Helen Louise & Frank Ferera (hawaiian gitaar): Liederen uit Hawaii. (1916).
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Now the last of your uploads today, my dearest Henkie !!!!!! Thank you for this magical and romantic Hawaiian music !!!!! It goes straight to my heart !!!!! Helen Louise and Frank Ferera play great together !!!!!!!! My sweet friend, I`ll listen again later !!!!!!! In the meantime I`ll think of you, and I send you my warmest feelings and most caring thoughts !!!!!! Love from your always faithful Jytte
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*Frank Ferera* (June 12, 1885 - June 26, 1951) was a Hawaii musician who recorded successfully between 1915 and 1930. He was the first star of Hawaiian music and influenced many later artists.
Biography
Frank Ferera was born in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1885 of Portuguese ancestry. Ferera first visited mainland United States as part of the Keoki E Awai troupe, which had been booked to entertain at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The band's performance was witnessed by Thomas Edison, who issued two solo songs by Ferera on his record label.
He married Helen Louise Greenus, daughter of Seattle businessman Albert E. Greenus, and toured with her through the USA, appearing in vaudeville. In 1916, they signed a contract with Columbia Records and recorded prolifically. They also recorded for Victor Records, and their "Drowsy Waters" was a major success, selling more than 300,000 copies. The duo also recorded two new discs for Edison. In 1917, Ferera's sister-in-law Irene Greenus joined as a vocalist. As a duo or a trio, the group's discography included releases on several other labels including Gennett, Paramount, Lyric, Pathe Imperial, and Empire. Ferera also began a guitar partnership with Anthony Franchini that lasted over seven years.
On December 12, 1919, Frank and Helen were on board the steamship SS President, from Los Angeles back to their home in Seattle. Frank reported that Helen had gone on deck for a walk at 4 a.m. and never returned. After a search failed to turn up the missing Mrs. Ferera, she was presumed lost at sea.
In 1924, Frank played guitar accompaniment to Vernon Dalhart's ballad "Wreck of the Old 97" (Victor Record No. 19427), sometimes cited as the first million-selling country music release in the American record industry.
In the late 1920s, during a wave of Hawaiian music popularity, Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio recorded a number of songs with jazz singer Annette Hanshaw, including: "Was It A Dream?", "For Old Time's Sake", "Get Out and Get Under the Moon", "I Love A Ukulele", "Lonely Nights In Hawaii", "Chiquita", "Maui Girl", "Sonny Boy", "Sweet Lei Lehua", "Carolina Moon", "Maui Chimes", "Pagan Love Song", "Singing in the Rain", "Ua No a Like - Sweet Constancy", and "Forget Me Not", "Lazy Louisiana Moon", and "Pale Blue Waters".
While Ferera was the first commercially successful Hawaiian recording artist in the teens, by the late 1920s, a new wave of steel guitarists, including Sol Hoʻopiʻi, were upstaging him. Ferera is estimated to have played guitar on more than 2,000 discs.
Ferera married three times. He died on June 26, 1951, due to complications following a stroke. He was survived by his third wife, Ruth, son Frank Ferreira III and daughter Mary Ferreira.
*Helen Louise* (néé Helen Louise Greenus; August 2, 1887, in Seattle, WA - December 12, 1919, at sea en route to Seattle, WA) was an American guitar player who popularized Hawaiian music.
Under the stage name Helen Louise, Greenus formed a successful vaudeville act with Hawaiian steel guitar player Frank Ferera, whom she married in June 1918 in New York City.
As Louise And Ferera, the couple toured nationally and recorded many records between 1915-1919 not only for the "big three", Columbia, Victor, and Edison Records, but also for Emerson, Gennett, Operaphone, Paramount, Pathé, and Puritone (2). In 1917, they expanded their duo to a trio that included Helen's singing sister Irene Greenus on guitar and ukulele.
Louise And Ferera's version of "Wailana Waltz" (a.k.a. "Drowsy Waters") on Columbia A2016 (1916) became the first of several large hits for them, selling more than 300,000 copies.
Following the mysterious disappearance of Helen from board the steamship SS President traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle, Frank Ferera joined with Anthony Franchini and was able to continue his successful recording career throughout the 1920s.
*Seattle's star Hawaiian guitarist, Helen Louise Ferera, mysteriously disappears from a steamship on December 12, 1919.*
On Friday December 12, 1919, while en route from Los Angeles to Seattle for a visit back home, Helen Louise Ferera (1887-1919) vanishes from the Pacific Steamship Company's SS President. The famed musician had recently returned to the United States after spending most of the previous year with her husband and musical partner, Frank Ferera (1885-1951), residing in the warmer climes of his native Hawaii in an attempt to recuperate from her health ailments.
Drowsy Waters
The Fereras boarded the SS President and their northbound voyage began well. They retired to their room that Thursday night. Ferera left the room at 4:00 a.m. After she failed to return, her husband notified the ship's officers who searched the vessel unsuccessfully and concluded that she had been lost at sea.
One mysterious aspect of the affair revolved around conflicting testimony about that night's weather: The Pacific Steamship Company's superintendent, A. J. Storrs, claimed that the ship "was sailing in fine weather with the sea as smooth as a mill pond." However, the missing woman's father, Seattle businessman Albert E. Greenus, stated -- with information that he presumably got from his son-in-law -- that "There was a strong wind blowing ... when my daughter left her stateroom, and we believe she was washed overboard" (The Seattle Daily Times).
The dangers of such sea travel are reinforced by considering that the SS President had been involved in an incident six years prior when -- en route from Seattle to San Francisco, and as The New York Times reported -- two crewmen "were drowned fifty miles off Coos Bay [Oregon] last night when they attempted to rescue an unidentified steerage passenger, who had been swept overboard by a heavy sea."
The Hawaiian Craze
Helen Louise Greenus and her sister Irene Lilliam Greenus were Seattle girls whose childhood home was on the West slope of Capitol Hill (1616 Summit Avenue). They were among the many American youths who took a keen interest in Hawaiian music at the outset of that exotica craze. Helen Louise learned to play both the ukulele and steel guitar and somehow met up with Palakiko "Frank Ferera" Ferreira, a native of Honolulu who had arrived stateside in 1902 and today is credited as the very first Hawaiian music star.
In time he became the ace steeler with the most prominent island band of the day: Keoki E. Awai's Royal Hawaiian Quartet -- the ensemble who gained fame by performing "to an estimated 17 million people in a seven-month period" at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 (Gold Coast). One attendee that enjoyed their sounds was the famed inventor, Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), and in September Edison issued two solo songs by Ferera: "Ua Like No Alike" / "Medley of Hawaiian Hulas."
Vaudeville Days
It was apparently at the Expo's end that Ferera and his wife began performing on their Martin guitars as a duo -- Helen Louise and Frank Ferera -- and touring the nationwide vaudeville circuit. Over the following four years they enjoyed fabulously successful music career, traveling widely and recording many good-selling discs for a series of record companies. Indeed, "more than any other artists, they supplied what the record-buying public wanted in the way of Hawaiian music" (Gracyk).
Signed to Victor Records, their first 78 rpm single -- "On the Beach at Waikiki" / "Moe Uhane Waltz" -- was issued in November 1915. Then in 1916 their "Drowsy Waters" developed into a smash hit, selling more than 300,000 copies "or nearly twenty times the amount of a typical release of the era" (Garrett). Several other discs followed -- including "Maui Aloha," "Everybody Hula," "Hawaiian Hula Medley," and "Hawaii I'm Lonesome for You." That same year the duo signed briefly with Edison, who issued two discs including "Song to Hawaii" and, with the backing of the Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra, "Somewhere in Hawaii."
Roll On Columbia
The year 1916 also saw them working in New York City with Columbia Records, which in July issued two discs -- "Honolulu Rag" and "Medley of Hawaiian Waltzes." Over over the next few years the label released seven more records by the duo including: "Hawaiian Dreams," "Palakiko Blues," "Along the Way To Waikiki," and "Aloha Land." The duo's tunes were also released by the Victor, Gennett, Paramount, Lyric, and Pathe Records.
In 1917 Helen Louise and Ferera added her singing sister, Irene Greenus, and began recordings as a trio for Imperial, Pathe, Empire, and Columbia Records. The Columbia label issued three discs by Louise, Ferera, and Greenus including: "Hawaiian Echoes" (as written by Seattle songster, James W. Casey), "My Hawaii," and "In the Heart of Hawaii." Interestingly, that latter disc featured a new duo on the flipside: Ferera and Anthony Franchini with their tune "My Hawaiian Melody."
In the wake of Helen Louise's death, Ferera and Franchini began a long musical partnership. Of the many Hawaiian musicians who were active up through 1930 (when Ferera stopped recording), it was he who probably had the greatest public exposure -- indeed, it has been estimated that "Of all Hawaiian recordings made between 1915 and 1930, it is said that Frank Ferera appeared on at least a quarter of them" (Ruymar). Some of the estimated 2,000 discs he cut - including tracks with Helen Louise -- remain available on various Hawaiian CD compilations to this day.
WAAAAAAAAAWWWWW !!!!!! Dank voor dit adembenemend mooie veraal ove Ferera en Louise !!!! Het was een genot om het te lezen !!!! Henri je bent FANTASTISCH !!!!!
Ja Henk het is erg mooi. Ik weet niet beter. Want we zaten er als kind
ook al heel vroeg in bij ons thuis. dat werd ons er wel ingepompt
. Maar het waren toen ook andere tijden dan nu. Toen moest je en nu mag je
Hahaha wij moesten ook van alles ! Maar we deden het niet !!!! Groetjes van Henk !!!!!
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