| Favorite Hawaiian Songs Volume One | ||||
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| Released | 1946 (original 78rpm album) 1949 (LP reissue album) 1950 (original 45rpm album) | |||
| Recorded | 1936, 1937, 1940 | |||
| Genre | Popular, Hawaiian | |||
| Length | 29:26 (original 78rpm album) 23:34 (LP reissue album) | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Bing Crosby chronology | ||||
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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.
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 five-disc (10 song) 78 rpm albums of the same name: Volume Two and this album.
The reviewer for Billboard commented, inter alia:
These previously issued songs were featured on a 5-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-460. [3]
| Side / Title | Writer(s) | Recording date | Performed with | Time |
| Disc 1 (25009): | ||||
| A. "Song of the Islands" | Charles E. King | July 23, 1936 | the Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 3:11 |
| B. "Aloha Oe" | Jimmy Kennedy, Queen Liliuokalani | July 23, 1936 | the Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 3:13 |
| Disc 2 (25010): | ||||
| A. "Hawaiian Paradise" | Harry Owens | August 8, 1936 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 2:41 |
| B. "South Sea Island Magic" | Andy Iona Long, Lysle Tomerlin | August 8, 1936 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 3:01 |
| Disc 3 (25011): | ||||
| A. "Sweet Leilani" | Harry Owens | February 22, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 2:40 |
| B. "Blue Hawaii" | Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger | February 22, 1937 | Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians | 3:07 |
| Disc 4 (25012): | ||||
| 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 5 (25013): | ||||
| A. "Aloha Kuu Ipo Aloha" | Dick Mc Intire, Roland Ball | July 1, 1940 | Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians | 3:07 |
| B. "Paradise Isle" | Sam Kok | July 20, 1940 | the Paradise Isle Trio | 2:45 |
The 1949 10-inch LP album issue Decca DL 5122 consisted of eight songs on one 33+1⁄3 rpm record. Due to the limitations of a 10-inch LP, the last disc, containing "Aloha Kuu Ipo Aloha" and "Paradise Isle" was left out.
Decca DL 5122 was also released in 1950 on four 45 rpm discs on a set numbered 9-141. [4]