Video created and submitted by Tom Zink:
This song, “Liki My Kimok,” made its way from the Marshall Islands to the northern Marianas and became a favorite of the Saipan Carolinian community, especially among the singers of the Oleai Civic Youth Organization (OCYO). Listen as the rhythmic energy of the song spreads to the audience of students gathered on the front steps of the Trust Territory Nursing School where students from all across Micronesia lived and studied. They first start clapping along, then some begin dancing, others hooting, whistling and cheering. By the end, the song dissolves into applause and laughter.
The OCYO was started in the late 1960s at San Jose Church in Oleai village on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. One of its many activities was the Christmas caroling bus tour of the island on the Friday before Christmas. In December 1968, more than two dozen youth, ranging in age from early teens to late-20s, piled onto the bus for a singing caravan around the island. The music never stopped-on the bus and on their many 15-minute stops: Mount Carmel School residence hall, the Coast Guard station, the Peace Corps Christmas party, the hospital, the Royal Taga Hotel, the Trust Territory High Commissioner’s house, and the Nursing School.
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