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  2. My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    "My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi", written by Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, and Johnny Noble in Hawaii in 1933, is a Hawaiian song in the Hawaiian musical style known as hapa haole. One of the earliest recordings by Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra reached number one on the charts in 1934. [ 1 ]

  3. Hapa haole music - Wikipedia

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    The popularity of one hapa haole artist, Johnny Noble, led to him recording 110 Hawaiian songs with Brunswick Records, a mainland label, in 1928. [ 10 ] Novelty songs written by non-Hawaiians, such as songwriters from Tin Pan Alley , formed a considerable amount of hapa haole songs produced following its initial explosion in popularity.

  4. Haole - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...

  5. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui in Waikiki, 2012. Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used for centuries, so ...

  6. The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man ...

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    By 1916, records of Hawaiian steel guitar were outselling every other music genre in the nation. Hawaiian music started cropping up in Hollywood soundtracks and L.A. clubs, and was further ...

  7. Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Alexander Anderson (often given as R. Alex Anderson) (June 6, 1894 – May 30, 1995) [1] was an American composer who was born and lived most of his life in Hawaii, writing many popular Hawaiian songs within the hapa haole genre including "Lovely Hula Hands" (1940) and "Mele Kalikimaka" (1949), the latter the best known Hawaiian Christmas song.

  8. Pearly Shells - Wikipedia

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    Nora Aunor (1971) on Blue Hawaii [3] Slim Whitman (1977), recorded it on his Home on the Range album; The Melbourne Ukulele Kollective [4] John Ford's 1963 movie Donovan's Reef utilized the song as its opening theme as well as in later scenes. In the 1970s, C&H Sugar used the melody for their jingle

  9. 1-year-old performing the haka with his dad goes viral on TikTok

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    The little one begins the video by seemingly starting to perform a few moves for his dad, who then joins in for a haka performance in the family's kitchen.