Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley album)

"Can't Help Falling in Love" / "Rock-A-Hula Baby"
Blue Hawaii
Studio album / Soundtrack by Elvis Presley
Released	October 20, 1961
Recorded	March 21–23, 1961
Genre	Pop, Hawaiian music
Length	32:02
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Steve Sholes
Elvis Presley chronology
Singles from Blue Hawaii
	"Can't Help Falling in Love" / "Rock-A-Hula Baby"; Released: November 21, 1961;

Last updated March 15, 2019

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
MusicHound	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]
Rough Guides	^[4]

Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, on October 20, 1961.^[5] It is the soundtrack to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21, 22, and 23, 1961.^[6] In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on December 21, 1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27, 1992 and 3x Platinum on July 30, 2002 by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[7] On the US Top Pop Albums chart Blue Hawaii is second only to the soundtrack of West Side Story as the most successful album of the 1960s.

Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position. This contrasts with stereophonic sound or stereo, which uses two separate audio channels to reproduce sound from two microphones on the right and left side, which is reproduced with two separate loudspeakers to give a sense of the direction of sound sources. In mono, only one loudspeaker is necessary, but, when played through multiple loudspeakers or headphones, identical signals are fed to each speaker, resulting in the perception of one-channel sound "imaging" in one sonic space between the speakers. Monaural recordings, like stereo ones, typically use multiple microphones fed into multiple channels on a recording console, but each channel is "panned" to the center. In the final stage, the various center-panned signal paths are usually mixed down to two identical tracks, which, because they are identical, are perceived upon playback as representing a single unified signal at a single place in the soundstage. In some cases, multitrack sources are mixed to a one-track tape, thus becoming one signal. In the mastering stage, particularly in the days of mono records, the one- or two-track mono master tape was then transferred to a one-track lathe intended to be used in the pressing of a monophonic record. Today, however, monaural recordings are usually mastered to be played on stereo and multi-track formats, yet retain their center-panned mono soundstage characteristics.

Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical. The movie opened at no. 2 in box office receipts for that week and despite mixed reviews from critics, finished as the 10th top-grossing movie of 1961 and 14th for 1962 on the Variety national box office survey, earning $5 million. The film won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the category of Top Musical of 1961.

Content

RCA and Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had initially planned a schedule of one soundtrack and one popular music release per year for Presley, in addition to the requisite four singles.^[8] To coincide with the location of the film, touches of Hawaiian music were included, from instrumentation to the traditional song "Aloha 'Oe".^[9] The title song was taken from the 1937 Bing Crosby film Waikiki Wedding , and "Hawaiian Wedding Song" dates from a 1926 operetta.^[10]

Thomas Andrew "Colonel Tom" Parker was the Dutch-born manager of Elvis Presley. Their partnership was uniquely successful, Elvis being an entirely new force in popular music, and Parker an entrepreneurial genius able to market him.

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or "folk" music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences.

The songs "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Rock-A-Hula Baby" were pulled off the album for two sides of a single released on November 21, 1961.^[11] The A-side "Can't Help Falling in Love," which would become the standard closer for an Elvis Presley concert in the 1970s, went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, while the b-side charted independently at number 23.^[12]

Cant Help Falling in Love Song by American singer Elvis Presley

"Can't Help Falling in Love" is a 1961 song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley for the album Blue Hawaii (1961). It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss and published by Gladys Music, Inc.. The song was initially written for a woman as "Can't Help Falling in Love with Him", which explains the first and third line ending on "in" and "sin" rather than words rhyming with "you".

Rock-A-Hula Baby 1961 single by Elvis Presley

"Rock-A-Hula Baby ("Twist" Special)" is a 1961 song recorded by Elvis Presley and performed in the 1961 movie Blue Hawaii. The song was also released as a single.

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33¹⁄₃ rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records. The A-side usually featured the recording that the artist, record producer, or the record company intended to receive the initial promotional effort and then receive radio airplay, hopefully, to become a "hit" record. The B-side is a secondary recording that has a history of its own: some artists released B-sides that were considered as strong as the A-side and became hits in their own right. Others took the opposite approach: producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side.

The Blue Hawaii soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 in the category of Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television.^[13]

A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. The Grammys are the second of the Big Three major music awards held annually.

The success of this soundtrack and its predecessor G. I. Blues , both of which sold in much greater quantity than Presley's two regular releases of the time, Elvis Is Back! and Something for Everybody , set the pace for the rest of the decade.^[14] Parker and Presley would focus on Elvis' film career, non-soundtrack albums taking a back seat with only six during the 1960s against sixteen full-length soundtrack albums among 27 movies and the comeback special. Five songs from this album appear on the 1995 compendium soundtrack box set Command Performances: The Essential 60s Masters II : "Can't Help Falling in Love", "Rock-a-Hula Baby", "Blue Hawaii," "Hawaiian Wedding Song," and "Beach Boy Blues."^[15]

<i>Elvis Is Back!</i> 1960 studio album by Elvis Presley

Elvis Is Back! is the fourth studio album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. It was released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo in April 1960. Recorded over two sessions in March and April, the album marked Presley's return to recording after his discharge from the U.S. Army. It was Presley's first album of new material since Elvis' Christmas Album (1957).

<i>Something for Everybody</i> 1961 studio album by Elvis Presley

Something for Everybody is the sixth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2370, in June 1961. Recording sessions took place on November 8, 1960, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and on March 12, 1961 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. In the United States, it peaked at number 1 on Billboard's Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on July 15, 1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Reissues

Blue Hawaii was reissued on compact disc in 1997 and again in 2008. The latter edition was a deluxe 2-disc release on the Follow That Dream label that featured numerous alternate takes. It also corrected the error with the 1997 issue that incorrectly reversed the stereo channels.^[16]

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings (CD-DA) but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Disc (VCD), Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), Photo CD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced Music CD. The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan.

Track listing

Original release

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"Blue Hawaii"	Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger	March 22, 1961	2:36
2.	"Almost Always True"	Ben Weisman and Fred Wise	March 22, 1961	2:25
3.	"Aloha 'Oe"	Queen Lydia Lili'uokalani	March 21, 1961	1:53
4.	"No More"	Don Robertson, Hal Blair and Sebastián Iradier	March 21, 1961	2:22
5.	"Can't Help Falling in Love"	George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore	March 23, 1961	3:01
6.	"Rock-A-Hula Baby"	Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller	March 23, 1961	1:59
7.	"Moonlight Swim"	Ben Weisman and Sylvia Dee	March 22, 1961	2:20

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
1.	"Ku-U-I-Po"	George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore	March 21, 1961	2:23
2.	"Ito Eats"	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 22, 1961	1:23
3.	"Slicin' Sand"	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 21, 1961	1:36
4.	"Hawaiian Sunset"	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 21, 1961	2:32
5.	"Beach Boy Blues"	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 23, 1961	2:03
6.	"Island of Love"	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 22, 1961	2:41
7.	"Hawaiian Wedding Song"	Al Hoffman, Charles King, Dick Manning	March 22, 1961	2:48

1997 Reissue

On April 29, 1997, RCA released a remastered and expanded version for compact disc. Tracks 1-7 were the seven songs from side one of the original LP and tracks 8-14 were from side two. Tracks 15-22 are bonus tracks, all of which had been recorded during the original album sessions and were previously unreleased except for "Steppin' Out of Line" which had originally appeared on the LP Pot Luck with Elvis (1962).

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date	Length
15.	"Steppin' Out of Line" (originally issued on the Pot Luck With Elvis LP)	Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller	March 22, 1961	1:53
16.	"Can't Help Falling in Love" (movie version)	George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore	March 23, 1961	1:54
17.	"Slicin' Sand" (alternate take 4)	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 21, 1961	1:45
18.	"No More" (alternate take 7)	Don Robertson and Hal Blair	March 21, 1961	2:35
19.	"Rock-A-Hula Baby" (alternate take 1)	Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller	March 23, 1961	2:15
20.	"Beach Boy Blues" (movie version)	Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett	March 23, 1961	1:58
21.	"Steppin' Out of Line" (movie version)	Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller	March 22, 1961	1:54
22.	"Blue Hawaii" (alternate take 3)	Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger	March 22, 1961	2:40

2008 Follow That Dream CD reissue

The Original Album
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Blue Hawaii"	2:37
2.	"Almost Always True"	2:24
3.	"Aloha Oe"	1:55
4.	"No More"	2:24
5.	"Can't Help Falling In Love"	3:04
6.	"Rock-A-Hula Baby"	2:01
7.	"Moonlight Swim"	2:22
8.	"Ku-U-I-Po"	2:23
9.	"Ito Eats"	1:25
10.	"Slicin' Sand"	1:37
11.	"Hawaiian Sunset"	2:35
12.	"Beach Boy Blues"	2:05
13.	"Island Of Love"	2:41
14.	"Hawaiian Wedding Song"	2:53

New Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Length
15.	"Steppin' Out Of Line" (movie version)	1:56
16.	"Beach Boy Blues" (movie version)	1:59
17.	"Can't Help Falling In Love" (movie version)	1:54
18.	"Moonlight Swim" (undubbed master)	2:25
19.	"Steppin' Out Of Line" (record version)	1:57

First Takes
No.	Title	Length
20.	"Blue Hawaii" (takes 1,2,3)	3:54
21.	"Almost Always True" (take 3)	2:33
22.	"Aloha Oe" ([section 2] take 1)	1:20
23.	"No More" (take 7)	2:36
24.	"Can't Help Falling In Love" (take 13)	2:38
25.	"Rock-A-Hula Baby" (takes 1, 2, 3)	3:41
26.	"Moonlight Swim" (take 2)	2:38
27.	"Ku-U-I-Po" (take 1)	2:34
28.	"Ito Eats" (takes 1, 2)	2:36
29.	"Slicin' Sand" (takes 1, 2, 3)	2:59
30.	"Hawaiian Sunset" (take 1)	2:42
31.	"Island Of Love" (take 8)	3:02
32.	"Hawaiian Wedding Song" (take 1)	3:00

Alternate Takes
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hawaiian Sunset" (take 2)	2:46
2.	"Hawaiian Sunset" (takes 6, 3)	3:18
3.	"Aloha Oe" ([section 2] take 6)	1:19
4.	"Aloha Oe" ([section 2] takes 7/5)	0:55
5.	"Ku-U-I-Po" (takes 2, 4, 5)	3:55
6.	"Ku-U-I-Po" (takes 6, 7)	2:51
7.	"No More" (takes 1, 2, 4, 8)	6:15
8.	"No More" (takes 11, 15 [insert ending])	3:16
9.	"Slicin' Sand" (take 4)	1:43
10.	"Slicin' Sand" (takes 5, 6, 7)	3:32
11.	"Slicin Sand" (takes 8, 13, 15, 16, 14)	4:06
12.	"Blue Hawaii" (takes 4, 5, 6)	4:39
13.	"Ito Eats" (takes 4, 6, 5)	2:21
14.	"Island Of Love" (takes 1, 2, 4, 6)	4:31
15.	"Island Of Love" (takes 7, 9)	3:16
16.	"Steppin' Out Of Line" ([movie version] takes 4, 5, 7/8)	3:22
17.	"Steppin' Out Of Line" ([record version] takes 10, 11, 16, 15)	4:08
18.	"Steppin' Out Of Line" ([tag for movie] takes 18/19)	1:15
19.	"Always Almost True" (takes 2, 4, 5)	5:11
20.	"Almost Always True" (takes 7, 6)	2:52
21.	"Moonlight Swim" (takes 1, 4)	3:54
22.	"Can't Help Falling In Love" (takes 14, 15, 16)	3:08
23.	"Can't Help Falling In Love" (takes 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24)	4:27
24.	"Can't Help Falling In Love" (takes 25, 26)	2:15

Personnel

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1961	Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) (mono and stereo)	1
1962	UK Albums Chart ^[17]
	Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) (mono and stereo)
	Norway Albums Chart

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External links

Blue Hawaii at Discogs (list of releases)
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[1] AllMusic review.

[2] Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 891. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.

[3] "Elvis Presley: Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2015.

[4] Simpson, Paul (2004). The Rough Guide to Elvis. London: Rough Guides. p. 123. ISBN 1-84353-417-7.

[5] "Blue Hawaii". Elvis - The Music. Sony Music Entertainment. 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2015.

[6] Blue Hawaii at AllMusic

[7] "Searchable database". RIAA. Recording Industry Association of America. 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013. Note: Enter search for "Blue Hawaii"

[8] Jorgensen, op. cit. p. 180.

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Albums discography Singles discography Filmography
Studio albums	Elvis Presley Elvis Peace in the Valley (EP) Elvis' Christmas Album For LP Fans Only A Date with Elvis Elvis Is Back! His Hand in Mine Something for Everybody Pot Luck Elvis for Everyone! How Great Thou Art From Elvis in Memphis From Memphis to Vegas / From Vegas to Memphis Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) Love Letters from Elvis Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas Elvis Now He Touched Me Elvis Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake Good Times Promised Land Today From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee Moody Blue
Live albums	On Stage As Recorded at Madison Square Garden Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis Having Fun with Elvis on Stage Elvis in Concert An Afternoon in the Garden
Soundtrack albums and EPs	Love Me Tender (EP) Loving You Jailhouse Rock (EP) King Creole G.I. Blues Flaming Star (EP) Blue Hawaii Follow That Dream (EP) Kid Galahad (EP) Girls! Girls! Girls! It Happened at the World's Fair Fun in Acapulco Kissin' Cousins Viva Las Vegas (EP) Roustabout Girl Happy Tickle Me (EP) Harum Scarum Frankie and Johnny Paradise Hawaiian Style Spinout Easy Come, Easy Go (EP) Double Trouble Clambake Speedway Elvis That's the Way It Is Viva Elvis
Compilation albums	Elvis' Golden Records 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3 Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 Elvis Sings Flaming Star Let's Be Friends Almost in Love C'mon Everybody I Got Lucky Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 Elvis' 40 Greatest Pure Gold Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 2 The Sun Sessions Welcome to My World Mahalo from Elvis Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3 Greatest Hits Volume 1 Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5 Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances Command Performances: The Essential 60s Masters II Elvis 56 Tiger Man Memories: The '68 Comeback Special Sunrise Suspicious Minds: The Memphis 1969 Anthology ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits 2nd to None Elvis at Sun Hitstory Elvis Inspirational Elvis Rock Elvis Christmas The Essential Elvis Presley Christmas Duets If I Can Dream Way Down in the Jungle Room The Wonder of You The 50 Greatest Hits
Box sets	Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol. 1 The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential '60s Masters Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters Peace in the Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings Live in Las Vegas Today, Tomorrow, and Forever Elvis the King The Complete '68 Comeback Special The Complete Elvis Presley Masters
Bootlegs	Elvis' Greatest Shit
Feature films	Love Me Tender Loving You Jailhouse Rock King Creole G.I. Blues Flaming Star Wild in the Country Blue Hawaii Follow That Dream Kid Galahad Girls! Girls! Girls! It Happened at the World's Fair Fun in Acapulco Kissin' Cousins Viva Las Vegas Roustabout Girl Happy Tickle Me Harum Scarum Frankie and Johnny Paradise, Hawaiian Style Spinout Easy Come, Easy Go Double Trouble Clambake Stay Away, Joe Speedway Live a Little, Love a Little Charro! The Trouble with Girls Change of Habit
Biographical films	Elvis (1979 film) Elvis (1990 series) Elvis Meets Nixon Elvis (2005 miniseries) Elvis & Nixon
Documentaries	The Pied Piper of Cleveland Elvis: That's the Way It Is Elvis on Tour This Is Elvis The New Gladiators
TV specials	The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis Singer Presents...ELVIS Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite Elvis in Concert
Stage shows based on Elvis	Cooking with Elvis All Shook Up Elvis. The Musical Elvis: The Concert Viva Elvis The Elvis Dead
Top 10 singles	"Heartbreak Hotel" "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" "Don't Be Cruel" "Hound Dog" "Love Me Tender" "Love Me" "Too Much" "All Shook Up" "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" "Jailhouse Rock" "Don't" "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" "Hard Headed Woman" "One Night" "I Got Stung" "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" "I Need Your Love Tonight" "A Big Hunk o' Love" "Stuck on You" "It's Now or Never" "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" "Surrender" "I Feel So Bad" "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" "Little Sister" "Can't Help Falling in Love" "Good Luck Charm" "She's Not You" "Return to Sender" "(You're The) Devil in Disguise" "Bossa Nova Baby" "Crying in the Chapel" "In the Ghetto" "Suspicious Minds" "Don't Cry Daddy" "The Wonder of You" "Burning Love"
Related people	Sam Phillips The Blue Moon Boys The Jordanaires The Imperials The Sweet Inspirations TCB Band J. D. Sumner Stephen H. Sholes June Juanico Memphis Mafia Colonel Tom Parker George C. Nichopoulos Lisa Marie Presley Priscilla Presley Judy Spreckels Linda Thompson Ginger Alden Larry Geller
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