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"Honolulu City Lights" | |
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Song by Keola Beamer and Kapono Beamer | |
Released | 1978, re-released 1999 |
Genre | Hawaiian |
Label | Paradise Productions SLP 808 |
Songwriter(s) | Keola Beamer |
"Honolulu City Lights" is a song composed by Hawaiian singer/songwriter Keola Beamer (b. 1951) in the 1970s. The song opens an album by the same name, Honolulu City Lights, which became the all-time bestselling Hawaiian album.[1] It won several of the Hawaiian music industry's Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 1979, among them that for Best Contemporary Hawaiian Album, and both song and album went on to become one of the most popular and most played works of contemporary Hawaiian music.
"Honolulu City Lights" | ||||
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![]() Cover of the Carpenters' single "Honolulu City Lights" | ||||
Single by Carpenters | ||||
from the album Lovelines | ||||
B-side | "I Just Fall in Love Again" | |||
Released | 1986 | |||
Recorded | 1978 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | A&M 1940 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Keola Beamer | |||
Producer(s) | Richard Carpenter | |||
Carpenters singles chronology | ||||
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It has also become a Christmas music standard and is played on heritage radio station KSSK on its Christmas Music format during the Holiday season from November to December along with a handful of other Hawaiian standards and/or artists. A month long Christmas event in December that takes place in downtown Honolulu is also called Honolulu City Lights which began in 1985, but adopted the name officially in 1987.
A contemporary remake of the song was recorded by Richard and Karen Carpenter in 1978, but was not released until 1986 on single, and 1989 on album.
The Beamer Brothers album was re-released in 1999 as "Honolulu City Lights – 20th Anniversary" but listed as "Honolulu City Lights – 20th Anniversary" in leading catalogs and remains in print as of 2009.