Favorite Hawaiian Songs Explained

Decca Presents Bing Crosby In An Album of Favorite Hawaiian Songs
Type:compilation
Artist:Bing Crosby
Cover:A-140 Hawaii.jpg
Released:Original 78 album: 1940[1]
Recorded:1936–1939
Genre:Popular, Hawaiian
Length:34:55
Label:Decca
Chronology:Bing Crosby
Prev Title:Ballad for Americans
Prev Year:1940
Next Title:Christmas Music
Next Year: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.

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 / Title Writer(s) Recording date Performed with Time
Disc 1 (886):
A. "Hawaiian Paradise" 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" 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" September 11, 1937 Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians 3:02
B. "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" 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

Notes and References

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