![]() Facing Future (1993) [ larger cover art ] |
Kū wale mai nō, Ka Huila Wai
'A'ohe wai ia'u, e niniu ai
He aniani kū, mau 'oe nō
He hoa kūkā, pū me kāua
Aloha 'ia nō, 'o'i'o lele
I sa lele ahea, i ka moana
Aloha 'ia nō, 'o Waiohinu
Ka pali lele wai, a ke koa'e
Mai noho 'oe, a ho'o poina
I kahi pīkake, ulu ma'ema'e
Ha'ina 'ia mai, ana ka puana
A'ohe wai ia'u, e niniu ai
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 10:34 AndyJ wrote: Hawaiian music is Sunday-In-The-Park or Sunday Afternoon in Backyard, cooking, drinking beer with friends and everone singing or dancing.. Nice gentle, human... Something we all should do a bit more often... Nice. I'm gonna have to try that. |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 10:32 yeah, easy for you to say |
| Kokoloco53 (Southeastern Arizona) | Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 14:42 Israel, Keola Beamer, The Brothers Cazimero, if there's a heaven, I hope that Hawaii is a hint of what it might be like. |
| misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California) | Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 17:26 It sincerely breaks my heart to think Israel has passed. Sing on, my brother. |
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 01:56 Just such a great disc. Can play it all the way through. |
| Rotterdam | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 01:56 kurtster wrote: 8 to 9 It's a 9 for me. One of best singers of his type I know... |
| lkovathana (Chicago, Illinois) | Posted: May 28, 2012 - 09:44 Oh so sad - I shipped a present back to my mom from Hawaii, and she open the box and took out the shirt, and accidentally threw out the CD! |
| rjewyo (Ventura, CA) | Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 16:14 This is a very popular song to hula to in the islands...Mahalo Bill XOX |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 13:26 Hawaiian music is Sunday-In-The-Park or Sunday Afternoon in Backyard, cooking, drinking beer with friends and everone singing or dancing.. Nice gentle, human... Something we all should do a bit more often... |
| dig | Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 21:19 iTuner wrote: This is where I head to Pandora… buh bye... |
| parttime (Kona Hawaii) | Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 06:42 bindi wrote: Was Israel really born in Hawaii? I have not seen a birth certificate! :-) Too bad his weight finally did him in - an amazing voice. He was a true son of Hawaii, has falsetto voice melts me ! Sadly his sumo weight class was a factor in his demize.. |
| AvoidingWork (Home of Big Boy #4004) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 09:56 Lrobby99 wrote: Yes, Sir. Whatever you want, Sir. Right away, Sir. *Chuckle* You're a cruel Man Lrobby99, but fair. |
| bev (Reno, NV) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 09:27 scraig wrote: ALOHA FRIDAY!!! Yes! ...and again! Perfect Friday tune! Thanks, RP! |
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 09:22 8 to 9 |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 14:21 Love the old style... Nice to hear it again... makes one remember Sunday Mornings in Manoa and Palolo (different loves) before the fog lifted.. |
| Grammarcop (The end of the Pointe) | Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 11:41 Bill: A pleasant diversion on a gloomy day. Mahalo nui loa. |
| lkovathana (Chicago, Illinois) | Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 00:03 So sad ... he died young. |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 11:25 Eclectic. Hard to argue with 4 songs ago we were listening to King of Road |
| tblock | Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 05:00 Great song. The picture reminds me of a AbFab scene: (paraphrased from memory) Eddy - "Inside of me there is a skinny person trying to get out" Eddy's mum - "Just the one, dear?" |
| The_Enemy (...is within) | Posted: May 30, 2011 - 13:37 fredriley wrote: "I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the street, in case a certain little lady comes by. Oh me, oh my..." ![]() How come there's no George on RP? C'mon, Fred, upload something! I would but I don't have anything of his digitized. |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: May 14, 2011 - 19:58 Was Israel really born in Hawaii? I have not seen a birth certificate! :-) Too bad his weight finally did him in - an amazing voice. |
| CasaE | Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 17:49 nice, makes me want to drink a mai tai |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Feb 24, 2011 - 22:48 No, Sir, no!! |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 10:03 huebdoo wrote: I remember listening to him signing "Over the Rainbow" when I held my first born in my arms after her first bath at home. I remember thinking that my life was perfect. Thanks to his gentle, perfect voice ... it is my daughters favourite tune (shes now 7) and mine too thanks RP... Wow, did THIS board get off track. Time to bring it back to the music. Beautiful post, huebdoo. I will think of this every time I hear IZ's "Over the Rainbow." |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 09:58 fredriley wrote: "I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the street, in case a certain little lady comes by. Oh me, oh my..." ![]() Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha *breathe* ha, ha, ha, ha, ha (UK in-joke. . . carry on. . . as you were) |
| michaelc (Walnut Creek, CA) | Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 16:26 Can all ways make me happy |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 12:38 sqqqrly wrote: Examples? Glad you asked: http://paganwiccan.about.com/b/2009/09/03/arizona-pastor-calls-for-obamas-death.htm (Rev. Steven Anderson) http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=a80fb9ef697d8b6381e725e5b3da72c1 (Rev. Wiley Drake) Note to flyboy—so it's not BS, and I'll accept your take back on the facts. I was unaware that ministers were calling for Bush's death from the pulpit as well. No matter what I thought of his policies and his presidency, I find any such notion repugnant and morally abhorrent. Fair enough? |
| BerkeleyAlice (Salinas CA) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 12:22 Israel was featured on NPR's Top 50 Voices of All Time. Apparently, the album he did with the "Over the Rainbow" is still the top selling record of Hawaiian music. He had a beautiful talent. |
| Lrobby99 (Wisconsin, USA) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 12:22 Yes, Sir. Whatever you want, Sir. Right away, Sir. |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 12:21 Great story from NPR about Brother Iz: |
| Grammarcop (The Paris of the Midwest) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 12:20 Curse you, Bill! It's not fair to play this on a day when snow is flying past my window! |
| Sasha2001 (New York F'n City) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 14:53 Decoy wrote: taken from us far to soon Really? As if the diabetes caused by a fatty, starchy island diet could not have been avoided by eating more fruits, fish, and vegetables. I lived on Maui for a year and I soon found myself in the best shape of my life. Your really have to work at being unhealthy there, and yet so many islanders are. |
| Painted_Turtle (Land of Laughing Waters) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 14:52 Aloha ! Great soul |
| iTuner | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 14:50 This is where I head to Pandora… |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 05:10 "I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the street, in case a certain little lady comes by. Oh me, oh my..." ![]() |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Sep 04, 2010 - 05:00 Great song, but even a better album cover!!! |
| Netto (Khimki, Russia) | Posted: Jul 18, 2010 - 06:41 Let the midnight special shine a light on me. Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me. Yes let the midnight special shine a light on me. Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me. |
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 07:53 taken from us far to soon |
| AvoidingWork (Home of Big Boy #4004) | Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 10:11 araujokrl wrote: Somehow I do not think it is as simple as a lack of self-discipline either. Probably a lot (was) going on with him that we just don't know about. Many Native American tribes in the southwest have the same obesity problem. It's not so much the food that contributed to the problem but the consistent supply. As I've heard it, many humans that lived in a place where food was not in constant supply developed a feast and famine diet. Their bodies adjusted to this by absorbing food in the feast times by building up fat reserves to then consume in the times of famine. With the modern day availability of food their bodies just continue to hold fat for use later that is not needed. That being said there are a lot of physically fit Native Americans who don't suffer from an obesity problem. So I don't know. I think genetically the cards can be stacked either for or against you. Being blessed to come from a family with a slender build, I have great respect for the people who have overcome obesity. It's not something that I want to see if my will is strong enough to conquer. |
| jkhandy (Near the ocean (in my mind)) | Posted: May 31, 2010 - 11:49 beautiful voice.... |
| nate917 (2,815 miles from home) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 21:58 xc_para_puravida wrote: Biology demonstrates that native peoples' metabolic systems can't cope with the alcohol, sugar, processed food and chemically-laden meat of the industrial food model - and other folks aren't doing too well eating that crap either. Or maybe he was just eating too damned much of it. Mweep-mwow |
| 4merdj (donde el viento se devuelve) | Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 14:08 flyboy (Sarah Palin's Hometown) wrote: I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that one. You can't go and generically say that there are "several' preachers calling for the President's head without something to back it up with. I myself have yet to agree with anything that I've heard come out of President Obama's mouth, and hate his policies with a passion. I also think he's personally an arogant prick, an enemy of the state, and an illegitimate President. I hope he's removed from office absolutely as soon as possible. But I don't wish him or anyone else death. I guess that's the difference between me and the Bush haters, Bill Ayers, Rom Emanuel, etc. The reference to provenance—in parenthesis—seems redundant for it can be inferred from the "argument" (or lack thereof) ![]() |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 14:07 sqqqrly wrote: Examples? Steven Anderson Wiley Drake Of course, these guys are quite coo coo ![]() What scares me is the comments made by conservative talk show hosts that make it seem that Obama is endangering the constitution and America...with the implicit message that such grave peril calls for drastic action. I've heard Walton & Johnson going off, seeming to intentionally get people really upset. This is Texas. There are guns everywhere. Most elementary schools have a shooting range. Okay, that's not true, but we DO have lots of guns. Just scares me and pisses me off at these radio jerk-offs. |
| macadavy (Cascadia's attic, eh?) | Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 13:58 Darrooon wrote: It always surprises me when Bill G pronounces his last name, effortlessly. I do believe Bill may have spent some time living in the islands. Is this so, Bill? Maybe he can also translate the song's title or does anyone else out there speak or read Hawaiian? |
| flyboy (Sarah Palin's Hometown) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 17:12 WonderLizard wrote: Y'know there are several American Christian preachers who lately have been calling for the President's death, some by natural causes, others by any means; some because he's a black man, others because they disagree with his initiatives. I believe using the pulpit to promote murder is a perversion,however protected, of our First Amendment rights. And you just know there's some whacko nut job out there who's going to figure the preacher's got something going and is going to do his bidding—an outcome too horrible to contemplate. So, your sentiment, and I'm hoping fervently that you didn't really mean it—that you got lost in the anger of the moment, just doesn't have a place in these dialogues. There is no good time for wishing death upon others, but right now, I believe we need to be a little extra sensitive. I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that one. You can't go and generically say that there are "several' preachers calling for the President's head without something to back it up with. I myself have yet to agree with anything that I've heard come out of President Obama's mouth, and hate his policies with a passion. I also think he's personally an arogant prick, an enemy of the state, and an illegitimate President. I hope he's removed from office absolutely as soon as possible. But I don't wish him or anyone else death. I guess that's the difference between me and the Bush haters, Bill Ayers, Rom Emanuel, etc. |
| sqqqrly (Baboosic Lake, NH) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 16:48 WonderLizard wrote: Y'know there are several American Christian preachers who lately have been calling for the President's death, some by natural causes Examples? |
| i4niblind (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 16:48 h9xh9xh9x wrote: Is this a Dylan song too? It sounds like him from the back. It may sound like him from the back, but the album cover certainly doesn't look like him from the back |
| macadavy (Cascadia's attic, eh?) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 16:44 My fav from Bro' Iz! Aloha! ![]() |
| michaelgmitchell (Belleville, ON) | Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 07:03 Troy Palomalu in 2025, reflecting upon a stellar football career. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 07:20 WonderLizard wrote: Y'know there are several American Christian preachers who lately have been calling for the President's death, some by natural causes, others by any means; some because he's a black man, others because they disagree with his initiatives. I believe using the pulpit to promote murder is a perversion,however protected, of our First Amendment rights. And you just know there's some whacko nut job out there who's going to figure the preacher's got something going and is going to do his bidding—an outcome too horrible to contemplate. Absolutely despicable. They are no different than those scumbags calling for Bush's death a year ago. |




