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Harry Owens

real name Harry Robert Owens

Harry Owens is credited on 1,909 releases across 504 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,909

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504

Albums

8

Decades active

94

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American composer, bandleader and songwriter best known for his song "Sweet Leilani".
Born April 18, 1902 in O'Neill, Nebraska, USA.
Died December 12, 1986 in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Owens was working the vaudeville circuit by age 14. He studied for a career in law, but then started a band in 1926. He became the music director of The Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1934. Owens Oscar winning song "Sweet Leilani" was sung by Bing Crosby in the film Waikiki Wedding (1937). Owens wrote the song to celebrate the birth of his daughter Leilani.
1987: He was a posthumous winner of a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award under the auspices of the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Arts.

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1,909 releases · 504 albums · active 1950–2024

  • Performance · 2,514
  • Other credits · 23

Studios: Project Records, Inc. · Webster Hall · The Beach At Waikiki · Regent Sound Studios, New York City

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