Hilo Bay
by Arthur Sizemore and Guy Shrigley

Sizemore and Shrigley Music Publishers
Chicago
1932

Vintage Sheet Music

LINK to excellent article about Arthur Sizemore and Guy Shrigley by (Perfessor) Bill Edwards. I am recommending Edwards' article since my re-rendering of his information would not be as complete or well done.

Hilo Bay by Arthur Sizemore and Guy Shrigley, also published in 1922 by their publishing company that was started in 1920 and was only in business for two years.

This edition shows a small emblem with a slogan and swastika, which prior to its use by Nazis in Germany during WWII was a symbol often used for luck. The Nazi Regime first displayed the symbol as representing their ideology in 1932. Cover art noted as Wilson Art, Chicago.

The scene is a lovely young woman enjoying a moonlit evening while sitting on a balcony rail, which also sports a large bowl of fragrant roses. The illustration border acts as a window of sorts into which we peer to view the night, sharing vicariously the woman's experience of soft breezes over warm air shimmering on moonlit waters below a starry sky. Scanning the lyrics gives understanding to the thoughts going through her mind in the cover art that fits the song's story line.

Chorus: Hilo Bay where magic moon beams play, We wandered hand in hand across the golden sand, Two lips beguiling kissed when we parted, Smiling though brokenhearted I know some day we'll meet on Hilo Bay.

Hilo Bay is a large bay on the East Coast of the Island of Hawaii. The bay is sometimes called the tsunami capital of the United States. In 1946 a tsunami took 96 lives on Hilo Bay, and 61 people in 1960.