 Hi, welcome to Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. We have a wonderful show for you today, but I want to do a little bit of review. The show we had last week, which was on Medical Marijuana, drew one of the highest ratings we've ever had on Seymour's World. And I've been asked by many, many viewers, both by email and text and phone, to please do another show. So I've asked Dr. Kim in Pennsylvania to join us again, which I think we will do either in two weeks from now or just before Thanksgiving. Another show that will talk about the actual marijuana usage, which means what happens when somebody does take medical marijuana? Who monitors all that process? So that's one thing we will do. The next thing I want to say is thank you for all your birthday wishes. Yes, I did turn with them yesterday, and I have another birthday coming up again next year, which is a big one. But I'm happy to say that I feel healthy, and my kids are great, my wife loves me, so I can't ask for much more than that. On November the 11th, I am going to be narrating a Holocaust cantata with the Oahu Coral Society. And this cantata is based on the prisoners of Auschwitz and the music and the songs that they wrote while they were in the camps. So if any of you are in Honolulu and can't attend, it's going to be on Veterans Day at 7.30 p.m. at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Then on December the 4th, I don't have anything to show you, but I will the next time, we are going to have Kids Hurt To Gala. And that Gala event is going to be at the Ko'olau Golf Club, where I'm very humbled and honored that they want to pay tribute to me for my volunteer work for Kids Hurt To, for the foster children, for kids with grief and trauma, and everything that we try to help these 500 kids a year to try to get a better life for themselves. So let's get on with the show. We're very lucky today. We have Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton with us. I'm just kidding. We don't have Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. We have one of my best friends and one of our best musicians at Make Him Smile, and that is Janai. We have Patrick von Vigant. Did I say it right? Oh, so it was kind of European the way you did it. Well, I wanted to say like Patrick von Vigant, you know, to give you a little bit of a European flair and a touch to your name. But Patrick is also a magnificent musician. You're both with our Make Him Smile family, and you help us entertain the children and the adults wherever we do play. And I just want to say thank you to both of you for doing what you do. I wanted to bring you here for another good reason, and that is that you have just come back from London, and you have been at the Abbey Road Studios, which all of us who are of age remember, the Abbey Road Studios is where the most famous musicians in the world have ever been, and you guys recorded a song, or you recorded an album if I'm not mistaken. So before we even get into Abbey Road, I want you to tell our audience who you are, how you got to Hawaii, what you're doing right now, and give us a little bit of a background of your music career. Why don't you start? Oh, okay. Very good. Well, I have been in Hawaii doing jazz and music for a really, really long time. I'm a jack of all trades when it comes to my musical career. People can't really pigeonhole me. It's just that I love to sing, and I love to sing everything. So basically I do everything, and I've been at it for 40 plus years. At this point, I'm just not ashamed to say it. I have nothing to hide. Age is just a number. I don't feel it like I've been in the Hawaii music industry for over 40 years, but that's the way it is. So you started when you were four years old? H. No, I'm kidding. It was a lot older than that, but Tim, I've been at it long enough to know what I'm doing, where I'm going, and I'm still going in many different directions, but it's okay. I'm just a multitasker. I'm a Gemini after all. I have to say Gemini. When you come to our Make Him Smile programs, first of all, you come almost more than anybody else. You're sometimes there three, four times a month. You go to our hospitals way out in Kahuku, and you play at Kulana Malama, which is a hospital in Ewa, where we have some very, very sick children, and you play for them. And I admire you so much for doing what you do for our program, and I just wish you all the best in anything that you ever want to do, and I'll be there for you. Oh, thank you. You blessed me, really, you have. Well, it's my pleasure. Patrick, you have just joined our family, but you've already become very famous with the type of music that you play. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I grew up here. My parents moved here in the 50s, and so I was a little kid. One day I woke up in Waikiki, and then we saw the ocean, and said, we like this, you know, so. Then I was just a typical teenager here. I grew up in Navy housing over in Pearl Harbor area. I was a kid. I heard the Beatles. I heard the music on the radio, and I said, I love that. I saw it on TV. I said, I want to be part of that. My mom was a musician. She played piano in the house, and she would get us all in a tizzy. She played the old ragtime and stuff like that, and she'd get all the kids jumping around. And my parents, my father would walk around whistling Mozart or singing Johnny Cash. So it was kind of an odd house, but it was a lot of fun and a lot of love. And they just encouraged us. So when I was 17, we had moved to the mainland for the last year of high school. They all came back here, and I stayed. And I got the bug, and I said, I'm going to the big city. So I went to New York City in Los Angeles and got involved in the music business. And it was, I was just of the mind that you can't keep me out. I want to do that. We were talking earlier about how'd you get involved. I was like, I wanted to be in. And my parents said, you can do that. And my friends said, yeah, go for it. So I just started knocking on doors and doing that. And I ended up in record companies, in bands. I played in a bunch of bands. But I really wanted to make records. And I was working in New York for about five years. And then I said, I was going to go back to California and learn really to make records. And I got very lucky. And I pounded on the doors. I went to recording school and did all that. And then at the same time, I was playing in bands and such. But I got into the studios, and I hit the jackpot. I really got lucky. I got to work with the big league guys. And they accepted me in. And I worked hard and did the duty. And I learned how to make records with a bunch of really wonderful people. So that just opened up a lot of doors. And the two of you, you're both here in Hawaii now. You're both performing in Hawaii. We all know that jazz is not the mainstay of Hawaiian music. It's definitely on the outside of Hawaiian music. But yet, you're both very successful with it. You both travel a lot to different venues. Japan, England, all over the world, which is very impressive. How did the two of you meet? Well, we were both involved with a Hoku award-winning band called Hot Club of Hulaville. I was the lead singer, songwriter, producer, co-producer with Sunny Silva. And Patrick, I met Patrick through Hot Club of Hulaville because he was doing a lot of really great stuff for us. He would record our productions. He really helped out a lot. I was a groupie. I wasn't trying to say that. No, no, but I was. I love those guys. So did you accept him right away or did he have to pay his dues? Well, I mean, I kind of didn't really pay a lot of attention to him. She didn't know who I was. There's a song. We're going to sing a little bit of a song about this. And then all of a sudden, the light went on and we started working together after the demise of that particular incarnation of Hot Club of Hulaville. And we started working together and we developed chemistry. I don't know if you'll remember this one, but she came up to me one day and said, hey, I'm mad at you. I'm like, what? And she said, you didn't invite me to sing on your record. And I said, I didn't really know you that well, and then she'd invite me to sing with her when she was playing live and that. I was kind of intimidated because I was impressed. I loved Sunny Silva and the Hot Club of Hulaville. Sunny and I had been friends for a long time. So I loved that band. I loved what they were doing. And they really helped bring this music back to the forefront. And so it was just a natural. And I was in love with the music and those guys. And I said, they were doing their concerts. I said, I'll record it. I don't know if they asked or I offered, but we recorded a whole bunch of shows of theirs and just had a blast. And then it just was just a wonderful mixture of so many great people and great songs and musicians. I'm getting in my earpiece. When are they going to start to play? So if you guys could get ready, get your instruments ready. You're playing guitar, Patrick. And you're playing ukulele? Or you're just going to say... I'll play ukulele later. Okay. Very good. So why don't you start with you. Tell us about this first song. Well, this is a song that you all know. And it was the first song we did a couple of weeks ago at Abbey Road. I said to the guys, let's start with an easy one. I was a little bit nervous. We brought on all these wonderful British jazz musicians. So we had charts and everything. And I knew how I wanted to do the song. But still, the first one out there was like, let's start a little bit easy. So we started with this. And this is part of the swanky... We do these albums called Swanky. And part of the Swanky thing is it's the old tunes. It's the classic songwriters. So this is a George and Ira Gershwin song that you all know. From a time and the living is easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is high, your daddy's rich and your mama's good looking. So hush little baby, please don't you cry. And all these mornings you're gonna rise up singing and you'll spread your wings and take to the sky. But don't you worry baby, don't you worry, there's no harm that's gonna come to you. So now with mama and daddy standing by. Summertime. Wow. That was beautiful, you guys. That was absolute... What a rendition of summertime. I mean, I was gonna start singing with you and then I realized I would ruin the whole thing. So I said, no way, no way should I get into that whole thing. But it would have been new and original. Oh yes, very original. And off key. Now if you had a piano that would be a different story, but that was very cool. You said that twice now. We're gonna get the piano. We should challenge this guy and get the piano in here. Well, maybe one day we will because I'll be wonderful. Now tell us a little bit about the Abbey Road experience. I produced a series of CDs called Swanky over the last few years that Janai has been part of. And when she said the chemistry happened, it did happen. We didn't know. That's the wonderful thing. I had no clue when we met each other how this would unfold. And we just, I invited each other into the studio. She asked me to sing on some of her stuff and I asked her to sing on some of my things. And so I did this, we went to Capitol Studios in Hollywood where I used to be an engineer. And we got the Hollywood Cats and some of the Hawaii guys to come in and we started doing, we did an album Swanky One at Capitol and it just sort of grew, it became this organic thing. At the time I thought in the back of my head I said, well, okay, what's next? I said, well, let's go to Abbey Road. It was just in my head, it just seemed like a good idea. It's like, okay, why not? I was, we talked earlier, when my parents said, go for it, try it, I was like, oh yeah, go for it. So it didn't seem that far-fetched to me. A few years later we did another Swanky album and then about a year ago, six months ago I started to really put it together and I started to pull the trigger to say, all right, let's go to Abbey Road. So I called them up, I called the studio and I said, hey, can I book it? And they said, yep. I said, what does it take? And they said, money? And I said, all you need is money. It takes money and a plan. So love didn't work, that did not work, okay. We sang a little bit. Yeah, yeah. So I knew some British musicians that I had become friends with on Facebook and through meeting some of them while I was there previously. And so I knew that I could, the people who I wanted to play with were wonderful players who like this kind of music. So I was like, all right, if I can get these guys. And when I sent them the note and I said, okay, you interested, they said, yeah, I was like, I called her and I was like, I'm sending her emails and videos of these guys. Can you believe these guys are going to play? And she said, yeah, I'm in. And then things started on roll. You start writing checks and sending credit cards and making phone calls and writing charts and getting stuff done. How many guys from Hawaii have been to Abbey Road? I'm so amazed and I feel so grateful just that I'm in the same room with you guys because I've known Abbey Road for all these years. You can touch me. We were in the Beatles room and we went to the Beatles room. When I was booking it, there was an option for Studio 3, which is a smaller room, which is a wonderful room. And I was thinking about it because I knew it was smaller and I wanted it compact. But then she said, oh, they got booked and Studio 2 is open. And I knew Studio 2 was the room, the Holy Grail. So I was like, we have to do it. And it cost more. I was like, just do it. And we did it. And of course it was pretty magic. Oh my gosh. Well, we've got to take a short commercial break. And then I'd like you to start with a song right off the bat when we get back from commercial. We're going to show some photographs and some pictures. Woo, OK. All right. I'm Seymour Kazimerski on Seymour's World to Think That Kawhi. We'll be back in a minute with Patrick and Jani. Hi, I'm Donna Blanchard. I host the show Center Stage on Think Tech Wednesdays at 2 p.m. And this is Crystal Cork. I'm Crystal and I host Cork Talk on Tuesday mornings. I like watching Donna's show. You do. I like watching your show. I like watching your show because you talk about you're not afraid to really dive into issues that are important and sometimes they're a little shocking. And you always bring us information that is sometimes the underbelly that we need to know and we need to say it's important. Well said. Well, I like yours because you can find any topic in any type of character. But you will find that source which brought them to the product of that creative process. And that's like the most important thing is the process. Awesome. I think, yeah, I do. I think it's all about the process. And I think we'll find world peace when we know each other's stories. So thank you very much for bringing it to us. Join us on Think Tech. Think Tech. Hawaii anytime. Hi, welcome back to Seymour's World on Think Tech, Hawaii. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are not here today, but we have something a lot better than hearing those two guys complain about each other and talk about anything. But what is important in the world? What we want to do today is to make you have some fun, relax and enjoy some wonderful music. And our guest today, Patrick and Jani, part of our Make Him Smile program, they entertained us in the first, in our first segment. But now we're going to ask them to start off the second segment. What song are we doing? It's called My Bluebirds, Singing the Blues. Go for it. Oh, June is clear and skies are clear and bright. For me, music of the birds and the trees doesn't mean anything. I heard a bluebird sing in one day. He brought a message of happy news. He filled the air above with a song of love. But now my bluebird's singing the blues. I'm where a blue-eyed wonders because my blue bird's nest was a black bird's rest. And now my bluebird's saying I wasn't the one. A certain someone changed her mind. And now my bluebird's singing the tune. Oh, my blue skies seem to take away my dancing shoes because my blue... Wow, that was wonderful. You know, we could spend the rest of the show just playing, but it is terrific. Now, let's let's just find out where you are playing right now. Jani, where are you playing? Well, this Saturday I'm very blessed to be doing the Governor's Ball. It's a fundraiser for the March of Dimes. And we're going to be doing that with the Mike Lewis Orchestra featuring the Fresh Preps. So it's going to be a lot of fun. You know, it's a black tie affair that a lot of people are going to be attending mostly for the purpose of raising money for the incredible institution, March of Dimes. And I'm really, really excited about being there on Saturday. And Patrick, you're going back and forth to California. Well, I'm going back next week and I actually have some... I do production work for other people as well. So it pays for my sins, basically. And while I'm there, though, I'm going to be performing at a couple of hospitals. Oh, wonderful. I'd like to make them smile, probably. I'd like to make them smile. And I have wonderful friends over there and they invite me all the time and I go and I just bring other musicians in and we go and do it. And I want to thank you for crediting me being part of Make Them Smile. I'm a newcomer to this and I love being part of it. And I just, I think what you're doing is great and I'll get more involved. That's wonderful. We love having you. Any time that you're here, Janai is probably one of our best singers. Oh, I know. I'm going to the Cougar Hospital. I'm going here, I'm going there, I'm going to the Shriners. She's... I mean, you guys, whatever you do is wonderful. Now, before we get into another song, because everybody seems to want to hear more, could we bring up some of the pictures from their Abbey Road? Here we go. Oh, you tell them. Oh, these are great. That's Colin Good on the right. Amazing pianist and Martin Wheatley on the left. We're talking to him about the song Smitten, I do believe. Is that the Smitten moment? Yes. We're talking to him about a song that we're going to be performing. And there it is, Studio Two. Let's see the next one. Oh, there's... That's all... We had to go outside, of course, and stand in a... You know, it's very unassuming right there, because it's a house on a street in a neighborhood. It's like a nice posh neighborhood, as they say. And so we all went out there and just took some shots out there. And those were some of the... One of the gals in the other picture was a photographer for us, and she was wonderful. Georgiana on the bottom. She was wonderful. And she came in and just shot photos and video. And another gal, an old friend, came in from London, and she shot a bunch. And that's Wayne McIntyre next to me on the left. The engineer of the Abbey Road Project. We became very good friends with him, and we're going back, we're going to perform with him. Oh, wow. Yeah, so he's a great musician as well as a great engineer. So we met this family, and Martin on the left was the man who put the band together. And I leaned on him a lot, and he was just a proper English gent. So how many people did you have there, actually, musicians playing guitar players, et cetera? Well, you had guitar, bass, piano. Oh, here we go. There you go, there's the hole. I think we had more engineers than musicians. Did you? We had four engineers. We had four solid rhythm section musicians, guitar, bass, drums, and piano. Then we had a few singers come in. We had a young friend from Hawaii. That's Stephanie Denton in the middle there. She was shooting photos all day, and she was just a champ. And her and Georgiana just, they made us look good. And then the, that's Toby. Yeah, oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, we have Mez, Coliff, in the next to Stephanie, and Paul Moylan, who was an amazing bass player. He's wearing the glasses and the hat. And so yeah, and then we had Toby and Jeff, the engineers, and they were terrific. And of course, Wayne McIntyre's pushing all the sliders and pushing the buttons and stuff. Oh, look at that studio. Wow, that's a big studio. Oh, it's huge, and that's only half of it. The wall, you see the wall up at the end there. This is how the Beatles would set it up too. If you look at the old pictures, you'll see that they would have little, they're a little baffled off sections. So the piano was over there. The pianos up in the upper, corner up in the right corner, are the old ones that Mrs. Henderson's piano, we used it, it was the Obla de Blada. Yes, yes. When I heard it played, I was like, all of a sudden I was flashed back to hearing that record for the first time. And then we used it on a great jazz song. Oh, here you go. That's the two of you together. This is a great, I thought this was a cute shot, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Stephanie, this was our booth, and we had cameras, we had the screens up there, so she could see the screen. I would have to turn and look, and I could see out to the piano, she could see out to the bass and drums and such. Wow. Uh-oh, you look like you have that hat on perfectly. Well, I was, I wanted to look. He always brings a character. I was doing a ragtime song, and the headphones kept falling, that's why I had to put, hold it. But I wanted to do the ragtime song, because I knew they were taking pictures and stuff. Wow. And so I wanted to be a little schwankey with it. What an exciting moment for you guys. Get ready for another song. Uh-oh, right? Okay. Because I keep hearing from our audience more music. Oh, okay. Let's do at least one more, and hopefully we'll have time for two if we can. Yeah, sounds great. Shall we? Okay, we're gonna do that original song. Oh, tell us about it. This has heard great, so go ahead. Well, this is a song that I wrote called Smitten With You, and it's just, you know, it's written after the style of songs that we're fond of recording and producing. And you were thinking of me as you wrote it. Absolutely. Oh, my. Oh, whoa, whoa. Oh, not you. Sorry about that. No, sorry about that. Now, you also wrote the Make Him Smile theme song. Yeah, I just like that. Which is fabulous. Every time we play that at anywhere, they say, wow, who wrote that song? Because it was you. Aw, that's sweet. Go ahead, go for it. That's really sweet. Okay, so here we go. ["Smitten With You"] Smitten with you You must know how much I'm Smitten with you I've left lots of clues I fancy Throw you how much I light up to see you Just want to be with you Smitten with you It's old fashioned I know but What can I do You don't need So I'll continue to be Smitten with you Smitten with you Just beautiful, guys. Just beautiful. And you wrote that song tonight. Yes. Yeah, you couldn't tell. I'm just telling you, it's a beautiful, beautiful song. Oh, it's cute. Isn't it great that old style? Yeah. And Martin, the guitar player, he also played a wonderful loop lately. So he grabbed your ukulele. Well, I insisted that he play my beautiful koa kelii. And that's why I was so nervous playing it because I hear Martin's playing in my head and I'm like, I can't play that. But, you know, it's okay. I mean, I wrote it on this ukulele. And so, you know, Lord knows I should be comfortable. Let's talk about jazz and music. I mean, we're our generation loves jazz. But is it gone down? Or is it, can you bring it back up again to where people just love to sit and listen to wonderful, nice, slow, beautiful, melodic music versus the bang, bang, bang, bang of what's out there today? I have an answer. Yes. It has not gone. It's just changed into all these different genres of jazz. You'd be amazed to know that there's smooth jazz and there's straight ahead jazz and there's instrumental jazz and there's, you know, there's all these different. So it's education. You really have to educate people. You really do. But, you know, a lot of the downfall of many musical styles here in America, which is, by the way, jazz is the only indigenous musical style to America. The big reason for its demise is corporate radio. Corporate radio just killed it. So- And of course we have the, not the demise, but really a downfall of the CD music as well too. Well, that's- Which hurts musicians. That's a completely different subject. But something maybe we can't cover today. But I do want you guys, I know you can't believe it, but it's at the end of our show. So you guys can play one more song if you don't mind. All right, all right. And you'll four more. I know, I know, I know. Maybe if the audience asks, I promise I'll bring you back and they probably will ask. So if you could just take us out with a song. Let you go. I just want to say goodbye to everybody and to all of our guests on Seymour's World at Think Tech Hawaii. This has been a wonderful interlude, 30 minutes of music. Something to make you smile, something to make you happy, something to forget about everything that you're reading in the newspapers and watching television. And just remember that life is full of joy and music is really what brings it to you. So please go ahead. Here we go. This is a D. Martin song from the 50s. My Generation. There you go. Take one fresh and tender kiss. You can't be. Memories it gave me. Add one stolen night of bliss. You can't be. Memories it gave me. One girl, one body. And once a happy day went. Some joy and memories are made of this. You can't be. Memories it gave me. Don't forget our small memories. You can't be. Memories it gave me. Sweet, sweet. Memories it made. With a dream.