Recorded 1949 Artist Bing Crosby Label Decca Records | Length 21:12 Release date 1949 Genre Traditional pop music | |
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Released Original 78 album: 1949 South Pacific
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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.
Contents
Track listing
The songs were featured on a 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album A-714. All music by Richard Rodgers; all lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
LP release
The songs from the album were subsequently released on a 10" vinyl long-playing record (DL 5207) in 1951 and the LP achieved 10th. position in the album charts.
Songs
Disc 3 (24640): recorded April 25 - 1949 - Evelyn Knight with Victor Young and His Orchestra
Happy Talk3:15
Disc 4 (24639): recorded April 27 - 1949 - Ella Fitzgerald with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra