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5 unusual facts about Liz Damon's Orient Express


Liz Damon's Orient Express

The band was the house band at the Garden Bar at the Hilton Hawaiian Village for 18 months and recorded its first album, At the Garden Bar, Hilton Hawaiian Village in 1970.

Liz Damon's Orient Express released Burt Bacharach's "Loneliness Remembers (What Happiness Forgets)" for the Anthem label in late 1971, and it became their second and last US chart single, and the only charted version of that song, which was originally recorded by Dionne Warwick.

During the late 1970s, the band moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where they performed until their breakup in the mid-1980s.

Meri McPherson married Native Hawaiian activist and Kamehameha Schools classmate Kela M. Whifa after leaving the group in 1984.

White Whale Records

White Whale also released Nino Tempo & April Stevens's single "All Strung Out (On You)", a hit single by Rene y Rene titled "Lo Mucho Que Ti Quiero", an album by Liz Damon's Orient Express, and the only album by Texas band The Clique.



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