What was the inspiration behind the "Aloha 'Oe" song, that was popularized by a Hawaiian soprano singer?
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Nani Alapai Nani Alapai (December 1, 1874 – October 1, 1928) was a Hawaiian soprano singer of Native Hawaiian and Filipino descent during the early 1900s. A leading "prima donna" of the early era of Hawaiian music, she traveled and performed with the Royal Hawaiian Band and popularized the song "Aloha ʻOe" by Queen Liliʻuokalani in the United States.
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Aloha ʻOe "Aloha ʻOe" ("Farewell to Thee") is Liliʻuokalani's most famous song and a common cultural symbol for Hawaii. The story of the origin of the song has several variations. They all have in common that the song was inspired by a notable farewell embrace given by Colonel James Harbottle Boyd during a horseback trip taken by Princess Liliʻuokalani in 1877 or 1878 to the Boyd ranch in Maunawili on the windward side of Oʻahu, and that the members of the party hummed the tune on the way back to Honolulu. Different versions tell of alternate recipients of the embrace — either Liliʻuokalani's sister Princess Likelike Cleghorn or a young lady at the ranch. According to the most familiar version of the story:
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Carolyn Long Carolyn Long (June 13, 1915 - October 3, 1991) was an American operatic soprano and concert singer.
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Hana Shimozumi Hana Shimozumi (October 22, 1893 — July 12, 1978), sometimes written as Hannah Shimozumi, and later Hana Shimozumi Iki, was an American singer, billed as "the Japanese Nightingale", best known for playing Yum Yum in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" in 1919.
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Favorite Hawaiian Songs 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".
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Piʻikea Piʻikea (Hawaiian language: "piʻi" = "to ascend", "ke" = "the", "ea" = "life"; "the life ascends") was a High Chiefess, a Princess of Maui and Queen consort of Hawaii. She was born ca. 1626.
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Bill Aliʻiloa Lincoln Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln is a Hawaiian hula singer and musician, noted for his soaring falsetto. He was married to Napua Stevens, another noted hula performer and entertainer. Like Stevens, he recorded under the Bell Records label with his group "Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln and His Hawaiians", hits such as "Ke Ala Nui Liliha", "Ku'u Lei Liliha", "Moku O Keawe", "My Yellow Ginger Lei" (1955) and "Mauna Loa". John Kameaaloha Almeida was influential in launching Lincoln's career. He released a notable compilation of hits from the 1930s-1970s named "Hawaii's Falsetto Poet" in 2008, a name he was nicknamed.There is a Bill Lincoln Record Shop which exists in Hawaii on 304 Lewers Street in Honolulu. The club where he performed is named "La Hula Rhumba", located at 744 Lunalilo Street also in the Hawaiian capital.
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Pineapple Princess "Pineapple Princess" is an American pop song made popular by Annette Funicello in the summer of 1960. It appeared on the LP album, "Hawaiiannette". "Pineapple Princess" was written by The Sherman Brothers. As a single, it reached the Top 15 in the three major US trade publications (Billboard, Cash Box, and Music Vendor).
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Hiski Salomaa Hiski Salomaa (born Hiskias Möttö; May 17, 1891 – July 7, 1957) was a Finnish-American singer and songwriter.
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Kuh Ledesma Maria Socorro Ledesma (born March 16, 1955), better known as Kuh Ledesma, is a Filipino pop and jazz singer, actress, (painter) model and fashion designer. She is known in the Philippines as the 'Pop Diva' and wants herself to be remembered as 'The Renaissance Woman' according to her in her interview on "Tonight with Boy Abunda".
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Marie Te Hapuku Marie Te Hapuku (formerly Marie-Adele McArthur) is an operatic soprano from Gisborne, New Zealand and is a direct descendant of the Māori chief, Te Hapuku.
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Anita O'Day Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton; October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money.
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Kathy Barr Kathy Barr (born Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia; June 4, 1929 – June 21, 2008) was an American vocalist who performed and recorded popular music, jazz, musical theater, and operettas. Barr flourished during the 1950s in nightclubs, television, and radio. Barr was acclaimed for her soprano range and ability to sing pop, jazz, and classical. According to print media, she was a sexy, green-eyed, flaming redhead.
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List of Hawaiian composers 1. King Lunalilo (wrote lyrics to "E Ola Ke Alii Ke Akua")
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Martina Arroyo Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1936) is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success, and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.
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Emelie Hooke Emelie Hooke (24 September 19129 April 1974) was an Australian soprano who was notable in opera, oratorio and concert, and sang in Australia, England, Europe and South Africa.
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Kūkaniloko Kūkaniloko was an ancient Hawaiian noble lady, who became the Chiefess (Hawaiian: "Aliʻi Wahine") of the island of Oahu, and had a long reign.
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Pearly Shells Pearly Shells ("Pupu A `O `Ewa") is an old Hawaiian song. The English lyrics were written by Webley Edwards and Leon Pober. Several people have performed it, including:
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Mounira El Mahdeya Mounira El Mahdeya (born Zakiyya Hassan) (Arabic: منيرة المهدية‎ ‎ ) was an Egyptian singer born in 1885 in Alexandria; she died in 1965. The singer, better known under the nickname of "Sultana of the song" or "The Sultana", was considered to be the leading Egyptian singer between the two wars.
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Deane Waretini Deane Waretini (born c. 1946) is a musician from New Zealand. He had a #1 chart hit in 1981 with the song "The Bridge", a Māori language song set to Nini Rosso's tune "Il Silenzio". He is also the son of a historically significant Maori baritone singer and recording artist. In later years, Waretini was featured in a New Zealand television production that was built around him.
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Olive Kline Olive Kline (sometimes given as Olive Kline Hulihan or the pseudonym Alice Green) (July 7, 1887 – July 29, 1976) was an American soprano who is chiefly remembered for her recordings for Victor Records from 1912 to 1935. She recorded a wide range of music from operas and Broadways musicals to sacred music, popular music, and songs from the classical concert repertoire.
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Manhattan (song) "Manhattan" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. It has been performed by the Supremes, Lee Wiley, Oscar Peterson, Blossom Dearie, Tony Martin, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, among many others. It is often known as "We'll Have Manhattan" based on the opening line. The music was written by Richard Rodgers and the words by Lorenz Hart for the 1925 revue "Garrick Gaieties". It was introduced by Sterling Holloway (later the voice of the animated Winnie the Pooh) and June Cochran.