Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two

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Favorite Hawaiian Songs
Volume Two
Volume Two Hawaii Bing.jpg
Compilation album by
Bing Crosby
Released1946 (original 78rpm album)
1949 (original LP album)
1950 (original 45 album) [1]
Recorded1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942
Genre Popular, Hawaiian
Length29:37 (original 78rpm release)
23:51 (10" LP release)
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
Favorite Hawaiian Songs,
Vol. One
(1946)		''Favorite Hawaiian Songs
Volume Two''
(1946)		 Blue Skies
(w/ Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin)
(1946)

Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Volume Two is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1946 featuring songs that were sung in a Hawaiian-type genre. This was the fifth Hawaiian-themed album release for Crosby.

Contents

Release history

This is not to be confused with the two earlier albums of the same name. An album was released in 1940 called Favorite Hawaiian Songs . By 1946, Crosby had recorded four more Hawaiian songs and Dick McIntire's Harmony Hawaiians recorded two more. [2] Decca hadn't used "Paradise Isle" and "Aloha Kuu Ipo Aloha", on Decca 3797, in an album yet - so, the first album, consisting of twelve songs - along with those eight more unused songs (twenty songs on ten 78 rpm records), was split into two 5-disc (10 song) 78 rpm albums of the same name - Volume One and this album.

Reception

The reviewer for Billboard commented, inter alia:

This is an over-ambitious attempt to coin extra-added out of Bing Crosby’s early recordings. In this instance the label is packaging Der Bingle’s Hawaiian diskings, putting 10 sides in a set. And there’s enough here for two such sets, using the same cover design of smiling Bing against a geographical picture of the islands with a descriptive booklet accompanying each set. For the first set, they are all slow and dreamy spinners, with instrumental and vocal support from Dick McIntire, Lani McIntire and the Paradise Island trio. Top faves in the first volume include "Song of the Islands" and "Sweet Leilani" … Both McIntire strumming ensembles are included in the second album, also of 10 sides, with two sides cut with Harry Owens’s full band. Second set includes several selections at a livelier beat, with "Trade Winds" the top song favorite … For Der Bingle and hula fans, there’s enough in these two packages to last a lifetime. [3]

Track listing

These previously issued songs were featured on a 5-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-461.

Side / TitleWriter(s)Recording datePerformed withTime
Disc 1 (25021):
A. "When You Dream About Hawaii" Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Sid Silvers September 11, 1937 Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians3:02
B. "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" Harry Tobias, Percy Wenrich September 11, 1937Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians2:44
Disc 2 (25022):
A. "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes"Lani McIntire, George B. McConnell, Dick SanfordApril 13, 1938 Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra2:55
B. "Little Angel" Harry Owens April 13, 1938Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra3:11
Disc 3 (25023):
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 4 (25024):
A. "A Song of Old Hawaii" Gordon Beecher, Johnny Noble July 1, 1940Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians2:54
B. "Trade Winds" Charles Tobias, Cliff Friend July 1, 1940Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians3:13
Disc 5 (25025):
A. "Sing Me a Song of the Islands"Harry Owens, Mack Gordon January 19, 1942Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians2:56
B. "Remember Hawaii" Meredith Willson January 19, 1942Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians2:50

[4]

LP track listing

The 10" LP album issue Decca DL 5299 consisted of eight songs on one 33 1/3 rpm record. [5] Because of the size limitations of the 10" LP, both of Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians' 1942 recordings with Crosby (Disc 5 above) were left off.

Side One
  1. "When You Dream About Hawaii"
  2. "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon"
  3. "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes" "Little Angel"
Side Two
  1. "My Isle of Golden Dreams"
  2. "To You, Sweetheart, Aloha"
  3. "A Song of Old Hawaii"
  4. "Trade Winds"

Other releases

Decca DL 5299 was also released in 1950 on four 45 rpm discs on a set numbered 9-143. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume Two".
  2. ↑ "DECCA (USA) 78rpm numerical listing discography - 19000 series".
  3. ↑ "Billboard". Billboard: 106. March 8, 1947.
  4. ↑ "Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume Two".
  5. ↑ "Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume 2".
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