Silent Recordings
Unpredictable Music for
Unreliable Times

Artists:

CODA
Prop
Telemetry Orchestra
Tracky Dax

Compilations:

Around The Block
Nocturnal Emissions
Silent Soundtracks
Sounds of Silent
This Show Is About People

Rouseabout Records
Keeping it Real

Artists:

Bondi Cigars
Cathie O'Sullivan
Colin Dryden
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
The Celebrated Knackers & Knockers Band
Donna Fisk and Michael Cristian
Eric Bogle
Fiddlers Feast
Gary Shearston
Gordon Lightfoot
Herb Superb
Johnny Wade
Jim Low
John Munro
Julie Wilson
Koori Classic
Kym Pitman
Marcus Holden
Mic Conway's National Junk Band
Ngarukuruwala
Nyalgodi Scotty Martin
Robyn Archer
Roger Knox
Russell Morris
The Newtown Rugby League Football Club Song
Warren Fahey & Luke Webb
Warren Fahey & Max Cullen (DEAD MEN TALKING)

Compilations:

Before the Boomerang Came Back
Down By The Billabong
The World Turned Upside-Down
Forte – Golden Fiddlers
Stand Up & Shout

Yesterday's Australia:

Barbara James
Bob Dyer
Bobby Limb
Buddy Williams
Dame Nellie Melba
Florence Austral
Frank Coughlan
John Brownlee
Johnny Ashcroft
Keith Branch & His South Sea Islanders

Percy Grainger
Reg Lindsay
Shirley Thoms
Smoky Dawson
Strella Wilson
Tex Morton
Tex Morton and Sister Dorrie
Warren Fahey's Diggers

Yesterday's Australia Compilations:

Australian Radio Serials
Australian Hillbilly Radio Hits
Australian Stars of the International Music Hall Voume 1
Australian Stars of the International Music Hall Voume 2
Band in a Waistcoat Pocket
Mastertouch Pianola
Strike up the Band
Stars of Australian Stage & Radio Vol 1
Stars of Australian Stage & Radio Vol 2

Yep! Records
Music Without Compromise

Artists:

Antenna
Jenny Morris
Michal Nicholas
The Lovetones
Saints of India
Screw the Pooch
sounditout
Southend
Spaceniks

Johnny Wade

Presented here for the very first time is the complete Hawaiian-style output of Australian vocalist Johnny Wade (1916-1993), transferred and remastered from original 78rpm recordings. .

Spanning two volumes - from Wade’s earliest recordings with the Sydney Hawaiian Club in 1937, to his final shellac recordings under Johnny Wade & His Hawaiians in 1956 - this reissue features the talents of electric steel guitar players Les Adams and Neville Kahn, all backed by Wade’s sensitive crooner-style vocalising. 

As well as hapa-haole standards like ‘Aloha Oe’, ‘King’s Serenade’ and ‘The Hukilau Song’, these sessions feature a number of Australian compositions and songs which reference Maori, Samoan, Malaysian and Fijian cultures.  

This release brings back into circulation recordings of a genre that deserves the same status and recognition alongside other Australian popular music styles of the era, including country and jazz. 

Rouseabout Records Executive Producer Warren Fahey remarks ... “I am not in the business of guiding a protégé but young (he is twenty-two) Michael Alexandratos is already achieving international recognition as a heritage sound archivist.”

Other Rouseabout heritage reissues produced by Michael Alexandratos:
Keith Branch & His South Sea Islanders (1947) – EP
Various Artists “Before the Boomerang Came Back – Musical Aboriginalia (1949-1962)”

Johnny Wade Hawaiian Crooner Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 are available on Apple Music, Spotify and various other digital platforms.

Johnny Wade
Hawaiian Crooner Vol.1
Catalogue Number RRH88

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Album Track Listing

  1. Marie
  2. Sunshine of Your Smile
  3. Chili Blues
  4. Rose of Waikiki
  5. In a Royal Hawaiian Hotel
  6. Honolulu How Do You Do
  7. Hawaiian Club Signature Tune (King's Serenade)
  8. It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane
  9. I Hum a Waltz
  10. The Greatest Mistake of My Life
  11. I'd Like To See Samoa of Samoa
  12. Was It Rain?
  13. Little Heaven of the Seven Seas
  14. Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee)
  15. One, Two, Three, Four
  16. Song of the Islands
  17. On Sweetheart Bay
  18. Sweet Hawaiian Chimes
  19. Song of Old Hawaii
  20. Isa Lei (Fijian Farewell)
  21. The Murray Moon
  22. Sleepy Seas
  23. Good-Bye, Hawaii
  24. Sweet Hawaiian Isle
  25. Sweet Hawaiian Sands
  26. Terang Boelan (Malayan Moon)
  27. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go
  28. Hawaiian Love Song
  29. Dreamy Honolulu
  30. Haere Ra (Maori Farewell)
  31. Tahi Nei Taru Kino (A Love Song)

Johnny Wade
Hawaiian Crooner Vol.2
Catalogue Number RRH89

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Album Track Listing

  1. Reluctantly
  2. I Can't Help Dreaming (Of Home)
  3. In The Islands
  4. When Hawaii Calls
  5. A Kiss by Lake Catani
  6. Dream Rose
  7. Magnetic Island
  8. White Tahitian Moonlight
  9. There's Someone Waiting Somewhere for You
  10. There's a Dreamboat (Over the Far Horizon)
  11. Melody In Blue (The Wind in the Willows)
  12. As I Hold You
  13. On Our Parting Day
  14. Little Brown Gal
  15. Nalani
  16. Sad Hawaiian Sea
  17. The Hukilau Song
  18. Moon of Manakoora
  19. My Hawaiian Souvenirs
  20. If Your Aloha Means I Love You
  21. Hawaiian Wedding Song
  22. To You, Sweetheart, Aloha
  23. Shimmering Moon
  24. Think
  25. Malihini Mele
  26. I Lost My Heart on Hayman Island
  27. Lei Luana
  28. Sea Breezes