Talk:Nani Alapai

Popularizing Aloha ʻOe
I am questioning the claim in the sources that she was the first to sing Aloha ʻOe since the Royal Hawaiian Band first played it in 1883. The year 1911 of the Columbia Records recording seems to long of a wait unless she sang it before her 1911 with the Band. More sources needed.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 08:48, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Malcolm Rockwell's discography of 78 rpm Hawaiian recordings should help you resolve that issue. 66.162.249.170 (talk) 02:21, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect and Contradictory Information
Please note that the article as written contains incorrect and contradictory information. The second edition of Hawaiian Music and Musicians, published by Mutual Publishing (Honolulu HI, 2012) cites the work of researchers not cited in the article that corrects some of them. For instance, consulting the microfilm archives of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, forerunner of the Honolulu Advertiser, shows that she was not the first woman to sing as the official female vocalist of the Royal Hawaiian Band. And, with all due respect to the late (and very great) Kahauanu Lake, she did not sing with the Royal Hawaiian Band for 40 years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.162.249.170 (talk) 20:32, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It is stating all that is known and we tried to state all sides of the story. I don't believe she sang for the band for forty years either but that is what is stated by Lake and "Haʻilono Mele. Honolulu: The Hawaiian Music Foundation". Can you give me the news articles you are mentioning from the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, which states she was not the first female vocalist to sing with the band? Also what page number of Hawaiian Music and Musicians are you referring to here?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:51, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * To further separate the sources into claims, I have added where they came from and state they may be contradictory to what was written about her in her lifetime. The only biography of her cited is the one written in 1906 in the Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. Mahalo.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:57, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


 * To dos: add stuff from ...--KAVEBEAR (talk) 05:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Note: The research done between the time that the first edition of Hawaiian Music and Musicians was published in 1979 and the second edition of   ' shows that Nani Alapai did not sing with the Royal Hawaiian Band for 40 years and that she was not the first woman to sing with the Royal Hawaiian Band. (66.162.249.170 (talk) 22:06, 19 June 2017 (UTC))

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