Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

PLAYLIST: Hawaii's Top 40 HIts

PLAYLISTS


Hawaii’s Top 40 Hits

This will be a new feature to this blog... PLAYLISTS... Embedded here from Spotify or YouTube, I will start sharing my specialized playlists here. If you have a Spotify subscription you should be able to play all of the songs in a Spotify playlist right through. It works on some browsers but not all. Try it out or link directly the Spotify the listen to the list. Subscribe to it if you like.

First up is my 1970s (with some 1960s) era music from high school days and early college that were popular tracks on local Top 40 radio stations in Hawaii such as KPOI, KKUA and on the neighbor islands, KMVI, KPUA and KHLO. These were all AM stations back in the day and they played some great regional only hits mixed in with the familiar mainline top 40 hits. 

This first list that I recently re-created from a CD that I burned years ago features some great tracks.

The cover art was used for the burned CD that I made which actually contained several different songs from what's on this list, since Spotify did not have them. Tracks like "Me Japanese Boy" by Liz Damon, "Groovin Out on Life" by The New Beats,  "Searchin'" by Cecilio and Kapono and "Remember Mary" by The Sweet Marie which are on my burned CD had to be excluded and substituted with what was/is available on Spotify.

Monday, December 14, 2020

Christmas Song of the Day #16 - Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys



Christmas Song of the Day #16 - Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys

#TBT! For our Monday Christmas Song of the Day, we have something old, yet something new. OLD - "Little Saint Nick" is a longtime Christmas classic hit by none other than The Beach Boys. The record was first released in December 1963 and peaked on the Billboard Magazine holiday chart of that year at #3. It has since made several appearances on the charts in the last 57 years. The song was written by Beach Boys members Brian Wilson and Mike Love.

What's new for 2020 is this animated music video. It features The Beach Boys and Santa delivering gifts to beach goers around the coast. The video was released on YouTube on Dec. 13, 2020 (yesterday). It's a fun new take on a familiar hit song. Great stuff.

Cumulative Playlist

Nov. 29 - "Mary Did You Know" - Mat and Savanna Shaw
Nov. 30 - "Being Home For Christmas (2020 version)" - Ivan & Alyosha
Dec. 1 - "Take Me Home For Christmas" - Dan + Shay
Dec. 2 - "Mele Kalikimaka Medley" - Kapena
Dec. 3 - "Rockin 'Round the Christmas Tree" - Brenda Lee
Dec. 4 - "Holidays" - Meghan Trainor featuring Earth, Wind & Fire
Dec. 5 - "12 Days of Christmas" - Pentatonix
Dec. 6 - "O Come All Ye Faithful" - Mat and Savanna Shaw
Dec. 7 - "Oh Santa!" - Mariah Carey featuring Arianne Grande & Jennifer Hudson
Dec. 8 - "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" - John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band
Dec. 9 - "I Believe in Father Christmas" - U2
Dec. 10 - "Blue Christmas" - Elvis Presley
Dec. 11 - "Darling Please Come Home" - Joanne Staples
Dec. 12 - "Mary Did You Know" - One Voice Children's Choir
Dec. 13 - "Christmas Canon" - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Dec. 14 - "Little Saint Nick" - The Beach Boys