MYRTLE K. HILO

Myrtle K. Hilo was born in Honolulu in 1929 and graduated from McKinley High School in 1948. She started her career with the Royal Hawaiian Women's Glee Club and then appeared at the Niumalu Hotel with legendary kumu hula George Naope. She performed as "The Singing Cab Driver" at the Blue Dolphin, Outrigger Hotel in the 1970s and was a disc jockey on the Hawaiian music station KCCN until 1973.

Myrtle was actually a licensed cab driver and claimed "I have a ball and really wouldn't want to give it up for a full time job in show business." She specialized in "rascal songs," and was best known for "Will You Love Me when My Carburator Is Busted."


Biographical material from Tony Todaro, The Golden Years of Hawaiian Entertainment (Tony Todaro Pub., 1974).