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Girls! is a 1962 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaii-based fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. " Return to Sender ", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the film.
As soundtrack album sales far outstripped his regular album sales (Blue Hawaii outselling Pot Luck with Elvis by ten to one) Presley found himself firmly entrenched in songs designed for a light-entertainment formula of beautiful scenery and girls galore. [10] With this discrepancy in sales, the formula of the soundtrack music became the focus.
"My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi", written by Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, and Johnny Noble in Hawaii in 1933, is a Hawaiian song in the Hawaiian musical style known as hapa haole. One of the earliest recordings by Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra reached number one on the charts in 1934. [ 1 ]
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Girls in Hawaii is a Belgian indie pop band. Girls in Hawaii's first release was Found in the Ground: The Winter EP in early 2003, after which the band toured Belgium and France. In the meantime they started recording what would become their first LP.
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The song inspired a line in the Sublime song "Freeway Time in LA County Jail" which reads "And I'm back on the reef/where I throw my net out into the sea/all the fine hinas come swimming to me" Alf sang the chorus in the episode “It’s My Party” (Season 4, Episode 14) of ALF (TV series)
Nora Aunor (1971) on Blue Hawaii [3] Slim Whitman (1977), recorded it on his Home on the Range album; The Melbourne Ukulele Kollective [4] John Ford's 1963 movie Donovan's Reef utilized the song as its opening theme as well as in later scenes. In the 1970s, C&H Sugar used the melody for their jingle