Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. One

Favorite Hawaiian Songs
Volume One
Compilation album by Bing Crosby
Released Original 78 album: 1946
Original LP album: 1949
Original 45 album: 1950
Recorded 1936, 1937, 1940
Genre Popular, Hawaiian
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
What We So Proudly Hail
(1946)		 Favorite Hawaiian Songs,
Vol. One
(1946)		 Favorite Hawaiian Songs,
Vol. Two
(1946)

Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Volume One 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 fourth Hawaiian-themed album release for Crosby.

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.[1] 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 Two 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."[2]

Track listing

These previously issued songs were featured on a 5-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-460.[3]

Disc 1: (25009)

  1. "Song of the Islands", recorded July 23, 1936 with the Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  2. "Aloha Oe", recorded July 23, 1936 with the Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians[3]

Disc 2: (25010)

  1. "Hawaiian Paradise", recorded August 8, 1936 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  2. "South Sea Island Magic", recorded August 8, 1936 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians[3]

Disc 3: (25011)

  1. "Sweet Leilani", recorded February 22, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  2. "Blue Hawaii", recorded February 22, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians

Disc 4: (25012)

  1. "Dancing Under the Stars", recorded September 11, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  2. "Palace in Paradise", recorded September 11, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians

Disc 5: (25013)

  1. "Aloha Kuu Ipo Aloha", recorded July 1, 1940 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  2. "Paradise Isle", recorded July 20, 1940 with the Paradise Isle Trio

LP track listing

The 1949 10" LP album issue Decca DL 5122 consisted of eight songs on one 33 1/3 rpm record. Due to the limitations of a 10" LP, the last disc, containing "Aloha Kuu Ipo Aloha" and "Paradise Isle" was left out.

Side One

  1. "Song of the Islands", recorded July 23, 1936 with the Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  2. "Aloha Oe", recorded July 23, 1936 with the Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  3. "Hawaiian Paradise", recorded August 8, 1936 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians
  4. "South Sea Island Magic", recorded August 8, 1936 with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians

Side Two

  1. "Sweet Leilani", recorded February 22, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  2. "Blue Hawaii", recorded February 22, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  3. "Dancing Under the Stars", recorded September 11, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians
  4. "Palace in Paradise", recorded September 11, 1937 with Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians[4]

Other releases

Decca DL 5122 was also released in 1950 on four 45 rpm discs on a set numbered 9-141.[5]

References

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