Elvis Presley ? Blue Hawaii ? RARE RCA Records US Press Iconic Classic Vinyl LP
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Blue Hawaii Studio album / Soundtrack by Elvis Presley Released October 20, 1961 Recorded March 21–23, 1961 Genre Pop, Hawaiian music Length 32:02 Label RCA Victor Producer Steve Sholes Elvis Presley chronology Something for Everybody(1961) Blue Hawaii
(1961) Pot Luck
(1962) Singles from Blue Hawaii
- "Can't Help Falling in Love" / "Rock-A-Hula Baby"
Released: November 21, 1961
Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, on October 20, 1961. It is the soundtrack to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21, 22, and 23, 1961. In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Pop LPs 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.
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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.
Track listing
Original release
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length 1. "Blue Hawaii" Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger March 22, 1961 2:36 2. "Almost Always True" Ben Weisman and Fred Wise March 22, 1961 2:25 3. "Aloha 'Oe" Queen Lydia Lili'uokalani March 21, 1961 1:53 4. "No More" Don Robertson, Hal Blair and Sebastián Iradier March 21, 1961 2:22 5. "Can't Help Falling in Love" George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore March 23, 1961 3:01 6. "Rock-A-Hula Baby" Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller March 23, 1961 1:59 7. "Moonlight Swim" Ben Weisman and Sylvia Dee March 22, 1961 2:20 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Recording date Length 1. "Ku-U-I-Po" George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore March 21, 1961 2:23 2. "Ito Eats" Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett March 22, 1961 1:23 3. "Slicin' Sand" Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett March 21, 1961 1:36 4. "Hawaiian Sunset" Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett March 21, 1961 2:32 5. "Beach Boy Blues" Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett March 23, 1961 2:03 6. "Island of Love" Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett March 22, 1961 2:41 7. "Hawaiian Wedding Song" Al Hoffman, Charles King, Dick Manning March 22, 1961 2:48price rating
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