This month's issue of Honolulu magazine ranks the 50 Greatest Hawaiian Songs of All Time -- and like any good list, has some obvious choices, a number of nice surprises and a few head scratchers to boot.
It's an interesting list -- particularly when you see the wide variety of musical styles butting heads throughout the top 50. The mag writes:
To help with such a daunting task, we invited an esteemed panel of musicians, historians and producers to vote for the songs they felt represented the best in Hawai‘i music. The results, tabulated according to a weighted point system, are amazingly diverse. The following article contain everything from revered, Hawaiian-language standards to bubbly hapa haole ditties, monarchy-era anthems to contemporary, radio-friendly hits.
For this week's Hawaiian Eye, I started counting down the list, making it from No. 50 to No. 25. You can listen to the show (or at least part of it, as I'm told the stream cuts out midway through) here.
Next week, I complete the countdown, from No. 24 to No. 1. And the hits don't stop 'till we reach the top! (Sorry, channeling my inner Casey Kasem there.) You can check it out live Thursday at midnight on 88.5 KCSN-FM, or live on the web at KCSN.org that night.
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