"Sweet Leilani" is a song featured in the 1937 film, Waikiki Wedding.

It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song,[2] and Bing Crosby's record became one of the biggest hits of 1937.

[3][4] Harry Owens wrote the song on October 20, 1934 for his daughter Leilani, who was born the previous day.

[5][6] Harry Owens and his Royal Hawaiians performed "Sweet Leilani" in the 1938 film Cocoanut Grove starring Fred MacMurray.

[7] "Sweet Leilani" became a standard of popular and Hawaiian music, easy listening, and to some extent jazz; and has occasionally been performed by country and rock artists.