Tahitian/Slack Key song, "Salomila"; early versions??

[Mitch Drumm]

I'm trying to find info regarding recorded vocal versions of "Salomila".

For the last 30 plus years, it's been known mostly as a slack key instrumental, but it has an earlier history as a vocal. "Shine The Light On Me, Salomila"......"I'm Over Here, Salomila", etc.

It's apparently Tahitian in origin and the composer is often listed as "traditional".

I know it was a popular vocal recording in Hawaii as early as 1951, but I don't know who that artist might have been.

I'm hoping some early versions have been reissued somewhere, but I can't even find a pre-1960 version by anybody--vocal or instrumental.

I'm aware of vocal versions by Dave Guard's Whiskey Hill Singers in the 1960s and by Al Lopaka in Hawaii, from 1970. Guard grew up in Hawaii and knew the song circa 1951 as a teenager, before he founded the Kingston Trio.

Any help? I've struck out at BMI and ASCAP and have had no luck with an hour of Google and Youtube.