Hawaii Five-O [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

The Ventures | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Magic
• ASIN: B0007XZUCI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,968 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #81 in Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists > Surf Guitar

Track Listings

1. Hawai Five-O

2. Lovin’ Things

3. Galveston

4. Letter

5. Don’T Give In To Him

6. Theme From "A Summer Place"

7. Medley : Spooky/Traces/Stormy

8. Medley : Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Fresh Faitures)

9. Games People Play

10. I Can Hear Music

11. Dizzy

12. Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Bonus Track)

13. Mission Impossible (Bonus Track)

14. Torquay (Bonus Track)

15. Love Is Blue (Bonus Track)

16. Classical Gas (Bonus Track)

17. Raunchy (Bonus Track)

18. Radio Spot "Hawaii Five-O" (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ventures Still Strong In 1969, June 19, 2009

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Erik North (San Gabriel, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hawaii Five-O (Audio CD)

Decades before Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and even well before anyone had heard of Ann and Nancy Wilson, Seattle gave the rock and roll world The Ventures, one of the single most influential rock bands of all time, and perhaps the biggest-selling all-instrumental band ever, with the possible exception of the similar British band The Shadows. With a sound based on tremolo electric guitars and drums, as envisaged on their classic 1960 smash "Walk Don't Run", the Ventures helped pioneer what I call the West Coast Offense of rock, which led inevitably to the Beach Boys, the Byrds, and even the Eagles. And even though they were eclipsed somewhat by the British Invasion in 1964, unlike a lot of early American rock bands, they weren't exactly banished to obscurity, as their albums kept selling at a rapid pace and as more aspiring rock guitarists took from their example.

So here we come to their 1969 album HAWAII FIVE-O, a prime example of what their "formula" is: taking current hits and giving them an instrumental sheen. Given the time this album was released, with psychedelia still the rage and heavy metal beginning to creep into the rock and roll scene, the formula should have been wearing thin, especially since many of the tracks on this album ("Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In"; "Dizzy"; "Galveston") were already big hits for others at exactly the same time. And yet, it is clear that the band, which included Don Wilson, the (now sadly) late Bob Bogle, and Jerry McGee, still had it in spades. The album also included a minor hit in their beach-flavored version of "Theme From A SUMMER PLACE"; and this expanded version includes versions of "Mission Impossible", "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly", and Paul Mauriat's 1968 smash "Love Is Blue."

Of course, the real attraction is the title cut, the theme to the then-burgeoning, soon-to-be-classic CBS crime drama "Hawaii Five-O", composed by Morton Stevens. Done with a somewhat harder sound than their previous hits, and including orchestral brass, "Hawaii Five-O" proved to be an unexpectedly huge hit, cresting at #4 on May 10, 1969 (the only three songs ahead of it on the Billboard Hot 100 that week were "It's Your Thing", by the Isley Brothers; "Hair", by the Cowsills; and the aforementioned "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In", by the Fifth Dimension). Meanwhile, the album itself was a huge seller for the band, reaching #11 on the Billboard Album Chart in June 1969, going Gold by July 1971, and adding to the band's sales totals, not only in America but also (and especially so) in Japan.

This album is one of five dozen albums (and hence, five dozen reasons) that made the case for the Ventures to have been enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More than just a prototypical surf rock band (having formed before the craze took shape, and well outlasting it), this band inspired countless guitarists around the world. This album is a prime example of that.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very Nice Edition, September 27, 2007

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Omar C. Rosado "Ranger medic" (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hawaii Five-O (Audio CD)

I own this title on LP, so whe i saw the presentation for this digipack i was pleased Ireceived on very nice condition the store packed real nice no damages at all, The sound is superb excellent remasterization and bonus tracks are awsome they kept the track list on the same order as the record, at the same time is an import.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2011 not 1968, April 19, 2011

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David M. Gabaldon (Santa Fe, New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hawaii Five-O (Audio CD)

I am reviewing the NEW Hawaii Five-O CD released by the Ventures in 2011. First let me say that I have been a Ventures fan since 1960. The Hawaii Five-O album (no CD's then) was released in 1968. The Ventures used a full orchestra for most if not all of the songs on that album. This was another facet in the Venture's approach to some great music.
As for the "NEW" Hawaii Five-O, it's great. This is the way that Hawaii Five-O should have sounded. More guitar less orchestra. This version has a punch to it, it has a true Ventures groove! The remix is clean and the sound is simply fantastic. The songs have been redone or remixed and all sound great. I have had this in my cd player since I received it a month ago and it has been played constantly!
It sounds fresh. It sounds like a brand new band releasing their first CD. Lots of energy. It sounds great. It sounds like The Ventures!