Alfred Apaka

[Teasing the Korean]

If the Google Machine can be trusted, there has not been a single mention of the great Alfred Apaka on this website.

This post will correct this.

 

[JSngry]

So was he mostly Decca or Capitol? My inner sleeves are inconclusive on this count. 

[Teasing the Korean]

  On 6/11/2022 at 1:22 PM, JSngry said:

So was he mostly Decca or Capitol? My inner sleeves are inconclusive on this count. 

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He was on both but I was never clear on the chronology.  His Wiki page does not include a discography.  During the Great Vinyl Purge, I stumbled across more Decca titles than Capitol.

In addition to the Capitol albums under his name, he also appears on some of the Capitol Webley Edwards Hawaii Calls albums. 

 

 

[JSngry]

So, Peggy Lee in reverse, perhaps? 

[Teasing the Korean]

  On 6/11/2022 at 2:20 PM, JSngry said:

So, Peggy Lee in reverse, perhaps? 

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That was precisely what I was thinking when I was typing my response!  Did record labels do trades like baseball teams?

[Teasing the Korean]

Now I wonder if Apaka's Decca contract allowed him to appear on Hawaii Calls albums, and if the Capitol Apaka albums were simply compilations of his tracks from Hawaii Calls.  

[adh1907]

How quaint.

[Teasing the Korean]

Here is Alfred Apaka's amazing version of "Bali Hai."

 

  On 6/11/2022 at 2:20 PM, JSngry said:

So, Peggy Lee in reverse, perhaps? 

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Someone on the Capitol group suggested that the Apaka Capitol albums may indeed have been comps of his contributions to Hawaii Calls albums. 

[Chuck Nessa]

  On 6/11/2022 at 3:41 AM, Teasing the Korean said:

If the Google Machine can be trusted, there has not been a single mention of the great Alfred Apaka on this website.

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That's ok by me. The Bruynincks jazz discography's 928 pages of artists under "A" does not mention him.

 

Edited June 12, 2022 by Chuck Nessa

[Teasing the Korean]

  On 6/12/2022 at 3:35 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

That's ok by me. The Bruynincks jazz discography's 928 pages of artists under "A" does not mention him.

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Aging white male minimizes the cultural contributions of non-European cultures.  And on a jazz forum, no less...

Edited June 12, 2022 by Teasing the Korean