The original version was recorded on 1 july 1904 by Quartette of Hawaiian girls from Kawaiko Seminary (Victor 15038).
Other versions:
01-07-04 - W.S. Ellis & Ellis Brothers Glee Club Quartet (Victor 15045);
01-07-04 - Ellis Brothers Glee Club Quartet (Victor 15052);
00-03-05 - Royal Hawaiian Troubadours (ARC 30398);
22-03-05 - Pryor's Band (Victor 4401);
11-04-13 - Hawaiian Quintette (Victor 18577 / Victor 65348);
26-04-13 - Toots Paka Hawaiians (Edison Blue Amberol 1812);
00-06-14 - Toots Paka Hawaiian Company (Columbia A 1616);
06-11-14 - Toots Paka Hawaiian Troupe (Victor 18583 / Victor 67084);
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Re: Aloha oe
Toots seemed to like it so much that I think we should hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydZTxu4X3IY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydZTxu4X3IY
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Re: Aloha oe
‘Aloha ‘Oe: Settler Colonial Nostalgia and the Genealogy of a Love Song’
American Indian culture and research journal 37(2):35-52 · June 2013.
Abstract:
Hawai‘i’s most renowned song, “Aloha ‘Oe,” was composed by Queen Lili‘uokalani before she was deposed by missionary-settlers. Circulating in the cultural imaginary since the late nineteenth century, “Aloha ‘Oe” was transformed from a love song into a dirge that erased the sovereign rights of Lili‘uokalani in and beyond Hawai‘i. This article theorizes “settler colonial nostalgia” as a gendered material and symbolic process of effecting indigenous displacement and expropriation. Providing an alibi for settler society and its beneficiaries, performances of the song center settler subjects as nostalgic witnesses to, rather than participants in, the loss of the Hawaiian kingdom. Yet the politics of melancholy prove unstable, as Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and islander musicians continue to resignify “Aloha ‘Oe” as performances that sustain Native counter-hegemonies.
Full article available as PDF:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _Love_Song
American Indian culture and research journal 37(2):35-52 · June 2013.
Abstract:
Hawai‘i’s most renowned song, “Aloha ‘Oe,” was composed by Queen Lili‘uokalani before she was deposed by missionary-settlers. Circulating in the cultural imaginary since the late nineteenth century, “Aloha ‘Oe” was transformed from a love song into a dirge that erased the sovereign rights of Lili‘uokalani in and beyond Hawai‘i. This article theorizes “settler colonial nostalgia” as a gendered material and symbolic process of effecting indigenous displacement and expropriation. Providing an alibi for settler society and its beneficiaries, performances of the song center settler subjects as nostalgic witnesses to, rather than participants in, the loss of the Hawaiian kingdom. Yet the politics of melancholy prove unstable, as Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and islander musicians continue to resignify “Aloha ‘Oe” as performances that sustain Native counter-hegemonies.
Full article available as PDF:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _Love_Song
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Re: Aloha oe
I have accidentally stumbled upon an obscure recording of this song that seems to originate from the 40s, but I don't have an exact date for it.
It's performed by Lani McIntire, a legendary Honolulu-born musician who enjoyed considerable popularity from the mid 30s until his death in 1951. He even recorded a few songs accompanying the great Jimmie Rodgers.
It looks like McIntire recorded the song more than once, because if you look at YouTube there's another, better sounding, version of the song by him. This one is also shorter, but it sounds more haunting and appealing to me.
I have also found an image of a 1944 record label that could, or could not, belong to the record I'm posting.
It's performed by Lani McIntire, a legendary Honolulu-born musician who enjoyed considerable popularity from the mid 30s until his death in 1951. He even recorded a few songs accompanying the great Jimmie Rodgers.
It looks like McIntire recorded the song more than once, because if you look at YouTube there's another, better sounding, version of the song by him. This one is also shorter, but it sounds more haunting and appealing to me.
I have also found an image of a 1944 record label that could, or could not, belong to the record I'm posting.
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Re: Aloha oe
Another cool variation on this theme, this one released by Atlantic in the summer of 1958 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r05nTFPpKiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r05nTFPpKiQ
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