Blue Hawaii (song)

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"Blue Hawaii"
Single by Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians
A-side "Sweet Leilani"
Released1937
RecordedFebruary 22, 1937 [1]
Genre Traditional pop
Label Decca Records
Songwriter(s) Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
With Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians
"Blue Hawaii"
Single by Billy Vaughn
from the album Blue Hawaii
B-side "Tico Tico"
ReleasedNovember 1958
Recorded1958
Genre Easy listening
Length2:02
Label Dot
Songwriter(s) Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Billy Vaughn singles chronology
"Cimarron"
(1958)
"Blue Hawaii"
(1958)
"Hawaiian War Chant"
(1959)

"Blue Hawaii" is a popular song written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger for the 1937 Paramount Pictures film Waikiki Wedding , starring Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross. Crosby recorded a version with backing by Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians, which was released in 1937 [2] as the B-side of "Sweet Leilani." This reached the No. 5 spot in the charts of the day during a 13-week-stay [3]

The song subsequently received numerous cover versions, most successfully as the title track of the 1961 Elvis Presley film, the soundtrack of which stayed at #1 on the album chart for twenty consecutive weeks.

Other recordings

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References

  1. Decca 1000 - 1500 Numerical Listing 1175
  2. Songs from the Year 1937
  3. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 . Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p.  106. ISBN   0-89820-083-0.
  4. "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
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