Lyr Add: Hale'iwa Hula

16 Apr 06 - 02:08 PM (#1719580)
Subject: Lyr Add: Hale'iwa Hula
From: chico

  (Bb C#° Cm7 C#° | Bb C#° Bb/A/Bb/G7)
  
   G7              C7 
  Hanohano nô Hale'iwa                        Distinguished is Hale'iwa [w=v voiced fricative]
   F7         Bb  C#° (Bb/A/Ab/G7) (x2)
  Ku'u home aloha                                My beloved home
   
  U'i nô 'o Pua'ena                        Beautiful is Pua'ena and
  Ka 'ehukai hâwanawana                        The whispering spray of the sea
  
  Kilakila 'o Hale'iwa                        Majestic is Hale'iwa
  Ka hale kipa o nâ malihini                The inn for visitors
          
  Ha'ina 'ia mai ka puana                        Tell the refrain
  Hanohano 'o Hale'iwa                         Distinguished is Hale'iwa
  
  [1940's style chorus]
  Mopping Hale'iwa at the sugar bar
  We dance to music underneath the stars
  By the old plantation in my lua town
  Pua'ena is where we fool around
  
   

[Source Recorded by Amy Hânaiali'i Gilliom, composer Jennie Woodd's grandaughter, Copyright 1934, 1963 Miller Music Corp - Pua'ena is the point at Waialua Bay, the home of Pele before she went to Kilauea on the big island. Verse 3 - August 1899, Hale'iwa Hotel opened with a dinner party for invited dignitaries and selected members of the press. Guests were shuttled to the train station in Iwilei, boarded a private VIP railroad car and taken by train to the new hotel on the North Shore. Situated on a sloping bank at the mouth of the Anahulu River, a Japanese style bridge arched over the pond at the river's edge. Each room decorated uniquely, no two alike, included a wash closet and modern conveniences such as a telephone. The hotel was regarded as equal to or even finer than the best hotels in Europe and the mainland. Curtis Iaukea, who first managed the hotel from 1899-1909, was credited with popularizing the vacation spot. In the early 1920's, the package would include the train ride from Honolulu to Haleiwa and back, overnight accommodations, and use of all facilities for $10.00. Business declined and by 1928, the hotel was no longer profitable. There were attempts to run it as a private club and during World War II it was an officer's club, but the hotel never reached her previous glory. By the late 1940's, the hotel was vacant and finally demolished in 1952.]

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17 Apr 06 - 01:30 AM (#1719966)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Hale'iwa Hula
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

In addition to being a hapa haole composer, Johnny (John Avery) Noble composed many traditional Hawaiian hula songs. Twenty-five, including "Hale'iwa Hula," written in collaboration with Jennie Wood, were published by Noble in 1934.
In 1928, Noble, at the request of Brunswick, directed the recording of 110 Hawaiian songs. Many others were made with his Moana orchestra.
Jennie Wood was a featured dancer in the famous Hawaiian Room in the Lexington Hotel, New York. This venue grossed over a million dollars in its first two years of operation (1937-1939). Ray Kinney and his orchestra were a mainstay, and many Hawaiian entertainers were featured there.

Hale'iwa Beach Park, about 3/4 mile northeast of the town, is about the only safe place for the average person to swim along the entire North Shore during winter, according to many locals. Waialua survives as a small rural town, its only prominent structure a rusty sugar mill.
As Chico says, there was a well-known resort at the terminus in Waialua of a sugar-train railway (long gone), but the closest first class hotel now is at Turtle Bay, at the northernmost point of the Island. The historic Haleiwa Theater also was torn down.

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