From Ben Lamlam’s Lam Lam Fields Back Home album.
This song will forever remind me of Mom Salas. We played this CD for her over and over when she first came to live with us in ’03.
Tag: chamoru
The Kasuals
I found and “borrowed” this bio of the Kasuals from this blog. I would normally just leave the bio to the link to do the job, but just in case said blog post disappears, it’s here too.
“KASUALS” OFFICIAL HAWAII BIO (by Danny Perez
“Guam and Hawaii’s Own-The Kasuals” was a band formed on Guam by founding members, Frank Mendiola, Danny Perez and Bob Owen, in the summer of 1971, when Frank had just gotten out of the Army after serving honorably in the Vietnam War and Danny had just graduated from high school.…
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Frank ‘Bokonggo’ Pangelinan – Katrina
One of my all time top favorite Chamorro songs is one titled “Katrina”, by Frank Bokonggo Pangelinan. I actually didn’t hear it for the first time until I was stationed in Korea, spending a year away from the wife and kids. It became my heartwarming, curl up and get mahalang song.
This is Bokonggo’s original release version – the one I fell in love with while in Korea and missing my baby….…
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Island Food Reminiscing
I was out surfing the web with no ankle leash and ran into this web site called Guam Food…..YUM! If you think you get hungry talking about the island food try check the PHOTOS of all the crazy popular dishes! My mouth started watering when I saw the pic of latiya and deer kelaguen (binadu). Check it out!
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Putting the Chamorro and Hawaii CDs into MP3
I’ve been ripping CDs, trying my best to convert vinyl and cassette tape to .mp3 format. I’ve been thinking of then uploading them to the web site server and linking them to be played like I did when I had my web site on geocities (remember www.geocities.com/tropics/theshores/9350…). I’m still debating if it’s worth the effort it would take to build a library collection out of it.…
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