Volume 243: Hi-Fi Hawaii

2025-08-24

Beautiful Hawaiian Music This is episode eleventeen hundred three thousand and forty-three of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. I might as well say anything I want anymore, because according to the liner notes on this album, the featured artist played all 32 instruments and sings like Bing Crosby. While the singer’s voice does bear a remarkable resemblance to der Bingle, I had two Artificial Intelligence platforms arguing about if anything about Jack La Delle is real. While I’ll of course cover that story in a while, ...

Beautiful Hawaiian Music

This is episode eleventeen hundred three thousand and forty-three of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl.

I might as well say anything I want anymore, because according to the liner notes on this album, the featured artist played all 32 instruments and sings like Bing Crosby.

While the singer’s voice does bear a remarkable resemblance to der Bingle, I had two Artificial Intelligence platforms arguing about if anything about Jack La Delle is real.

While I’ll of course cover that story in a while, there is no mistaking the beauty of the music on this record, which I can only prove - through photos and videos for myself - the beauty of the island nation it represents.

So get ready to hang loose, hang ten, then bid a sweet aloha in Volume 243: Hi-Fi Hawaii.

For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.

Credits and copyrights

Jack La Delle – Hawaiian Holiday In Hi-Fi
Label: Design Records – DLP 53
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1958
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country

We will hear 6 of the 10 tunes on this album.

Blue Hawaii
written by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
First recorded by Jack Denny and His Orchestra - Vocal by Sonny Schuyler on February 19, 1937.

Sweet Leilani
written by Harry Owens
First recording by Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by The Debutantes and Muzzy Marcellino on February 19, 1937

Song Of Old Hawaii
written by Johnny Noble, Gordon Beecher
First released by Al Kealoha Perry and His Singing Surfriders on August 15, 1938

Na lei o Hawaii (Song Of The Islands)
written by Charles E. King
First released by R. K. Holstein and Octette on June 1916.

Sing Me A Song Of The Islands
written by Mack Gordon, Harry Owens
First recording by Ray Kinney and His Hawaiian Musical Ambassadors on December 19, 1941. It was released January 30 of 42.

Aloha Oe
written by Liliuokalani
First recording by Quartet of Hawaiian Girls from Kawaihao Seminary on July 1, 1904

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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