PEARLY SHELLS
Created on 24/03/2012Latest update on 03/02/2025
Artist: Webley Edwards' Hawaii Calls Singers
Author: Webley Edwards/Leon Pober
Label: Capitol
Year: 1962
Feat. Haunani Kahalewai, Hawaii's first lady of song. Song about Pearl Harbor based upon Hawaii traditional Pupu A 'O 'Ewa.
Covers:
- 1963:
- 1964:
Haunani [for Decca]
- 1964:
Burl Ives [hit US]
- 1964:
- 1964:
Arthur Lyman [title track LP]
- 1964:
Billy Vaughn [idem]
- 1964:
Jack Jones [as First Night Of The Full Moon; credits for Hal David/Alfred Kealoha Perry]
- 1964:
- 1965:
Ronnie Tober [as Marijke Uit Krabbendijke]
- 1965:
Rex Gildo [as Wenn es sein muss, kann ich treu sein; hit GER]
- 1965:
- 1967:
- 1967:
- 1968:
Don Ho [as Pupu A O Ewa]
- 1968:
Song also featured in John Wayne film Donovan's Reef in '63.
