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Hawaiian wedding song

Postby colonel snow » Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:06 pm

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Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Mister Moon » Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:20 pm

If I recall correctly, the Andy Williams version featured Anita Wood on background vocals.

There's a good connection.


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Hawaiian wedding song

Postby colonel snow » Tue May 08, 2018 5:43 pm

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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Mister Moon » Tue May 08, 2018 7:27 pm

Thanks, colonel. That's interesting.

By the way, I believe Andy Williams' version features Anita Wood on backing vocals.


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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby colonel snow » Tue May 08, 2018 7:55 pm

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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Mister Moon » Tue May 08, 2018 8:24 pm

colonel snow wrote:
Mister Moon wrote:Thanks, colonel. That's interesting.

By the way, I believe Andy Williams' version features Anita Wood on backing vocals.


Her name is not mentioned on the label. On other releases / labels in UK - Australia - Canada her name isn't mentioned too.


I'm no Anita Wood expert, but I guess that was because she may still have been under contract to ABC-Paramount at the time - that was the label that released her first record in the summer of 1958, an AWFUL version of "Crying In The Chapel".

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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Colin B » Fri May 11, 2018 7:35 am

Thanks for finding that version with English lyrics that precedes the Andy Williams one, colonel snow !


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I bet Frank Ross [the third member of the Mary Kaye Trio] was miffed that he never got a name-check on the label !
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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Colin B » Fri May 03, 2019 7:23 pm

Mister Moon wrote:...By the way, I believe Andy Williams' version features Anita Wood on backing vocals.
colonel snow wrote:Her name is not mentioned on the label.
On other releases / labels in UK - Australia - Canada her name isn't mentioned too.


Surely it isn't common practice to mention the names of backing singers on the label ?
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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Ed A » Fri May 03, 2019 9:46 pm

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Hawaiian Wedding Song" originally entitled; "Ke Kali Nei Aua" (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". The song was recorded by Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and Elvis Presley. In the US, Williams' version was released as a single in 1958 and reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 27 on the R&B chart. In the UK, a single version by Julie Rogers went to number 31 on the UK Singles Chart in 1965. Elvis Presley sang another version of the song in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii. In 1964, Hong Kong female singer Kong Ling covered the song on her LP album This World We Live In with Diamond Records (now under UMG). An earlier English version of "Ke Kali Nei Au" was by Bing Crosby and it was titled "Here Ends the Rainbow" with Johnny Burke supplying the lyrics. This was recorded on February 9, 1951 with Betty Mullin and Lyn Murray and His Orchestra.


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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

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Re: Hawaiian wedding song

Postby Ed A » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:29 am

I received an email today from Bob Sigall. Bob writes a weekly column called "Rear View Mirror" in the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Bob is referring to a little quiz on Hawaiian culture that he wrote last week.

One of the questions (#19) was about the Hawaiian Wedding Song, (one of my mother’s favorites).

Mike Green said, “Just one thought on #19 - Ke Kali Nei Au would usually be translated as something like "I am waiting" (for you, presumably).

"Auhea wali no" is a more wistful "Where are you" in poetic Hawaiian - not an outright "Where you stay?".

My source was a 1956 article by Webley Edwards. In it, King says he never called it the Hawaiian Wedding Song, and the title Ke Kali Nei Au means “where are you?” or “Waiting for thee.”

The Hawaiian Wedding Song title came along years later, because it was so often sung at weddings.

King said he didn’t mind that people insisted on calling it the Hawaiian Wedding Song, but he always asserted it was actually the call of one lover to another.

King wrote it while convalescing in a Honolulu hospital in 1926, for his operetta, Prince of Hawaii. His friends joked he should go back into the hospital so he could write another song like it.


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