 is a song written in 1915, by Jean Schwartz, Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie.The song was inspired by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's recent successful radio (then commonly called "wireless") telephone transmission from the U.S. Navy's station, NAA in Arlington, Virginia, to Hawaii.This technology was still experimental, and the song underscores the caller's desperation to talk to his or her sweetheart in Hawaii, from his or her home in New York City.