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• #ARTHUR LYMAN ALBUMS PROFESSIONAL#

Lyman died from esophageal cancer in February 2002. His last charting single was "Love For Sale" (reaching number 43 in March 1963), but his music enjoyed a new burst of popularity in the 1990s with the lounge music revival and CD reissues. Lyman's biggest pop single was " Yellow Bird," originally a Haitian song, which peaked at #4 in July 1961. The title song peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1959. Taboo peaked at number 6 on Billboard's album chart and stayed on the chart for over a year, eventually selling more than two million copies. During the peak of his popularity Lyman recorded more than 30 albums and almost 400 singles, earning three gold albums. He also performed for years at Don the Beachcomber's Polynesian Village, the Shell Bar, the Waialae Country Club and the Canoe House at the Ilikai Hotel at Waikiki, the Bali Hai in Southern California and at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Lyman continued to play as a solo act at the New Otani in the 1980s and 1990s. Although the Polynesian craze faded as music trends changed, Lyman's combo continued to play to tourists nearly every Friday and Saturday night at the New Otani Kaimana Beach Hotel in Honolulu throughout the 1970s. For decades Arthur and Martin did not speak to each other, but eventually came together (with many of their former bandmates) on Denny's 1990 CD Exotica '90 and remained friends since. Kaiser to leave The Martin Denny Group to form his own group, continuing in much the same style but even more flamboyant.

That same year, Lyman was persuaded by Henry J. When Denny's "Exotica" album was released on record in 1957 it became a smash hit, igniting a national mania for all things South Pacific during the lead-up to Hawaii becoming a state, including tiki-themed restaurants like Don the Beachcomber's and Trader Vic's, luaus, Oceanic art, exotic drinks, aloha shirts, and straw hats. It was great." These bird calls became a trademark of Lyman's sound. "The next thing you know, the audience started to answer me back with all kinds of weird cries. One night Lyman had "had a little to drink," and when they began playing the theme from Vera Cruz, Lyman let out a few bird calls. The stage of the Shell Bar was very exotic, with a little pool of water right outside the bandstand, and rocks and palm trees growing around. Denny, who had traveled widely, had collected numerous exotic instruments from all over the world and liked to use them to spice up his jazz arrangements of popular songs. Other members of his band were Augie Colon on percussion and John Kramer on string bass. Denny had been brought to Hawaii in January on contract by Don the Beachcomber, and stayed in Hawaii to play nightly in the Shell Bar at the Hawaiian Village. Initially wary, Lyman was persuaded by the numbers: he was making $280 a month as a clerk, and Denny promised more than $100 a week. It was there in 1954 that he met pianist Martin Denny, who, after hearing him play, offered the 21-year-old a spot in his band. So it was kind of tough." Exotica Īfter graduating from McKinley High School in 1951, he put music on hold to work as a desk clerk at the Halekulani hotel.

I was making about $60 a week, working Monday to Saturday, from 9 to 2 in the morning, and then I'd go to school. "I was working at Leroy's, a little nightclub down by Kakaako.

#ARTHUR LYMAN ALBUMS PROFESSIONAL#

In fact he became good enough to turn professional at age 14 when he joined a group called the Gadabouts, playing vibes in the cool-jazz style then in vogue. Over the next few years he became adept at the four- mallet style of playing which offers a greater range of chord-forming options. Lyman joined his father and brother playing USO shows on the bases at Kaneohe and Pearl Harbor. Arthur's father was very strict with him, each day after school locking him in a room with orders to play along to a stack of Benny Goodman records "to learn what good music is." "I had a little toy marimba," Lyman later recalled, "a sort of bass xylophone, and from those old 78 rpm disks I learned every note Lionel Hampton recorded with the Goodman group." At age eight he made his public debut playing his toy marimba on the Listerine Amateur Hour on radio station KGMB, Honolulu, playing " Twelfth Street Rag." "I won a bottle of Listerine," he laughed. When Arthur's father, a land surveyor, lost his eyesight in an accident on Kauai, the family settled in Makiki, a subdistrict of Honolulu. He was the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of Hawaiian, French, Belgian and Chinese descent. territory of Hawaii, on February 2, 1932.

Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Oahu in the U.S.