This "Best of" album showcases the multi-talented Big island falsetto singer performing many of the songs she is best known for. The three-time Nahokuhanohano Award-winner sings traditional favorites and new songs by Hawai‘i's young composers. Lyrics and translations are included.

Album Titles:

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1. Ku'u Sweetie
2. I Ali'i No 'Oe
3. Makee 'Ailana
4. Pa'ani Kamali'i
5. Papalina Lahilahi
6. Pohai Kealoha
7. 'Akaka Falls
8. Lei Hinahina
9. Moku Ola
10. 'Alekoki
11. Lei Liko Ka Lehua
12. Kuahiwi Nani
13. Nani Wai'ale'ale
14. Ka Pili Oha
    

In a cheery green house up the street from me is Aunty May’s house. Her full name is May Kalehua Kamai. and I first met her about 25 years ago when she was playing ‘ukulele and singing with the Pua Melia Trio. She had a beautiful voice then and still has it! I never knew that one day she would end up playing music with me and for several years she played rhythm guitar with Joe Keaulana on bass. We did some interisland traveling together as a trio but Aunty May has seen so much more of the world as a musical ambassador for Hawaiian Airlines and the famed Kodak Hula Show. She’s charmed literally millions of people with her lilting soprano in England, Holland, Canada, Korea, Japan, the isles of Polynesia, and most recently, in France. She can also sing as low as a tenor and, if she must, she’s not too bad on the upright bass, either. Like most of us Hawaiians, she’s a self-taught singer and musician. Aunty May’s specialty is hula music and that’s why she has performed for so many award-winning hula groups and well-known celebrities too... The last time I was in Aunty May’s house, she was completing a kapa kuiki (Hawaiian quilt) for someone dear to her. She loves people and Hawaiian music and I know that you’ll love listening to Aunty May’s hula favorites, as countless others have.” – Kimo Alama Keaulana, educator, award-winning singer-musician and the kumu hula’s kumu hula.

Album Titles:

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1. KAULANA MOLOKA‘I
2. KANE‘OHE
3. LEI NANI
4. KU‘U HOA
5. E HULI MAKOU
6. KE ALOHA
7. IPO HULA
8. MAUNA LOA
9. HANOHANO OLINDA
10. MI NEI
11. PAPALINA LAHILAHI
12. HE ALOHA NO ‘O WAI‘ANAE
    

In response to popular demand and our deep desire to preserve the very best in Hawaiian music, we at Hula Records are proud to present an anthology of vintage Hawaiian music – "Myra English, Best of the Champagne Lady."

It's hard to resist the music of Myra English. It's evocative and gently persuasive, like a sunrise or a full moon. It's a riot of wonderful music sung in the "old time" style. It's classy, unique – like a glass of French champagne. Myra was a product of a Hawai‘i long gone, obliterated in the name of "progress" – a time when Hawaiian and hapa-haole music was heard EVERYWHERE in night clubs from Iwilei to Waikiki. Myra worked with the best in the business, and in her own right, has produced some of the Hawaiian music industry's biggest hits. Myra English (who died in 2001 at the age of 68) was far and away one of Hawai‘i's quintessential entertainers – not just a musician, not just a performer, but a word-class, well-rounded entertainer. She was a cultural treasure and one heck of a lady – a Champagne Lady...

Biographical notes, photos, English and Hawaiiaiian lyrics and comments about each song are encluded in the CD booklet.

Album Titles:

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1. Drinking Champagne
2. Ku'u Sweetie
3. Waiomina
4. Firemen's Hula
5. Maui Moon
6. Kahukia'ialo
7. KHBC
8. Many Happy Hangovers to You
9. Pu'u Anahulu
10. Huli Ho'i
11. Aloha Ka Manini
12. Kauhale O Kamapua'a
13. Oh How I Miss You Tonight
    
    

"When I think of Hawai‘i, this is the music I hear." "You've captured the magic on Hawai‘i in your music." These are typical responses from passengers disembarking cruise ships at Honolulu Harbor. Moana Chang has been called "a true Ambassador of Aloha." She has been spreading love and appreciation for Hawaiian culture in dance, song and spirit for over three decades, here and abroad. Since 1999, she has been the musical director of Aloha Boat Days and, along with her Aloha Tower Entertainers, has provided the world's most gracious welcome and farewell at Honolulu's most famous harbor. This CD is a compilation of favorites from Moana's Boat Days repertoire, created as a fundraiser for the Aloha Boat Days Foundation, in conjunction with the Aloha Boat Days Committee.

Album Titles:

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1. 'Alika
2. Pua Be Still
3. Ku'u Milimili Hula
4. Hilo March
5. Kaloaloa
6. Hawai'i Calls
7. Kuhiau
8. Sing Me a Song of the Islands
9. Kuwili
10. Sweet Leilani
11. Kalua (Moonlight in)
12. Aloha 'Oe

Hear the songs that lured visitors to our shores... These same songs that got Tutu (Grandma) out of her seat for an impromptu hula at family parties will have you swaying to the music! Ho‘omaakaukau...get ready to hula...with Darlene Ahuna, the Big Island's premiere female vocalist. Information concerning the selections, song lyrics and their translations are included.

Album Titles:

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1. Kuahiwi Nani
2. Papalina Lahilahi
3. Makee 'Ailana
4. Kamalani O Keaukaha
5. Kaimana Hila
6. Pua 'Ahihi
7. E Ku'u Baby Hot Cha Cha
8. Haole Hula
9. Ku'u Milimili
10. Nani Wai'ale'ale
11. Miloli'i
12. Pohai Kealoha
13. The Queen's Prayer (Ke Aloha O Ka Haku)
    
    

Favorite party and lu`au hulas on one great album! Performed by the "First Lady of Hawaiian Music," falsetto great, Genoa Keawe. "Auntie," as she is fondly called, is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award which recognizes her for her contributions in performing and preserving Hawaiian music, and is a winner of multiple Hawaiian music awards

The CD package includes text and translations.

Album Titles:

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1. Alika
2. I Ali'i No 'Oe
3. Na Ka Pueo
4. Kane'ohe
5. Ipo Hula
6. Hula O Makee
7. Hu'i E
8. Makee Ailana
9. Lei Nani
10. Papalina Lahilahi
11. Noho Paipai
12. Ku'u Lei Hoku
    

“Loyal Garner was called ‘The Lady of Love’ for good reason – her music embodied goodness, her performance radiated with heartfelt emotion, her voice projected the aloha from the heart. She may be gone, but her legacy is the vast riches of song that continues to tick like a heartbeat within us all.” – Wayne Harada, The Honolulu Advertiser

Loyal’s fans have requested that we re-issue “Hawai‘i Today” in CD format and we are happy to comply. Although she left us all too soon, at the age of 55, we have her music to remind us of her stellar career, her moving stories told through song, the contemporary flair she brought to Hawaiian favorites, and her exceptional showmanship – her smile, that voice, fingers “tickling the ivories,” the banter, and most of all, the love she shared with her audiences.

Lyrics and translations are included for the four Hawaiian language songs.

Album Tracks:

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1. Hawai'i Today
2. Maui Waltz
3. You Are the Sun, Hawai'i
4. Shores of Haleiwa
5. Morning Dew
6. City Lights
7. Hanalei Moon
8. Ka'aahi Kahului
9. Medley:  Iesu Me Ke Kanaka Waiwa/Just a Closer Walk With Thee
10. Hawai'i Aloha
    
    

When she recorded this album in 1979, at the age of 66, she was already a great-grandmother...not the usual profile of a recording artist. But then, "Aunty" Edith Kanaka‘ole was an extraordinary kupuna (elder) and a truly Renaissance woman. Her expertise in the field of ancient Hawaiian chant and dance, highly regarded. As she herself once said, "Most people think of me as a chanter, but I've been singing all my life." She had also been composing songs all her life – and indeed there are some five dozen to her credit. "Aunty" Edith's song "Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai" (The Plants of the Sea) is now a mandatory dance number for contemporary hula dancers and this recording demostrates why the song – and its composer – are so loved. The album won the coveted Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Best Traditional Album in 1980.

Original and updated liner notes are included, as are Hawaiian lyrics and their translations.

Album Tracks:

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1. Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai (The Plants of the Sea)
2. Ke One Kaulana O Hawai'i (The Famous Lands of Hawai'i)
3. Pua Melie (Plumeria Flower)
4. Na 'Ono O Ka 'Aina (The Delectable Taros of the Land)
5. 'A'ali'i Kumakani O Ka'u (Steadfast 'A'ali'i of Ka'u)
6. Nani Ke Kiele/Makapala (Beautiful is the Garden/Makapala)
7. Na Pana Kaulana O Keaukaha (The Famous Places of Keaukaha)
8. He Punahele Na Ke Kupuna (A Favorite of Grandpa)

Hawaiian music and jazz were made for each other, but it takes an artist with deep roots in both styles to make the marriage work. Keahi Conjugacion brings the soul of a daughter of Hawai‘i and the fire of a jazz diva to this celebration of all that is lyrical and swinging in the music of the Islands.  With inspired accompaniment from keyboard wizard Dan Del Negro, and local jazz greats Gabe Baltazar, Sam Ahia, Buddy Fo, and David Choy, Keahi finds the jazz heart of her own originals and Hawaiian music classics alike.  Keahi's brothers, Tony C and Brother Noland, are already stars of the Hawaiian music scene; with this CD, Keahi takes her rightful place at their side. - Chris Vandercook, local jazzman.

Album Tracks:

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1. Sweetheart Medley:  Kiss Me Love/Ku'u Ipo
2. Leahi
3. Ei Nei
4. Ha'a Hula
5. Maile Swing
6. Blue Hawai'i
7. My 'Ohana
8. A Million Moons Over Hawai'i
9. Waikiki
10. Hula Gals
11. On a Coconut Island
    
    

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin said "Darlene Ahuna's second solo album is a second masterpiece."  Her peers agreed and voted her the Hawai`i recording industry's Female Vocalist of the Year.

Songs often capture moments in time, thus imprinting memories – making them unforgettable. The artist has chosen songs that have special meaning to her and together, they have strung an "unforgettable lei."

The CD folder sheds light on each song's significance and includes Hawaiian lyrics and English translations.

Album Titles:

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1. Moku Ola
2. Lei Liko Ka Lehua
3. Lei Nani
4. You Don't Know Me
5. Lei Ohu
6. My Ku'u Ipo
7. 'Alekoki
8. My Sweet Gardenia Lei
9. Pa'ani Kamali'i
10. Ka Pua O Ka Makahala
11. Lei Hinahina
12. Ke Aloha Pau'ole Oe Nau
    
    
    

"Auntie Genoa" is best known for her unrivaled falsetto singing. Her clear Hawaiian ha‘iha‘i which is often compared with yodeling, and her trademark ability to hold upper register notes for extended periods of time, have earned her the respect and admiration of audiences here and abroad.

A companion album to the popular "Party Hulas," it includes lyrics, translations and explanations about each song. Originally released in 1967, "Luau Hulas" showcases the many talents of "Auntie Genoa" and her band of stellar musicians – Vickie Ii, Pauline Kekahuna, Violet Lilikoi and Benny Rogers. This CD belongs in every collection of Hawaiian music and is a must for students of hula.

Album Tracks:

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1. Hola 'E Pae
2. Aloha Ku'u Home
3. Ipo Hula
4. Meleana E
5. Ke Aloha
6. Lei Nani
7. I Ka Po Me Ke Ao
8. Nani
9. Ho'okipa Paka
10. I Ali'i No 'Oe
11. Makee 'Ailana
12. Hu'i E

Hula Records is pleased to introduce a new generation of Hawaiian music fans to the voice of Auntie Ida Keli‘i Chun - an artist well known to long time residents of our state. The latter will recall the lu‘au favorites, hula standards and beautiful ballads sung by the songbird who first recorded "Ahulili" and sang with the likes of veteran Hawaiian entertainers Joe Kahaulelio, George Naope and Lei Collins; toured Canada and the U.S. with Ray Kinney in the '50's; and later played for Maiki Aiu Lake's noted hula halau. The former will be struck by the sweet voice of this lovely lady who has entertained audiences for nearly six decades. They will come to know the songs popularized by Auntie, composed by Auntie, and even one rescued from near extinction by her timeless recording. All will enjoy sharing Auntie's memories of old Hawai‘i.

Album Titles:

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1. Be Still 'Oe
2. A Ka La'i Au I Kuhiau
3. Ku'u Aloha E
4. Ahulili
5. Pauoa Liko Lehua
6. Ka Uahi O Ko Paka
7. Mele 'Ai Pohaku (Kaulana Na Pua)
8. Ka Nani O Kamananui
9. Ka'ahumanu
10. Kalihiwaena Aloha
11. 'Elu Mikimiki
12. Memories of Old Hawai'i
    

Mahela is the daughter of Hawai‘I's beloved entertainer, Marlene Sai, the grandniece of renowned composer Andy Cummings, and a direct descendant of the celebrated Kaua‘i composer Alfred Alohikea. This is  Mahela's debut solo CD and it is her contribution to the continuance of her family's musical heritage.  Five time Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winner, Hoku Zuttermeister (guitar, acoustic bass) joins other award-winning musicians Bryan Tolentino (‘ukulele), Aaron J. Sala (piano), and steel guitarist Casey Olsen to "back her with exquisite synthesizer-free music...Thorough annotation completes this perfect Hawaiian album." (John Berger, Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

Album Tracks:

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1. Papalina Lahilahi
2. Aloha Wau Ia 'Oe
3. Kamalani O Keaukaha
4. Waikaloa
5. That's the Hawaiian in Me
6. Ku'u Pua Lehua
7. Ke Ahi Wela
8. Radio Hula
9. He U'i
10. He Aloha No 'O Honolulu
11. Mauna Loa
12. Waikiki

No party in Hawai`i really begins until the music begins... and it really gets going only when someone starts dancing hula. Here are 12 hula classics performed for you by 5 of Hawai`i’s best-loved musicians. Violet Pahu Liiko‘i, Vickie I‘i Rodrigues, Pauline Kekahuna and Benny Rogers provide the hula tunes and the one and only Genoa Keawe, "Hawai‘i's First Lady of Song" sings lead vocals. You provide the hula moves and the ono kau kau (delicious food) for an instant party - Hawaiian style!

Original (1965) liner notes by Jean Sullivan include song lyrics, translations, "Notes for the Dancer" and biographical information. The top selling album that should be part of every Hawaiian music collection, was re-released on compact disc in 2002.

Album Tracks:

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1. Noho Paipai
2. 'Ahulili
3. Papalina Lahilahi
4. Ka Ano'i
5. Mauna Loa
6. Ku'u Lei Hoku
7. Hula O Makee
8. 'Alika
9. Na Ka Pueo
10. Green Rose
11. Kane'ohe
12. Ua Nani Moloka'i
    
    

In his Honolulu Advertiser column, Island Sounds, music critic Wayne Harada wrote: "This is vintage stuff, from the vaults of Hula Records, reissued as part of the label's Legendary Classic Series. You have to be pretty senior to know Auntie Aggie and her Makaha Serenaders, who were a radio an hotel staple for years.

The songs, and the delivery style, are clearly from a bygone era, when vocal ensembles were true troubadours. The performers are long gone – Auntie Aggie died Oct. 3, 1977, at age 55 – so the archival melodies serve as a tribute and a primer...It's old fashioned, old-style, hula-oriented music, with precise rhythms, tempos, enunciation, delivery..."

Kimo Alama Keaulana, hula master and Hawaiian music historian adds, "Auntie Aggie and her handpicked singers and musicians really knew the true Hawaiian way of singing and playing...[Auntie's] musical and vocal interpretation of [these songs was] faithful to their original intent; her phrasing and pronunciation of Hawaiian, impeccable, and the rhythm and tempo, just great – especially for the hula!"

The CD foldout includes Hawaiian lyrics, English translations, biographical information about the artist, the importance of songs to Hawaiians, and a tribute to a special hula lady: superb liner note writer, Jean "Kini" Sullivan.

Album Tracks:

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1. Rain Kilikilihune
2. Ho'ohenoheo A'o Pi'ilani
3. Kau'ionalani
4. Venus
5. Ka 'Oni A Ka Moku
6. Puna Ku'u Aloha
7. Makawao
8. The Slopes of Mauna Kea
9. Hanohano Olinda
10. Na U'i O Kaua'i
11. Beautiful 'Ilima
12. Kuhihewa
    
    

Darlene Ahuna demonstrates her versatility in the title track, a swing version of the 1930's hapa-haole favorite, and in her delivery of traditional standards. Equally at ease with the music of contemporary Hawaiian Composers, she gives us a fresh interpretation of Tony Conjugation's "Ka Pili Oha" and debuts "Lei Hiwahiwa I Ke Anu" by Big Island hula authority Johnny Lum Ho. In his "Island Mele" column, John Berger of the Honolulu Star-

Album Titles:

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1. That's the Hawaiian in Me
2. Ka Pili Oha
3. Mai Lohilohi Mai 'Oe
4. Mino'aka
5. Ku'u Sweetie
6. Holoholo Ka'a
7. Kaua'i Beauty
8. Ka Lei O Punahou
9. Meleana E
10. Lei Hiwahiwa I Ke Anu
11. He Aloha No 'O Honolulu
12. Could I Have This Dance?
    
    

In reviewing Darlene Ahuna's debut release, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin noted that "(The producer) assembled a stellar group of musicians for one of the prettiest traditionalist Hawaiian albums of the year. Ahuna's treatment of Hawaiian-language classics is respectful and exquisite; her interpretations...are absolutely beautiful and none of the 12 selections is filler. Just the opposite; each seems more beautiful than the next."

Hawaiian song lyrics and English translations complete the package.

Album Titles:

1. I Ali'i No Oe
2. 'Akaka Falls
3. Ka Nani O Kulapae
4. You Are The One
5. Kauoha Mai
6. Kaulana 'O Hilo Hanakahi
7. Waikaloa
8. Punalu'u
9. Aloha Ka Manini
10. Kipahulu
11. Kaulana Keaukaha
12. Hawaiian Anniversary