What music did Bob Hirohata like?

Ill go with this answer!

 

i have to argue with you on this one..most "car guys" are ALSO music guys or artists on some level...the guy who painted my car's in a band, most younger guys i've met are into playing music and cars full tilt OR they work on cars and do pinstriping or tattooing or something artistic...my dad's into cars,he's older and is WELL into rock music..also,i know that Barris is a kustom god and all that,but aside from his making the knobs for the merc,i really dont see Bob included too much in the build..he just gave it to Barris and said "have at it"...so given his limited involvment,why isnt it safe to assume that he had other interests besides cars?i think after all those hours spent making kustom radio knobs for the merc,he'd find SOMETHING he would like on the radio..i just have to argue this because i'm a car guy,but i aslo like art and music..i play guitar and bass and waste hours doodling...not to hijack the thread,but if every HAMBer who responded this listed their other hobbies besides cars,you'd find some pretty artistic people,because to make a true KUSTOM you have to be somewhat artistic,and like it or not,music is an art..ok,sorry about the rant,i just was thinkin outloud
creepy

 

Mack-

Go getcher self some Dave Brubeck (Take five, Blue Rhondo a la Turk), some Stan Getz, maybe some Sonny Rollins or Cal Tjader, and dig those 50's swingin' beats....

 

In the early 50's, when I was a wee tiny lad, most of the stuff I recall hearing on the radio was like Guy Lombardo, Patti Page, Hank's, Williams and Snow, and a little jazz. White stations didn't play much blues, and the real rock & roll didn't get going until the "E" man started getting hot in '55 or so.

 

Poncho sez-

Big ups for Bill Monroe!

 

I have a Guy Lombardo album... 78 RPM discs.
I also have an album of Eddie Cantor "Pop hits", Bing Crosby with the Andrew Sisters singing Route 66, some Dinah Shore and Dick Haynes

I would guess Bob might have listened to Dick Haynes, or Dick Haymes, but not both...

Someone said Bob Hirohata was murdered?
Is there any more information about him?
What he did for a living, or what his father did since it's possible family money might have paid for a "kid" to have a custom built?
Was he "relocated" during the war"
There really hasn't been much written about him, just the car.
Intentional?
Was he "The Bubblegum Machine King of Arcadia"?

(That might have got him killed since the Mafia has been rumored to be in that business.)

 

Did his car have a radio?? Most of the local AM {no one ever knew of FM} stop broadcasting after dark so to higher powered northern stations could bradcast the news to the southern stations. This was the only way of news getting to the mases. They would get their news off a teletype machine.Then they would tell the masses. A lot of local or regional artist were always featured as this would sell advertisement. I doubt if he listened to WSM out of Nashville Tenn for the Grand old Opery but maybe John R who featured black music.. WLS Chicago was very popular in the south during the early 60s.Then to young Mr Hirohata could have listened to tradional oriental music of Japan ..

 

That's later though. Take Five was '59 or so I think. But it's still the shit

 

There was an interview with him in Steet Rodder a year or so before he died.

 

O/T but I recently got the follow up record "Time Further Out", real crazy stuff.

 

didnt ya see the Hirohata merc post??he did a tech article in Rod n Custom on how he made the knobs for his radio (which i believe i said in my post )
creepy

 

Do you remember any of it?

 

Damn good question, Anthony.

The only thing I can say is that an old teacher of mine who was a gearhead in the fifties listened to be-bop jazz, not rock and roll, mind you he was a black man.

I suspect that those old custom guys prolly veered more towards jazz than anything else, but what do I know?

 

most of that stuff would have been too late. early fifties remember. but i think thats the right idea.

 

dude, if you dig that, go find a charles mingus record with "better get (h)it in your soul" and "slop" on it. it'll make yer brown eyes blue. or something.

 

Mingus is God.

 

My Buddy told my he and his friends would go to an "R&B"
Record store in Watts the 50's for their tunes. And it probably
wasn't any thing most of us have ever heard of. He also built a slammed
fastback (late 40's Olds I think) while stationed in Japan the late 50's-
that he used to cruise in and go to Yakusa clubs. Don't know if it's true
but it sounds cool!

 

I'll second that Nads, He was my hero when I started playin' upright bass, 30 some years ago!!!
DW

 

Then to young Mr Hirohata could have listened to tradional oriental music of Japan ..[/QUOTE]That is what he listened to.It even said so in a old rod and custom mag.

 

testify.

 

I would like to see that RC interview. Does anyone know the issue or would someone post it or even do a crappy old xerox and mail it to me?

I thought that Mr. H. might listen to Noh music. (get it? Noh music? No music? forget it)
There is a good chance that he listened to whatever Hunter Hancock was playing at KFVD, KPOP, KGFJ, KGER or KCBS.

http://www.electricearl.com/dws/hunter.html

Possibly a fan of Big Jay McNeally and the other saxaphone wielding, bar walking maniacs of that time.

 

Lefty Frizzel possibly?
Bob Wills is still King,
Perhaps some "Rocket 88" or" My Baby Rocks me With a Steady Roll"

 

My two cents...
Thinking early 1950's and California...
What music do the motorcycle gang BRMC listen to when they tear up the
joint in the movie Wild One (1953) ? That's jazz, be-bop stuff...hep cat music...

 

But can you trust Hollywood?

 

You mean the Hollywood movies ain't documentaries???