Description: This album is very funny, and very Island. Bowman's previous albums have been suitable for the entire family, avoiding the language and the situations which adults like to believe the kids haven't heard about yet. This one is not. If you wait till you think the kids are asleep before you play it, they'll probably be listening from around some corner or other .. safe: you'll be having too much fun from it to pay attention to them or anything else. Besides, when you're out of the house, they'll find where you hid it. That's all right: if they do understand, they're old enough; if they don't, no pilikia. You might say this album is a product of Bowman's French quarter (the other three quarters are Hawaiian, Scottish and English). When he made his first recordings in pidgin English, Bowman managed to preserve a certain amount of anonymity behind cartoon album jackets... and by keeping his mouth shut: his voice is one of the best-known in the islands, instantly recognizable to local people. If everyone had known what he looked like, uptight latter-day missionaries might have been moved to throw verbal rocks at his head on sight, for encouraging the local people to do what they need no encouragement to do: speak pidgin when they feel like it. Since then, though, pidgin has become SIDE ONE 1. Introduction Freeway Kolohe Mauna Loa Ku Ka Da Kine Moki's Cadillac Da Uku *2. Mees Smeet Chain Saw Da Boss Moki Flies 3. Masa: The Caretaker The Telephone Milk & Cookies Triplets SIDE TWO 1. Ka'umanua: Elephants Applause Assault Minis Deer Hunting The Cow The Devil The Burglar The Deodorant 2. Walk on the Water De Cane Knipe Huli Snake Bite Aloha
Price: 12.5 USD
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
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Artist: Kent Bowman
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: Hula Records
Release Title: No Talk Stink
Color: Black
Material: Vinyl
Type: LP
Format: Record
Record Grading: Very Good (VG)
Release Year: 70s?
Sleeve Grading: Very Good (VG)
Language: English, Pidgin
Era: 1970s
Record Size: 12"
Style: Stand-Up/Sketch
Genre: Comedy, Spoken Word
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States