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词条 Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?
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Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? is a song written in 1915, by Jean Schwartz, Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie.

The song refers to one of Marconi's then-new radio-oriented inventions, the Wireless Telephone, which became publicly available that year. It was initially very expensive to use, and this song underscores the caller's desperation to talk to his or her sweetheart in Hawaii, from his or her home in New York City.

The song was recorded in 1915 by Billy Murray, backed with an instrumental version by Pietro Deiro on Side B; and later that year by Broadway star Nora Bayes.

This was Murray's version of the chorus. It was easily adaptable for a woman to sing with just a couple of word changes:

Captain Jinks, one night on Broadway, all alone,

Read the news about the wireless telephone.

Pretty soon his thoughts began to stray,

over seven thousand miles away.

He went through a whole month's pay just to phone and say:

Hello, Hawaii, how are you?

Let me talk to Honolulu Lou

To ask her this

Give me a kiss

Give me a kiss

By wireless

Please state

I can't wait

To hear her reply

For I had to pawn

Ev'ry little thing I own

To talk from New York

Through the wireless telephone

Oh, Hello, Hawaii, how are you?

Good-bye!

External links

  • [https://archive.org/download/BillyMurray_part2/BillyMurray-HelloHawaiiHowAreYou.mp3 Murray's recording]
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4 : 1915 songs|Songs with lyrics by Bert Kalmar|Songs with music by Jean Schwartz|Songs written by Edgar Leslie

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