earning three gold albums. Taboo peaked at number 6 on Billboard'''s album chart and stayed on the chart for over a year, eventually selling more than two million copies. The title song peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1959. Lyman's biggest pop single was "Yellow Bird," originally a Haitian song, which peaked at #4 in July 1961. His last charting single was "Love For Sale" (reaching number 43 in March 1963), but his music enjoyed a new burst of popularity in the 1990s with the lounge music revival and CD reissues. Death Lyman died from esophageal cancer in February 2002. Arthur Lyman Group personnel Recording details Most of Lyman's albums were recorded in the aluminum Kaiser geodesic dome auditorium on the grounds of the Kaiser Hawaiian Village Hotel on Waikiki in Honolulu. This space provided unique acoustics and a natural 3-second reverberation. His recordings also benefited from being recorded on a one-of-kind Ampex 3-track 1/2" tape recorder designed and built by engineer (and Hi-Fi Records label owner) Richard Vaughn. All of Lyman's albums were recorded live, without overdubbing. He recorded after midnight, to avoid the sounds of traffic and tourists, and occasionally you can hear the aluminum dome creaking as it settles in the cool night air. Lyman noted that he did not like recording in the dome because of the echo and the outside noise but did so because it was free. At night, after playing in the lounge the band would wheel their instruments over to the dome and record all night. They knew their recording session was over when morning came and the trash trucks started making noise. The quality of these recordings became even more evident with the advent of CD reissues, when the digital mastering engineer found he didn't have to do anything to them but transfer the original 3-track stereo masters to digital. The recordings remain state-of-the-art nearly 50 years later. Discography Original LPs Taboo, Hi-Fi Records SR806, 1958 Hawaiian Sunset, Hi-Fi Records SR807, 1958 Bwana A, Hi-Fi Records SR808, 1958 Legend of Pele, Hi-Fi Records SR813, 1958 Leis of Jazz, Hi-Fi Records SR607, 1959 Bahia, Hi-Fi Records SR815, 1959 Arthur Lyman on Broadway, Hi-Fi Records SR818, 1959 Taboo 2, Hi-Fi Records SR822, 1959 Percussion Spectacular! (reissued as Yellow Bird), Hi-Fi Records L-1004, 1960 The Colorful Percussions of Arthur Lyman, Hi-Fi Records L-1005, 1962 Many Moods of Arthur Lyman,