Favorite Hawaiian Songs, Vol. Two
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| Compilation album by Bing Crosby | ||||
| Released | 1946 (original 78rpm album) 1949 (original LP album) 1950 (original 45 album) |
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| Recorded | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942 | |||
| Genre | Popular, Hawaiian | |||
| Length |
29:37 (original 78rpm release) 23:51 (10" LP release) |
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| Label | Decca | |||
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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.
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. 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.
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-461.
The 10" LP album issue Decca DL 5299 consisted of eight songs on one 33 1/3 rpm record. 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.
Decca DL 5299 was also released in 1950 on four 45 rpm discs on a set numbered 9-143.
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