 Two other Hawaii entertainers, Lani Kai and Alex Kaeck, wrote and recorded a song in his honor, "A Man Called Hawaii (The Legend Of Kui Lee)," that was released as a 45-rpm single by Palm Records (Palm P-1030).A 30-second clip may be heard from the Hawaiian Music Collection, held by the University of Hawaii's Hawaiian Music Collection.Kui Lee had been battling lymph gland cancer when he died at the Guadalajara Hospital in Tijuana on December 3, 1966, at the age of 34.