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Ahe Lau Makani, translated as The Soft Gentle Breeze [5] or There is a Zephyr, [2] is a famous waltz composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani around 1868. Probably written at Hamohamo, the Waikīkī home of the Queen, this song appeared in "He Buke Mele O Hawaii" under the title He ʻAla Nei E Māpu Mai Nei.
Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II (1854–1877), was a poet and composer of many Hawaiian mele (songs), [1] mostly love songs. He was the youngest of the Na Lani ʻEhā ("Royal Four"), which included his sisters Queen Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917) and Princess Miriam Likelike (1851–1887) and his brother King David Kalākaua (1836–1891).
Liliʻuokalani's memoir, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, stated: "In the early years of the reign of Kamehameha V. he brought to my notice the fact that the Hawaiian people had no national air. 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 ...
2004 Ka Nohona Pili Kai; Hawaiian Album of the Year. 1995 Kawaipunahele, 1996 Lei Haliʻa, 2000 Melelana, 2004 Keʻalaokamaile, 2014 Kawaiokalena; Haku Mele (new Hawaiian language composition; award to the composer ) Kuʻu Pua Maeʻole (to Keali'i Reichel) 1996, Nematoda (to Puakea Nogelmeier) 1998; Liner Notes Award. 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009
"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".
Parts of "Aloha 'Oe" resemble the song "The Lone Rock by the Sea" and the chorus of George Frederick Root's 1854 song "There's Music in the Air". [9] " The Lone Rock by the Sea" mentioned by Charles Wilson, was "The Rock Beside the Sea" published by Charles Crozat Converse in 1857, [10] and itself derives from a Croatian/Serbian folk song, "Sedi Mara na kamen studencu" (Mary is Sitting on a ...
A recent view of Diamond Head and Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii. Kaimana Hila is a Hawaiian song composed in 1916 by Charles E. King, assisted by Andrew Cummings, about Diamond Head, which can be viewed from Waikiki beach on Honolulu, Oahu Island.
Favorite Hawaiian Songs is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1940 featuring songs that were sung in a Hawaiian-type genre. This is the second album release of many of Crosby's Hawaiian hits such as: Blue Hawaii and Sweet Leilani .