Side 1
- Blue Hawaii
- Almost Always True
- Aloha Oe
- No More
- Can’t Help Falling In Love
- Rock-A-Hula Baby
- Moonlight Swim
Side 2
- Ku-u-i-po
- Ito Eats
- Slicin’ Sand
- Hawaiian Sunset
- Beach Boy Blues
- Island Of Love (Kauai)
- Hawaiian Wedding Song
Cover Front: RCA and catalog number upper left corner. Living Stereo and Victor upper right corner, with or without sticker affixed to cover.
Cover Back: Catalog number upper right corner.
Sticker Contains the “Twist” Special ROCK-A-HULA BABY and CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE LPM/LSP-2426
Disc: (1961) Stereo. Black label, RCA logo is silver, “LIVING STEREO” at bottom. Elvis Presley is in small font on bottom. Side 1, the Jordanaires are credited for 1,3-7. On side 2, the Jordanaires are credited for 1-5,7.1
Side 1: M2 PY2998-1S B1 / Side 2: M2 PY2999-1S B1 (Indianapolis pressing)2
Disc: (1961) Stereo. Black label, RCA logo is silver, “LIVING STEREO” at bottom.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-3S / Side 2: M2PY-2999-5S (Hollywood pressing)
Disc: (1963) Stereo. Black label, RCA logo in silver at top and “STEREO” at bottom.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-12S / Side 2: M2PY-2999-12S (Hollywood pressing)
Disc: (1964) Stereo. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. Title in small font. Side 1, track 3, The A in Arr.: is capitalized. and ALOHA-OE has a dot between the words. The Jordanaires are credited for tracks 1,3. Side 2, track 7 on one line. The Jordanaires are credited with tracks 1,3-7. In the statement (from the Hal Wallis Prod. “Blue Hawaii” a Paramount Film) the P in Prod and F in Film are capitalized and “Blue Hawaii” on the first of two lines. The spacing between the song titles and the (from the Hal Wallis Prod. “Blue Hawaii” a Paramount Film) statement are equal throughout.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-12S / Side 2: M2PY-2999-12S (Hollywood pressing)
Disc: (1964) Stereo. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. Title in small font. Side 1, track 3, The A in Arr.: is capitalized. and ALOHA-OE has a dot between the words. The Jordanaires are credited for tracks 1,3. Side 2, track 7 on one line. The Jordanaires are credited with tracks 1,3-7. In the statement (from the Hal Wallis Prod. “Blue Hawaii” a Paramount Film) the P in Prod and F in Film are capitalized and “Blue Hawaii” on the first of two lines. The spacing between the songs are tight with a space between the last song title and the (from the Hal Wallis Prod. “Blue Hawaii” a Paramount Film) statement.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-12S / Side 2: M2PY-2999-12S (Hollywood pressing)
Disc: (1964) Stereo. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. Title in large font. Side 1, track 3, The a in arr.: is not capitalized. and ALOHA OE does not have a dot between the words. The Jordanaires are credited for tracks 1,3-6. Side 2, track 7 on two lines. The Jordanaires are credited with tracks 1-5,7. In the statement (from the Hal Wallis prod. “Blue Hawaii” a Paramount film) the p in prod and f in film are not capitalized and “Blue Hawaii” on the second of two lines.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-15S A1 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-15S A2 (Rockaway pressing)
Side 1: M2PY-2998-15S A2 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-17S (Rockaway pressing)
Disc: (11/1968) Orange label. Rigid vinyl.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-18S A2 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-18S A (machine stamped) (Rockaway pressing)
Side 1: M2PY-2998-18S A3E / Side 2: M2PY-2999-18S B1A (Rockaway pressing)
Cover Front: RCA and catalog number upper left corner. Living Stereo and Victor upper right corner. RE lower left corner. (1971-1977 est.)
Cover Back: Catalog number upper right corner. RE lower left corner. Two variations of the RE. The one on the left is relatively common. The one on the right features a much smaller RE. A comparison of the two demonstrates this significant difference.
Disc: (1970) Orange label. Non-flexible vinyl.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-17S C1 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-20S A2 (Indianapolis pressing)
Side 1: M2PY-2998-20S A1D / Side 2: M2PY-2999-22S A1C (hand etched) (Rockaway pressing)
Disc: (1971) Orange label. Flexible vinyl.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-17S / Side 2: M2PY-2999-16S3
Side 1: M2PY-2998-22S A1 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-22S B2 (Indianapolis pressing)
Disc: (1976) Tan label.
Side 1: M2PY-2998-22S A2 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-22S B1 (Indianapolis pressing)
Disc: (1976) Tan label. Rigid label.4
Side 1: M2PY-2998-22S A4 / Side 2: M2PY-2999-22S B1 (Indianapolis pressing)5
Disc: (1977) Black label, dog near top. Flexible vinyl.
Side A: M2PY-2998-22S A2G6 / Side B: M2PY-2999-24S A1L (Indianapolis pressing)
Side A: M2PY-2998-22S A2 #1 / Side B: M2PY-2999-27S A1 #3 (unknown pressing
Disc: (1977) Black label, dog near top. Rigid vinyl.
Side A: M2PY-2998-23 / Side B: M2PY-2999-26 (hand etched) (unknown pressing S)
Inner Sleeves
To identify the inner sleeve that is most appropriate for each release, look at the Inner Sleeves page on this site.
Also released in monaural as LPM-2426 Blue Hawaii and re-released as AFL1-2426 Blue Hawaii.
Promotional Material
This is a store banner used to promote 14 Great Songs, Elvis’ Big New Album Blue Hawaii, Complete Original Soundtrack Recording, RCA Victor. It features the original stereo cover.6
- Images and discovery from the collection of PIOTRULA (of Poland) ↩
- Matrix numbers from the collection of PIOTRULA (of Poland) ↩
- Matrix numbers from the collection of Shawn O’Grady ↩
- Images and discovery from the collection of Antti V. ↩
- Matrix numbers from the collection of Antti V. ↩
- Images from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩