South Pacific (Decca album)

South Pacific
Compilation album by Bing Crosby
Released Original 78 album: 1949[1]
Recorded 1949
Genre Popular
Label Decca
Bing Crosby chronology
Bing Crosby Sings Songs By George Gershwin
(1949)		 South Pacific
(1949)		 Christmas Greetings
(1949)

South Pacific is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Ella Fitzgerald and Evelyn Knight released in 1949 featuring songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, South Pacific. The album was placed 8th in Billboard's chart of best-selling popular record albums in July 1949.[2]

Track listing

The songs were featured on a 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album A-714.[3]

Disc 1: (24609)

  1. "Bali Ha'i", recorded March 10, 1949, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra[4]
  2. "Some Enchanted Evening", recorded March 10, 1949, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra[4]

Disc 2: (24637)

  1. "There Is Nothing Like a Dame", recorded April 18, 1949, Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra.
  2. "Honey Bun", recorded April 18, 1949, Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra.[5]

Disc 3: (24640)

  1. "A Wonderful Guy", recorded April 25, 1949, Evelyn Knight with Victor Young and His Orchestra
  2. "A Cock-Eyed Optimist", recorded April 25, 1949, Evelyn Knight with Victor Young and His Orchestra.[5]

Disc 4: (24639)

  1. "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair", recorded April 27, 1949, Ella Fitzgerald with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra
  2. "Happy Talk", recorded April 27, 1949, Ella Fitzgerald with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra.[5]

LP release

The songs from the album were subsequently released on a 10" vinyl long-playing record (DL 5207) in 1951[6] and the LP achieved 10th. position in the album charts.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://lccn.loc.gov/00728333
  2. ↑ "Billboard". Billboard. July 23, 1949.
  3. ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "A Bing Crosby Discography". A Bing Crosby Discography. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "78 Discography". 78discography.com. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  6. ↑ "BSN PUBS". bsnpubs.com. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  7. ↑ Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn's Top LP's, 1945 - 1972. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 39.
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