Marilyn Monroe
The Very Best Of
Marilyn Monroe (1999)

Although film actress and Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of a large number of albums, she rarely stepped into a recording studio to make a commercial recording and only appeared in five real movie musicals (with a few other musical performances in her straight films), making for a total record and soundtrack output of less than three dozen titles that are recycled endlessly along with bits of movie dialogue and radio and TV appearances on the frequent reissues. Nevertheless, she had a good voice that matched her seductive visual appeal, and her limited catalog includes effective interpretations of the work of such songwriters as Harold Adamson and Hoagy Carmichael; Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer; Irving Berlin; Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen; Cole Porter; and Leo Robin and Jule Styne.

Monroe was the illegitimate daughter of Edward Mortenson (who abandoned her mother before her birth and died in a motorcycle accident when she was three years old) and Gladys Pearl (Monroe) Baker, a film cutter. Her mother was mentally unstable and was institutionalized when the child was five, leaving her to a succession of orphanages and foster homes. At 16 in 1942, she married Jim Dougherty, an aircraft plant worker who soon enlisted in the merchant marine as his participation in World War II. Left alone, she joined the war effort by taking a job as a paint sprayer at the Radio Plane Company. There she was spotted by a photographer on assignment for Yank magazine to take pictures of women in the defense industry, and the resulting photographs led her to a career in modeling; she divorced her husband in 1946. The same year, she was signed to a one-year contract at 20th Century Fox, where she changed her name and took acting, singing, and dancing lessons. Monroe was given tiny parts in a couple of Fox films, then dropped. Columbia Pictures signed her in March 1948 and gave her her first important role in a B-picture, the musical Ladies of the Chorus (1949), in which she had two featured songs, "Anyone Can See" and "Ev'ry Baby Needs a Da-Da-Daddy," both written by Allan Roberts and Lester Lee. She was then dropped by Columbia and, in financial straits, accepted an offer to pose nude for a calendar; she was paid 50 dollars. She got small parts in films on a freelance basis in 1949 and 1950, including Love Happy, the last Marx Brothers movie, and the acclaimed dramas The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. In 1951, she returned to Fox with a seven-year contract and appeared in supporting roles in nine films over the next two years.

Born:	Norma Jean Mortenson on Jun 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, CA
Died:	Aug 5, 1962 in Los Angeles, CA

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Sample Rate:		44.1 KHz
Sample Size:		16 bit

Audio Quality:		Perfect (Lossless)
Grabber:		Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1
Encoder:		Flac 1.2.1
Encoder Settings:	High	
Contains:		Album Art, CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
Cue File:		Yes
Log File:		No*

Format:			Flac
Source:			CD		
Genre:			Vocal			
Year: 			1999	
Label: 			Cleopatra


*Note: I did not include the log file in the torrent for technical reasons, so I have included it here with the torrent description. Just copy and paste it into a notepad.

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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010

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Marilyn Monroe / The Very Best Of Marilyn Monroe

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01 Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
02 Some Like It Hot
03 My Heart Belongs To Daddy
04 When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right
05 Bye Bye Baby
06 A Little Girl From Little Rock
07 River Of No Return
08 I'm Gonna File My Claim
09 She Acts Like A Woman Should
10 Kiss
11 Lazy
12 I Wanna Be Loved By You
13 After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It
14 You'd Be Surprised
15 Heat Wave
16 Happy Birthday Mr. President
17 When I Fall In Love
18 A Fine Romance
19 Do It Again
20 Down In The Meadow


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