To You Sweetheart, Aloha category for Best Vocal Performance, Male. The winner was Perry Como for "Catch a Falling Star". "Ka-Lu-A" originated in the 1921 musical "Good Morning, Dearie" and reached number three on the charts the following year as a duet between Elsie Baker (who was credited as Edna Brown) and Elliott Shaw. "Aloha ‘Oe (Farewell to Thee)" charted for one week at number 10 as an instrumental recording by Ferera's Hawaiian Instrumental Quintet in 1924. "Song of the Islands" first charted as an instrumental recording by Wayne King & His Orchestra that peaked at number 12 in 1930, and then as a
Aloha Dalire Aloha Dalire Fabianne Pomaialoha Wong Dalire, known professionally as Aloha Dalire, (June 22, 1950 – August 6, 2014) was an American Hawaiian kumu hula, or master hula teacher. She won the first Miss Aloha Hula as Aloha Wong, in 1971, the same year that the Merrie Monarch Festival was established. The Miss Aloha Hula title is hula's top solo wahine (women's) honor. Dalire Wong was born on June 22, 1950, in Honolulu and raised in Kaneohe, Hawaii. She began studying hula dancing when she was just three years old under kumu hula master, George Na'ope. Her mother, Mary Keolalaulani McCabe