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Donald Tai Loy Ho (August 13, 1930 – April 14, 2007), better known as Don Ho, was an American traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer. He is best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles" from the album of the same name.
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"Pearly Shells" on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, 1969.
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that August 13 is the anniversary of the birth of American traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer Donald Tai Loy Ho.
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0387290/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
"Biography
Overview | Mini Bio | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (15) | Personal Quotes (1)
Overview
Born August 13, 1930 in Kakaako, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
Died April 14, 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Donald Tai Loy Ho
Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Mini Bio
The icon of breezy island entertainment, Don Ho became synonymous with Hawaii and all it represented...colorful leis and shirts, festive luaus, strumming ukuleles, flowing palm trees, beautiful hula dancers, and, of course, the song "Tiny Bubbles". A trip to the "Aloha State" seemed incomplete unless capped by a Don Ho performance, a tourist attraction unto itself. He delighted thousands upon thousands for nearly five decades and was dubbed that island's "goodwill ambassador".
Born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako on August 13, 1930, he was one of nine children blessed with a mixed ethnic heritage that encompassed the Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German cultures. He was a high school football star by the time he left the state to study at Springfield College in Massachusetts. Chronic homesickness had him returning to his beloved island by year's end. Attending the University of Hawaii in 1954, he earned a BA in sociology, then served with the Air Force as a fighter pilot and was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant in 1959.
His parents owned a cocktail lounge, Honey's, in Honolulu and Don formed a small band to entertain the customers. The place started booming with business. He progressed to bigger hotels in the area ("Dukes", which became THE most popular night spot, thanks to him) and developed his own laidback style buoyed by easy, humorous banter and, above all, talented musicians. Reprise Records caught ear of his success and signed him up. Don's popular live albums "The Don Ho Show" in 1965 and the "Don Ho--Again!" were the results. "Tiny Bubbles" (1966), which he almost didn't record, became #8 on the Billboard charts and the signature song that opened and closed all his shows. Other popular tunes in his repertoire included "Pearly Shells", "I'll Remember You" and "With All My Love".
Extending himself further inland, he enjoyed the nation's top niteries in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Chicago and New York, often breaking attendance records in the process. A frequent guest on the TV variety and night-time talk show circuits, he earned his own ABC daytime comedy-variety show, The Don Ho Show (1976) which filmed in Waikiki Beach. He made fun cameo appearances on TV too, nearly always as himself, on such popular shows as "I Dream of Jeannie", "Batman", "The Brady Bunch", "Charlie's Angels", "Fantasy Island" and "McCloud".
Although he lost major clout after his 60s and 70s musical reign and was thereafter denounced/dismissed as little more than an outdoors lounge act, Don's natural charm and obvious charisma never lost for an audience back on his own Hawaiian turf, and he was hailed as Hawaii's equivalent of the "Rat Pack" in terms of style and sustained popularity. He was also a well-known restaurateur (Don Ho's Island Grill, which opened in 1998).
Don developed heart problems (cardiomyopathy) in 2005 but did not let it prevent him from doing what he loved best. He was a mainstay in Waikiki (for over 40 years) and the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel was his official stomping grounds, ever reliable behind his trademark Hammond organ, crooning tunes and teaching enthusiastic tourists simple Hawaiian language and traditions. In 2006 he had his pacemaker replaced. He died of heart failure at age 76 on April 14, 2007. Don had ten children in all with first wife Melvia; one of his daughters, singer Hoku (their seventh child, whose name means "star" in Hawaiian), often performed with him and went on to launch her own musical career. He married Haumea Hebenstreit, who produced his show at the Beachcomber, in 2006.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / [login to see]
Spouse (2)
Haumea Hebenstreit (12 September 2006 - 14 April 2007) ( his death)
Melvamay Kolokea Wong (21 November 1951 - 8 June 1999) ( her death) ( 6 children)
Trade Mark (2)
His signature song, "Tiny Bubbles"
His ukulele
Trivia (15)
1. Father of singer Hoku and Don Ho Jr..
2. He was a lounge singer at Duke's in Waikiki.
3. He is of Hawaiian, Chinese, Dutch, Portugese and German heritage.
4. Received a stem cell treatment, in Thailand, to strengthen his heart [December 6, 2005].
5. Father-in-law of Jeremy Clements.
6. Born in Kakaako, but he grew up in Kaneohe on Oahu.
7. Frequently performed with his singer-daughter Hoku.
8. Served in the United States Air Force from 1954-1960, leaving due to his mother's illness.
9. 1953 graduate of the University of Hawaii, earning a Bachelor's degree in Sociology.
10. Enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1954 and trained as a fighter pilot; he never saw action.
11. Had a pacemaker implanted in 2005.
12. Gave Glen Campbell the song "Galveston".
13. Recognized by Maxim magazine as one of the "50 coolest guys ever".
14. Father of ten children: Donnie Jr., Donalei, Dondi, Dori, Dwight Ho, Kea and Kealii Ho, Hoku Clements and Kaimana Farris. Daughter Dayna Ho Henry died May 11, 2007 just weeks after her father.
15. Great Uncle of Kai Nuuhiwa, who is a stunt man.
Personal Quotes (1)
I've had too much fun all these years. I feel real guilty about it. -2004 interview'
Glen Campbell & Don Ho
"Pearly Shells" on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9JHyOo-yCo
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price SCPO Morris Ramsey SSG John Ross SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0387290/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
"Biography
Overview | Mini Bio | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (15) | Personal Quotes (1)
Overview
Born August 13, 1930 in Kakaako, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
Died April 14, 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Donald Tai Loy Ho
Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Mini Bio
The icon of breezy island entertainment, Don Ho became synonymous with Hawaii and all it represented...colorful leis and shirts, festive luaus, strumming ukuleles, flowing palm trees, beautiful hula dancers, and, of course, the song "Tiny Bubbles". A trip to the "Aloha State" seemed incomplete unless capped by a Don Ho performance, a tourist attraction unto itself. He delighted thousands upon thousands for nearly five decades and was dubbed that island's "goodwill ambassador".
Born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako on August 13, 1930, he was one of nine children blessed with a mixed ethnic heritage that encompassed the Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German cultures. He was a high school football star by the time he left the state to study at Springfield College in Massachusetts. Chronic homesickness had him returning to his beloved island by year's end. Attending the University of Hawaii in 1954, he earned a BA in sociology, then served with the Air Force as a fighter pilot and was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant in 1959.
His parents owned a cocktail lounge, Honey's, in Honolulu and Don formed a small band to entertain the customers. The place started booming with business. He progressed to bigger hotels in the area ("Dukes", which became THE most popular night spot, thanks to him) and developed his own laidback style buoyed by easy, humorous banter and, above all, talented musicians. Reprise Records caught ear of his success and signed him up. Don's popular live albums "The Don Ho Show" in 1965 and the "Don Ho--Again!" were the results. "Tiny Bubbles" (1966), which he almost didn't record, became #8 on the Billboard charts and the signature song that opened and closed all his shows. Other popular tunes in his repertoire included "Pearly Shells", "I'll Remember You" and "With All My Love".
Extending himself further inland, he enjoyed the nation's top niteries in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Chicago and New York, often breaking attendance records in the process. A frequent guest on the TV variety and night-time talk show circuits, he earned his own ABC daytime comedy-variety show, The Don Ho Show (1976) which filmed in Waikiki Beach. He made fun cameo appearances on TV too, nearly always as himself, on such popular shows as "I Dream of Jeannie", "Batman", "The Brady Bunch", "Charlie's Angels", "Fantasy Island" and "McCloud".
Although he lost major clout after his 60s and 70s musical reign and was thereafter denounced/dismissed as little more than an outdoors lounge act, Don's natural charm and obvious charisma never lost for an audience back on his own Hawaiian turf, and he was hailed as Hawaii's equivalent of the "Rat Pack" in terms of style and sustained popularity. He was also a well-known restaurateur (Don Ho's Island Grill, which opened in 1998).
Don developed heart problems (cardiomyopathy) in 2005 but did not let it prevent him from doing what he loved best. He was a mainstay in Waikiki (for over 40 years) and the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel was his official stomping grounds, ever reliable behind his trademark Hammond organ, crooning tunes and teaching enthusiastic tourists simple Hawaiian language and traditions. In 2006 he had his pacemaker replaced. He died of heart failure at age 76 on April 14, 2007. Don had ten children in all with first wife Melvia; one of his daughters, singer Hoku (their seventh child, whose name means "star" in Hawaiian), often performed with him and went on to launch her own musical career. He married Haumea Hebenstreit, who produced his show at the Beachcomber, in 2006.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / [login to see]
Spouse (2)
Haumea Hebenstreit (12 September 2006 - 14 April 2007) ( his death)
Melvamay Kolokea Wong (21 November 1951 - 8 June 1999) ( her death) ( 6 children)
Trade Mark (2)
His signature song, "Tiny Bubbles"
His ukulele
Trivia (15)
1. Father of singer Hoku and Don Ho Jr..
2. He was a lounge singer at Duke's in Waikiki.
3. He is of Hawaiian, Chinese, Dutch, Portugese and German heritage.
4. Received a stem cell treatment, in Thailand, to strengthen his heart [December 6, 2005].
5. Father-in-law of Jeremy Clements.
6. Born in Kakaako, but he grew up in Kaneohe on Oahu.
7. Frequently performed with his singer-daughter Hoku.
8. Served in the United States Air Force from 1954-1960, leaving due to his mother's illness.
9. 1953 graduate of the University of Hawaii, earning a Bachelor's degree in Sociology.
10. Enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1954 and trained as a fighter pilot; he never saw action.
11. Had a pacemaker implanted in 2005.
12. Gave Glen Campbell the song "Galveston".
13. Recognized by Maxim magazine as one of the "50 coolest guys ever".
14. Father of ten children: Donnie Jr., Donalei, Dondi, Dori, Dwight Ho, Kea and Kealii Ho, Hoku Clements and Kaimana Farris. Daughter Dayna Ho Henry died May 11, 2007 just weeks after her father.
15. Great Uncle of Kai Nuuhiwa, who is a stunt man.
Personal Quotes (1)
I've had too much fun all these years. I feel real guilty about it. -2004 interview'
Glen Campbell & Don Ho
"Pearly Shells" on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9JHyOo-yCo
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price SCPO Morris Ramsey SSG John Ross SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon
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Great singer and actor. Saw him on several old TV shows, wonderful entertainer.
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