Palani Vaughan has been known for so many years as a pioneer of modern Hawaiian nationalistic music, and most of all for the four "Ia ‘Oe E Ka La" albums he recorded in honor of King Kalakaua in the 1970s and early 1980s, that the music on this album will come as a surprise to anyone who knows him for only "Ia ‘Oe E Ka La."Palani’s debut album, "Meet Palani Vaughan and The Sunday Manoa" [Hula Records, 1967], showed his strength as a contemporary Hawaiian artist, this one reinvented him as a potential successor to the late Alfred Apaka as a peerless romantic crooner of Hawaiian and hapa-haole classics set to sophisticated orchestral arrangements. Hawai‘i has changed tremendously since these recordings were made in 1970, but beautiful music is timeless, and this album is a perfect antidote to the stress of living in modern, congested, over-built and over-developed Hawai‘i nei. Lyrics and translations for Hawaiian language songs are enclosed.
Album Tracks:
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