120891bk Marilyn:MASTER BOOK 3+3 NEW 3/1/10 4:08 PM Page 2 1. A Little Girl From Little Rock 3:03 6. Kiss 2:58 11. Heat Wave 4:05 16. The Girl Upstairs 3:55 From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes From Niagara From There’s No Business Like Show Business Theme From The Seven Year Itch (Leo Robin–Jule Styne, special lyrics by (Lionel Newman–Haven Gillespie) (Irving Berlin) (Alfred Newman) Ken Darby & Eliot Daniel) MGM test pressing, mx 53-S-3000 With Chorus Alfred Newman & His Orchestra With Jane Russell Recorded 9 January 1953 RCA Victor EPA 593, mx E4-VH-1081-2S Decca DL 8123 MGM 30784, mx 53-S-3033 7. I’m Gonna File My Claim 2:39 Recorded May 1954 Recorded 19 January 1955 Recorded March 1953 From River Of No Return 12. Lazy 3:34 17. Runnin’ Wild 1:04 2. Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend 3:30 (Ken Darby–Lionel Newman) From There’s No Business Like Show Business From Some Like It Hot From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes With Hal Schaefer, piano (Irving Berlin) (A. Harrington Gibbs–Joe Grey–Leo Wood) (Leo Robin–Jule Styne) RCA Victor 20-5745, mx E4-VB-3140-2 RCA Victor EPA 593, mx E4-VH-1082-1S United Artists UAL 4030 MGM 30784, mx 53-S-3034 Recorded April 9, 1954 Recorded May 1954 Recorded October 1958 Recorded March 1953 8. The River Of No Return 2:17 13. After You Get What You Want (You 18. I Wanna Be Loved By You 2:56 3. When Love Goes Wrong (Nothing From River Of No Return Don’t Want It) 3:34 From Some Like It Hot Goes Right) 3:27 (Ken Darby–Lionel Newman) From There’s No Business Like Show Business (Bert Kalmar–Herbert Stothart–Harry Ruby) From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes With vocal group (Irving Berlin) United Artists UAL 4030 (Hoagy Carmichael–Harold Adamson) RCA Victor 20-5745 RCA Victor EPA 593, mx E4-VH-1082-1S Recorded October 1958 With Jane Russell & Chorus Recorded 9 April 1954 Recorded May 1954 19. I’m Thru With Love 2:31 MGM 30785, mx 53-S-3036 9. Street Scene 2:56 14. She Acts Like A Woman Should 2:46 From Some Like It Hot Recorded March 1953 Featured in How To Marry A Millionaire (Scott) (Gus Kahn–Matty Malneck–Fud Livingston) 4. Bye, Bye Baby 3:27 (Alfred Newman) RCA Victor test pressing United Artists UAL 4030 From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Alfred Newman & The Hollywood Recorded 3 September 1954 Recorded October 1958 (Jule Styne–Leo Robin) Symphony Orchestra 15. A Fine Romance 2:20 20. Some Like It Hot 1:21 With Chorus Majestic 20008, mx T 945 (Dorothy Fields–Jerome Kern) From Some Like It Hot MGM 30786, mx 53-S-3037 Recorded September 1946 RCA Victor test pressing (I. A.L. Diamond–Matty Malneck) Recorded March 1953 10. You’d Be Surprised 3:03 Recorded 3 September 1954 United Artists UAE-10005 5. Do It Again 3:12 From There’s No Business Like Show Business Recorded October 1958 (George Gershwin–Buddy DeSylva) (Irving Berlin) MGM test pressing, mx 53-S-3001 RCA Victor EPA 593, mx E4-VH-1081-2S Marilyn Monroe, vocals except tracks 9 & 16 • Orchestras conducted by Lionel Newman (tracks Recorded 9 January 1953 Recorded May 1954 1–4, 7–8, 10–13); Earle Hagen (5–6); Unknown (14–15); Matty Malneck (17–20) C All tracks recorded in Hollywood Transfers and Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration: Alan Bunting M Records from the collections of David Lennick, John Rutherford and Music Library and Sound Cover image: Lips © Imv / Dreamstime.com Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University Y 5 8.120891 6 8.120891 K 120891bk Marilyn:MASTER BOOK 3+3 NEW 3/1/10 4:08 PM Page 1 track and within a few years, she had her first would keep singing for a while, even in a during the 1920s. serves as a reminder of how Hollywood MARILYN MONROE Love, Marilyn starring role in a turgid melodrama called heavy drama of sexual frustration such as River She didn’t sing a lot in the film, but each trivialized Monroe, asking her to dispense Original 1953–1958 Recordings Niagara, set against the background of the of No Return. (I’m Gonna File My Claim and number was a gem and a prize reminder of the empty commercial sexuality as if it didn’t cost famous falls. the title song.) work Monroe could do at her best. her anything. No one remembers Marilyn Monroe primarily sexiness was sexier and that wry air of self- Monroe’s sexy temptress, with her swinging But Monroe returned to the full musical Runnin’ Wild is the goodtime party girl But it did. A lot. And within three years of as a singer. That would be like recalling mockery, which elevated her above the Jayne hips, captured the public’s imagination and treatment in 1954’s There’s No Business Like with the manic energy, the one enticing you to the release of Some Like It Hot, on 5 August Margaret Thatcher as a fashion model. Mansfields and Mamie Van Dorens of the caused ’30s star Constance Bennett to quip, Show Business, a clumsy attempt to stitch the follow her anywhere and do anything. 1962, she died of a barbituate overdose. The Everyone agrees that Monroe was a world, was served up with added emphasis. “There’s a broad with her future behind her.” Irving Berlin song catalogue onto the soap- I Wanna Be Loved By You is Monroe in jury is still out as to whether it was accidental, gorgeous creature, a superb comedienne, a Marilyn sings on eighteen of the twenty Her erotic pull also came front and centre opera story of a troubled vaudeville family. little girl mode, playing the seductive Lolita intentional, or the work of a third party. potentially great actress and a tragic individual selections presented here, spanning a fairly when she sang Kiss, bringing passionate Straight-shooters like Ethel Merman, Donald card for all it’s worth. Still, she lives on in our hearts, our minds, whose numerous personal problems helped limited period, from 1953 to 1959, but it was longing into what would have been an O’Connor, Dan Dailey and Mitzi Gaynor didn’t And finally, I’m Thru With Love, is our fantasies. Especially when we can hear her bring about her most untimely end. within this window that most of her ordinary song. have a chance once Monroe started shaking Marilyn, the Queen of the Broken Heart, letting sing it her uniquely persuasive style. But you wouldn’t call her one of the great Hollywood vocals were recorded, a period of Monroe’s next outing was, logically enough, her booty in numbers like Heat Wave and us all know how good it is to feel really bad. vocalists of her time. This was the era of Doris time generally acknowledged to contain her a musical, the 1949 stage hit, Gentlemen Prefer After You Get What You Want. There’s also a never-used title song, which Richard Ouzounian Day and Patti Page, bright clear voices without best work. Blondes, with a great ersatz 1920s score by We also have two non-movie-related studio a hint of shadow, girls who wouldn’t know a She was born Norma Jean Baker on 1 June Jule Styne and Leo Robin. recordings from the period, She Acts Like a double meaning if it hit them over the head. 1926, a child who grew up in a series of It made Carol Channing a Broadway star for Woman Should and the not widely circulated Monroe, on the other hand, was all difficult circumstances which included a her daffy portrayal of the gold-digging flapper A Fine Romance. innuendo, a lass who could get more sexual mentally unstable mother and a series of foster Lorelei Lee, but when it got moved to But after this, Monroe plunged into a period undercurrents into a song than anyone since homes, in one of which she was sexually Hollywood, the powers that be decided to of personal confusion and more dramatic films. Also available from Naxos Nostalgia … Mae West. assaulted at the age of twelve. replace Channing with the sexier Monroe. Her short-lived marriage to baseball star Joe No, you can’t picture MM singing “Que Sera, At the age of sixteen, she married a They paired their blonde du jour with the DiMaggio was dissolved so that she could Sera” or “How Much Is That Doggy in the Merchant Marine named James Dougherty, only infinitely earthier Jane Russell and the way the marry Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Window?” but within her own, carefully to divorce him a few years later. She began a two women employ their allure is a study in Miller, another troubled relationship. chosen, very narrow range, she could be very career as a model which led to a series of contrasts. Listen to them in a Hoagy She became known for her temperamental effective. uncredited roles in films, starting with 1947’s Carmichael/Harold Adamson song added for behaviour, her chronic lateness and her often It’s interesting to note that a lot of Monroe The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, but by 1950 she the film, When Love Goes Wrong to discover erratic performances, attributed to the impersonators (of both genders!) zero in on had acquired an agent, Johnny Hyde, her how differently two women can work the increasingly toxic cocktail of pharmaceuticals her musical renditions when they want to trademark platinum blonde tresses and the same room.