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I don’t keep up with Hawaii music releases by any stretch. I liked the now old stuff like C&K, Kalapana, Braddah Iz, Olomana, brothers Caz, etc.. The newer reggae and hip stuff the family likes and I listen to passively but don’t pay much attention to who the artists are, what latest releases are..…
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My and Lou’s Collection
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My “Royce and Lou” Collection… songs that Lou and/or I identify with as our “going out songs”, and just our songs in our relationship, ever since we started dating when we were teenagers thru adult and married life.
Gus ‘N’ Doll Munga Ma Usa Yo
Listening to this song takes me back to when Lou and I got married and I was home on leave. I don’t listen to Chamorro music too often, and I don’t have any means to truly keep up with the more recent artists. So I listen to the older stuff. And when I do it almost puts me into a trance of nostalgia and homesickness…
Nohelani Cypriano ~ In the Evening
I found this song on YouTube and had to have it. It was a hit in Hawaii soon after I got stationed here for the first time, after Lou and I just got married and were starting our lives together. Everything about Hawaii was good, life was good, everything was fun and happy times. This song, by Nohelani Cypriano, brings so many memories of those times flooding back.
Pua Olena
Whenever I think back to when I first got stationed in Hawaii, and Lou joined me after we got married, I think of a ‘magical time’ in our life. You know, life was good, the world was ours to conquer, we were living everyday on our terms.
And the warmth of the islands was in our veins, in our hearts. Unlike 99.9% of military people who come to Hawaii and hole up on post, never experiencing the culture and the aloha, we embraced it.…
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Our ‘anniversary’ ~ Isleys
On our ‘anniversary’ ~ Isleys ~ For the Love of You
Today makes 39 years that Lou and I have been together. It seems like a lifetime ago, yet only yesterday at the same time, that we were in junior high school, living life one day at a time, when the most cherished moments were as simple yet hard to attain as finding time to spend together.…
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When I used to miss home – The Krush – Waialua Sky
The song is Hawaii origin, not Guam. But it reminds me of, back in the day, my longing for home in the same way the lyrics portray the singer (The Krush, circa 1980) missing his Waialua childhood home.

In the night, an island rain
Brought to mind an old familiar scene
Long forgotten now
Quickly time just passes by
Only all too soon, the years can fly
Here to find I’ve grown
And now, that I’m on my own
Gone from my family
I think of all the simple things
Like the sound of falling rain
Beneath Waialua Sky
Lately now, my thoughts have been
Turning to a place where I was born
With memories so warm
It’s been awhile that I’ve been gone
Many things have changed how well I know
That nothing stays the same
Though I know I must go on
To where my life will lead
Often I will think of days
When I just would laugh and play
Beneath Waialua Sky
Long before, I ever knew
Where to go or what to do
I had a way of life
I know will always see me through
Here and now, grown a man
Learning through my heart to understand
What will be my goal
A quiet night
an island rain
Takes me to a child again
Beneath Waialua sky
When I first joined the Army and left home, I certainly missed Lou, family, friends, etc..…
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