and dropped the needle right at the
start and we heard Peter sing it again...
and he did it all in a very sincere voice- so smooth- so sweet-
I sure miss him... he's gone now- no doubt playing favorites for his
fans "up there"...
You shoulda seen my face though when he did it
Thinking of you Moses!
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