By the Blue Hawaiian Waters is a piece of light classical music for orchestra by Albert Ketèlbey.
[2] The piece in C major and common time is marked Allegretto dolce (with flowing movement).
[4] He made only minor cuts, and added a Hawaiian guitar, played by Len Fellis, "a star of many a dance band".
[6] A review notes that the work "treads a dangerous and ultimately unsuccessfully schizophrenic path between the hula and urbane romanticism.
"[5] A recording with Frieder Weissmann conducting the Berliner Symphoniker, possibly in March 1931, also used the saxophone and Hawaiian guitar, but additionally gong, xylophone and a men's chorus singing without words, because it was coupled with In a Chinese Temple Garden which requires the larger ensemble.