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RARE MARILYN MONROE 78 DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND/ BYE BYE BABY MGM 663 E
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April 14, 2024
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April 14, 2023
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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS ABSOLUTE CLASSIC 78 FROM MARILYN MONROE
"DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND"
b/w "BYE BYE BABY"
from the film "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES"
DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIENDThe French were bred to die for loveThey delight in fighting duelsBut I prefer a man who livesAnd gives expensive jewelsA kiss on the hand may be quite continentalBut Diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rentalOn your humble flat, or help you at the automatMen grow cold as girls grow oldAnd we all lose our charms in the endBut square-cut or pear-shapedThese rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
...Tiffany's ... Cartier...Talk to me, Harry Winston,tell me all about it!There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyerBut diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employerThinks you're awful niceBut get that ice or else no diceHe's your guy when stocks are highBut beware when they start to descendIt's then that those louses go back to their spousesDiamonds are a girl's best friend
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonicBut diamonds are a girl's best friend
And I think affairs that you must keep laconicAre better bets if little pets get big baggettesTime rolls on and youth is goneAnd you can't straighten up when you bendBut stiff back or stiff kneesYou stand straight at Tiffany's
Diamonds... Diamonds...- I don't mean rhinestones -But Diamonds, Are A Girl's Best Freind
The song is perhaps most famously performed by in the 1953 film . Monroe's character, Lorelei Lee, has been followed on a Transatlantic ocean liner by a detective hired by her fiance's father, who wants assurance that she is not marrying purely for money. He is informed of compromising pictures taken with a British diamond mine owner and cancels her letter of credit before she arrives in France, requiring her to work in a nightclub to survive. Her fiance arrives at the cabaret to see her perform this song, about exploiting men for riches. Diamonds are an element in another story line in the movie, in which Lorelei is given a diamond tiara by the mine owner, in gratitude for her recovering the photographs.
BYE BYE BABY(Music by Jules Styne / Lyrics by Leo Robin)Marilyn Monroe
I'll be in my room aloneevery post meridianand I'll read my diaryand that book by Mister Gideon.
Bye, bye, babyremember you're my babywhen they give you the eye,and just to show that I careI will write and declarethat I'm on the loosebut I'm still on the square.
I've been lonelybut even though I'm lonelythere'll be no other guy.Though I'll be gone for a whileI know that I'll be smilingwith my baby by and bywith my baby by and by.
I'll be gloomybut send that rainbow to methen my shadows will fly.Though you'll be gone fo a whileI know that I'll be smilingwith my baby by and by.
DISC DETAILS
UK MGM 663 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
A SIDE:- DIAMOND'S ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
B SIDE:- BYE BYE BABY
CONDITION = E - EXCELLENT
VERY NICE
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