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Line 48: }} '''"Blue Hawaii"''' is a [[popular music\|popular]] song written by [[Leo Robin]] and [[Ralph Rainger]] for the 1937 [[Paramount Pictures]] film ''[[Waikiki Wedding]]'', starring [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Shirley Ross]]. Crosby recorded a version with backing by [[Lani McIntyre]] and His Hawaiians, which was released in [[1937 in music\|1937]]<ref>[http://tsort.info/music/yr1937.htm Songs from the Year 1937]</ref> as the B-side of "[[Sweet Leilani]].". This reached the No. 5 spot in the charts of the day during a 13-week-stay <ref>{{cite book\|last1=Whitburn\|first1=Joel\|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954\|date=1986\|publisher=Record Research Inc\|location=Wisconsin, USA\|isbn=0-89820-083-0\|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/106 106]\|url-access=registration\|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/106}}</ref> The song subsequently received numerous cover versions, most successfully as the title track of the 1961 [[Blue Hawaii\|Elvis Presley film]], the [[Blue Hawaii (soundtrack)\|soundtrack]] of which stayed at #1 on the [[Billboard 200\|album chart]] for twenty consecutive weeks.

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