| Decca Presents Bing Crosby In An Album of Favorite Hawaiian Songs | ||||
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| Released | Original 78 album: 1940 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 1936 - 1939 | |||
| Genre | Popular, Hawaiian | |||
| Length | 34:55 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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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 .
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 .
These re-issued songs were featured on a 6-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. 140. [3]
| Side / Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Performed with | Time |
| Disc 1 (886): | ||||
| A. "Hawaiian Paradise" | Harry Owens | August 8, 1936 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:41 |
| B. "South Sea Island Magic" | Andylona Long, Lysle Tomerlin | August 8, 1936 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 3:01 |
| Disc 2 (1175): | ||||
| A. "Sweet Leilani" | Harry Owens | February 22, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 2:40 |
| B. "Blue Hawaii" | Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger | February 22, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 3:07 |
| Disc 3 (1616): | ||||
| A. "Dancing Under the Stars" | Harry Owens | September 11, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 2:37 |
| B. "Palace in Paradise" | Harry Owens | September 11, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 3:04 |
| Disc 4 (2775): | ||||
| A. "My Isle of Golden Dreams" | Gus Kahn, Walter Blaufuss | June 13, 1939 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:58 |
| B. "To You Sweetheart Aloha" | Harry Owens | June 13, 1939 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:54 |
| Disc 5 (1518): | ||||
| A. "When You Dream About Hawaii" | Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Sid Silvers | September 11, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 3:02 |
| B. "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" | Harry Tobias, Percy Wenrich | September 11, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 2:45 |
| Disc 6 (1845): | ||||
| A. "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes" | Lani McIntire, George McConnell, Dick Sanford | April 13, 1938 | Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra | 2:55 |
| B. "Little Angel" | Harry Owens | April 13, 1938 | Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra | 3:11 |
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