Various Artists Pineapple Hits
	Record Label: Shaka Records Catalog #: SHCD 3028 Barcode: 7 04565 80092 0 List Price: $ 17.98 Release Date: November 22, 2005 Configuration: Compact Disc
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Track Listing: (click links for audio samples)
1) AH, MY HAWAII-Danny Couch 2) MOLOKAI SLIDE-Ehukai 3) NATURALLY-Kalapana 4) WAIALUA SKY-Krush 5) PUA CARNATION-Hui Ohana 6) SWEET LADY OF WAIAHOLE-Bruddah Waltah 7) WINGS OF A SEABIRD-Keola Beamer w/ Kenny Rankin 8) KOKEE-Loyal Garner	9) MY HAWAII-The Krush 10) KAHEKILI HIGHWAY-Loco Moco Band 11) LADY YOU'RE MY RAINBOW-The Aliis 12) I LOVE YOU-Marlene Sai 13) E WAIANAE-Pandanus Club 14) SUMMER LADY-Cecilio & Kapono 15) HONOLULU CITY LIGHTS-Keola & Kapono Beamer

Product Description

Don Francisco de Paula y Marin, a Spanish advisor and great friend to King
Kamehameha 1, actually introduced the pineapple to Hawaii. Years later (1901)
James Drummond Dole, whose ancestors came to Hawaii as missionaries, planted
his first pineapple fields near the Oahu town of Wahiawa. His Hawaiian Pineapple
Company (later, Dole Food Company) then built a cannery close to Honolulu Harbor
and a railroad to bring fruit from the fields to the plant and thus the pineapple industry
was born. The Pineapple became known as the "Fruit of Kings" and Dole was later
dubbed the "Pineapple King"

Although just a few miles of track still exists between Ewa Beach and Nanakuli,
much of O'ahu was once stitched with steel rails. Each of the island's seven major
sugar plantations (in Aiea, Waipahu, Ewa, Waianae, Waialua, Kahuku and Waimanalo)
had there own complete train operation - often with multiple locomotives running at
once - hauling workers, tools and cane cars back and forth from the fields to the mill.
The first half of the 20th century on O'ahu was an era of whistles, and
chuffing steam locomotives.

In addition to plantation trains operation seven days (and nights) a week, Oahu
Railway hauled people and freight on their 70+ miles of track between lwilei and
Kahuku. Started in 1889 by Frank Dillingham, OR & L continued operations through
the very last day of 1947. During World War II, Oahu Railway was a workhorse,
trundling not only its standard cargoes of sugar to the docks and pineapples to the
canneries but millions of troops and defense workers, plus bullets, bombs and artillery
shells around the island. Hawaiian Railway Society offers weekly rides along a
restored section of OR & L track.

The songs on this CD have accumulated a total of 57 Hoku awards (Hawaii's Grammys).
All these songs were hits in Hawaii, including the biggest of all "Honolulu City Lights."
This title song is from the album named by Honolulu Magazine as Best Hawaiian
album of all time!!