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HAWAII: Andrew Bright, Al Kealoha Perry / Hawaiian Cowboy / 49th State 152 / 1949

Guitarist and singer Andrew “Andy” Bright (1906-1956) was an original member of Al Kealoha Perry’s Singing Surfriders, performing and recording with the group during the 1930s and 40s. Born Andrew 'Iaukea Keli'ikinaiahi Nohokaikaleikini Bright Jr, he was one of over a dozen musical children of Andrew Iaukea Bright Sr. and Alice Keahi Kepiki. (Andrew Sr.’s father was Spaniard Antone Brillante, who translated his last name into English.) Andy performed on radio KGU in 1925 with his sister Hannah and her orchestra, and was a member of younger brother, Sol K. Bright’s orchestra. Sol spent most of his career in Hollywood, and wrote both “Hawaiian Scotsman” and “Hawaiian Cowboy,” the latter made famous by Andy’s recording. Another brother, Kalani Bright, was a member of Bill Akamuhou’s Nautical Hawaiians, and in the 1950s was a jack of all trades as a cruise director for Matson, aboard the SS Lurline and the SS Matsonia. Andy was a longtime accountant for the city of Honolulu and passed away in 1956 at the age of 50. Al Kealoha Perry (1901-1979) was musical director for the radio program “Hawaii Calls” from 1937 to 1967. In the 1920s he sang with the Aloha Temple Shrine Chanters, and in 1935 he led the Honolulu Hale Glee Club, which evolved into his group, the Singing Surfriders, on Hawaii Calls. Perry’s group recorded in California between 1937 and 1940, and again in the late 1940s for Aloha Records, which he founded with Henry K. Lindsey. In 1944 Perry and his wife Kathleen Kameelani McGuire established the renowned Willows Restaurant in her mother’s family home in the Moiliili district of Honolulu. Al Kealoha Perry passed away in San Francisco in 1979. [Hawaiian Cowboy, Andrew Bright, Al Kealoha Perry, 49th State 152, recorded 1949, matrix HRC-152-A, PRC 4707] The flip side of this disk is Beautiful Mahealani Moon by Flora Waipa:    • HAWAII: Flora Waipa, Pua Almeida / Beautif...   Hawaiian Playlist:    • Hawaiian   Thanks, as always, to T. Malcolm Rockwell: Hawaiian & Hawaiian Guitar Records 1891-1960 © 2007