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I'M CHIEF KAMANAWANALEA (WE'RE THE ROYAL MACADAMIA NUTS) 1
Written by: The Turtles (Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, John Barbata, Jim Pons and
Al Nichol).
Performed by: Chief Kamanawanalea & His Royal Macadamia Nuts 2 (aka: The
Turtles) 3 -1968.
Appears on: The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands See 2 below (White
Whale LP #WWS-7118, UA)-1968, (Rhino LP #RNLP-70156, US)-1986, (Rhino CS
#RNC-70156, US)-1986, (Repertoire CD #4332-WY, 6 Bonus Tracks, Germany)-1993 &
(Sundazed CD #SDCD-6038, 2 Bonus Tracks, US)-1994 4 ; 30 Years of Rock'n'Roll:
Happy Together (Delta CD #15969)-1995; 30 Years of Rock & Roll: She's My Girl
(Delta CS #72600)-1995, (Laserlight CD #12600)-1995 & (Delta CD #12600)-2000;
The Skye Presents The Breaks (Harmless CD #036)-2001*, (Harmless CS #36)-2001 &
(Import CD #90203)-2001; et al. (*Compilation of various artists.)

1 "I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts)" was released in
1968 on the album, The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands. The album peaked
at #162 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart. "I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the
Royal Macadamia Nuts)" was never released as a single. According to some of the
reviewers, "Chief Kamanawanalea" was a made-up, Hawaiian, idol ("the god of lust
and perversion"), and a rude pun. Others say there was nothing rude about it --
Only the rudeness that was ascribed by what each person perceived it to be in
his or her own mind. Thankfully, this song runs for only 1 minute & 34 seconds.

2 The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, is a comedic, concept-album, on
which the group pretends to be different bands (with such names as, The Bigg
Brothers, Nature's Children, The U.S. Teens, featuring Raoul, & The Fabulous
Dawgs), each with a song in a different genre. The outer covers (on all but the
Rhino reissues) show the Turtles in evening dress, playing hosts of the "show,"
while the inside gatefold shows them in different costumes for each song. The
Turtles wrote nine of the 12 songs on the original LP, with the intention of
mocking the entire spectrum of popular music. There are two bonus tracks on the
Sundazed CD re-issue of 1994.

3 At the time of this recording the band lineup was: Howard Kaylan, born
Howard Kaplan (lead vocals), Mark Volman (lead & backup vocals, guitar,
saxophone), John Barbata (drums), Jim Pons (bass Guitar), Al Nichol (lead
guitar).

A couple of interesting side notes:
The group originally called themselves, The Crossfires from the Planet Mars, but
when they signed with White Whale Records, they changed their name to the
Tyrtles as a homage to the Byrds. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before they
discovered that people were struggling with the pronunciation of the name and
changed it again -- to the correct spelling of the word.

With the break-up of the Turtles in 1970, Kaylan and Volman joined the Mothers
of Invention (Frank Zappa's band) as "The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie," since the
use of the Turtles name (and even their own names) was prohibited by their
contract with White Whale. Flo & Eddie, as they soon became known, recorded
albums with the Mothers and later released a series of records on their own.
Frank Zappa claimed that his association with Kaylan and Volman was inspired by
a DJ's comment that Kaylan & Volman could make the Mothers as big as the
Turtles. "If you want to be as big as the Turtles, have a few Turtles in your
band," Zappa reportedly claimed. The collaboration with Zappa lasted until a
jealous fan attacked and seriously injured Zappa when the Mothers were
performing at the Rainbow Theatre in London in December 1971.

4 Transcribed from the track on this album.

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