Marilyn Monroe - The Marilyn Monroe Collection 1949-62 (2018)

Marilyn Monroe was legendarily one of the most iconic personalities of the post-war era, an almost impossibly glamorous film actress and one of the showbiz figures who came to encapsulate the essence of her times and how they are remembered. Best-known, of course, as a film actress, she was also a much-underrated singer, who could turn her hand to a variety of different material when singing in her films, and had a highly individual and seductive vocal style in her sadly somewhat limited studio output. This 34-track 2-CD set brings together most of the extant recorded examples of her performing in a musical environment. Most of these, inevitably and quite reasonably, are performances from the soundtracks of her movies, the primary exceptions being titles she recorded for RCA outside of a movie environment in 1954, and the legendary performance of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in 1962 a few months before her tragic and untimely death. The films from which songs in this collection are taken are Ladies Of The Chorus, Niagara, The French Doll, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, River Of No Return, There's No Business Like Show Business, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, The Prince And The Showgirl, and Some Like It Hot. (It does not include a recording of When I Fall In Love which has sometimes been attributed to Marilyn by other compilers, but is generally recognised as having been performed by Sandra Dee). Its a fascinating and revealing showcase of an aspect of Monroes varied talents and attributes which has sometimes been ignored.

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Ladies of the Chorus - Adele Jergens & Marilyn Monroe
2. Every Baby Needs a Da-da-daddy
3. Anyone Can See I Love You
4. Kiss
5. Do It Again
6. Two Little Girls from Little Rock - Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russel
7. Bye Bye Baby - Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russel
8. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
9. When Love Goes Wrong - Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russel
10. She Acts Like a Woman Should
11. (This Is) a Fine Romance
12. The River of No Return
13. I'm Gonna File My Claim
14. One Silver Dollar
15. Down in the Meadow
16. After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It)
17. Heat Wave

Disc 2

1. A Man Chases a Girl - Donald O'Connor & Marilyn Monroe
2. Lazy
3. You'd Be Surprised
4. Alexander's Ragtime Band/There's No Business Like Show Business - Ethel Merman/Marilyn Monroe/Donald O'Connor & Johnny Ray
5. "Rachmaninov" & "Chopsticks" - Marilyn Monroe & Tom Ewell
6. That Old Black Magic
7. I Found a Dream - Marilyn Monroe & Laurence Olivier
8. I'm Through With Love
9. I Wanna Be Loved By You
10. Running Wild
11. Some Like It Hot
12. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
13. Let's Make Love - Marilyn Monroe & Frankie Vaughan
14. Incurably Romantic - Marilyn Monroe & Yves Montand
15. Incurably Romantic - Marilyn Monroe & Frankie Vaughan
16. Specialization - Marilyn Monroe & Frankie Vaughan
17. Happy Birthday Mr. President/Thanks for the Memory

All thanks to original releaser!