Honolulu City Lights

Honolulu City Lights

Infobox Single
Name = Honolulu City Lights


Caption = Cover to the single "Honolulu City Lights"
Artist = The Carpenters
from Album = "Lovelines"
A-side = "Honolulu City Lights"
B-side = "I Just Fall in Love Again"
Released = 1986
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Pop
Label = A&M Records
1940
Writer = Keola Beamer
Producer = Richard Carpenter
Certification =
Chart position = * NC (U.S. Billboard Hot 100)
* NC (U.S. Adult Contemporary Charts)
Last single = "Little Altar Boy" (1984)
This single = "Honolulu City Lights" (1986)
Next single = "If I Had You*" (1989)

Honolulu City Lights is a song composed by Keola Beamer in the early 1970s. A cover was done by Richard and Karen Carpenter in 1978, but was not released until 1988 on single, and 1989 on CD.

The Carpenters' cover

According to the official website, Richard and Karen were vacationing in Hawaii in 1977 when they heard Keola Beamer's "Honolulu City Lights." They liked it, and wanted to record it, and recorded it at the same session as "Slow Dance". They didn't release it commercial until five years after Karen Carpenter's death. They finally released it in 1988, a year before it was released on the "Lovelines" CD.

Music video

There was a music video shot for this song.

Lyrics

Looking out upon the city lights and the stars above the ocean,Got my ticket for the midnight plane and its not easy to leave again.Took my clothes and put them in the bag; try not to think just yet ofleaving.Looking out into the city night and it's not easy to leave again.

(Chorus)Each time Honolulu city lights stir up memories in me.Each night Honolulu city lights bring me back again.You are my island sunset; you are my island dream.

Put on my shoes and light a cigarette.Wonderin' which of my friends will be hereStandin' with their leis around my neck.It's not easy to leave again.

(Chorus)Each time Honolulu city lights stir up memories in me.Each night Honolulu city lights bring me back again.Bring me back again.


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