Favorite Hawaiian Songs

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Decca Presents Bing Crosby In An Album of Favorite Hawaiian Songs
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Compilation album by
ReleasedOriginal 78 album: 1940 [1]
Recorded1936–1939
Genre Popular, Hawaiian
Length34:55
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
Ballad for Americans
(1940)
''Decca Presents Bing Crosby In An Album of Favorite Hawaiian Songs''
(1940)
Christmas Music
(1940)

Favorite Hawaiian Songs is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1940 featuring songs that were sung in a Hawaiian-type genre. This is the second album release of many of Crosby's Hawaiian hits such as: Blue Hawaii and Sweet Leilani .

Contents

Release history

This is not to be confused with the later albums of the same name. Crosby recorded four more Hawaiian songs and Dick McIntire's Harmony Hawaiians recorded two more after this album's release, [2] and Decca had still not used "Paradise Isle" and "Aloha Kuu Ipo Aloha", stamped on Decca 3797, in an album yet - so, this album, consisting of twelve songs - along with those eight more unused songs, (a combined total of twenty songs on ten 78 rpm records) [2] was split into two 5-disc (10 song) 78 rpm albums of the same name- Volume One and Volume Two .

Track listing

These re-issued songs were featured on a 6-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. 140. [3]

Side / TitleWriter(s)Recording datePerformed withTime
Disc 1 (886):
A. "Hawaiian Paradise" Harry Owens August 8, 1936Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians2:41
B. "South Sea Island Magic"Andylona Long, Lysle TomerlinAugust 8, 1936Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians3:01
Disc 2 (1175):
A. "Sweet Leilani"Harry OwensFebruary 22, 1937 Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians2:40
B. "Blue Hawaii" Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger February 22, 1937Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians3:07
Disc 3 (1616):
A. "Dancing Under the Stars"Harry OwensSeptember 11, 1937Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians2:37
B. "Palace in Paradise"Harry OwensSeptember 11, 1937Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians3:04
Disc 4 (2775):
A. "My Isle of Golden Dreams" Gus Kahn, Walter BlaufussJune 13, 1939Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians2:58
B. "To You Sweetheart Aloha"Harry OwensJune 13, 1939Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians2:54
Disc 5 (1518):
A. "When You Dream About Hawaii" Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Sid Silvers September 11, 1937Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians3:02
B. "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" Harry Tobias, Percy Wenrich September 11, 1937Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians2:45
Disc 6 (1845):
A. "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes" Lani McIntire, George McConnell, Dick SanfordApril 13, 1938 Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra2:55
B. "Little Angel"Harry OwensApril 13, 1938Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra3:11

References

  1. "Gripsweat - 1940 BING CROSBY'S "Favorite Hawaiian Songs" (6) Record Set w/Orgl Booklet". gripsweat.com.
  2. 1 2 "DECCA (USA) 78rpm numerical listing discography - 19000 series". com.
  3. "2 Bing Crosby 78 RPM Record Sets Star Dust and Favorite Hawaiian Songs - eBay". eBay.