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“Sons Of The Desert” production number (1933) Audio from the internal studio production disc of Marvin Hatley's 1933 song; "Honolulu Baby". I cleaned up the sound a bit  & synced the image to the sound of the recording as close as I could. You will hear Marvin Hatley's piano solo without dialogue. The crooner was a Dick Powell "knock-off"... Ty Parvis. The hula dancer was billed as "Charita". The audio from this internal studio recording & others will be included as “extras” in the forthcoming Laurel & Hardy DVD/Blu-ray set due to be released on June 16, 2020. 

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Ty Parvis: Sang "Honolulu Baby"

Ty Parvis: Sang “Honolulu Baby”

I grew curious about Ty Parvis (Tyrone Parvis, 1912-1990) on account of his best known performance — he’s the young man (all of 21) who sings the irresistible song “Honolulu Baby” in one of Laurel and Hardy’s best known comedy’s Sons of the Desert (1933). My sources for the few known scraps, as in so many similar cases, are Lord Heath and the gang at Nitrateville. Parvis was a child performer…

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Here is the actual (session) soundtrack  recording of “Honolulu Baby” from Laurel & Hardy’s 1933 film “Sons of The Desert”. This was taken from an internal studio disc & is the number heard in the film, without dialogue or surface noises; a true original soundtrack recording! Vocal by Ty Parvis.

The song has certainly had  a shelf life beyond it’s use in the film. It was written by Marvin Hatley for “Sons of The Desert” & turns up in a couple of “Our Gang” films  from around the same time period. In 1983, I was stepping off an airplane into the Honolulu airport & heard the song playing over a loudspeaker! The irony was it was written for a film about going to Chicago & Laurel & Hardy never do make it to the islands, yet this Hollywood ditty certainly did! 

At a real Sons of the Desert convention in 1988, there was a message read from Hal Roach via Dick Bann. In it, Roach said; “Whoever would have thought something for a film dreamt up by Stan & our writers would be so celebrated over 50 years later...” Indeed. Some other original items from this film have surfaced & made their way to Sons conventions in recent years. A couple of the original fez hats & a banner seen in the film have made their way into private collections & are well looked after & even shared by fellow Laurel & Hardy enthusiasts.