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Elvis Presley: Blue Hawaii

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Label: RCA Victor Records
Released: 1961.10.20
Time:
 32:02
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Steve Sholes, Don Wardell
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.elvis.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Blue Hawaii (Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger) - 2:36
[2] Almost Always True (Ben Weisman and Fred Wise) - 2:25
[3] Aloha 'Oe (Queen Lydia Lili'uokalani) - 1:53
[4] No More (Don Robertson, Hal Blair and Sebastián Iradier) - 2:22
[5] Can't Help Falling in Love (George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore) - 3:01
[6] Rock-A-Hula Baby (Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller) - 1:59
[7] Moonlight Swim (Ben Weisman and Sylvia Dee) - 2:20
[8] Ku-U-I-Po (George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore) - 2:23
[9] Ito Eats (Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett) - 1:23
[10] Slicin' Sand (Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett) - 1:36
[11] Hawaiian Sunset (Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett) - 2:32
[12] Beach Boy Blues (Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett) - 2:03
[13] Island of Love (Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett) - 2:41
[14] Hawaiian Wedding Song (Al Hoffman, Charles King, Dick Manning) - 2:48

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Elvis Presley - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Adaptation, Arranger

Boots Randolph - Saxophone
George Field - Harmonica
Fred T. Tavares - Ukulele
Bernie Lewis - Ukulele
Hank Garland - Acoustic Guitar
Tiny Timbrell - Acoustic Guitar
Scotty Moore - Electric Guitar
Alvino Rey - Pedal Steel Guitar
Floyd Cramer - Piano
Dudley Brooks - Piano, Celeste
Bob Moore - Double Bass
D.J. Fontana - Drums
Bernie Mattinson - Drums
Hal Blaine - Drums
The Surfers - Backing Vocals
The Jordanaires - Backing Vocals

Steve Sholes - Producer
Don Wardell - Producer
Ernst Mikael Jørgensen - Compilation Producer
Roger Semon - Compilation Producer
Dennis Ferrante - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Michael Omansky - Executive Director
Klaus Schmalenbach - Executive Director

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The soundtrack of what was to be Elvis's biggest movie called for an Hawaiianesque flavor, and, while Presley's vocals are excellent throughout, much of the material is of a throwaway caliber. Of course, any session that produces "Can't Help Falling in Love" is memorable, but said sessions also gave us "Rock-A-Hula Baby," which was a worldwide hit despite being as dumb as the title implies! Within a matter of months, critical fans would look back at this album as a high point

Neal Umphred - All Music Guide



Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, on October 20, 1961. It is a soundtrack for Presley's film of the same name. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21, 22, and 23, 1961. It spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on the US Top Pop Albums 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. 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.

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. To coincide with the location of the film, touches of Hawaiian music were included, from instrumentation to the traditional song "Aloha 'Oe". The title song was taken from the 1937 Bing Crosby film Waikiki Wedding, and "Hawaiian Wedding Song" dates from a 1926 operetta.

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. 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.

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.

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. 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."

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.

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