"Hawaiian Wedding Song" is a 1926 love song written by Charles E. King for his operetta, Prince of Hawaii. It was originally entitled "Ke Kali Nei Au" - Hawaiian for "Waiting Here for You". In 1958, Al Hoffman and Dick Manning translated the original Hawaiian words into English, christening the song as the "Hawaiian Wedding Song".
The biggest hit version of the song in the United States was recorded by Andy Williams and released as a single in 1959, and went to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. On the UK Singles Chart, the biggest hit version was Julie Rogers's 1965 single, which went to #31. Another version of the song was sung by Elvis Presley in the 1961 film, Blue Hawaii. In 1964, the song was covered by Hong Kong female singer Kong Ling, on her LP album This World We Live In with Diamond Records (now under UMG).
Famous quotes containing the words wedding and/or song:
“You are the food,
you are the tooth, you are the husband,
light, light, sieving through the screen
whereon I bounce my big body at you
like shoes after a wedding car.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”
—Billie Holiday (1915–1959)