Marilyn Monroe - Blonde Bombshell Collection (Remastered) '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. I Wanna Be Loved by You (Remastered)
02. Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend (Remastered)
03. The River of No Return (Remastered)
04. Happy Birthday, Mr. President (Remastered)
05. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Remastered)
06. Im Through with Love (Remastered)
07. Anyone Can See I Love You (Remastered)
08. Do It Again (Remastered)
09. Kiss (Remastered)
10. Two Little Girls from Little Rock (Remastered)
11. Bye Bye Baby (Remastered)
12. When Love Goes Wrong (Nothing Goes Right) (Remastered)
13. (This Is) a Fine Romance (Remastered)
14. She Acts Like a Woman Should (Remastered)
15. Im Gonna File My Claim (Remastered)
16. One Silver Dollar (Remastered)
17. Down in the Meadow (Remastered)
18. After You Get What You Want You Wont Want It (Remastered)
19. Lazy (Remastered)
20. Youd Be Surprised (Remastered)
21. Rachmaninov - Chopsticks (Remastered)
22. That Old Black Magic (Remastered)
23. I Found a Dream (Remastered)
24. Some Like It Hot (Remastered)
25. Lets Make Love (Remastered)
26. Incurably Romantic (Remastered)
27. Specialisation (Remastered)


 Read MoreShe was finally given a substantial part in the thriller Niagra,
released in January 1953, and she also got to sing a song in the film, Lionel
Newman and Haven Gillespies Kiss. In the summer of 1953, Monroe co-starred with
Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a movie adaptation of the Broadway
musical with songs by Jule Styne and Leo Robin. She made a strong impression,
singing A Little Girl From Little Rock, Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend, and
Bye Bye Baby from the original show score as well as When Love Goes Wrong
(Nothin Goes Right), written by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson for the
film. She proved herself up to the vocal demands for the most part, though Marni
Nixon, Hollywoods most prominent ghost singer, dubbed in some notes for her. MGM
Records released a 10 LP soundtrack album.

With the release of the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire in November and the
December publication of the inaugural issue of Playboy magazine, which contained
her 1949 nude photographs, only adding to her celebrity, Monroe became a major
star in 1953. She capped her fame by wedding retired baseball player Joe
DiMaggio on January 14, 1954, though the marriage lasted less than a year,
ending in divorce on October 27. Monroes ascent to stardom led to a recording
contract with RCA Victor Records. Her next film was the Western drama River of
No Return, released in April 1954, but she managed to sing four songs in it, One
Silver Dollar, Im Gonna File My Claim, Down in the Meadow, and the title song,
all written by Lionel Newman and Ken Darby. Her studio recording of River of No
Return for RCA briefly appeared in the singles charts in July. In December, she
had a co-starring role in Theres No Business Like Show Business, a major movie
musical starring Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey and also featuring Donald OConnor,
Mitzi Gaynor, and Johnnie Ray. The movie was an anthology film of the music of
Irving Berlin, and Monroe sang the newly written A Man Chases a Girl with
OConnor as well as the vintage Berlin songs Youd Be Surprised, After You Get
What You Want, You Dont Want It, Lazy, and Heat Wave. Decca Records released a
10 soundtrack LP from the film, but Monroes contract with RCA precluded her
participation in it; her parts were replaced by Dolores Gray, and RCA released
its own EP of Monroe singing her songs from the film.

Monroe worked less frequently after 1954, attempting to take greater control of
her career. After the spring 1955 release of the comedy The Seven Year Itch (in
which she played Chopsticks on the piano with co-star Tom Ewell), she didnt work
for a year. In the interim, she married playwright Arthur Miller on June 29,
1956. She gave one of her strongest performances in Bus Stop, released in the
summer of 1956, in which she played a saloon singer who performed a sultry
version of Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercers 1942 song That Old Black Magic. The
Prince and the Showgirl, released in the spring of 1957, gave her the
opportunity to sing Richard Addinsell and Christopher Hassalls I Found a Dream.
Another lengthy layoff ensued before Monroe returned to outright musical comedy
with Paramounts Some Like It Hot in 1959. The films 1929 setting and Monroes
casting as band singer Sugar Kane gave her three musical numbers, all period
songs: A. Harrington Gibbs, Joe Grey, and Leo Woods 1922 tune Runnin Wild!;
Harry Ruby, Herbert Stothart, and Bert Kalmars 1928 standard I Wanna Be Loved by
You; and Matt Malneck, Fud Livingston, and Gus Kahns slightly anachronistic 1931
hit Im Through With Love. United Artists Records released a soundtrack album and
even issued a Monroe single of I Wanna Be Loved by You/Im Through with Love.
Monroe returned to Fox for Lets Make Love, released in the summer of 1960. She
played an off-Broadway actress wooed by a billionaire played by Yves Montand in
her final movie musical, and got to sing a trio of Sammy Cahn-James Van Heusen
songs, Lets Make Love, Specialization, and Incurably Romantic, in addition to a
revival of Cole Porters My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Columbia Records released the
soundtrack album. Monroe next filmed The Misfits, a drama written by her
husband, but she and Miller divorced in January 1961 shortly before the movie
was released.

Her next and last musical appearance occurred in May 1962, when she led the
audience at Madison Square Garden in a rendition of Happy Birthday to President
John F. Kennedy. She had flown in from Los Angeles where she was shooting
Somethings Got to Give with Dean Martin, and it was absences like that which led
Fox to fire her from the picture. On August 5, 1962, she was found dead of an
overdose of barbiturates that may have been either an accident or suicide.

Theres No Business Like Show Business: The CollectionIn the fall of 1962, 20th
Fox Records released Marilyn, an album of soundtrack recordings from her films
Theres No Business Like Show Business, River of No Return, and Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes. It spent more than two months in the charts. The album was reissued in
1972 in a TV offer under the title Remember Marilyn. Around the same time, the
Legends label released an album called Marilyn Monroe that included everything
from film excerpts to a television commercial and Monroes performance of Happy
Birthday. The album was reissued by Sandy Hook Records under the title Rare
Recordings 1948-1962 in the 1980s. Starting in the 1990s, many small labels,
especially overseas, released CDs that repackaged the same material. Monroes
fame has only increased since her death, making such albums popular despite
their repetitiousness and often inferior quality. In 1998, Varese Sarabande
released a version of the soundtrack of Theres No Business Like Show Business
including Monroes performances for the first time; the same year, Rykodisc
reissued an expanded version of the soundtrack to Some Like It Hot. Marilyn
Monroes singing constitutes a limited but significant part of her overall appeal
as a performer. Especially because there is a tendency to focus on her fame and
her troubled life over her actual work, it is worth listening to as an example
of the real talent she brought to her performances. ~ William Ruhlmann

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