{"id":1446,"date":"2014-04-14T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2014-04-14T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T03:20:12","slug":"don-hos-pool-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Don Ho’s pool table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sam<\/a>Back when I was a radio guy I met Sam Kapu.<\/p>\n

Sam sang in Don’s show and then became a radio guy.<\/p>\n

He’s still a radio guy today.<\/p>\n

But back then he sang in the Don Ho Show when it was on Lewers Street in Waikiki and we became friends.<\/p>\n

Sam loved to play pool.<\/p>\n

Don Ho had a pool table back stage.
\nSam and I ended up playing pool most nights after the show.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot about live shows during that time.<\/p>\n

\"Don<\/a>Stuff like you always put the pretty ladies in the front row.<\/p>\n

Today you do that for the TV cameras.<\/p>\n

Back then they did it so the stars of the show could have some eye candy to sing to.<\/p>\n

After the show, Don Ho used to throw open his dressing room for folks to come and say hello and the ladies get a kiss.<\/p>\n

The line was a hundred people long.<\/p>\n

\"don-ho-kissing\"<\/a>I bet he kissed a million women over his career.<\/p>\n

Some were pecks and some were like a Vulcan Mind Meld of the lips.<\/p>\n

The man was amazing.<\/p>\n

The best ones to watch were the female Japanese tourists that flocked to his show.<\/p>\n

Tiny Bubbles was always a big hit there.<\/p>\n

They were nervous and very polite as they approached him standing there in his robe.<\/p>\n

They’d start to bow, he’d grab one at a time, pull her into his arm and lay a big one.<\/p>\n

The ladies would almost swoon and exit on wobbly legs.<\/p>\n

“Next” – they kept the line moving quickly.<\/p>\n

Did they hate it?<\/p>\n

I doubt it.
\nMany were back the next night.<\/p>\n

This was the real show for us.<\/p>\n

Then it was back to the pool game.
\nEight ball in the side pocket.<\/p>\n

There was some other stuff going on but I’m not going to throw it around.<\/p>\n

The wife would get grumpy and kill me.<\/p>\n

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