Blue Hawaii

Release Date- Oct. 1961

Peak Chart Position- US: #1 (20 weeks) UK: #1

Track Listings-  Blue Hawaii / Almost Always True / Aloha-Oe / No More / Can't Help Falling In Love / Rock-A-Hula Baby / Moonlight Swim / Ku-U-I-Po / Ito Eats / Slicin' Sand / Hawaiian Sunset / Beach Boy Blues / Island Of Love / Hawaiian Wedding Song /

Recorded- ??? (help me out!!)

Musicians-  ??? (again, help !)
 
 

  Blue Hawaii was by far Elvis' most successful album spending 20 weeks at the top of the charts, twice as long as his second biggest album, G.I. Blues.  Obviously, it would make sense that this is one of his most popular albums, but that does not mean that it is his best.  Although any album which contains a song like "Can't Help Falling In Love" can't be all bad, one song does not an album make.  That also doesn't mean that it's the only good song, because it isn't.  "Ku-U-I-Po", "Hawaiian Wedding Song" and the title track are all very pretty songs, and there are a couple others as well, but the album does have one serious flaw.  It suffers from an overt cuteness, which is becuase the songs were not written to match Elvis or even for Elvis, but for the movie.  For instance "Rock-A-Hula Baby" was a big hit because it was Elvis, but didn't anyone see that it was a pretty stupid song ? Rock-A-Hula !?!?  And "Ito Eats" about a character in the film with a large appetite. Wow, that's deep.  This is not Elvis' best material by far, but some of the songs really did fit him.  Maybe part of it was luck in this film.  Later attempts were not as lucky.
***  out of  *****
 
Thanks For Reading !
If you have comments, suggestions or reviews of your own, email me at
mmandziuk@hotmail.com
 
 
This page created with Netscape Navigator Gold.  Netscape is nice.