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.
| Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume Two | ||||
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| Released | 1946 (original 78rpm album) 1949 (original LP album) 1950 (original 45 album)[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942 | |||
| Genre | Popular, Hawaiian | |||
| Length | 29:37 (original 78rpm release) 23:51 (10" LP release) | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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Release history edit
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 edit
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 edit
These previously issued songs were featured on a 5-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-461.
| Side / Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Performed with | Time |
| Disc 1 (25021): | ||||
| A. "When You Dream About Hawaii" | Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Sid Silvers | September 11, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 3:02 |
| B. "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" | Harry Tobias, Percy Wenrich | September 11, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 2:44 |
| Disc 2 (25022): | ||||
| A. "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes" | Lani McIntire, George B. 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 |
| Disc 3 (25023): | ||||
| 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 4 (25024): | ||||
| A. "A Song of Old Hawaii" | Gordon Beecher, Johnny Noble | July 1, 1940 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:54 |
| B. "Trade Winds" | Charles Tobias, Cliff Friend | July 1, 1940 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 3:13 |
| Disc 5 (25025): | ||||
| A. "Sing Me a Song of the Islands" | Harry Owens, Mack Gordon | January 19, 1942 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:56 |
| B. "Remember Hawaii" | Meredith Willson | January 19, 1942 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:50 |
LP track listing edit
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
- "When You Dream About Hawaii"
- "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon"
- "Sweet Hawaiian Chimes" "Little Angel"
- Side Two
- "My Isle of Golden Dreams"
- "To You, Sweetheart, Aloha"
- "A Song of Old Hawaii"
- "Trade Winds"
Other releases edit
Decca DL 5299 was also released in 1950 on four 45 rpm discs on a set numbered 9-143.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume Two".
- ^ "DECCA (USA) 78rpm numerical listing discography - 19000 series".
- ^ "Billboard". Billboard: 106. March 8, 1947.
- ^ "Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume Two".
- ^ "Bing Crosby - Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume 2".