My heart is always home in Hawaii. This is a touchstone to feel the kind of aloha you can only get when your feet is on the land you love. ( ok sometime slippahs help eh)
One of the best gifts the Air Force has given me over the last 16 years of service is 3 years living on the islands. It was my first base and I still miss it there. I loved the people, culture, the island life and especially the music. There was never an unhappy song. Even if I couldn't understand the lyrics, the music itself made me happy.
@meglin we cherish those wonderful memories of our youth; this evening I stood outside and took time to enjoy the gentle evening breeze brush across my face as the sun disappeared over the horizon, I kid you not for a moment I imagined myself doing the same thing as a kid hanging out near the cane fields in Hono'uliuli....I'm now listening to Ku'u Home O' Kahalu'u again. Mahalo's plenty, God Bless.
i used to have this albulm but lost it in a move. God what a song. i sat and listened over and over to learn the words. miss living in Wailua and hope to go back one of these days. hey michael, adam, and tavee.
As I listen to this beautiful song, my heart cries out for my return to Hawaii. My Heart and spirit belong in Hawaii, I will soon be there with my heart and soul to be in my new home in Hawaii.
20 years on Guam and 8 years on Oahu taught me to appreciate the island cultures. This song is my favorite reminder of the people and their hospitality. The Mc Donalds in Kaneohe has a mural on the wall that is so representative of the good times!
I'm from California . I feel like I have that Hawaiian Spirit in my heart . I have only been one time in 2007 . I loved it .. I wish to go back again . Nice song .
driving up to Waimea from Kailuha....looking at the Ranch fields draped in golden morning light and listening to our car radio playing this song...I looked at my beautyful wife and I was thinking...are the small hairs in her neck standing up too?
Running & playing in the Ewa cane fields and manuwai ditches, driving cattle with grandpa at Tongs Ranch, picking guava's with my folks in Helemano & Waialua, hanging out at my uncles in Kahalu'u eating beef luau stew with poi...swimming the river in Kahana...this beautiful song takes me back to those moments when I was naive and innocent and everything moved so very slow.....I close my eyes while listening to this song, It takes me back to my youth of the 60's and 70's, oh how I miss it So!.
@Hawaiian80882 Growing up in Honokohau Valley in Maui, Working pineapple fields, paddling canoe, lay net, surfing, pulling taro, kalua pig, da imu, all brings me back !! no electric, no hot water, I would never take it for granted ever again!! O'hana is da best !!
Having lived in Hawaii for 14 years, off and on since the 80's and hearing from my grandparents who went before me about so many sad changes, this song tugs at my heart. The lyrics are also so true for anyone wondering about "going back home" wherever that home may be. And also about one's life too "when our world was small enough of dreams." The quintessential Hawaii song, "Ku`u Home' has multiple layers of meanings and Olomana is just beautiful.
Few songs have the power that this song does to bring back the feelings of nostalgia in a flood of memories....... Every time I play this song I am overwhelmed with emotions; for the Hawaii of the 60's and 70's; before everything changed....
dude... gotta have the hawaiian pride! love this song, love all the people here, and still clueless on how to play correctly (not chords, the backround picking in slack key)
Oh, man, the tears are flowing right now.... What a good time for hawaiian music, and for Hawaii....All different, now, I hear.....Smoking on the beach, looking at Chinamans hat, fishing......
@davethefed You remember Chinamans Hat too!! I grew up across the street from Lanikai beach... used to be a raft floating between the beach and Chinamans Hat that we used to play mermaid and shark on... those were the days... this song still kills me even now I am back home....
I am not sure which I love more? The meaning of the song itself or the comments
of people so far away who have seen and experienced the Islands and the music
that shaped the muscians and people to an agreement of what is beautiful. I am from Kauai and yet love a small chain of Islands, far away from anywhere! Hawaii No Ka Ko! Aloha, Robbie........
This is one of the sweetest Hawaiian songs ever. The type of music/song that makes one want to take a beautiful woman there for her first time... first time of the views, the people, the music and the awesome vistas abound. Her first time ever...
I'm only 28 and I tear up everytime I hear this song..This song filled my childhood and touches me to the core everytime I hear it..I can remember hearing my dad singing this song all the time too..
i heard this song when i was station in South Korea many years ago and fell in love with it. we used to catch o'opu in Waimea mountain stream, so i connected with the song right away. Mahalo Nui Loa
Ua mao ke aea y ka aina y ka pano...My heart shall always be Hawaii,,from NYC with much love and many memories of happy times on Awalai street, Waipahu.
Aloha nui, Olamana, I named my youngest daughter after your song "Malia"...went back to the Big Island to see if I wanted to retire there...it's not the same as it was in the late 70's-early 80's, but Hawaii will always live in my heart and Hawaiian music, well, my mainland friends just don't understand...
I love this song, the picking, the melody , the harmony, the flow of it, the meaning of the words. This is so much a classic, when music was music, not rap, not Jawaiian, musicians were musicians, words had meanings. I don't think there is one Hawaiian that doesn't sing along when they hear this song, tears well up when you hear this song, remembering past friends, past living, something we took for granted and now they are gone.
This is the kind of song that touches the inner spirit of anyone born and raised in Hawaii. I'm so sick of the mainland and again started listening to Olamana and the others from my era(in my 40's) I took it all for granted as a kid in Maunawili, Kailua Beach and Kawela Bay I can't think of places more beautiful. One day I will return but until then it's Olamana, Cazimeros, C&K, Kalapana, Country Comfort to fill my heart with that beautiful Hawaiiian Spirit.
@theuhwarrior , Thanks for your memories... I grew up at Kawela, too. Used to live in the old missionary house with the fish tails on the back, until it burned down. Did you go to Kahuku?
This unreal PERFECT song (it is just fantastic perfection) is this island band's other GREAT recording. Tears sometimes come out of my eyes like rain - i just let them pour down. This song opens my heart up. Beautiful beyond words.
I first heard this song at "Brunch On The Beach" in Waikiki back in 2002 on my first trip to Hawai'i, Brings back so many wonderful memories. Brings me to tears. Mahalo
I remember the old days growing up in KIHEI Maui since i was 6 yrs old back in 1976 and now i am 40 yrs and have my own 2 boys raising them hear in kihei but it just is not the same as the days when i was a kid thats for sure... Just seems like it was yesterday i was 7 yrs old like my oldest son mikey is now damn those were good days thats for sure would'nt change a thing... When i hear this song it brings me back to those times and damn it puts a lump in my throat ...
You are so right Lionsntigers. I lived in Hawaii 10 yrs and miss it everyday. Olomana, Peter Moon, Gabby Pahinui and the Cazamero Brothers I love to hear and it takes me right back there.
This is my favorite of all - thank you. My years in Hawaii and living away from CA....torn. And wanting to belong, but afraid to stay. And, somehow, still wanting to go home. Thanks to all who have posted this song.
okay everyone. I used to listen to this as I went to sleep on my record player. I would fall asleep in the sweet Hawaiian air and dream of another day full of sunshine and love. Listen to the words. I think all of you my friends who listen to this for the first time will hear the beauty. All you who are my buddies from home and living overseas will feel the pull with me right now. We are family you guys. What a beautiful place we are from.
okay everyone. I used to listen to this as I went to sleep on my record player. I would fall asleep in the sweet Hawaiian air and dream of another day full of sunshine and love. Listen to the words
The song is perfect in every way. When I had downtime in Iraq after and I'd go sleep and play this song on my ipod and it would bring a tear to my eye everytime.
I remember the wonderful times in Kahaluu with George and Pupu, Art Kutrus , Ray Smart, Garry Jackobs, (God bless those who have departed this life). and all the luaus and Sunday vollyball with the gang. We all used to party into the early hours of the morning, Jim playing guitar and the rest of us singing along. We thought the sweet life and our loves would never end.
I remember the wonderful times with George and Pupu, Art Kutrus , Ray Smart, Garry Jackobs, (God bless those who have departed this life). and all the luaus and Sunday vollyball with the gang. We all used to party into the early hours of the morning, Jim playing guitar and the rest of us singing along. We thought the sweet life and our loves would never end.
I miss my land of birth--so many childhood memories. My bro, sis-in-law & nephew just returned from their Hawaii vacation yesterday. Time for me to visit da beautiful island of aloha from whence I took my first breathe of life....home sweet home!
I visited Oahu in '79 and came back to London with this album. It encapsulates my feelings for the place and time. A wonderful, heartfelt record. I hope one day to return.
Olamana has always been one of my favorite Hawaiian groups. Along with Iz, and Cecilio&Kapono. This is beautiful! They sure don't make music nowdays like they did back in the 70"s.
These comments break my heart. I am a haole living in Ohio, but I am originally from W. Va. It is the same with we who moved away for economic reasons...someday you want to be back. Trouble is, the place I grew up is no longer the same...change is a strange thing, it cannot be denied. Waimaka. For all of you, and for me.
There's never been a song that makes me miss Hawaii (My real Home) more than this. I've been away for many years and feeling a little blue as the snow piles high outside. My Ohana still live in Hawaii (Maui) but I chose to move away for better opportunities. I sit here now listening to this song with tears running down my face. And I reflect on wonderful memories of catching o'opu in the stream as a child. I'll be back one day Maui! ALOHA!
This song ' No Ka Oi" I lived in Kahalu'u for 20 yrs. & my heart cries out. Saw Jerry play it for my wifes request in Wakiki before we left. She cried.We had to leave due to Illness of her parents hope to be back again. Aloha Nui Loa
I was born and raised in Waimanalo, lived in Nalo village. I moved my ohana to Orting WA about 3 years ago. I'm very sad that my keiki will never expirence growing up in Nalo. I remember the manapua man, going to Shimas to buy a grab bag, going to Kodamas to buy Icee and popcorn, the Nalo carnival, all good memories. Everytime I hear this song it takes me back to those times.
Keiki - yes. Olomana did 'Goodnight Keiki' and I was looking for it, but didn't find it on youtube. Also found no "Ku'u Lei Awapuhi" by Olomana, although there's a good version by Hapa. Fortunately I do have these on cd.
Makes my heart hurt with longing as I recall watching Jerry Santos & Robert Beaumont play this song. Robert then placed a lei around my daughter's neck. At 4 years old she was completely taken with watching him sing this song.
I live in Kailua, I am 60. Two years ago I threw everything I owned in Portland, Oregon into the wind.. so I could live here at the foot of Olomana. I see Gerry Santos at least once a month playing someplace nearby. To read these mournful comments it makes me want to cry for everyone who had to leave.
So young and stupid I was back then, taking for granted the life that I had in Oahu and not realizing that it wasn't going to last forever. Now all I have left of Hawaii are the memories.
@vaultboy123 Come home! I did... took more than 20 years but I Neva gave up... I remembered this song from a dreamy childhood in the islands too and it carried me thru the years without the land of red dirt. It was in my heart always till I came home and now its in ALL of me. Neva give up the dream cuz.... it will bring you home.....
@vaultboy123 maybe sometime in your life you can come visit and try and re-live those memories/moments that you cherish so dearly. E kala mai for commenting on this but when i read this my heart dropped and made me think of once again why I am so lucky to live in such a wonderful place that truly is... Paradise!
This is one of those songs that prove you can travel back in time..to a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, a certain moment - even a certain second..and you can smell what you smelled, feel what you felt..and be there.....for just a little while..aloha -kuahiwi
How very poetic. I am almost to tears every time I hear this song. When I first heard it back home, somewhere deep inside I must have know I was going to leave for a very long time. This song always makes me so emotional.
How very poetic. I am almost to tears every time I hear this song. When I first heard it back home, somewhere deep inside I must have know I was going to leave for a very long time. This song always makes me so emotional.
Wow this song brings back memories growing up in Olomana. Makes me even da more homesick. Beautiful music, captures the essence and beauty of the Islands!! I Love and Miss Hawaii so much.
We all seem different when we go home. I think we relax, real kine relaxing. I remember as a kid I would go to a friend house in Nalo and they had an orchid farm. His dad would try to tell us about how pretty the orchid was. Now in my mid 40s, I can understand what he was meaning.
I miss the smell of the rain when the clouds would be backed up againsts the Ko'olau's.
I remember the smell of the rain on the asphalt and how the sand would dry so quickly, and its impossible to stay warm all the time because they'res always clouds clearing the air. I miss it all. I especially miss the north shore. Going home anytime soon?
Aw brah I'm so sorry you're living away from Hawai'i. I know how you feel. My Dad and Mom were both born and raised on Oahu, and he misses it so much since we live in california. He lives all year just to visit again in the summer. He seems different when He's back home in Waimanalo. they lived in texas too when they first moved from OAhu
Rarely has a more beautiful mele been written. And the guitar craftsmanship, totally amazing. And if you get a chance, go see Uncle Jerry at Chai's Island Bistro at Aloha Tower Market Place in Honolulu. He puts on a show you will never forget. And he is such a nice gentleman. You may see Hoku Zuttermeister playing upright bass for him and maybe Barry Kimokeo playing guitar.
I lived in Kahalu'u for 16 years. My house on the hill overlooked Kaneohe Bay. I miss it so much!!!
mamalamahawaii 1 week ago
My heart is always home in Hawaii. This is a touchstone to feel the kind of aloha you can only get when your feet is on the land you love. ( ok sometime slippahs help eh)
MrLouis2865 2 weeks ago
One of the best gifts the Air Force has given me over the last 16 years of service is 3 years living on the islands. It was my first base and I still miss it there. I loved the people, culture, the island life and especially the music. There was never an unhappy song. Even if I couldn't understand the lyrics, the music itself made me happy.
jberlotti 3 weeks ago
@meglin we cherish those wonderful memories of our youth; this evening I stood outside and took time to enjoy the gentle evening breeze brush across my face as the sun disappeared over the horizon, I kid you not for a moment I imagined myself doing the same thing as a kid hanging out near the cane fields in Hono'uliuli....I'm now listening to Ku'u Home O' Kahalu'u again. Mahalo's plenty, God Bless.
Hawaiian80882 4 weeks ago
i used to have this albulm but lost it in a move. God what a song. i sat and listened over and over to learn the words. miss living in Wailua and hope to go back one of these days. hey michael, adam, and tavee.
jmaiv1954 4 weeks ago
SO GOOD... SO YOUNG,,SO SPIRITUAL...THESE GUYS WERE....WERE SO VERY GOODFOR TWO CRAZY YEARS...MAHALONUIALOHA.
tommythompsonsurfer 1 month ago
UH shrimp farm, across from Coral Kingdom, foot of the Koolaus....good times. Mahalo for the music.
davethefed 1 month ago
This song makes me cry. I miss Hawaii so much, I ache.
rspringsgal 1 month ago
As I listen to this beautiful song, my heart cries out for my return to Hawaii. My Heart and spirit belong in Hawaii, I will soon be there with my heart and soul to be in my new home in Hawaii.
irenespa1 1 month ago
20 years on Guam and 8 years on Oahu taught me to appreciate the island cultures. This song is my favorite reminder of the people and their hospitality. The Mc Donalds in Kaneohe has a mural on the wall that is so representative of the good times!
newparkdisney 3 months ago 4
always brings me home even though i live in Vegas......
hulaqde 3 months ago
I'm from California . I feel like I have that Hawaiian Spirit in my heart . I have only been one time in 2007 . I loved it .. I wish to go back again . Nice song .
Connieleann 3 months ago
driving up to Waimea from Kailuha....looking at the Ranch fields draped in golden morning light and listening to our car radio playing this song...I looked at my beautyful wife and I was thinking...are the small hairs in her neck standing up too?
tscholent 3 months ago 3
Running & playing in the Ewa cane fields and manuwai ditches, driving cattle with grandpa at Tongs Ranch, picking guava's with my folks in Helemano & Waialua, hanging out at my uncles in Kahalu'u eating beef luau stew with poi...swimming the river in Kahana...this beautiful song takes me back to those moments when I was naive and innocent and everything moved so very slow.....I close my eyes while listening to this song, It takes me back to my youth of the 60's and 70's, oh how I miss it So!.
Hawaiian80882 3 months ago 7
@Hawaiian80882 Growing up in Honokohau Valley in Maui, Working pineapple fields, paddling canoe, lay net, surfing, pulling taro, kalua pig, da imu, all brings me back !! no electric, no hot water, I would never take it for granted ever again!! O'hana is da best !!
meglin22 4 weeks ago
Having lived in Hawaii for 14 years, off and on since the 80's and hearing from my grandparents who went before me about so many sad changes, this song tugs at my heart. The lyrics are also so true for anyone wondering about "going back home" wherever that home may be. And also about one's life too "when our world was small enough of dreams." The quintessential Hawaii song, "Ku`u Home' has multiple layers of meanings and Olomana is just beautiful.
CindyLeeBlankenship 4 months ago 2
Few songs have the power that this song does to bring back the feelings of nostalgia in a flood of memories....... Every time I play this song I am overwhelmed with emotions; for the Hawaii of the 60's and 70's; before everything changed....
trumpetmano 4 months ago 3
I cry every time I hear this...I was born in Kahalu'u in 1938....when it was still a far away Paradise...
jesse38872 5 months ago 4
@jesse38872 What was Kahalu'u like back then?
Bustanutt808 4 months ago
I was fortunate enough to live in Honolulu for 2 years. Used to listen to Olomana at Territorial Tavern. What wonderful memories.
keenechick 5 months ago 2
The closest memories of Hawaii can somewhat be found skimming through Google Earth..........
thebeatinventor 6 months ago
I've been homesick for a little while now, and haven't been home to visit for a few years.
So I came to look up this song and immediately started crying.
Jacquelin4Ever 6 months ago 3
LOVE YOU ALL
jskk67 7 months ago
KAAHUMANU HOUSING GANG
jskk67 7 months ago
I know this brings me back to the housing times
jskk67 7 months ago
no matter how much time passes or miles seperate me from Kauai,great music like this will bring me back,
papertowelheadlock 8 months ago
Island born.Island raised. i am and shall always be Kama'aina no matter where i rest my head.
hulaqde 8 months ago 3
dude... gotta have the hawaiian pride! love this song, love all the people here, and still clueless on how to play correctly (not chords, the backround picking in slack key)
MorikiSamaDesu 9 months ago 2
Auurrriiight!
MacNutMusic 9 months ago
I'm only 17 years old.. I wish I could see how Oahu used to look like before foreigners came to this land and ruined it.. ;(
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immortal tears of joy..... immortal... milolii ...hunaunau...kealakekua bay.... humumunukunukuapuaa... god bless ..kama aina
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immortal tears of joy..... immortal... miolii hunaunau...kealakekua bay.... humumunukunukuapuaa... god bless ..kama aina
rocky6081 9 months ago
immortal tears of joy..... immortal... miolii hunaunau...kealealakekua bay.... humumunukunukuapuaa... god bless ..kama aina
rocky6081 9 months ago 2
Sunlit sands,
Moonlit waves,
Slow easy living.
-Val Nakamura
drivah1368 10 months ago
Hawaii.
Home.
Loved ones.
Blue Ocean
Flower Leis.
Tears.
lelehart3 10 months ago
Oh, man, the tears are flowing right now.... What a good time for hawaiian music, and for Hawaii....All different, now, I hear.....Smoking on the beach, looking at Chinamans hat, fishing......
davethefed 10 months ago
@davethefed You remember Chinamans Hat too!! I grew up across the street from Lanikai beach... used to be a raft floating between the beach and Chinamans Hat that we used to play mermaid and shark on... those were the days... this song still kills me even now I am back home....
desdmoana 10 months ago 2
I love this song! So beautiful! Thumbs up for the great slack key!
alika207 11 months ago
I am not sure which I love more? The meaning of the song itself or the comments
of people so far away who have seen and experienced the Islands and the music
that shaped the muscians and people to an agreement of what is beautiful. I am from Kauai and yet love a small chain of Islands, far away from anywhere! Hawaii No Ka Ko! Aloha, Robbie........
MrDustyrhodes 11 months ago 2
Of all of the places I've been to in my years, Hawaii is and will forever be my favorite. This song is just one reason why...
ifknotnow 11 months ago 2
This is one of the sweetest Hawaiian songs ever. The type of music/song that makes one want to take a beautiful woman there for her first time... first time of the views, the people, the music and the awesome vistas abound. Her first time ever...
ifknotnow 11 months ago 3
I'm only 28 and I tear up everytime I hear this song..This song filled my childhood and touches me to the core everytime I hear it..I can remember hearing my dad singing this song all the time too..
msKristie 1 year ago
i heard this song when i was station in South Korea many years ago and fell in love with it. we used to catch o'opu in Waimea mountain stream, so i connected with the song right away. Mahalo Nui Loa
kaneikaika 1 year ago
Ua mao ke aea y ka aina y ka pano...My heart shall always be Hawaii,,from NYC with much love and many memories of happy times on Awalai street, Waipahu.
joefd1111 1 year ago
No other song evokes the heart and soul of Hawaii like this. Hawaii no ka oi!
jporcel100 1 year ago 8
Aloha nui, Olamana, I named my youngest daughter after your song "Malia"...went back to the Big Island to see if I wanted to retire there...it's not the same as it was in the late 70's-early 80's, but Hawaii will always live in my heart and Hawaiian music, well, my mainland friends just don't understand...
ponisunshine 1 year ago
I love this song, the picking, the melody , the harmony, the flow of it, the meaning of the words. This is so much a classic, when music was music, not rap, not Jawaiian, musicians were musicians, words had meanings. I don't think there is one Hawaiian that doesn't sing along when they hear this song, tears well up when you hear this song, remembering past friends, past living, something we took for granted and now they are gone.
hankakah 1 year ago 4
This is the kind of song that touches the inner spirit of anyone born and raised in Hawaii. I'm so sick of the mainland and again started listening to Olamana and the others from my era(in my 40's) I took it all for granted as a kid in Maunawili, Kailua Beach and Kawela Bay I can't think of places more beautiful. One day I will return but until then it's Olamana, Cazimeros, C&K, Kalapana, Country Comfort to fill my heart with that beautiful Hawaiiian Spirit.
theuhwarrior 1 year ago 28
@theuhwarrior , Thanks for your memories... I grew up at Kawela, too. Used to live in the old missionary house with the fish tails on the back, until it burned down. Did you go to Kahuku?
davethefed 10 months ago
This unreal PERFECT song (it is just fantastic perfection) is this island band's other GREAT recording. Tears sometimes come out of my eyes like rain - i just let them pour down. This song opens my heart up. Beautiful beyond words.
hitomusic 1 year ago 2
i lov this song...brings me back! mahalo kakou!
cottrell57 1 year ago
I first heard this song at "Brunch On The Beach" in Waikiki back in 2002 on my first trip to Hawai'i, Brings back so many wonderful memories. Brings me to tears. Mahalo
patrickpdxchgo 1 year ago
wats da beggninin picks??
diddywonton 1 year ago
~Kahalu'u my home~beautiful song~
laniseaman1 1 year ago
I lived in Kahalu'u for over 10 years. This is my song!
mamalamahawaii 1 year ago
Absolutley amazing song........... mahalo!
i8blackdog 1 year ago
this is what the souls are made from.....for sure...^^
andrejien 1 year ago
The best times of my life- Hawaii in mid and late 70's. What a place to be an 18 year old. I miss it so bad.
sinseller18 1 year ago
I remember the old days growing up in KIHEI Maui since i was 6 yrs old back in 1976 and now i am 40 yrs and have my own 2 boys raising them hear in kihei but it just is not the same as the days when i was a kid thats for sure... Just seems like it was yesterday i was 7 yrs old like my oldest son mikey is now damn those were good days thats for sure would'nt change a thing... When i hear this song it brings me back to those times and damn it puts a lump in my throat ...
MAUIGOLDENBOYS 1 year ago
You are so right Lionsntigers. I lived in Hawaii 10 yrs and miss it everyday. Olomana, Peter Moon, Gabby Pahinui and the Cazamero Brothers I love to hear and it takes me right back there.
MelodyMaker61 1 year ago
This is my favorite of all - thank you. My years in Hawaii and living away from CA....torn. And wanting to belong, but afraid to stay. And, somehow, still wanting to go home. Thanks to all who have posted this song.
mustangss 1 year ago
hawaii, you are in my heart, no kau a kau
theatk808 1 year ago
@theatk808 Yes,kauai has a place in my heart.
1whtcat 1 year ago
No doubt one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
cowboypoet2067 1 year ago
okay everyone. I used to listen to this as I went to sleep on my record player. I would fall asleep in the sweet Hawaiian air and dream of another day full of sunshine and love. Listen to the words. I think all of you my friends who listen to this for the first time will hear the beauty. All you who are my buddies from home and living overseas will feel the pull with me right now. We are family you guys. What a beautiful place we are from.
TheRuthieyokohama 1 year ago
okay everyone. I used to listen to this as I went to sleep on my record player. I would fall asleep in the sweet Hawaiian air and dream of another day full of sunshine and love. Listen to the words
TheRuthieyokohama 1 year ago
No matter where you go -- no matter the time or place -- this song will bring you back to Hawaii.
jporcel100 1 year ago
This song makes me miss home so much! And it will ALWAYS lift my spirits! Good kine hanna butta day memories for me fo sure!!!
Letwell84 1 year ago
The song is perfect in every way. When I had downtime in Iraq after and I'd go sleep and play this song on my ipod and it would bring a tear to my eye everytime.
kalaekoa 1 year ago
this was played and I sang this at my momma's funeral. she used to get so home sick living on the mainland. see you again Ulu...
joyceannpumpkin 1 year ago
"I remember the days when we were younger." Timeless...
chime1fo4me 1 year ago
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I remember the wonderful times in Kahaluu with George and Pupu, Art Kutrus , Ray Smart, Garry Jackobs, (God bless those who have departed this life). and all the luaus and Sunday vollyball with the gang. We all used to party into the early hours of the morning, Jim playing guitar and the rest of us singing along. We thought the sweet life and our loves would never end.
Last night I dreamed I was returning.
ShakaLopaka 1 year ago
I remember the wonderful times with George and Pupu, Art Kutrus , Ray Smart, Garry Jackobs, (God bless those who have departed this life). and all the luaus and Sunday vollyball with the gang. We all used to party into the early hours of the morning, Jim playing guitar and the rest of us singing along. We thought the sweet life and our loves would never end.
Last night I dreamed I was returning.
ShakaLopaka 1 year ago 2
It always makes me cry.....
cuddybear130 1 year ago 2
That is so true, tears...
kaohao 1 year ago
This song always brings a tear to my eye. Reminds me of my Dad.
DarM331 1 year ago
it brings back the hanabata days. when live was so much easier. Aloha and God Bless
bombdizznizzles 1 year ago
The ocean, the mountains, the trade winds, the sunsets, the people, the culture, the islands -- all rolled up into one. Thank you Olomana.
jporcel100 1 year ago
Miss you Robert
4igarden2 1 year ago
I miss my land of birth--so many childhood memories. My bro, sis-in-law & nephew just returned from their Hawaii vacation yesterday. Time for me to visit da beautiful island of aloha from whence I took my first breathe of life....home sweet home!
hapuna6irl 1 year ago
I visited Oahu in '79 and came back to London with this album. It encapsulates my feelings for the place and time. A wonderful, heartfelt record. I hope one day to return.
freakbeatno1 1 year ago
Here's your daily Hawaiian music for today, John.
kanaia808 1 year ago
Olamana has always been one of my favorite Hawaiian groups. Along with Iz, and Cecilio&Kapono. This is beautiful! They sure don't make music nowdays like they did back in the 70"s.
ladybythebeach 1 year ago 3
These comments break my heart. I am a haole living in Ohio, but I am originally from W. Va. It is the same with we who moved away for economic reasons...someday you want to be back. Trouble is, the place I grew up is no longer the same...change is a strange thing, it cannot be denied. Waimaka. For all of you, and for me.
Me ke aloha,
Auntie Wanda
wjc1952 2 years ago 2
There's never been a song that makes me miss Hawaii (My real Home) more than this. I've been away for many years and feeling a little blue as the snow piles high outside. My Ohana still live in Hawaii (Maui) but I chose to move away for better opportunities. I sit here now listening to this song with tears running down my face. And I reflect on wonderful memories of catching o'opu in the stream as a child. I'll be back one day Maui! ALOHA!
pauwelasurfer 2 years ago 2
This song ' No Ka Oi" I lived in Kahalu'u for 20 yrs. & my heart cries out. Saw Jerry play it for my wifes request in Wakiki before we left. She cried.We had to leave due to Illness of her parents hope to be back again. Aloha Nui Loa
DaGuyRich1 2 years ago
I was born and raised in Waimanalo, lived in Nalo village. I moved my ohana to Orting WA about 3 years ago. I'm very sad that my keiki will never expirence growing up in Nalo. I remember the manapua man, going to Shimas to buy a grab bag, going to Kodamas to buy Icee and popcorn, the Nalo carnival, all good memories. Everytime I hear this song it takes me back to those times.
kuks1120 2 years ago
Keiki - yes. Olomana did 'Goodnight Keiki' and I was looking for it, but didn't find it on youtube. Also found no "Ku'u Lei Awapuhi" by Olomana, although there's a good version by Hapa. Fortunately I do have these on cd.
IJnet 2 years ago
I so miss being a keiki when dad sung/played acoustic olomana lullabies for Kahea and I.... Old school awsomeness...
kolohenoe 2 years ago
Makes my heart hurt with longing as I recall watching Jerry Santos & Robert Beaumont play this song. Robert then placed a lei around my daughter's neck. At 4 years old she was completely taken with watching him sing this song.
IJnet 2 years ago
I live in Kailua, I am 60. Two years ago I threw everything I owned in Portland, Oregon into the wind.. so I could live here at the foot of Olomana. I see Gerry Santos at least once a month playing someplace nearby. To read these mournful comments it makes me want to cry for everyone who had to leave.
..live aloha, wherever life takes you.
jimbo
eljimb0 2 years ago
I live in Bellevue Wa.....when I hear these songs....it reminds me my soul is still there in Hawaii....I miss them both...my soul and Hawaii.
TheHelm86 2 years ago
I love this song, I am from Hilo but no matter what you can take the boy off the islands but never take the islands from the boy!!!! Aloha Noe
kelikikopa 2 years ago
Vaultboy said it perfectly. I've away for over 15 years and tearfully I have the memories.
fillalau 2 years ago
I remember being 12 and listening to this and cecilio and kapono and i lived 3 houses down from gabby pahinui. Sickens me
Hauntfest 2 years ago
sickens me as in i miss those days
Hauntfest 2 years ago
This song kills me every time I hear it.
So young and stupid I was back then, taking for granted the life that I had in Oahu and not realizing that it wasn't going to last forever. Now all I have left of Hawaii are the memories.
vaultboy123 2 years ago 36
@vaultboy123 Amen Brother......
DaGuyRich1 1 year ago
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@vaultboy123 Amen Brother......
DaGuyRich1 1 year ago
@vaultboy123 Amen Brother......
DaGuyRich1 1 year ago
@vaultboy123 Me Too, Brother...........
DaGuyRich1 1 year ago
@vaultboy123 ditto those thoughts...the old saying "youth is wasted on the young" comes to mind. I took my times on Kauai for granted too
trotp3 1 year ago
@vaultboy123
I know almost exactly how you feel.........
TimeWaveSurfer 1 year ago
@vaultboy123
I can't say more than you on this topic, except AMEN bruddah.
kcottleaprn 1 year ago
@vaultboy123
My Brother I know exactly what you're talking about. I think I always knew but just didn't want to listen. Now I stuck in the mainland so far away.
TimeWaveSurfer 1 year ago
@vaultboy123 Come home! I did... took more than 20 years but I Neva gave up... I remembered this song from a dreamy childhood in the islands too and it carried me thru the years without the land of red dirt. It was in my heart always till I came home and now its in ALL of me. Neva give up the dream cuz.... it will bring you home.....
desdmoana 10 months ago
@vaultboy123 maybe sometime in your life you can come visit and try and re-live those memories/moments that you cherish so dearly. E kala mai for commenting on this but when i read this my heart dropped and made me think of once again why I am so lucky to live in such a wonderful place that truly is... Paradise!
MrMEEKAHMOUSE 6 months ago
This is one of those songs that prove you can travel back in time..to a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, a certain moment - even a certain second..and you can smell what you smelled, feel what you felt..and be there.....for just a little while..aloha -kuahiwi
lionsntigers 2 years ago 52
@lionsntigers So True! This song does it!
DaGuyRich1 1 year ago
@lionsntigers Yes it is!! It made me cry when it came out and I lived in Nuuanu.
Now it makes my heart ache for what was.
soulbeckett 1 year ago
@lionsntigers well said
dreamerstillable 1 year ago
@lionsntigers
How very poetic. I am almost to tears every time I hear this song. When I first heard it back home, somewhere deep inside I must have know I was going to leave for a very long time. This song always makes me so emotional.
TimeWaveSurfer 1 year ago
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@lionsntigers
How very poetic. I am almost to tears every time I hear this song. When I first heard it back home, somewhere deep inside I must have know I was going to leave for a very long time. This song always makes me so emotional.
TimeWaveSurfer 1 year ago
@lionsntigers , How right you are! Right now, I am fishing with my friends, smoking and laughing. Brings me home, too, Mahalo.
davethefed 10 months ago
Wow this song brings back memories growing up in Olomana. Makes me even da more homesick. Beautiful music, captures the essence and beauty of the Islands!! I Love and Miss Hawaii so much.
haoliboy50 2 years ago
Nanipark50,
We all seem different when we go home. I think we relax, real kine relaxing. I remember as a kid I would go to a friend house in Nalo and they had an orchid farm. His dad would try to tell us about how pretty the orchid was. Now in my mid 40s, I can understand what he was meaning.
I miss the smell of the rain when the clouds would be backed up againsts the Ko'olau's.
Its good to talk story.
Kailua1800 2 years ago
I remember the smell of the rain on the asphalt and how the sand would dry so quickly, and its impossible to stay warm all the time because they'res always clouds clearing the air. I miss it all. I especially miss the north shore. Going home anytime soon?
Nanipark50 2 years ago
I live in TX now. But I grew up on Keolu drive 9 house down and across the HWY from Olomana. I miss her so much. TX is too flat.
Thanks Mr. Santos
Kailua1800 2 years ago
Aw brah I'm so sorry you're living away from Hawai'i. I know how you feel. My Dad and Mom were both born and raised on Oahu, and he misses it so much since we live in california. He lives all year just to visit again in the summer. He seems different when He's back home in Waimanalo. they lived in texas too when they first moved from OAhu
Nanipark50 2 years ago
Home sick for sure Beautiful song! Aloha.
gene23smith 2 years ago
96744 Love It !!!!!!!!!!!!
slojam808 2 years ago
Makes me sick to hear this song, homesick that is.
RacerRix 2 years ago
I like Henry Kapono's version of this too !!
it always makes me think of my days living in beautiful Kahalu'u
trampolka 2 years ago
Rarely has a more beautiful mele been written. And the guitar craftsmanship, totally amazing. And if you get a chance, go see Uncle Jerry at Chai's Island Bistro at Aloha Tower Market Place in Honolulu. He puts on a show you will never forget. And he is such a nice gentleman. You may see Hoku Zuttermeister playing upright bass for him and maybe Barry Kimokeo playing guitar.
wjc1952 2 years ago
Aloha wjc, Uncle Jerry also plays at Hilton Hawaiian Village.
DaGuyRich1 2 years ago
Yes, indeed, Uncle does play there. I want so much to hear him playing music with Haunani. He is one who truly malamas the music of Hawai`i.
Me ke aloha,
Auntie Wanda
wjc1952 2 years ago