I will never forget my 17-year-old aunt bringing this album home when she lived with us for a few years before getting married. I got to play the hits from it, “Party Doll” and “Hula Love” (songs on YouTube), which Buddy wrote. Buddy was originally from Texas, toured many years after and, strangely enough, settled in the small Manitoba town of Dominion City near the North Dakota border.
Lyrics for “Hula Love”
On the isle of Filalilla out Hawaii way
A hula maiden gay strolled by a moonlit bay
There come a to court her over the water
From a savage Zingazulu land
A Bolo chieftain grand sang her this lay
And he sang
Hulu Hawaii hula
Smile on your zing gang a zula
Moon shine above
On their sweet jungle love
For you my bolo is swinging
For you my love song I’m singing
Come be my Hula Hula love
But the chieftain from the peaceful Filalilla land
Would not give him her hand
Her lover took his stand
Through the rattle of the battle
As she heard his sweet voice calm and true
They fled in his canoe over water blue
And he sang
Hulu Hawaii hula
Smile on your zing gang a zula
Moon shine above
On your sweet jungle love
For you my bolo is swinging
For you my love song I’m singing
Come be my Hula Hula love
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Despite the relative innocence and romance of the lyric, it would likely be considered politically incorrect “Brave New World”.
But, I mostly recall the tricky mouthful of lyrics that Buddy sang a la Dr. Seuss rhyming books and “The Auctioneer” classic song.