Charles E. King(1874-1950)
- Bande-son
Composer ("Song of the Islands" ["Na Lei O Hawaii"]), author,
legislator and educator, educated in public schools and at the Oswego
State Normal School. He was a leader in musical education in Hawaii and
an authority on Hawaiian songs, and taught in the Kamahemeha Schools
and in public schools. Also, he was an inspector of schools for the
Territory of Hawaii, and conductor of the Royal Hawaiian Band. In the
early 1920s, he served as a senator on the Hawaiian legislature.
Joining ASCAP in 1940, his other popular-song compositions include "Imi
Au Ia Oe" ["Serenade"], "Beautiful Kahana", "Ke Kali Nei Au" ["Hawaiian
Wedding Song"], "Me Nei?" ["How About Me?"], "Paauau Waltz", "Dreaming,
Aloha, of You", "Lei Aloha, Lei Makamae", "Forevermore", and "Home in
Hawaii".
