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Hawaiian Lullaby is a 13-track collaborative album featuring musicians of Hawaii. On the album they share their favorite children lullabies and other favorites in both the English and Hawaiian languages. "You Are My Sunshine" was a song Kimie Miner would always sing to her baby while pregnant and even after giving birth.
Victoria Keali‘ika‘apunihonua I‘i Rodrigues (November 14, 1912 – July 22, 1987) was a Hawaiian musician and entertainer. Born into a Native Hawaiian family with strong musical roots, Rodrigues preserved and shared traditional Hawaiian songs that might otherwise have been lost, including "Hawai‘i Aloha," "Kaulana Nā Pua," and "Paoakalani".
By 1928 Nawahi had begun recording for multiple record labels, including Columbia, Victor, Q.R.S. and Grey Gull, under multiple names (including Red Devils, Q.R.S. Boys, Slim Smith, Hawaiian Beach Combers, Georgia Jumpers, Four Hawaiian Guitars and King Nawahi & the International Cowboys), with bandmates that included soon to be Sons of the ...
A Hawaiian hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean and affects the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the 2015 season; rarely do these storms actually affect Hawaii. Tropical cyclone ...
"Hawaiian Wedding Song" originally entitled; "Ke Kali Nei Au" (Waiting There for Thee) was adapted from a 1926 love song written by Charles E. King and originally recorded by Helen Desha Beamer in its original (Hawaiian language) version but re-written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and renamed as "Hawaiian Wedding Song".
Bobby Holcomb was born in 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of an African-American father from Georgia, and a Hawaiian-Portuguese mother.. In the early 1970s, he travelled extensively through Asia, Europe and the Americas.
A traditional slack-key guitar, which was prominent in the 1920s had an important roles.Hence the 1930 arrangement of the traditional "Ka Mele Oku'u Pu'wai" (originally played by guitarist Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Trio) was selected to be used in the soundtrack, while the modern day re-arrangements had been done by modern slack-key guitarist Gabby Pahinui. [2]
Each nation, he said, but ours had its statement of patriotism and love of country in its own music; but we were using for that purpose on state occasions the time-honored British anthem, "God save the Queen." [2] An advertisement for the He Mele Lahui Hawaii that appeared in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser on June 8, 1867