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Manny's Newest CD Winner in the 10th Annual Hawaii Music Awards Traditional Hawaiian Category

 

    CD #1--ENCHANTED PLACE----WON BEST CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE'S CHOICE ALBUM OF THE YEAR,

WAS NOMINATED FOR BEST NEW ARTIST NA HOKU HANOHANO AWARDS 2004

 
AND WAS NOMINATED BY GRAMMY'S IN ITS 2005----FIRST YEAR HAWAIIAN MUSIC INCLUDED IN GRAMMY'S

---WE DID ATTEND IN LAX, BUT CAMERAS WERE NOT ALLOWED SO WE HAVE NO PHOTOS--BUT WAS LOTS OF BLING BLING AND GLAMOUR!!!

    CD#2 MY ISLAND PARADISE WAS NOMINATED IN THE HAWAIIAN CATEGORY OF THE GRAMMY'S 2007
THE NEW ALBUM HAWAIIAN MEMORIES WILL NOT QUALIFY UNTIL 2008 FOR NOMINATION

ISLAND PARADISE----WON BEST TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN PEOPLE'S CHOICE ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2005

 

WAS NOMINATED FOR TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF YEAR FOR NA HOKU HANOHANO AWARDS

 

ONE OF THE 29 NOMINATED HAWAIIAN ALBUMS FOR THE 2007 BEST HAWAIIAN ALBUMS, AND A WINNER IN THE ''JUST PLAIN FOLKS'' COMPETITION IN SUMMER OF 2006 IN LAX

Hawaiian: This is a new category and features a mix of traditional Hawaiian language and sounds, songs with Hawaiian specific topics or instrumental styles (such as Slack Key guitar) and songs that evoke images of Hawaii.  Awards were Saturday, November 4, 2006                        

    CD #3 HAWAIIAN MEMORIES--RELEASED DECEMBER 7, 2006--NOMINATED FOR PEOPLE'S CHOICE TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN CATEGORY FOR 2007 HMA AWARDS

 

The Aloha Spirit is Natural to Manny K and Bettyjean Fernandez, their warm loving nature perpetuates true Aloha! ~ Lea

My Island Paradise

1. He Ala Nei E Mapu Mai Nei	7.  Ku'u Pua Tuberose
2. Haleakala	8.  Ke Ala Ka Jeep
3. My Island Paradise	9.  Ke Paniolo Nui O Moloka'i
4. Malolo	10. Sweet Singing Bamboo
5. Ku'u Home--Old Plantation	11. Nani Kaua'i
6. To Make You Love Me Ku'uipo	12. Lei Aloha, Lei Makamae

 

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                                                     In This Enchanted Place

1. Ahulili	8. Papalina Lahi Lahi	16. Hapa Haoli Hula Girl
2, Maui Waltz	9. Pohaikealoha	17. Beautiful Kaua'i
3. Pua Ahihi	10. Maui Medley	18. Paoakalani
4. In This Enchanted Place	11. Waikiki	19. He Nani Ka'ala
5. Ku'u Hoa	12. He Punahele	20. Moanikeala
6. Coconut Island	13. Ko Ma'i Ho Eu Eu	21. Lae La Lae Lae
7. Aloha Kaua'i	14. Maile Lei	22. Pikake
	15. Along the Beach at Waikiki	23. Palm Trees Sing Along

A special Mahalo to Manny and Bettyjean for sending the photographs~

 

Nostalgia brought Manny back to memories of his childhood, of singing, playing music for any reason what-so-ever. From a traditional and musically inclined family, Manny K Fernandez entertains us with some of the songs from "Those bygone days".

Twice Winner of The Peoples Choice Award:

Manny plays from memory and ear, besides the Ukulele, the clarinet and played the Upright Bass with the Kihei Brown Trio at the Ala Moana Hotel. He also formed a group with Samson Bright and Miki Bowers on the Ed Michalman Show (Hawaiian House Party) viewed on TV, he toured extensively with Andy Cummings to whom Manny says inspired his CD "In This Enchanted Place". 

Manny's passion for the "Big Wave" continues although surfing started once on his mother's ironing board!

  HE AND DUKE KAHANAMOKU USED TO SURF TOGETHER, AS WELL AS WORLD CHAMP RABBIT KEKAI. THE GOOD OLE DAYS OF SURFING. You will still see him out there at 6am He only uses a 12 ft board, known as a 'tanker' and says ALL of the early Beachboys can only surf on those boards. MORE ABOUT THE SURFING TOURNAMENT,  MANNY SHOULD QUALIFY, BUT WOULD NOT COMPETE, IF IT IS ALL 10 FOOTERS ENTERING.RABBIT KEKAI, BUFFALO KEKAUHUNA, AND MANNY ALWAYS COMPETED IN THE OLD TIMERS SURF CLASSIC AND THEY USED TO HAVE 40+, 50+, 60+, 70+, 80+ AND NO ONE MADE IT TO 90- I DO THINK THERE IS A 90+ NOW, MANNY SAW HIM LAST YEAR, SURF WAS UP, AND HE CAME FROM KAUAI WHERE HE IS RETIRED NOW......HIS NAME IS LEX BRODY.. MANNY WOULD WIN EACH COMPETITION BUT HE NEVER GOT TO ENTER 60+ OR 70+ AS WE MOVED TO MAINLAND..SO NO TROPHIES FOR THOSE AGE BRACKETS.

     Don Ho, a classmate, was very instrumental in getting Manny to do the albums while he still had the ''velvety'' voice, and he 'thanks' Don for his support.

                                                                           Listen to 808 Talk  Aloha I wanted to let you know that we will feature a few songs from both of Manny's current albums in the show.

The show was available (Sun. Dec. 3) on our main page at http://www.808Talk.com  and have a permanent page link of http://www.808Talk.com/?p=141   For those that are iPod users they will be able to get the show at http://www.808Talk.com/iTunes  We plan to feature more of Manny's music in the future and will be mentioning his new release that comes out on Dec. 7th and where our listeners can purchase all his album's at. Thank you so much Bettyjean for allowing us to feature Manny and please pass on our thanks to Manny as well. His music is what reminds me of why I always wanted to live in Hawaii. As a little child, I remember hearing Hawaiian music which my father enjoyed so much. Manny's music brings back my days of childhood and the then distant dreams of living in Hawaii, which have now been a reality for over 12 years. I really would enjoy meeting both of you when you are in Hawaii this month.

Have a wonderful weekend and Hau'oli Lanui.
A hui ho,
808Talk Hawaii: http://www.808Talk.com  (Audio)
808Talk TV: http://www.808Talk.tv  (Video)

 

Manny K. Fernandez In This Enchanted Place by Gregg Porter  Northwest Times For fans of the Territorial Era, this collection of standard Hawaiian and hapa-haole hits will certainly satisfy. Manny K. (as he is billed) fits 23 classics onto this disc, from peppy numbers like “Ku`u Hoa” and “Papālina Lahi Lahi”, to gentle ballads such as “Maui Waltz” and “Paoakalani.” All of the musicians, incidentally, reside in the Pacific Northwest now, including Manny and his wife, Betty Jean, who run a Hawaiiana website (www.hawaiiangatherings.com) out of their home in Aloha, Oregon.                                                Gregg Porter's Music Reviews April 2006                                                 New Releases Manny K. Fernandez: “My Island Paradise ” (PekeKini) Fernandez is the respected Hawaiian artist who retired to Aloha, Oregon, where he and his wife run a Hawaiiana gift store – and with this, his second CD, got everybody all abuzz about how the Hōkū Awards would not allow him to submit his work for “Album of the Year” consideration. (See the March 2006 issue of this paper for more details, or check the archives on our website.) He did win for Best Contemporary Hawaiian Album at the recent Hawai`i Music Awards, however, with this lovely collection of twelve tunes, some in Hawaiian and some hapa-haole ones in English. The livelier tracks may put you in a Sons of Hawai`i mood, and you can tell that Fernandez got his chops playing for years at Island hotels – the choice of material, the harmonies, the arrangements, the steady playing and singing create a classic “old Hawai`i" environment. There are songs about historic ocean liners, hula tunes, love songs, bouncing kolohe numbers, and one song (Charles E. King’s “Lei Aloha, Lei Makamae”) referred to as the “Original Hawaiian Wedding Song” and sung in a lovely duet with René Pearson (who also provides some of the album’s photos.)

 

A BIT OF NOSTALGIA FROM A DEAR FRIEND
For dos who know the good ole days, and dos who like learn wen Hawaii wuz da best!!! DO YOU REMEMBER? Yep, sure do.... da good ole days... Good 'ol Hawaii!

When you could buy one big sack of See Moi for a nickel... and then you ate the whole thing and licked the bag... Gramma said, you go Chinese School, you say "NO!" she said, you go, I buy you see moi, you say OK.

Windward side... taro patches... rice paddies...water buffalo... When you mentioned Kaneohe, everyone knew you were talking about the pupule house... When the tallest building in Honolulu was the Aloha Tower... Radio personalities like.. J. Aku Head Pupule on KGMB in the mornings saying "OK, all you SLOBS, it's time to GET UP!!!" Hey, no foget Lucky Luck's "Lucky you come Hawaii!" and remember Don Chamberlin and "Don in the fishbowl" from Fran's Drive Inn.. When you lived in Honolulu, T.H.... Signs on vacant and private property that said KAPU... When the site of AlaMoana Shopping Center was a big swamp. Waialae-Kahala was mostly pig farms. and the area next to the airport was a neighborhood called Damon Tract...

Kids chanting... Ching Chong Chinaman, Sitting on a fence, Trying to make a dollah, Out of fifteen cents... Red, White and Blue, Stahs ovah you, Mama say, Papa say, you pake... Grade school JPO's... Junior Police Officers in their white shirts, khaki pants, polished black shoes, red helmets and arm bands... 25 cents going Saturday Matinee, Queen's Theater..I remember 9 cents at Varsity Theater and 25 cents could get you movie, soda, and popcorn at Golden Wall Theatre....Wearing Band-Aids and a "limp" to get into the Saturday matinee without shoes... Flipping milk caps on the sidewalk during recess... and deciding who got to go first by playing Jung Ken Po... And when you did something dumb everybody yelled..."Bakatare You!" And when you did something naughty they shook their finger and said..." A hana koko lele!
Moonlight swimming... Bonfires on the beach... Strumming ukuleles, singing and everyone knew the words to all the old Hawaiian songs... You were greeted with... Ei, bu!... Ei buggah, how you stay?.. or Ei, blah-lah... Going to Maunakea Street to buy ginger leis... The old Pali road with the hairpin turns... and if it was really windy, the hood of the car blew open..
The bestest freshest poi at Ono's on Kapahulu Ave...Also bestest Laulau, Kalua Pig, Opihi, sticky rice, Lomi Salmon, Pipikaula, Na'au Puaa, Haupia.. Broke da mout'! Dollar bills with HAWAII printed across them...I still got some...

Going to high school football games at the ole stadium --- lovingly called the Termite Palace. Guys getting their kicks sparking the wahines from under the stands... soggy bags of boiled peanuts sold by squatting sellers...and Football players smothered with leis and lipstick walking off the field... Harry Bridges, Teamsters Union leader, calling union dock strikes...causing food shortages. . Sad Sam Ichinose... Kau Kau Korner, the meeting place with the "Crossroads of the Pacific" sign out front, the most photographed sign in the world... The waitresses wearing short skirts, soda hats and skates bringing your order to the car on a window tray...How good those hamburgers smelled! Aloha Oe... eat fish and poi"...

When those lucky people who lived in Waikiki sold their lots for $5.00 a square foot and we all thought they were getting rich... Everyone discussing the "Mauka Arterial" and when it was finally completed we all got lost because we didn't know East from West... All I knew was Ewa side and Diamond Head side... Mauka and Makai. Holding the 49th State Fair year after year.. and finally becoming the 50th state in 1959... Looking at Diamond Head... when all you could see from Waikiki was the Natatorium and the Elk's Club... Hey, don't forget the Town & Country Club Riding Stables and the taro patches. Old Chinese ladies with bound feet shuffling along wearing dark grey tunics and trousers... Japanese men in Kimonos carrying a towel and a bar of soap walking to a stream in the evening.. Filipino men from Waipahu on the bus with their game cocks in cages.. Elderly Japanese squatting, waiting for the bus... Trying to find the coins wrapped in red paper and pieces of tissue (with holes in them that the evil spirits had to go through)...from Chinese funerals...
Watching Duke Kahanamoku surfing at Waikiki and shaking hands with him
Beach boys with da kine, ho'omalimali and Hawaiian music under the palm trees at the Royal Hawaiian and the Moana... Surfers with 8 foot boards that weighed a ton... Waikiki sand always washing away and having to be replaced by sand from the windward side... Old Chinese men playing mah-jongg under the hau trees at Kuhio Beach... Saint Louis boys singing "We get ten tousand men steel yet, we gonna ween dees game you bet... " My friend wen go St. Louis but I no tink he remember this. Rubbing maunaloa seeds on the sidewalk until they got hot enough to burn somebody's arm... The excitement of the Lurline coming in... Lei sellers everywhere... "Carnation lei... fifty cents plumieria.. .three for dollah".. Local boys diving for coins... big beautiful jelly fish... a tangle of streamers from ship to shore.. passengers tossing leis overboard as the ship pulls away... if they floated toward shore, they would return...

When KGMB and KGU were the only radio stations... Lots of Mynah birds on the sidewalks... mongoose living in a neighborhood tree... Going Pali lookout to "spahk da moon"... "I took my wahine holo holo kaa, I took her up the Pali, she say "too muchee faa." Pull down the shade, try to make the grade... Lei ana ika.. black eye!" Going Diamond Head or Ala Moana to watch the submarine races... Swimming in the streams and whacking each other on the head with shampoo ginger... Never driving over the Pali with pork in your car...you going get stuck... No need test...I wen test for you and the car engine wen maki. Going to "First Vue" at the Waikiki theater! ...eating crackseed..the palm trees and flowers that looked so real. .the usher who wore a feather cape and helmet and ever smiled...Every Friday night at 10:15 and you had to make reservations. Talking mynah birds...I had one dumb minah bird...never did speak to me. Lights out... clack, clack, clack. what's dat?...turn on lights... one BIG centipede! Alfred Apaka... Kalima Brothers... Gabby Pahinui...slack key...steel guitars... Don' forget Auntie Genoa Keawe.

Surfing at Waikiki and watching the outrigger canoes along side of you full of mainland tourists wearing bathing caps... Surfing Waikiki all day without eating, getting red eyes... going back again the next day.. because when you caught those waves and rode them all the way in... it was worth it! Underwater... trying to catch a ride on the back of a turtle... Underwater.. trying to look at fish and eels without a mask...

Swimming at Fort DeRussy... trying not to get stung by da Portuguese Man-o -War...There was a pier behind the Moana Hotel There was a jungle between the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Kalakaua. And you can go catch Samoan Crab, White Crab, Hawaiian Crab and dig for Oysters and Clams in West Loch. The big tidal wave from Japan that washed up overKalakaua Avenue... Being able to tell what month it was by the color of Diamond Head... When inside Diamond Headwas opened to the public again.. hiking inside and finding big cannons sticking out of concrete pukas. 1949... auwe!... a big underwater shelf broke off and shook the whole island!

Webley Edwards with his mike walking along the beach and talking to the tourists... and taking the mike down to the ocean to let everyone listening on the mainland hear the sound of the waves at Waikiki... on Hawaii Calls... When all the tourists were mostly movie stars or rich and came on Matson ships and stayed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and wore furs in the evenings!. Walking down Waikiki Beach and sparking movie stars without their toupees, wigs and make-up... And sell them coconut hats for $10 per hat. Trader Vic's .. Don the Beachcomber's... the Zebra Room all painted with Zebra stripes outside... Seeing painfully sunburned and peeling tourists at Waikiki... Doing the Hula in the "May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii" celebration... Using the uli-uli's, ili ili's and pu'ili's... making our own hula skirts out of ti leaves... splitting the ti leaves with our thumb nails and having green hands for a week... 4 digit phone numbers? No, I remember 5 digits.

English standard schools...Japanese language lessons...

When nobody locked their houses or cars..."Right on the kinipopo"... When anything that said "Made in Japan" was junk... When everyone called Plumerias "Graveyard Flowers"... (MAKE' MAN!!) When restaurants were called either Cafes or Grills... Wooden sided station wagons filled with bananas... "Banana Wagon"... Buying Sushi cones on way home from school from the Sushi man and his cart on the corner... Sunday morning, December 7,
1941... masks. . air raid drills... backyard bomb shelters... 442nd, "Go for Broke"... bobbed wiah" on da beaches... KILROY WAS HERE... Eating lots of Spam...

Kaimuki red dirt...everything you bought white turned reddish brown... your sheets, your underwear... Surfing in your palaka bathing suit... Fitted Holokus with long trains with a loop for your wrist... Tita dress: cuffed up Levis, Aloha shirt with the sleeves rolled up twice, ear rings and slippahs. . Wearing a white sailor hat.. Wooden slippahs with two slats of wood across the bottoms...we called them "clop-clops"... when you could buy sox and tennis shoes that came in-between the big toe and the rest of your toes... Waking up with mo'os in your bed, sometime dead because you slept on them and sometime just their tails were left behind... Shave Ice on a hot day... Finding Japanese green, white and lavender glass fishing balls in various sizes floating in to the beaches on the North shore... "Calabash cousins"... Watching sea weed being harvested on a weekend... Torch fishing at night...

Example of a "dumb haole"... driving up Tantalus and Round Top Drive and haole says, "I bet these roads are really dangerous when it snows"... Listening to Hawaii Calls... Playing around the mouth of Blow-Hole... trying to guess when it would blow... so you could run... Playing on top of the Reservoir in Kaimuki... When there were so many palm trees that coconuts were falling on people's heads... and owners cutting them down for fear of getting sued... Arthur Godfrey playing his ukulele... Hale Loki... "Hawai-ya Hawai-ya, Hawai-ya?" and Chesterfields... Listening to the Japanese radio station and hearing Japanese men grunting...The traffic cop in a little booth in the middle of the street with an umbrella over it... Uku-pile-a-roaches and FLIT GUNS... later to be replaced by...the SLIPPAH.. Servicemen... complaining about "life on the rock", drinking, swearing, hitchhiking, making passes, driving too fast, and sometimes getting blown off the Pali on their motorcycles... Manoa Valley... swiping painted candles from the Chinese Cemetery...laying on the graves to see what it felt like to be dead.. looking at all the photos on the gravestones and wondering about their lives... sliding down the ti leaf slide and going home covered with mud... going "mountain apple-ing"...hiking to the falls in the rain through the bamboo when there was no trail... "liquid sunshine" everyday about the same time... fire crackers and smoke filling the valley and the houses on Chinese New Year... When everyone had a pune'e and at least one old Koa table in their home... When Nu'uanu Valley was a thick, lush, tropical rain forest.. with many upside down falls... the monkeypod tree in the middle of the road at Nu'uanu and Vineyard...

Kapiolani Drive-In... Fran's Drive In ..KC Drive In (for Waffle Hot Dogs & Orange Freeze -- umm ono!) alongside the Ala WaiCanal...Kelly's Drive In... When Kalakaua Ave. was a two-way street... Admission to the Honolulu Zoo and the Aquarium was free... Waialua, Ewa, Kahuku and Waianae sugar plantations. .working in the cane fields... cane trains... the irrigation system was up on wooden stilts... Honolulu Airport was on the Diamond Head side of the runway... Jumping into the water holding a Hau leaf in your mouth so the water wouldn't go up your nose... Working in the pineapple factory and the fields... Riding horses in Kapiolani Park... When the Natatorium was called the Tank... The Manapua Man...The Lunch Truck at Ala Moana Beach and their ONO chow fun and the curry beef stew over rice when you're cold from swimming. The Japanese neighborhood vegetable wagon. Lau Yee Chai was on Kuhio Ave. and set off firecrackers every Saturday evening at 6...

Going to dances at the Ala Wai Clubhouse and dancing under the stars (and sometimes raindrops!). Riding the electric boats on the fragrant Ala Wai Canal. Going to the Saimin Stand for a bowl of saimin for 15 cents and BBQ stick for 10 cents... wonton mein for 25 cents. And, big cone sushi for 5 cents a pc.

.. .THIS WAS THE OLD HAWAII !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on: Sunday, February 26, 2006

ISLAND SOUNDS
Manny K. carries you back to old Hawai'i

By Wayne Harada
A nostalgic journey, already an award-winner, hurls Manny K. Fernandez into the spotlight.

"MY ISLAND PARADISE" BY MANNY K. FERNANDEZ; PEKEKINI RECORDS

Genre: Traditional Hawaiian.

Distinguishing notes: Manny K. Fernandez has won a Hawaii Music Award for this entry. The selections evoke a bygone era in mood and in delivery, when combos like Fernandez's proliferated on the Waikiki strip. Manning an eight-string Kamaka 'ukulele, Fernandez serves up a sweet 12-song sampler that taps "Sweet Singing Bamboo," "Haleakala," "Nani Kaua'i," "He Ala Nei E Mapu Mai Nei" and "Ku'u Home (Old Plantation)." He introduces Rene Pearson on a duet of the original wedding song "Lei Aloha, Lei Makamae." There's good fun and hearty vibrations, too, on "Ke Ala Ka Jeep," a classic from Eddie Kamae and Mary Kawena Pukui's songbook.

 

The outlook: A commendable release, complete with sing-along lyric book.

An unpretentious, reflective performance that suits backyard jams.

He and his quartet evoke memories of the Sons of Hawaii with "He Ala Nei E Mapu Mai Nei" and "Ke Ala Ka Jeep." They're equally adept with vintage hapa-haole material. Fernandez's careful enunciation of Andy Cummings' lyrics on the title song suggests an affinity with the artists of earlier generations.

Veteran artist Manny Fernandez and his musicians epitomize the melodic sound of the territorial era with their renditions of sweet island standards such as "Waikiki", "Maui Medley" and "Pikake". the group's harmonies are soft and smooth and the instrumental arrangements almost entirely acoustic. Fernandez's lead vocals further accentuate the old-time ambiance. add to that the ipu of kumu carol ching-acker, and you have a perfect cd for all hula halau's. this is a wonderful, memorable performance that takes you back to Hawaiian days gone by. As reviewer John Berger of the Honolulu star bulletin said of the 23-song celebrations of Hawaiian and hapa-haole music, "the music is beautiful and of itself---the additional (liner) information of Fernandez's family history and the significance that each song has to him only completes this special project." A 28 page booklet is included with all Hawaiian and English translations of each song---perfect for any hula dancer! Aunty Genoa Keawe said, "this is a must for all hula dancers, the words are so complete and clear, and manny's voice is so velvet smooth". to quote the famous Kanoe Miller, former Miss Hawaii and hula dancer at the Halekulani Hotel in Honolulu, "this is truly a work of art, and a hula dancers dream of songs and music."

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Mahalo, Manny

                                                               

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Manny K Fernandez wins, Best Hawaiian CD 2006, People's Choice Awards from the Hawaii Music Association for his newly released album, ''My Island Paradise''. Manny's album also received the most votes of any of the 90+ entries, and the most votes ever received by a recording artist in this 9th annual Hawaii Music Foundation recognition. It took Manny 60 years to finally record a CD, and this is his 2nd CD that took top honors, as his 2004 release of ''In This Enchanted Place'' was the People's Choice winner also. Manny K & Bettyjean Fernandez are the producers on their own label, Peke Kini Records. Hula Records are the distributors in Hawaii. Manny & Bettyjean reside in Aloha, Oregon. Manny is a class '49 grad of St Louis College in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Wayne Harada---Entertainment editor Honolulu Advertiser
""A commendable release----An unpretentious, reflective performance!, complete with lyric sing along and hula style book''

John Berger---Entertainment editor Honolulu Star Bulletin
''Manny's careful enunciation with Andy Cummings' lyrics on the title song, suggests an affinity with the artists of earlier generations. Traditionalists everywhere can count on enjoying Manny's music.'' A must have for your collection and Hula Halau's.

Kanoe Miller, Headliner Hula Dancer Halekulani Hotel, Hawaii-------This is a ''piece of ART'' that will last for generations to come. Thanks Manny for creating such a masterpiece for our Hula dancers not only in Hawaii, but the thousands in Japan and around the world.

 

http://jerrybyrdfanclub.com/AboutRay.htm supported by Mr. Ray Montee

Beautiful Kaua'i played by Ray Montee - Steel Guitar, Manny K. Fernandez vocals. From Manny's 2003 Recording "In This Enchanted Place."
Coconut Island played by Ray Montee - Steel Guitar, Manny K. Fernandez vocals. From Manny's 2003 Recording "In This Enchanted Place."
He Punahele played by Ray Montee - Steel Guitar, Manny K. Fernandez vocals. From Manny's 2003 Recording "In This Enchanted Place."
My Island Paradise Ray Montee - Steel Guitar, Manny K. Fernandez vocals. From Manny's 2005 Recording "My Island Paradise"
Palm Trees Sing Aloha played by Ray Montee - Steel Guitar, Manny K. Fernandez vocals. From Manny's 2003 Recording "In This Enchanted Place."

Manny K Fernandez  

Aloha Oregon

 

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Manny's new Cd is also available at  mele.com

From Hawaii Gatherings Website: Manny and Betty Jean have spent 14 years in the hunting and collecting of Hawaiiana for their private collection, and collectively we have over 60 years in the music and entertainment business, and event planning.  Visit Manny K and Bettyjean at http://www.hawaiiangatherings.com/   Developed and Managed by ©Nostalgic Memories by Lea; Photography and Web Design