![]() Stars such as Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis Jr. Ho began to play at various spots at Hawaii, and soon, he was packing places such as the Coconut Grove in Hollywood and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Honey's became a happening place on Oahu, with other Hawaiian musicians stopping in for jam sessions. Every weekend there would be lines down the street." "I just played songs I liked from the radio, and pretty soon that place was jammed. "I had no intention of being an entertainer," Ho said. When he returned home and took over his parents' struggling neighborhood bar, Honey's, he put together a band and started performing at his father's request. As the Korean War wound down, he piloted transport planes between Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu and Tokyo. military planes flying in and out of Hawaii during World War II, Ho joined the Air Force. He grew homesick, returned to the islands and ended up graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1953 with a degree in sociology. After graduating high school in 1949, he attended Springfield College in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship.
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