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Da Mokettes & the Incredible Q Band - Palolo Valley Girls (3:00)
What better than a novelty record than a novelty record of a novelty record and that is what we have here. Some Hawaiians lead by Will Moku take Frank & Moon Unit Zappa's Valley Girl and infuse it with some local lingo and slap some local geography on it and ta-da Palolo Valley Girl. Did a little digging around and found some info that makes some sense of this record. Will Moku was a popular dejay (real name William Saragosa, died in 2004 at the age of 47) and guitarist. He had a 13 year run at KQMQ, where he came up with Palolo Valley Girls. Surround yourself with enough novelty records and pretty soon you figure out that most of them are done by disc jockeys. And that is really all I have to say.
- Contributed by: Scott Soriano
Images: Record
Media: 45
Label: Prism Records
Catalog: PRS-407
Credits: Frank & Moon Zappa/Will Moku
Date: 1982
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Posted by: carlos ZZ zerpa | April 19, 2007 at 11:48 PM
Wow what a flash back...
At the time Wili was the afternoon guy at KQMQ. He was really talented, a great musician and a natuarlly funny guy (as well as a good friend). The song featured several guys from the station... Kelly Randall, the Mokettes were Wili's GF at the time and Lilia Miller (Music Director), Jonell Cockette (Traffic Director) and one of the weekend jocks (Amber?).
I remember that we actually did this the legal way and paid royalties (wow imagine that) to Frank Zappa.
Mahalo for the memories,
Kimo
Posted by: Kimo Akane | March 04, 2008 at 01:19 AM
Dude:
I was doing afternoons at the Q when we did this song. Thanks for putting it up. I miss Wili like nobody's buiness. You never forget the guy who teaches you how to boogie board.
Kelly Randall
Denver, CO
August 9, 2012
Posted by: Kelly Randall | August 09, 2012 at 10:59 AM