Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leaders sees that in the midst of all the other news out there a noteworthy passing has been missed (rightfully given the gravity of newsworthy events).

Don Ho has slipped from this mortal coil. He was 76. According to a news release:

For more than 40 years, Ho shows were the musical equivalent of Diamond Head: unique, awesome and something that had to be seen to be believed. From behind a console desk, seated comfortably in a rattan chair, the latter-day Ho could go about his business with an ease that might be mistaken for a man phoning it in, except for the fact that Ho made outgoing calls with his onstage phone.

“I’m a kinda guy, I like to work seven days a week, all day if I have to, because where I grew up, it kept you out of trouble,” Ho said on National Public Radio in 2006.

Aloha Don. Aloha.

Carry on.