Talk:Aloha ʻOe

message: Aloha kākou! This article conflicts itself.  The last sentence of the first paragraph states that this song was written in 1877.  The first sentence of the second paragraph states that it was written in 1878.
I have researched this online and find both dates.  Short of going down to Bishop Museum to take a look at the original document (the Hawaiian hall is still being remodeled), I think we should come to a consensus and say 1878 as mentioned at the Huapala.org website.  This site is accurate in it's translations of mele 'o Hawai'i.  Anyone disagree?  Kanaka maoli i puuwai 04:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What year was this song written? 

message: Who else thinks the section on the Croatian song is a bit out of proportion to the rest of the song? I am entirely in favor of mentioning the song, and putting the song info in a separate page - but what is the purpose of having the full Croatian lyrics of a song in THIS page when the Hawaiian lyrics are not there?
I suggest moving the content relating to Sidi Mara to their own page, and leaving the paragraph indicating likely provenance. --mililani
:Without any sources, it appears to be original research and I'm deleting it accordingly. Angr 17:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the Song 

message: I think it would be prudent to include the song in its original (and infinitely more famous) Hawaiian language form. I'm sort of new to anything extensive (I've only really done text edits). How would I go about doing something like this? Valley2city 20:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song in the Hawaiian Language 

message: The article as written suggests that the the Hawaiian natives had no music of their own prior to the arrival of Berger. I find that hard to believe. Could the poster clarify? Jackbox1971 04:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is, of course, preposterous. I've removed it as completely unsourced original research, if not a simple hoax. —Angr 11:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hawaiian Music

message: This song has been sung or performed in TV and movies before. The most easily remembered occurance of this is in the first Lilo and Stitch film. If you know of any others, we may have enough to start a new section of the article.     -dogman15 04:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in popular culture 

message: Could someone please double-check this? The text appears to copy the text of the referred website.  rpyle731talk 06:02, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep.  Anonymous user  copied the source attributed to J. Wong.  Good catch. I'll revert to an earlier version. —Viriditas | Talk 09:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio? 

message: I for one, and a cursory Google search seems to confirm that I wasn't the only one, thought for the longest time this was "Alo Hawaii". A mondegreen, for sure, but it's harmless to redirect anyone who might be searching for that. 181.115.9.103 (talk) 22:59, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: – Thjarkur (talk) 18:26, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects for incorrect titles? 

message: I've seen around the internet that this song, while perhaps not composed for this purpose, was hugely important in symbolising Hawaii's loss of its independence as the US stepped up their efforts to colonise and ultimately take control of it. Is this true? And if so, perhaps someone who knows more about it than me should write about it in this article. Or even if not true, perhaps the misconception should be written about. --Muzer (talk) 22:22, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use to symbolise Hawaii's loss of independence? 

message: Where does "tomago" come from?  What's the original source?
2600:1700:4640:43D0:8124:6353:1EEA:E081 (talk) 01:24, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tomago 

message: It's worth noting that since the early 1900s the tune ALOHA 'OE (sorry for the ordinary apostrophe; hymnals often just give ALOHA OE) has been used as the tune for a number of Christian hymns. Sometimes (as on the  tune authority page in the Hymnary.org database Queen Lili'uokalani is credited as the composer; in other cases (as with this arrangement by Southern Baptist hymnal editor B. B. McKinney it is said to be an anonymous Hawaiian folk song. At least twelve different hymns have been written or set to the tune in several languages, the most frequently reprinted being Thoro Harris's He's coming soon and the aforementioned "He lives on High by B. B. McKinney. Queen Liliuokalani did write hymns, herself, but as far as I know never used this tune for one. --Haruo (talk) 01:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of tune in hymnwriting