Adomono: Gypsy

Posted on August 26, 2007 by hcrink

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Jerry Stiller look-a-like flamenco guitar dude record that is actually pretty far out. To look at the titles on this set of all covers does not exactly fill you with enthusiasm, but they are so completely drenched with echo that even the most banal 60's pop cover is transcended into enjoyable weirdness. And according to the liner notes Adomono was "John F. Kennedy's favorite music". I swear I'm not making this up.

"Flight of the Bumblebee"

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Filed under: Lounge / Exotica

12 Comments to “Adomono: Gypsy”

Rob Hutten on August 31st, 2007 @ 11:32 am

Oh man, that’s cool. Love to hear more from this one… hint hint :)

Joe on September 25th, 2007 @ 2:18 pm

Crazy stuff–it’s like a cross between “Flight of the Bumblebee” and “Popcorn.”

Nick Adomono on October 1st, 2007 @ 5:03 am

I am pleased you like my father’s music.
He recorded three albums in his lifetime,(& was working on his forth before he passed away).
All it was was Him, the guitar on the cover, an amp, & an echoplex.
I remember him coming home every night during the making of this album, very tired, but pleased how it was turning out.
The J.F.K. statement, btw, is true.
My father campaigned for him, & Mr. Kennedy promised my dad that if he won, he would invite my father to peform at The White House.
He also performed at The California Governor’s Mansion, during Ronald Reagan’s term.
My father passed away in 1990, but not a day goes by where i don’t think about him.
Again, thanks for enjoying his music.

also…I don’t think he looks like Jerry Stiller.
People always said he looked like Clark Gable.

diana adams on December 16th, 2007 @ 4:21 am

i am pleased to say john adomono is my grandfather, and nick adomono is my uncle,and i have 3 boys that play gutar like grandad,he was the best,i took my son joey to gutar school when he was 7 and the teacher sed he was amazeing, so his talint still lives on! he was one classey man!

Kevin on May 4th, 2008 @ 10:38 am

Well, I’m the First son of Johnny Adomono….
And like most in his family..i never knew my dad.
I’m just glad Nick got to see him..probally more than any of his kids…Give or take. Fatima too,
I’m proud to be his son…but Johnny Adomono, was always chaseing his Dream…and left his children behind….Never knowing what they would become….I just wished he would have came around to see what i’ve acomplished ,of me being in the entertaiment world…and i know others that were Children & Grand children wished the same!
Johnny never knew or stayed around to see them grow up & see what they would become…that was his loss…And He was ours!
So, for us, who are related, who never got to see him much …Thank God…there are some who saw who he was & what he did…even though, some of what he did wasn’t good!
But, what he did, artisicly…in music, was simply amazing!!!
Love all my family!
Write me sometime…jkaeagle1@aol.com
KEVIN ADAMS
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Tom McCatherine on August 1st, 2009 @ 4:02 pm

While stationed at the Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, from 1959 to 1961, I went with my buddies many times to see John Adomono perform at Donn the Beachcomber’s at the entrance to the International Marketplace. He always packed the house. One night when we were there, in walked Henry J. Kaiser and his entourage and got a table near the stage. Adomono’s playing was always frenetic, and he went through several strings a night. On this particular night, he was replacing a string and muttered, “They ought to find something else to use to make these strings.” Then, as if inspired, he looked at Mr. Kaiser and said, “Aluminum, by golly!” I left Hawaii with one of his albums, the one on which he is pictured with a two-neck guitar. He never played that instrument that I know of. It was borrowed from a shop in the International Marketplace for the album photo shoot. Through the years, that album has disappeared.

Mel Thomas on September 3rd, 2009 @ 1:28 pm

Flight of the Bungle Bee!

Jay on December 28th, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

When I was a kid, I found Night at the Beachcomber in my dad’s record collection and wore it out.

My dad told me that when he was in the Navy, he saw John Adomono in concert in Hawaii and bought the album there.

Sure wish I could find the music again somewhere, the album is long gone.

aurora adomono on February 8th, 2010 @ 3:01 am

im his first wife katherines, grandaughter, my mom is johns dad. ive always loved and played the guitar and i wish i could have met him. id like to speak with nick… mail me at thugette@tmo.blackberry.net

Eric Behee on March 18th, 2010 @ 4:19 pm

Hi My great great Grandfather Joseph H Behee is the maker of the Harp Guitar ont the cover of
“A NIGHT AT THE BEACHCOMBER” with Adomono.It is A BEHEE HARP Guitar Patented in 1907. This is a very rare Harp Guitar.

gary on May 29th, 2010 @ 3:06 pm

hi eric john adomono is my great grand pa and i have a bee hee harp it is almost exactly the same
but my guitar has inlay on the frets please give me some info on the guitar and ill send you some pics of it robot_guitar@yahoo.com

richard on July 9th, 2010 @ 9:09 pm

Bought this album at a yard sale for 25 cents. Im addicted! What a truly blessed musician. Im looking all over for more….cant wait to share with all my friends.

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