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Hawaiian Wedding Song is not the wedding song
Will the real Hawaiian wedding song please stand up?
If you get married three times, you can have the Hawaiian wedding song sung each time and it can be different each time.
That's because there are two tunes but three versions. Let's start with Charles King, the guy who wrote "Lei Aloha, Lei Makame (Forevermore)," which is called the "traditional" wedding song.
But a decade earlier he wrote "Ke Kali Nei Au (Waiting Here for You)," and it is definitely the more popular wedding song.
Here's a twist. King wrote both songs as love songs, not as wedding songs.
Anyway, years later the popular "Ke Kali Nei Au" tune was given English words and renamed as the "Hawaiian Wedding Song." It refers to bells ringing and "our wedding day." This song became a big hit for singer Andy Williams, and Elvis Presley sang it in the movie "Blue Hawaii."
So there you have it -- three Hawaiian wedding songs. Only one of them is about a wedding, and one is called traditional even though it wasn't the first.
Will the real Hawaiian wedding song please stand up?
If you get married three times, you can have the Hawaiian wedding song sung each time and it can be different each time.
That's because there are two tunes but three versions. Let's start with Charles King, the guy who wrote "Lei Aloha, Lei Makame (Forevermore)," which is called the "traditional" wedding song.
But a decade earlier he wrote "Ke Kali Nei Au (Waiting Here for You)," and it is definitely the more popular wedding song.
Here's a twist. King wrote both songs as love songs, not as wedding songs.
Anyway, years later the popular "Ke Kali Nei Au" tune was given English words and renamed as the "Hawaiian Wedding Song." It refers to bells ringing and "our wedding day." This song became a big hit for singer Andy Williams, and Elvis Presley sang it in the movie "Blue Hawaii."
So there you have it -- three Hawaiian wedding songs. Only one of them is about a wedding, and one is called traditional even though it wasn't the first.
