I love the way Alec Baldwin flubs his lines. The male chorus though is just outstanding. Carnagie Hall 2005.
The movie is good too.
South Pacific (Collector’s Edition)
And to get you in the proper mood may I suggest this history.
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
and
Tales of the South Pacific
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Just picked up James Hornfischer’s latest, Neptune’s Inferno, which is about the naval element of the Guadalcanal campaign. While it may be a controversial topic to many historians of the ground and air combat elements (especially to those who accept the claim that the Navy “abandoned” the Marines), Hornfischer makes the point that for every Marine death on the island, there were three sailors dying on the surrounding waters.
Without doubt the campaign saw the hardest fought surface battles on the war, including the only pure battleship-on-battleship engagement of the Pacific. The naval historian Paul S. Dull, in his Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, called one of the battles “horrific,” and then included a long footnote making the case that he did not select that word idly or for hyperbole.