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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1961."Can't Help Falling In Love" (takes 25, 26) "Can't Help Falling In Love" (takes 14, 15, 16) "Steppin' Out Of Line" ( takes 4, 5, 7/8) "Can't Help Falling In Love" (movie version) " Can't Help Falling in Love" (movie version)Ģ008 Blue Hawaii CD reissue The Original Album No. "Steppin' Out of Line" (originally issued on the Pot Luck With Elvis LP) Tracks 15-22 are bonus tracks, all of which had been recorded during the original album sessions and were previously unreleased except for "Steppin' Out of Line" which had originally appeared on the LP Pot Luck with Elvis (1962). Tracks 1-7 were the seven songs from side one of the original LP and tracks 8-14 were from side two. On April 29, 1997, RCA released a remastered and expanded version for compact disc. George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore įive 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." Track listing Original release Side one No.ĭon Robertson, Hal Blair and Sebastián Iradier It also corrected the error with the 1997 issue that incorrectly reversed the stereo channels. The latter edition was a deluxe 2-disc release on the Follow That Dream label that featured numerous alternate takes. Reissues īlue Hawaii was reissued on compact disc in 1997 and again in 2008. 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. Popular music was on the threshold of complete renewal and change and Presley became 'lost in Hollywood'. This formula proved disastrous for Presley's career.
Parker and Presley would focus on Elvis' film career, non-soundtrack albums taking a back seat with only six during the 1960s against 16 soundtrack albums among 27 movies and the comeback special. 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. The success of this soundtrack and its predecessor G. The A-side "Can't Help Falling in Love," which became the standard closer for a Presley concert in the 1970s, went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, while the b-side charted independently at number 23. 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. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21, 22, and 23, 1961. The title song was taken from the 1937 Bing Crosby film Waikiki Wedding, and " Hawaiian Wedding Song" dates from a 1926 operetta. To coincide with the location of the film, touches of Hawaiian music were included, from instrumentation to the traditional song " Aloha 'Oe". 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.