Elvis Presley - Blue Hawaii - Expanded Alternate Album (2012)

Elvis movies never came bigger than Blue Hawaii, the 1961 romantic musical comedy whose success helped push Presley into near full-time filmmaking for the bulk of the '60s. Not only was the flick a hit but so was the soundtrack, going Gold by the end of 1961, a success partially fueled by the ballad "Can't Help Falling in Love," a song so good it suggests the rest of the record might contain other gems. That's not the case. The record has its moments, including the dreamy title track, but as an album, Blue Hawaii is undone by a film that demands a good chunk of its tunes carry a Hawaiian flavor. Often, this mid-century Polynesian exotica has its charms -- Elvis croons sweetly on the swaying luaus and everybody involved has the good sense to embrace the project's inherent silliness, letting themselves josh around on deliberate fluff like "Rock-A-Hula Baby" and the vaudevillian rhumba that's "Beach Boy Blues." Both of these are ridiculous but on record, they're slightly preferable to the steady march of island tunes ("Aloha Oe," "Ku-U-I-Po," "Island of Love," "Hawaiian Love Song"), all silver screen corn performed with a bit more panache than they deserve.
Tracklist
[03:25] 01. Elvis Presley - Blue Hawaii (Take 1FS Take 7M)
[03:43] 02. Elvis Presley - Almost Always True (Take 1FS Take 8M)
[02:08] 03. Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe (Take 4FS & Spm)
[03:02] 04. Elvis Presley - No More (Take 1FS Take 13M)
[03:45] 05. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 27FS Take 28FS Take 29M)
[03:12] 06. Elvis Presley - Rock-A-Hula Baby (Take 4FS Take 5M)
[02:31] 07. Elvis Presley - Moonlight Swim (Take 3)
[03:40] 08. Elvis Presley - Ku Ui Po (Take 8LFS Take 9M)
[02:33] 09. Elvis Presley - Ito Eats (Take 6FS Take 7FS Take8Fs Take 9M)
[01:52] 10. Elvis Presley - Slicin' Sand (Take 18LFS Take 19M)
[02:33] 11. Elvis Presley - Hawaiian Sunset (Master)
[03:03] 12. Elvis Presley - Beach Boy Blues (Take 1FS Take 2M)
[03:35] 13. Elvis Presley - Island of Love (Take 11FS Take 12FS Take 13M)
[02:59] 14. Elvis Presley - Hawaiian Wedding Song (Take 2M)
[01:38] 15. Elvis Presley - No More (Take 3LFS)
[02:36] 16. Elvis Presley - No More (Take 9)
[01:00] 17. Elvis Presley - Rock-A-Hula Baby (Take 1FS)
[01:30] 18. Elvis Presley - Ito Eats (Take 1MM Take 3FS)
[03:18] 19. Elvis Presley - Slicin' Sand (Take 15FS Take 16FS Take 17)
[02:07] 20. Elvis Presley - Beach Boy Blues (Take 3MM)
[01:38] 21. Elvis Presley - Island of Love (Take 3FS, Take 5FS, Take 10FS)
[00:59] 22. Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe (Take 2)
[00:59] 23. Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe (Take 3)
[01:19] 24. Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe (Take 5SPM)
[00:54] 25. Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe (Take 7SPM)
[00:47] 26. Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe (Master of Section 2)
[01:45] 27. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 1FS Take 2FS Take 3FS Take 4FS)
[02:08] 28. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 5LSF)
[01:38] 29. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 6FS, Take 7FS)
[01:40] 30. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 8LFS)
[02:16] 31. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 9)
[01:45] 32. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 10FS Take 11FS Take 12FS)
[02:14] 33. Elvis Presley - Cant Help Falling in Love (Take 18FS Take 23MM)