Hawaiian Love Songs

Album Notes

Palani Vaughan has been known for so many years as a pioneer of modern Hawaiian nationalistic music, and most of all for the four Ia `Oe E Ka La albums he recorded in honor of King Kalakaua in the 1970s and early 1980s, that the music on this album may come as a surprise. His debut album, Meet Palani Vaughan and The Sunday Manoa showed his strength as a contemporary Hawaiian artist -- but HAWAIIAN LOVE SONGS reinvented him as a romantic crooner of Hawaiian and hapa-haole classics, set to sophisticated orchestral arrangements. Hawai`i has changed tremendously since these recordings were made in 1970, but beautiful music is timeless -- and this recording is a perfect antidote to the stress of living in modern, congested, over-built and over-developed Hawai`i nei.