01. A Fine Romance (This Is) 
02. Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend 
03. Kiss 
04. Do It Again 
05. I'm Gonna File My Claim 
06. Two Little Girls From Little Rock 
07. One Silver Dollar 
08. She Acts Like A Woman Should 
09. You'd Be Surprised 
10. A Man Chases A Girl (Until She Catches Him) 
11. After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It 
12. Anyone Can See I Love You 
13. Down In The Meadow 
14. Heatwave 
15. Bye Bye Baby 
16. The River Of No Return 
17. When Love Goes Wrong 
18. Lazy 
19. That Old Black Magic 
20. Alexanders Ragtime BandThere's No Business Like Showbusiness

Marilyn Monroe (vocals)
Emil Newman (conductor)
Earl Hagen & His Orchestra

Marilyn Monroe, due to the sensual image that surrounded her during her life and given her early death (which meant that she never grew old), is as famous today as she was during her prime. This CD features her singing during 1953-1954, with selections taken from the soundtracks of the movies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (with Jane Russell), There's No Business Like Show Business, and River of No Return, plus a few rare items from recording dates and her famous singing of "Happy Birthday" to John Kennedy in 1962. Monroe was never a great singer, though her vocalizing was functional and certainly full of personality. Her fans will enjoy this disc, which includes such numbers as "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," "Do It Again," "A Fine Romance," "Heat Wave," "River of No Return," and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." ---Scott Yanow, Rovi

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1 	Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend 	
2 	Some Like It Hot 	
3 	My Heart Belongs To Daddy 	
4 	When Love Goes Wrong 	
5 	Bye Bye Baby 	
6 	A Little Girl From Little Rock 	
7 	River Of No Return 	
8 	I'm Gonna Find My Claim 	
9 	She Acts Like A Woman Should 	
10 	Kiss 	
11 	Lazy 	
12 	I Wanna Be Loved By You 	
13 	After You Get What You Want 	
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

Vocals - Marilyn Monroe,  Jane Russell (tracks: 4, 5, 8)

One of the earliest and most enduring sex symbols of Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe was a talented actress who began a career as a model before foraying into films. The product of a broken home, she did not even know the identity of her biological father. Named as Norma Jeane Mortenson at birth, she spent most of her childhood in foster homes as her mother was mentally unstable and incapable of raising her daughter on her own. The little girl endured a harsh childhood marked by abuse and apathy due to which she suffered from several mental problems later in her life. As a young woman she stared modeling for The Blue Book Modeling Agency and soon became a very successful model thanks to her striking beauty and grace. Eventually she moved on to films, initially appearing in minor roles before bagging more substantial ones. She soon developed an image of a sex symbol by appearing without clothes for the ‘Playboy’ magazine. As an actress she acted in several successful films like ‘The Asphalt Jungle’, ‘The Seven Year Itch’, and ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. However the final years of her brief life were marked by mental illnesses and alcoholism. Her life was snuffed out untimely when she was just 36 by an overdose of sleeping pills. ---thefamouspeople.com

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01. Do it again
02. Kiss
03. You'd be surprised
04. A fine romance					play
05. She acts like a woman should
06. Heat wave
07. Diamonds are a girl's best friend
08. A little girl from Little Rock
09. When love goes wrong, nothing goes right
10. Bye, Bye, Baby
11. I'm gonna file my claim
12. River of no return
13. Lazy
14. Running wild
15. I wanna be loved by you
16. I'm through with love
17. My heart belongs to daddy			play
18. Happy birthday to John F. Kennedy 

Few people really think of Marilyn Monroe as a singer, yet she had a unique, engaging voice that was showcased in a number of her films. She was by no means a trained singer, and the quality of her voice varied at times, seemingly dependent upon how comfortable she felt, but all of her magic and spirit was encapsulated in her wholly unique voice. I have a number of Marilyn CDs, but this one, Never Before and Never Again, is by far my favorite. With over seventy minutes of music, this CD covers the spectrum of her entire career, from her incredibly sultry rendition of Kiss from the film Niagara (there is no other song, according to her character in the film) to her delicious recording of Cole Porter's My Heart Belongs To Daddy from Let's Make Love (although this is a studio recording and not the extended version of the song) to her unforgettable May 1962 performance of Happy Birthday for John F. Kennedy in Madison Square Garden. Best of all, this album includes basically the whole soundtrack from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Little Girl From Little Rock (with Jane Russell); Bye Bye Baby; When Love Goes Wrong; Nothing Goes Right (with Jane Russell), and of course the immortal classic Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.

Less familiar Marilyn movies also supply some wonderful tracks. River of No Return was not a movie Marilyn particularly wanted to make, but her rendition of the theme song is touchingly mournful, and the song I'm Gonna File My Claim stands among my favorites, representing Marilyn's voice at its most vibrant. Anyone who enjoyed Marilyn's performances of the songs Heat Wave, Lazy, and You'd Be Surprised from There's No Business Like Show Business will welcome their inclusion here. Of course, Some Like It Hot is not forgotten; not only do you get the Marilyn staple I Wanna Be Loved By You and the poignant I'm Through With Love, you also get the short and sometimes forgotten energetic ditty Running Wild. Gershwin's Do It Again is classic Marilyn, a song combining sultriness and innocence in the way only Marilyn could. Two studio recordings from 1954 are particularly impressive, as well; Do It Again and She Acts Like a Woman Should, both featuring brass band accompaniment, make the album complete. Marilyn Monroe Never Before and Never Again, originally released in 1978, made available several of these tracks for the very first time, and it still stands among the best of a growing number of Marilyn collections. --- Daniel Jolley, amazon.com

Monroe was a great singer and she had some fine material to work with along the way. Sweet, sexy and quite funny too, she was definitely one of a kind.

The main interest here centers around side 1, which contains the five wonderful songs from the classic comedy/musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, where she sings three tunes with the great Jane Russell, a true pin-up if I ever saw one. The ladies in question also get to sing one solo each and of course Monroe's version here of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is both a classic and the definitive interpretation of this wonderful Jule Styne-tune with razor-sharp lyrics by Leo Robin. Russell by the way does a great job on Hoagy Carmichael's and Harold Adamson's raunchy "Ain't There Anyone Here For Love". And all three duets are real firestarters, too. Plus let's not forget how good the film is - a rare treat from the ever so sexually oppressed 1950's.

The B-side of the album is a more mixed bag with songs from different sources, but Monroe's interpretation of Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave" is a winner and the innuendo of "Do It Again!" will make most red-blooded males break out in a sweat.

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CD 1
1. Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
2. Kiss
3. Heat Wave
4. After You Get What You Want, You Dont Want It
5. Every Baby Needs A Da Da Daddy
6. Im Thru With Love
7. Im Gonna File My Claim
8. A Fine Romance					play
9. Anyone Can See I Love You
10.Do It Again
11.I Found A Dream
12.Bye Bye Baby
13.River Of No Return
14.Love Happy
15.Incurably Romantic
16.A Man Chases A Girl
17.Ladies Of The Chorus

CD 2
1. I Wanna Be Loved By You
2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy		play
3. Running Wild
4. Some Like It Hot
5. When Love Goes Wrong Nothing Goes Right
6. Lazy
7. Down In The Meadow
8. One Silver Dollar
9. She Acts Like A Woman Should
10.Specialisation (With Frankie Vaughn)
11.Two Little Girls (Duet With J. Russell)
12.Youd Be Surprised
13.Lets Make Love
14.Happy Birthday Mr. President
15.That Old Black Magic

Norma Jeane Mortenson, better known as Marilyn Monroe was a Golden Globe Award-winning American Hollywood legend, movie star, actress, singer, model and pop icon. She became known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s. Later in her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success. However, long-standing problems were exacerbated by disappointments in both her career and personal life during her later years. Her death has been subject to speculation and conspiracy theories.

Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled glow and energy that enamored the world. Although she was an alluring beauty with voluptuous curves and a generous pout, Marilyn was more than a '50s sex goddess. Her apparent vulnerability and innocence, in combination with an innate sensuality, has endeared her to the global consciousness. She dominated the age of movie stars to become, without question, the most famous woman of the 20th Century.

Monroe was a shimmering on-screen presence - luminous, sensual and larger-than-life. Certain cinematic images, such as her skirt billowing above the subway in Seven Year Itch, or her dressed in a vivid pink gown singing “Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend”, have become iconic. She was a gifted comic actress, with an instinctive feel for timing. And she projected a smouldering sexuality that was revolutionary in the repressive 1950s.

What she is less remembered for is her singing career, but, as this collection shows, she carried it off with aplomb. Monroe was the ultimate showgirl. Witness her playing her ukelele and giving a raucous rendition of “Running Wild” in Some Like It Hot, or wiggling her way through “A Little Girl From Little Rock” with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

But as with her acting, Monroe was underrated as a vocalist, perceived by many to be the archetypal `dumb blonde’. Her singing voice wasn’t perfect, but it was expressive, seductive and theatrical. Why else has “I Wanna Be Loved By You” become such a classic, regularly used in advertising and TV? Monroe's voice suggests mood and glamour, something that she worked hard to create

Monroe proved she could carry a big-budget film when she received star billing for Niagara in 1953. Movie critics focused on Monroe's connection with the camera as much as on the sinister plot. She played the part of an unbalanced woman of easy virtue who is planning to murder her husband.

Around this time, nude photos of Monroe began to surface, taken by photographer Tom Kelley when she had been struggling for work. Prints were bought by Hugh Hefner and in December 1953 appeared in the first edition of Playboy. To the dismay of Fox, Monroe decided to publicly admit it was indeed her posing in the pictures. To a journalist asking what she had on during the photoshoot, she replied: “The radio.” When asked what she wore in bed, she famously said: “Chanel No. 5.”

Over the following months, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire cemented Monroe's status as an A-list screen actress and she became one of the world's biggest movie stars. The lavish Technicolor comedy films established Monroe's “dumb blonde” on-screen persona.

In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monroe's turn as the gold-digging showgirl Lorelei Lee won her rave reviews and the scene where she sings “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend” has had an impact on popular culture, inspiring the likes of Madonna and Kylie Minogue. In the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Monroe and co-star Jane Russell pressed their foot and handprints in the cemented forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

In How to Marry a Millionaire, Monroe was teamed up with Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable. She played a short-sighted dumb blonde, and even though the role was stereotypical, critics took note of her comedic timing.

The first film to be made under the contract was Bus Stop, directed by Joshua Logan. She performed the role of ChÃrie, a saloon bar singer who falls in love with a cowboy. Monroe deliberately appeared badly made-up and non-glamorous.

She was nominated for a Golden Globe for the performance and praised by critics. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times proclaimed: “Hold on to your chairs, everybody, and get set for a rattling surprise. Marilyn Monroe has finally proved herself an actress.” In his autobiography, Movie Stars, Real People and Me, Director Joshua Logan said, “I found Marilyn to be one of the great talents of all time....She struck me as being a much brighter person than I had ever imagined, and I think that was the first time I learned that intelligence and, yes brilliance have nothing to do with education.”

Monroe formed her own production company with friend and photographer Milton H. Greene. Marilyn Monroe Productions released its first and only film The Prince and the Showgirl in 1957 to mixed reviews. Along with executive-producing the film, she starred opposite the acclaimed British actor Laurence Olivier, who directed it.

While Monroe's reputation in the film industry for being difficult grew, her performance was hailed by critics, especially in Europe, where she was handed the David di Donatello, the Italian equivalent of the Academy Award, as well as the French Crystal Star Award. She was also nominated for the British BAFTA award.

In 1959 she scored the biggest hit of her career starring alongside Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot. After shooting finished, Wilder publicly blasted Monroe for her difficult on-set behavior. Soon, however, Wilder's attitude softened, and he hailed her a great comedienne. Some Like It Hot is consistently rated as one of the best films ever made. Monroe's performance earned her a Golden Globe for best actress in musical or comedy. The New York Times proclaimed Monroe a “talented comedienne.”

After Some Like It Hot, Monroe shot Let's Make Love directed by George Cukor and co-starring Yves Montand. Monroe, Montand and Cukor all considered the script subpar, yet Monroe was forced to shoot the picture because of her obligations to Twentieth Century-Fox. While the film was not a commercial or critical success, it included one of Monroe's legendary musical numbers, Cole Porter's “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”.

In May 1962, she made her last significant public appearance, singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” at a televised birthday party for President John F. Kennedy. Monroe conducted a lengthy interview with Life, in which she expressed how bitter she was about Hollywood labeling her as a dumb blonde and how much she loved her audience. She also did a photo shoot for Vogue, and began discussing a future film project with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, as stated in the Donald Spoto biography. Furthermore, she was planning to star in a biopic as Jean Harlow. Other projects being considered for her were What a Way to Go and a musical version of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.

Before the shooting of Something's Got to Give resumed, Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home, on the morning of August 5, 1962. She remains one of the 20th century's most legendary public figures and archetypal Hollywood movie stars.

---Ella Fitzgerald credited Monroe with helping her break the colour barrier and launching her career into the mainstream. “It was because of [Marilyn Monroe] that I played the [heretofore segregated] Mocambo. She personally called the owner ... and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him and it was true, due to Marilyns superstar status that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman a little ahead of her time. And didn't she know it.” ---musicians.allaboutjazz.com

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