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Aloha Oe. Aloha Oe by William Smith and Walter K. Kolomoku, 1915. Problems playing this file? See media help. " Aloha ʻOe " ("Farewell to Thee") is a Hawaiian folk song written c. 1878 by Liliʻuokalani, who was then Princess of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is her most famous song and is a common cultural symbol for Hawaii .
Johnny Noble. " 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]
Vickie Iʻi Rodrigues. 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 ...
Adopted. 1866. Relinquished. 1876. Lydia Kamakaʻeha in 1865. " He Mele Lāhui Hawaiʻi " ("Song of the Hawaiian Nation") was composed by Liliʻuokalani in November 1866 at the request of Kamehameha V, who wanted a national anthem to replace the British anthem "God Save the King". It replaced Lunalilo's composition "E Ola Ke Aliʻi Ke Akua" as ...
Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī. " Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī " ("Hawaii's Own") is the regional anthem of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It previously served as the national anthem of the independent Hawaiian Kingdom during the late 19th century, and has continued to be Hawaii's official anthem ever since annexation by the United States in 1898.
Songwriter (s) Robert Alex Anderson. " Mele Kalikimaka " ( pronounced [ˈmɛlɛ kəˌlitiˈmɐkə]) is a Hawaiian -themed Christmas song written in 1949 by R. Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase Mele Kalikimaka, meaning "Merry Christmas". [1] One of the earliest recordings of this song was by Bing Crosby and the ...
Kalani Peʻa (born April 13, 1983) is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter of Hawaiian music. [1] He released his first album, E Walea, in 2016, which won the 2017 Grammy award for Best Regional Roots Music Album. [2] Peʻa released his second album, No 'Ane'i, in 2018, which won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music ...
Volume Two''. (1946) Blue Skies. (w/ Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin) (1946) Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Volume Two is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1946 featuring songs that were sung in a Hawaiian-type genre. This was the fifth Hawaiian-themed album release for Crosby.