Sunday, June 14, 2020

Beautiful Hawaii by Dennis Music


Beautiful Hawaii: The Most Beautiful Hawaiian Songs (a.k.a. Aloha Hawaii 1) (a.a.k.a Greetings From Hawaii 1) is a compilation of licensed Dennis Music tracks preformed by George De Fretes and The Royal Hawaiian Minstrels & also The Hawaiian Serenaders. It was released in 1991 by Peter's Music Factory as part of their "World Music Collection." Many of these tracks were used as stock music in the animated television program Spongebob Squarepants. PMF Records ‎– 90 533-2.

Track Listing:

  1. Welcome To Hawaii*
    • Hawaiian Pussycat
    • Nostalgic Hawaii
  2. Honolulu Salute*
    • Mama E
    • Paradise Isle
  3. Kaili Aloha
    • Aloha Honolulu
  4. Surfin' And Waving
  5. Tropical Palmbeach
  6. Hilo March*
    • Grass Skirts Blowing
  7. Samoa Hula*
    • Sunny Samoa
  8. Aloha To You*
    • Kaili Aloha
  9. On The Isle
  10. Sarinade 
  11. Djau dari
  12. Hawaiian Blues*
    • Lonely On The Beach
* = Used In Spongebob Squarepants

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Bobby McFerrin by Bobby McFerrin


Fresh off his success from this 1988 single "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin was tapped by Pixar to compose the backing track to their 1989 short Knick Knack. McFerrin did the music for free, citing that doing the project would "be fun." The music for Knick Knack has never been released commercially. However it was released as part of a Bobby McFerrin promotional CD by Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) in 2004.

The Promo CD contains five complete songs by McFerrin, and 17 samples of his other work. The five songs are:

  1. KickKnack
  2. Don't Worry Be Happy (Extended Version)
  3. Invocation
  4. Kalimba Suite
  5. Baby I Love You
The snippets are not included in this file, but if you want to listen to them, they are:
  1. Common Threads
  2. Thinkin' About Your Body
  3. Bang!Zoom
  4. Grace
  5. Stars
  6. Hush Little Baby
  7. Goodbye
  8. Drive
  9. Circlesong 7
  10. Medicine Man
  11. Simple Pleasures
  12. Anantarivo
  13. Humph!
  14. The Train
  15. All I Want
  16. Yes, You
  17. Remembrance