Hawaiian Music
Does Hawaiian music melt your heart or set your feet
to dancing... moving? Do the soft sounds of Hawaiian music slack-key guitars and ukuleles,
or the rhythmic pounding of native pa'u drums, remind you of Hawaii's fragrant
plumeria and ginger leis, the shimmering surf, the royal blue sky with
its green flash sunsets and the warm feeling of Aloha? Couldn't happen
without Hawaii Calls and Hula Records ! Review our collection of traditional and contemporary
Hawaiian music. Listen to excerpts from Memories of Hawaii Calls to Hula!
Hula! Hula! to Drum Beats of the Pacific. This magnificent Hawaiian and
hula music helps us recall memories of crystal clear turquoise waters,
tasty coconuts, Niihau shells, kapa cloth, flowers of every hue, feather
leis, tapa sticks, ti leaves, and brilliant ehu (red) sunrises and sunsets
- even our famous wallpaper paste, poi: Hawaii has it all!
Authentic Traditional & Contemporary Hawaiian Music,
Hula Music & Music of the Pacific
Hawaii Calls, Inc. traces its origin to July 3, 1935 when the first
Hawaii
Calls radio program was broadcast from the Moana Hotel on the beach
at Waikiki. Hawaii Calls, created and hosted by Island radio pioneer
Webley Edwards, successfully showcased top Hawaiian music and artists.
In its heyday, the show was heard on over 600 radio stations in North America
and scores of other stations in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South America
Africa and on Armed Forces Radio throughout the world.
Over the years, Hawaii Calls made a number of Hawaiian songs world famous,
including Lovely Hula Hands, Beyond the Reef, Little Brown Gal and The
Hawaiian Wedding Song. Sweet Leilani, which made its debut in a 1936
broadcast, became the only Hawaiian song to win an Academy Award after
Bing Crosby's powerful but gentle rendition from the movie Waikiki Wedding
thrilled people throughout the world. Hawaiian Music
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