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Subject: Origins: 'Hawaiian Rainbows' From: GUEST,SarahZ Date: 17 Jul 08 - 07:47 PM Hi, I'm looking for info on a folk song called "Hawaiian Rainbows". It's mostly a kids' song, I think. Does anyone know who wrote it and how old it is? These are the lyrics: Hawaiian rainbows, white clouds roll by; You show your colors against the sky. Hawaiian rainbows, it seems to me, Reach from the mountains down to the sea. Here is a link to the music for the song: http://www.ukeland.com/pages/media/music/Hawaiian%20Rainbows.pdf Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Hawaiian Rainbows' From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 17 Jul 08 - 08:49 PM Often included in the Orff 'Schulwerk' method of teaching music to children, but I don't know if it was in Orff's original list. Often done with faux hula moves. Couldn't find composer, but it is post-1930. Words and 'hula' moves are on the net. |
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Hawaiian Rainbows' From: Kent Davis Date: 17 Jul 08 - 10:25 PM I learned it, with the "hula" motions, in music class at Edisto School, Cordova, South Carolina, in 4th grade, during the '69-'70 school year. I am not sure, but I think we learned it from an educational UHF television program, called "Time for Sounds", that we watched in the classroom. Kent |
Subject: RE: Origins: Hawaiian Rainbows From: GUEST,Laurie S. Date: 30 Mar 13 - 04:56 AM I learned the song and the moves in 1960 from a wonderful Hawaiian woman named Pansy. It was just one of a few songs and dances that I learned from her. Her children did it at their school in Hawaii before they moved to the mainland and she showed a movie of her youngest son (my age), doing it with his class when he was in kindergarden. I remember the words somewhat differently. Hawaiian rainbow up in the sky. Up in the mountains, where the clouds roll by. But I was such a young girl, maybe time took some of the words... It is a sweet and simple little song, just perfect to teach to the very young. Over the many years that have passed since I learned this song, I have never heard it sung by anyone else, nor has anyone ever heard of it. And now I have new lyrics! So I guess I will just keep on sharing it with the children I meet and teach! Peace, Laurie |
Subject: RE: Origins: Hawaiian Rainbows From: GUEST,ghie Date: 24 Jan 14 - 07:34 PM I was looking for this song too, 21 years ago when I was 9 years old we use to sing this in the province of the Philippines called Negros oriental at Caranoche elementary school. I love that song! I was thinking about remixing it. I wonder whos the composer of that song. :-D. And now its crazy cause I live in Oahu now, what a small world <3. Ghie |
Subject: ADD Version: Hawaiian Rainbows From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Apr 14 - 07:26 PM Here's a very annoying video of "Hawaiian Rainbow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABRF6UtVeM Here's a rather nice "seated hula" for children by Holly Nagel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMeXqr7zK4U Nagel's lyrics: Hawaiian rainbows, white clouds roll by; You share your colors across the sky. Hawaiian rainbows, it seems to me, You reach the mountain down to the sea. Alternate: http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=24172 (Tim Coons) Hawaiian rainbows white clouds roll by I see your colors against the sky Hawaiian rainbows it seems to me Come from the mountains down to the sea Also in: Silver Burdett Music, Centennial Edition Grade: 3 HAWAIIAN RAINBOWS Hawaiian rainbows, white clouds roll by You show your colors against the sky. Hawaiian rainbows, it seems to me, Reach from the mountain down to the sea. |
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