Blue Hawaii Songwriting Credits by Elvis Presley

Blue Hawaii is the seventeenth studio album by Elvis Presley, released in October 1961 on RCA Victor Records and produced by Steve Sholes. It is the soundtrack to the United Artists film of the same name, which became the highest-grossing film of Presley's career, and an album that spent 20 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, making it the longest-charting number-one album of Presley's career. Presley did not write any of the 14 tracks; the album's Hawaii-themed material, including 'Can't Help Falling in Love' (Presley's most enduringly associated ballad), 'Rock-A-Hula Baby,' and the title track, gave the tropical setting a commercial pop-folk framework that differed significantly from his rock and roll origins but demonstrated his ability to inhabit a mainstream adult entertainment format. 'Can't Help Falling in Love' (based on Giovanni Martini's 'Plaisir d'amour') reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the most recognizable songs of the era, used by Presley as a concert closer for the remainder of his career. Blue Hawaii has been certified five-times platinum in the United States and is the definitive commercial document of the film-era Presley, an artist who had traded the creative volatility of his Sun period for a commercially dominant but artistically constrained entertainment format. The album's success also fixed the pattern of film-soundtrack albums as Presley's primary commercial vehicle through the remainder of the 1960s.