John’s Old Time Radio Show “THE LOST BENNIE NAWAHI INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG”. Recently unearthed interview with the King of the Hawaiian guitar & Ukulele Bennie Nawahi from 1980 by Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenader co-founder Robert Armstrong. Also present are Bennie’s wife Betty and his stepson Norman Peterson as well as Robert Crumb, who is also an interviewee and Spencer Quinn. This episode starts with an interview with Robert Armstrong from the present, remembering the day he met Bennie and then the interview he recorded with Bennie is played in it’s entirety, unedited. Mark Pollock is also present at the Armstrong interview and many thanks to him for helping record Armstrong remotely in this new age of Covid. This is a two part interview of Bennie which will be followed by an episode where Armstrong spins some very fine Hawaiian discs from his collection.

1. Honlulu Bound – Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)
2. Robert Armstrong interview (2021)
3. Mauna Kea (White Mountain) – King Nawahi’s Hawaiians (1930)
4. Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi (1980)
5. Ukulele Benny – The Georgia Jumpers (1931)
6. Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi (1980) cont.
7. Hawaiian Melody – Hawaiian Beach Combers (1930)
8. Robert Armstrong interviews King Bennie Nawahi (1980) cont.
9. Black Boy Blues – QRS Boys (1929)