From digitiki.com. You should try the new rum drink. It's good. What's it called? A Mai Tai. Here, you finish this one. I'll order another. Be careful, Daddy. Those Mai Tais can be mighty careful. Welcome. to the quiet room. Okay, so welcome everybody. I am so excited to share this with you guys. I am here with Jeremy DeHart, who aka Connie Manakura, which I love that name.
Mike Young, a.k.a. Mr. Moai of Mr. Moai and the Tiki Heads, and Darren Patrick Long, a.k.a. Darren Patrick Long of the Tiki Delights. And we are compadres in this release, Midday Mai Tai. i'm we are here to share it with you guys so we're going to talk about the making of got the ideas behind it so aloha guys welcome i'm so excited And like I said earlier, Jeremy wins for the best background. And that I just want to be sitting there right now. I know. We are here to talk about Midday Mai Tai.
The idea behind this was, I'm just going to dive in and you guys can cut me off at any point. So originally the idea was, you know, we got together and we thought about, hey. You have a group of fans. You have a group of fans. I have a group of fans. Everybody's got their own little group of fans. What if we put together like a compilation record? Right. And we're all on it and we kind of grow our fan base.
And I think, Darren, you were the first one that came back and wrote an original tune. So it went from putting some of our greatest hits to... Yeah, well, you know, I think it started when Darren and I went out to see you doing the Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass whipped cream album. Last March, you know, almost basically a year ago, like last week. Yeah. And when we were hanging out and talking, I think that's when we started. We should, you know, cross promote. Cross swords, right?
yeah right but you're right it was supposed to be more just like uh you submit three songs of stuff already recorded real easy until I kind of screwed it up. I was curious about this because I wasn't there and this was Tiki Caliente a year ago, right? When you all met. It was a special show that Mark was doing. Okay. And you were just out there. Well, so Darren, Darren calls me up and says.
Because I had, Deer and I just started, you know, hanging out, talking and stuff, you know, through the tiki music. And he said, hey, you know, Mark's doing a show. You want to go out there and hang out? See him because he's recorded on some of his stuff, right? But you've never met him live. Right. Yeah, let's do it. So off we went. Nice. That was great. So this was the genesis then. Yeah. Yeah.
He was the one who said, I want to talk to you guys about doing something. We're like, what? I think it was at Sherman's. Sherman's Deli. Oh, yeah. Love that place. Yeah. And then. of the song i don't know why what got into me but i just felt inspired so i never thought we were going to just write all 10 songs but there there you go well it started that we were just going to submit
you know, previously recorded songs as a compilation album. Right. And then I brought Jeremy into SA, we should get Jeremy, you know, I've been doing some stuff with him and, and he did some stuff with Mark and me on some of my songs, a couple of my tunes. And then it was just like, well, let's just write new music for it. Yeah, I mean, and when you asked me, Mike, I thought it was basically the one song that we had, which I think, I guess, was your song, Darren.
um i think it was midday mai tai right was what we were doing the very first yeah the thing i had in mind was because i thought well this is gonna be a real collaboration i'm not even give i'm not gonna give it a name even i'm just gonna write the bare bones chords and arrangements no melodies no title so I asked the guys Submit a list of titles and we'll come up with some. Mark had Midday Mai Tais on his list. Well, that kind of came to me because we would meet for Mai Tais on Zoom.
Yeah, we did. And so it was like, well, yeah, like day drinking is kind of a cool theme. Nobody's tackled day drinking yet as a theme. Actually, I did. You did, you did. Did I send that song to you? One of my previous projects that I was doing that's not good. I heard that on Bandcamp or something. I did a song called Day Drinking, actually. It's kind of a bluesy harmonica thing. Anyway. And that's what it's all about with these events. Did I ever send that to you?
I don't think so. I'm going to send it to you right off. It's called day drinking. It's a little blues rock thing that I do with my, I had a previous, uh, A project called Freedom 57, and it was all more of like 80s rock kind of stuff. Oh, okay, cool. But anyway, that came out of that. Okay. Right on. Moving on. So, yeah, I mean, that was the genesis of the whole thing.
Darren wrote an original tune. And then I don't remember if it was me or if it was Mike. Well, I'm going to write an original. And then next thing you know, we're all doing originals. And then Mike pulled Jeremy in. And Jeremy's like, yeah, I'm in. And then he had an original. I was like, okay, we're going to do all originals. Yeah. Yeah. One of the things I wanted to say was, yeah, the album flows so well. Everybody writes together. We played on each other's record, but even with that.
The songs could sound very different, but they flow so well, they don't sound different. It sounds like one... Maybe that's because we all played on each other's parts, so our personalities... are all embedded in each song. You know what I mean? Every one of you guys wrote to the idea of relaxing on a beach in the middle of the day and just letting the day go by.
And that is just that that idea to me is beautiful because I would love to do that. So, you know, you reinforce that when you when you wrote Lazy Hammock. and Lonely Beach, it just really kept that thing going. Yeah, I was even thinking about a theme when I was suggesting my song, but I suppose it could be in the middle of the day, rainbows, because it always rains in the middle of the day in Hawaii. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. They call that pineapple juice. Oh, really?
Really? Yeah, it's called, it's pineapple juice. Midday rainings. Rainbows, because I love that tune. That's one of my favorites. So we'll play the first track, which is Mike's tune, which is called Tears for the Island. And then we're going to go into Rainbows over... Kaneohe. Did I say that right? That's right. Okay. Which is Jeremy's tune. All right, let's do it.
Outside is perfect. Not a cloud in the sky. The sun is out and the surf is up. For those of you lazing in the sand, here comes another set of great tunes to help you relax on your perfect day in paradise. Enjoy your Midday Micah. Okay, so I love those tunes. Yeah, so I originally wanted to call that Rainbows Over Lahaina. Ah. You know, and then you had the Lahaina song.
And so my brother actually lives in Kaneohe. Oh, nice. And so I figured that would be great. And then come to find out later, I think that's where Martin Denny lived was Kaneohe. Really? I love that because, you know, I was stationed in Kaneohe, Marine Corps Airbus. That's why my brother's there. Back in the day. So there's a connection. And that was the next thing I was going to ask is Mike. This guy, Mike, has some wonderful tales. He drove to...
Helicopters. Well, no, we used to call them driving. You were driving helicopters? And tell me briefly, your average day at work. Well, yeah, when I was in Kaneohe because I also – I was deployed a lot of places including Gulf War. But when I was in Kaneohe… Oh, my average day was if I was on this flight schedule, it was rough. You know, I might have to fly to the big island. And it got to the point where you're like, oh, gosh, I got that's that's like an hour.
get to the big island you know that's a long time right we might cruise around uh you know maui a little bit to look for george harrison's place you know on that side of the island you scope it out and you know or we go to you know we go to kawaii And fly the canyons in Kauai. And, you know, we'd do a lot of that kind of stuff. And it was just the average day was pretty good, you know. in Hawaii. You said you used to just sit on the beach most of the day, right? Well, we had actually a...
We actually had a mission that was regular because the Navy was clearing explosives from Kaulawe, which was that little tiny island between Maui and... And Lanai. Right. OK, there's a little in there and they use that as a bombing range back in like World War Two and stuff. So so there's also unexploded ordnance there. I think it's mostly cleared off now, but we used to call it a day of the beach. So you come in the flight schedule that day, you'd look.
I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm on for the day at the beach. It would say a day at the beach, you know, and it'd be Captain Young and so and so and whatever. So we take our bird and we always we always. I think we just took one out there and we go out there and the old pad set up for us and we set it down and there's nothing to do. You're just waiting to get a call for somebody that, you know, that like.
gets blown up and you got to take him to hospital. It never happened, but thankfully, but we just said, we'd bring our launchers out there. We bring our coolers and some music, you know, and we just hang out there. Just wait for the call, which never came, thankfully. That's a rough life right there. Five o'clock rolls around, we'd fly back.
And pick up, pick up your paycheck. And at the end of the week, that wasn't every day, but I'm just saying that was one of the good days, you know? Oh man. Okay. So, so right there in kind of area, there's that, that airstrip, Mike, you know, And at the end of the airstrip, they've got that Pyramid Beach or whatever they call it. Or what's that little, you know, at the very end. You're talking about the Marine Base? Yeah, the Marine Base, yeah.
Well, there's the island out there in Conyo Bay that is the Gilligan's Island, Coconut Island. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but it's just that break right there. It's beautiful. There's a beautiful beach there. Well, so I was talking to my – I took lessons from Alan Akaka. And they're the Hawaiian pantheon of creation.
is that the man came from this black mud, basically. And that's at this beach right there at the end of the airstrip, which is really cool. Because when I went there, my brother, he's like, this is like the best beach. had to go onto the base and you go right down there to the end and it's like pyramid or castle beach. I can't remember, but the beach is around the Naval Air Station. It's the Naval Air Station now. Marine Air Base or Air Station.
are just gorgeous. I mean, unbelievable. It's Bellows, isn't it? No, Bellows is actually farther south. That's an Air Force base at Bellows. That's just south of Kaneohe. I used to fly into Bellows a lot. I have a short little story. I know the descendant. I know the descendant of the man whose name that was named after. Oh, wow. Yeah.
I have a friend. His name is Dr. Tom Bellows. No, wait, wait. Dr. Bellows. Dr. Bellows. Wasn't he the psychologist, the psychiatrist? I dream a genie. I know. I actually teased him a little bit about. That sounded familiar. Yeah, he he actually just. He passed away on the 18th of February. He was 80-something, but we used to meet up every Sunday. We'd go get bagels, and we'd go to this little car show every Sunday.
His name was Dr. Bellows. And yeah, I gave him a little bit of stuff about it. But he told me, he goes, yeah, the Bellows Air Force Base over there, he goes, it's named after his great grandfather. Wow. Yeah, anyway. We used to play a lot of night vision goggles. We'd fly into bellows. That side of Oahu is, it's like Tahiti. Yeah. It's gorgeous over there. I mean, white sand beaches. Oh, my gosh. The best beach, I think, is Kailua.
Kailua. Kailua, okay. Gorgeous, yeah. They do a lot of windsurfing over on that side in Kailua. Nice. And it's local. And, you know, so here's a pro tip. If you're vacationing in Hawaii, you know, do your – Waikiki, because you've got to see it, but then go over to Kailua. Nobody there. It's gorgeous. Yeah. That's where my Alan Akaka teaches class over there. So I got to...
go have a class with him in person, which I've only had two classes in person for steel in my life. And one was with Alan Akaka. And then one was another guy in Hawaii named Jerry Valdrez. Really great Hawaiian player as well. Cool. So let's move on. Let's play one of Darren's tunes. And one of my tunes. Why not? So, Darren, which tune would you like me to debut here? How about Knights in Bora Bora? Knights in Bora Bora. Good tune. Knights in Bora Bora. And then we'll do...
We'll do Lazy Hammock, which was my tune. All right, here we go. Nights in Bora Bora by Darren and Lazy Hammock by me, but with all of us actually playing on it. So here we go. And. Darren, I'll talk about my idea behind it, but tell me your idea behind Nights in Bora Bora, because I would love to spend several nights in Bora Bora. Well, strangely, it came from...
The idea came from a magazine, this travel magazine. I don't have a subscription to it, but they keep sending it to me. And one of the articles was about Bora Bora. And I was like, man, this is gorgeous. And I just sort of fantasized about, you know, staying in there and just getting the vibe of it. What I was trying to do, though, was get a little Mr. Moe kind of sound going. Oh, there you go. This type of song.
kind of rocking, more surfy meets exotica. Yeah. And I got to say, Mike, I love your albums and your singles. that you put out. Those of you who may not be familiar, and you should be, with Mr. Mawai and the Tiki Heads, definitely check them out. Actually, check out all, check out the Tiki Delights and definitely... check out the Manakuras and the Aqualads too, right? Two bands. Now me and Mike are part of the Aqualads, so that's pretty exciting. We didn't practice earlier today.
yeah yeah right man yeah surf is kind of there's a kind of offshoot i think of tiki tiki music that surf fits in pretty well. Oh, yeah. You know? And so, yeah, Jeremy's band, the Aqualads, goes back to, what, 97? Yeah. Wow. 96, really. We started playing in 96, and, you know, I always loved... I think I came to surf music somewhat through Santo and Johnny in a way. Oh, yeah. I love this like loungy sort of thing that led me to surf music. A lot of guys get into surf music from punk.
And you end up with this really heavy, you know, stuff that's great. And I love that stuff, too. You know, dry, you know, I love surf. And I've done a lot of the surf stuff. And talk to, obviously, John Blair a lot, amazing, and Ivan Pongrasik, amazing historians on all this stuff. and you know Dick Dale I started the whole concept of surf music but in parallel there was
The Bel Airs, which is much softer, not softer, but I would just say, you know, it's not quite as heavy duty. It's not a replacement for punk rock. And I guess that's, I mean, something that I would love to ask you guys about, if that's akin to something we want to talk about on this podcast, but, like, what got you here to where you're wanting to play Tiki, Exotica?
Maybe some surf influence, all this kind of stuff. That's a really good question. I would love to hear that from everybody. Yeah. So, Jeremy, you got it from surf and from... Yeah, well, I mean, actually, you know, I was I always loved the Ventures, but then I got into Billy Vaughn. Oh, OK. From the Blue Hawaii album. When I was living by myself in Florida and kind of fell in love with this concept of old Florida and this music. At the same time, I bought an original copy of Voodoo.
From, yeah, from a goodwill. Had no idea what it was. So I listened to that as well, but then shortly thereafter bought some Phantom Surfer, Satan's Pilgrims, Laika and the Cosmonauts, a lot of these bands, Man or Astro Man, of course, and all this kind of stuff. And that really got me into like, oh, I'm going to play surf music because, you know, there's a lot of alternative stuff going on in my life at the same time. Right. And so surf music was just sort of adjacent.
But I always really loved this loungy whatever it was. And I thought that was Hawaiian music. So I'd collect all these Hawaiian albums and kind of love some Hawaiian music and all this stuff. And I left the Aqualides at one point and was like, I really want to learn how to play Exotica. So I'm going to learn how to play the steel guitar. There you go. And this just shows you how misguided I am because there's really no steel guitar in Exotica.
Hawaiian music, there's steel guitar, which is great. But there's very few Hawaiian albums, in my opinion, that would be considered exotica. They're really Hawaiian music. It's kind of a separate thing. But then when you look at exotica, it is also Hawaiian music just done in an exotica. Zodica kind of fashion. And I will say this, you play your steel guitar. vintage style. I mean, it sounds old, and that is, I think, kind of a lost thing, because Hawaiian music nowadays is more reggae.
Yeah. It's kind of lost. Or what do you call it? Slack key. Slack key as well, yeah. I don't think that there's a lot of people doing Hawaiian, actual Hawaiian steel. Right. Okay, well, let's listen to a perfect example of what you did on the album. This is my tune. Lahaina Hula, and it doesn't actually feature steel. You did the resonator guitar on this, and it just sounds like it is just, it sounds like it's a bygone era.
So here from the new album, Midday Mai Tais, is my version of Lahaina Hula, which actually was on my Lahaina Sunset record. But I did it really slow, which is kind of a lymanism. But here it is at regular hula tempo right here. when the Beatles came in and they killed surf music, they really, they put up a bullet through the heart of surf music, exotica and Hawaiian music. All that stuff was considered the old people music.
And suddenly all of this Beatles stuff was considered new, you know, so get rid of all that crap. How surf music got, like, I guess because all the surf musicians were young and they're like, let's do this other stuff, you know. Right. But, yeah. That kind of killed all that stuff. But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I guess Santo and Johnny was a huge part of it as well. I always wanted to learn how to play steel, and I didn't really start doing it until 2017. And tried to...
Learn as fast as I can and created the Manicoras with just myself and with backing tracks, invited a few guys in and started to try to make. songs with steel as exotica conga and whatever um and this is after a long you know time in surf music as well but you know it all comes full circle and i feel like Getting to play with you guys is great because I love doing lots of different influences. And I also love what this band represents, which is we've never played together in person.
and you get something and you have to interpret it and just spit something out that it feels natural and it feels like we're all together. writing this together you know i kind of feel like you write better in this scenario than you do in person in a way i don't really know but to me that's kind of how i feel about it so it's been a pleasure really has yeah And Mike, how did you come to Tiki? Well, you know...
I come from a background of like an 80s cover band, you know, drummer. And, you know, of course, I went in the Marines and early in life, right after college. And it kind of took a break. from music um but i stayed musical you know i tried to stay relevant and play guitar teach myself guitar and that sort of thing and of course going to hawaii i think i didn't really get into it in hawaii um
And I was – I think it was more maybe some subliminal kind of thing that occurred while I was living there because it was much later where I was spending a lot of time in San Diego, a lot of time. I'd go several times a year. you know, there's a huge, you know, tiki vibe in San Diego. And, you know, I picked up Tiki Magazine. I can remember it. I picked up Tiki Magazine. It was really cool. From Trader Mortz. That great liquor bar. Trader Mortz. Yeah. Like a Tiki Hut.
And I fell in love with the magazine. So I subscribed. I loved it. And I was reading the reviews and I saw, you know, they had these music reviews. And, you know, I started listening to people. It was the Tiki Aki Orchestra that you were part of. Yeah. You know, and I tell you, it blew me away. It was like, I love this because it's. It's old and new and it's just really cool. And all this stuff. So that set me on the path. So what is this all about? Of course...
I don't know if I had Spotify back in the day, but I started finding more and more offshoots of that. And, you know, Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny, and it just started just growing in me. And, of course... I'll have to admit, I do like to partake in bibbing from time to time. And it all just kind of worked together. It was like, this is the perfect combination. During my ties, I'm escaping. I just...
It just took me in and I loved it. And it wasn't until, you know, then I had a regular career. I got the Marines and I did other stuff. And it wasn't until I retired in 2018 that I started doing some. my own music and my own projects, Freedom 57, you know, the day drinking thing. And, you know, and that didn't really do, you know, I was a dentist and didn't really do it for me.
But I said, I've been saying for a long time to myself, I want to do an Exotica or that kind of album. Here's a really interesting story that I'll just pass on. Exactly. So I started doing this song. I came up with the Donatiki. And I started writing a whole album. Surfatica was the album. Yeah.
But the Donna, you played the Donna Tiki on your podcast for me. And we didn't really know each other at the time. I just emailed it to you. And we said, oh, I love this song. I'll play it. Great. Well, one of Jeremy's friends heard the song.
And you had introduced it as a, it's from Charlotte, North Carolina band or whatever. And, um... he let jeremy know about it and uh jimmy's like i don't know there's no i don't know anything about this mr molly in charlotte whatever who is this guy jeremy's pretty connected you know so he finds me on tiki central
You know, he finds me and messages me and says, hey, I want to meet up. And we go to this kind of little tiki bar. And the funny thing is, I just started listening to the manicuras about a month or two before. And I'm like, this is what I'm going for. You know, this kind of mix of Sturf and Exotica, Tiki, you know. And it wouldn't even come out until later in the conversation that he was like the...
Founder of the Manichorus. I was just like, wow, is this a small world? What? There you go. We decided to start collaborating on some stuff. Then we brought you in and you collaborated on some stuff. And it just took off from there. I thought Mike was punking me. That's what it was. That's true. Yeah, right, because one of my songs is kind of, I think, shaken and stirred. I think you have one shaken or stirred.
But I tell you, it was it's been a great ride. And I'm just loving this style, the music and just the camaraderie meeting you guys. It just expanded my horizon. Like you wouldn't believe. Matter of fact, for like for this album, I've never really played ukulele before. But I'm playing ukulele. Well, yeah, I'm like, I'm having to figure stuff out. I like that. Alkalele. You're playing Alkalele. Well, you know, it was ukulele. It was a second Mai Tai. Now it's alkali. So anyway.
But yeah, so I just, you know, you pushed me. So, you know, you send me this stuff. Like Darren would send me these, you know, these chord charts and he's playing these funky chords all over the place. You know, I'm a basic guitar player. You know, I play, you know, the cowboy chords, right? And I'm getting these, you know, these crazy chords. I'm like, how do I play this on the ukulele? So I'm literally having to chart the stuff out with chord diagrams. And just, you know, I'm learning as I go.
So and then I'm doing a lot of lead guitar on this album on the ukulele. So that was challenging because it's way different than the guitar. You know, there's only four strings and it's tuned differently. So it's been a just wonderful for me. to expand my musical knowledge and push me to – because that's the way you get better too. You get pushed.
And I just I tell you, it's been a phenomenal project. I'm happy to be part of it. I will say this. I didn't I didn't know that you weren't that proficient on ukulele because you nailed your parts there. You're picking. I came back and I laid it into my workstation and your picking was like dead on eighth notes. I was like, damn. That was pretty smooth. I used to follow Tommy Emanuel a lot. Great finger style guitar player. And if you ever try to learn any of this stuff, it's nearly impossible.
But so, you know, I have I can finger pick the guitar pretty well, you know, not really good. But I mean, for me, pretty well. And that translated the ukulele. So I was able to, you know, I can figure stuff out. But really, Mike, you're a drummer.
I'm a drummer, yeah. I don't know if you talked about this, but you started as a drummer. I started as a drummer, yeah. Wow. You can really get that in dealing with... internet bands i'll call it right yeah um you can sometimes really lose sync in these songs you know one guy kind of makes some sort of a sort of timing error and you're not necessarily going to a click or whatever
that can really blossom into some serious like timing mistakes you know but drummers really have this like right on you know thing and like what you were saying Mark, you throw it into the doll and suddenly everything just matches up perfectly. It's phenomenal. That is, I got to tell you, that is one of those moments where it's like, you're not sure how it's going to sit. And you sit it in there and with all your guys' tracks, it was like...
Ah, it's like, wow, it fit right in. That was really nice. But OK, Darren, your turn. How did you all the way from Nashville? San Francisco. San Francisco by way of Nashville, right? I grew up in San Francisco, and I came up playing in Irish bars in San Francisco and playing oldies. And then we eventually started to write our own kind of rock music and started playing some of the rock clubs. But we did a little bit of everything. We played oldies, British invasion country, surf.
You know and then the thing about the Exotica and Tiki though it goes back to like I was just in San Francisco at my parents house helping them pack up their stuff and my mom had 500 something records that we had to get rid of. And in those, I found some of them the other day were Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, and I remember hearing those as a kid. So I loved that music. My grandparents had a lot of Hawaiian music. I used to hear that all the time when I'd visit.
But I never thought about playing any of it. I always just thought of it as an old genre until, like Mike, I discovered Tiki Magazine and these groups putting out new music and I was like, wow. I didn't know there was any new music coming out of this genre. So that led to me thinking, well, with my background, shoot, I can write, I can do this stuff.
I never knew it would turn into how many CDs I put out, but it was like the Tiki Delights was just... Hey, let's have a shot at this, you know? I mean... I've got as much reason to do it as anybody else growing up on that stuff. So it's a great genre because like Jeremy was saying earlier, I think that You've got tiki, Hawaiian, surf, lounge. I like lounge music a lot. And I like to go back, even Spaghetti Western. Yeah. It's in with us. It's kind of a wide umbrella.
So it's kind of fun because you can kind of be more Tiki. Like your album was very Hawaiian. And I'll do a whole lounge album sometimes and come back to Tiki and Exotica. It's very fresh, you know, and it's fun. Fun to write this stuff. But this project has been a lot of fun with you guys because you guys are the lead players. I mean, you've really... I gave you a lot of room. If it was my own CD...
Most of the time when I'm working with other people, I'll say, well, here's the melody. I don't write music, but here's the melody, blah, blah, blah. With you guys, I just said, here's the song, Bare Bones. Just the chord structure. You guys come up with the melodies and the parts. Well, we changed that. Everything was great. It was a great chord progression, the Sandy's Cove. And when I heard it...
I was trying to play with it because I was trying to come up with like a lead guitar part of Sandy's Cold. And I just couldn't make it work, you know, with the demo. And so I said, you know what? I'm hearing a reggae beat. I'm hearing this reggae thing. For some reason, that's what I was hearing in my head. So I got on my my DAW. I started playing around with some reggae drums and some reggae bass.
And then, you know, I use the exact same chord progression, but I changed the, you know, I just came up with this reggae idea. And I think it's one of them. It's one of my favorite songs to play. I love playing it on the ukulele. It's great. That's why this is such a great collaboration is because things like that. And Mike, what do you think of this? I'm like, I love it. Let's do it. Well, believe it or not.
I didn't intend to make this a two-parter, but the interview was so good, I just wanted to keep as much of it. So we are going to end here by playing... Of course, Sandy's Cove, the tune we were just talking about, off of the new Midday Mai Tai's collaboration record. And then we'll go on to part two. So thank you all for listening. And here I am going to debut Darren Long's tune, Sandy's Cove, tribute to Sandy Warner, the cover girl for all the Martin Denny records.
This is a wonderful, fun tune from the album Midday Mai Tais, available May 1st, 2025. Check it out. See you shortly.