*(1961) RCA ''Hawaiian Sunset'' (AO Take 2 Complete) Elvis Presley

''Hawaiian Sunset'' (M2PB-2994) (Take 2 Complete) (AO 1:00 PM - 11:50 PM) Recorded Tuesday March 21, 1961 at Radio Recorders Studio B, Hollywood, California Name (Or. No of Instruments) General Elvis Presley - Vocals Scotty Moore - Guitar Tiny Timbrell - Guitar Bob Moore - Bass D.J. Fontana - Drums Hal Blaine - Drums Bernie Mattinson - Drums Floyd Cramer - Piano Dudley Brooks - Piano & Celeste Boots Randolph - Saxophone Alvino Rey - Steel Guitar Bernie Lewis - Ukulele Fred Tavares - Ukulele George Field - Harmonica The Jordanaires consisting of Gordon Stoker, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins, and Ray Walker - Backup Vocals The Surfers consisting of Pat Sylva, Bernie Ching, Clay Naluai, and Al Naluani - Backup Vocals Paramount Producer - Joseph Lilley Recording Engineer - Thorne Nogar Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett wrote ''Hawaiian Sunset'' for Elvis’s 1961 movie, ''Blue Hawaii''. Elvis recorded the song on March 21, 1961, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. Sid Tepper (June 25, 1918 - April 24, 2015) was an American songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs. As a youth, Tepper's family moved to Brooklyn, where Tepper met his future musical collaborator, Roy C. Bennett. Their first hit was "Red Roses For A Blue Lady" (1948), recorded by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. Over the next 22 years, the songwriting team wrote for Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Dean Martin, and many more. Tepper and Bennett adjusted well to the advent of rock and roll. In 1961 their song "The Young Ones" was instrumental in boosting the career of Cliff Richard, for whom they wrote 21 compositions. They went on to write 43 songs for Elvis Presley, the most of any songwriter, or song writing team (all related to his movies). In the 1970s Tepper suffered a heart attack, which necessitated the end of his songwriting partnership with Bennett. Tepper retired in Surfside, Florida. In 2002 he and Bennett were honored in Memphis for their part in Elvis Presley's career. Tepper lived in Surfside until 2004, when he moved to Williams Island in Aventura just north of the Miami area. He was honored by the town of Surfside for his works in 2008 as Sid Tepper Day. Tepper died on April 24, 2015, in Miami Beach, Florida, aged 96. Roy C. Bennett (August 12, 1918 - July 2, 2015) was an American songwriter known for the songs he wrote with Sid Tepper, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs. Born as Israel Brodsky into an Eastern European immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York, as a young boy he befriended a newly arrived neighbor, Sid Tepper. Their mutual interest in music led to a successful music collaboration that spanned more than twenty-five years. Bennett graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn, then he studied music at City College of New York. Although blessed with a good singing voice, he chose to pursue his lifelong interest in writing words and music. His career plans were interrupted by World War II, however, when he served with the United States Army Air Forces. After the war he joined ASCAP and worked as a staff writer for Mills Music Inc. (now EMI Mills Music Inc.) Source and more information see: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia *- Digitally Remastered © - Condor Records - ©