Pineapple Princess!

[mbarker]

A few years ago, Mitsuko and I visited Hawaii. I've forgotten which trip it was, but in the process, we took the Dole plantation tour. Somewhere during that, they played a rock-and-roll song "Pineapple Princess" which the commentary suggested we might remember. We both shook our heads and shrugged.

And then one of the little public television "remember when" pieces here in Japan played it. They dated it as 1970. We looked at each other and said, "There it is! Pineapple Princess is a real song!"

I guess that's one of the advantages of the digital era -- sounds and sights have a reasonable chance of being preserved and popping up again and again, here and there. Although that's also the wonder that brings us Gilligan's Island and I Love Lucy and various other re-re-runs, isn't it? I guess there's a price to pay for the wonder, isn't there?

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[dialyn.livejournal.com]

My impression is that the problem with the digital age is that the formats are changing so rapidly that it is very likely we will lose some of our history because it won't be preserved. Maybe that's not important, but I know it is a real fiscal issue for libraries and archivists. We've already lost quite a bit to people saving in one format that became obsolete ten years later. The much disparaged paper book has a longer life span.