Description
DESCRIPTION
Marlene Dietrich was one of the most enduring and iconic stars of the 20th century, re-inventing herself as a stage actress, silent movie actress, and then a movie star whose exotic persona made her one of the highest-paid screen performers of the 30s and '40s, before becoming singer who commanded the concert stage with ease in her later career. Having made her mark in Germany in her early career, she turned to Hollywood during the 1930s spurning lucrative offers by Germany's Nazi government to return there and took US citizenship in 1937. All through her film career, she made notable musical contributions, and she built a legitimate career as a studio and 'live' singer, with a highly individual and recognisable vocal style to match her striking looks and image. This great-value 51-track 2-CD selects a representative range of her recordings, encompassing her film performances, commercial studio recordings (some of which were of her movie songs) and 'live' recordings, which combine to showcase the breadth of her talent and repertoire. It includes her duet recordings with Rosemary Clooney, which gave a her her only chart hit with "Too Old To Cut The Mustard", selected tracks from her albums "Marlene Dietrich Overseas", "Live at the Café de Paris", "Live In Rio" and "Wiedersehen Mit Marlene" and from her collaboration with Burt Bacharach in the late '50s and early '60s which added another dimension to her oeuvre. It features songs or recordings from the films "The Blue Angel", "Morocco", "Blonde Venus", "Desire", "Seven Sinners", "Destry Rides Again", "Manpower", "A Foreign Affair", "Rancho Notorious", "I Am A Camera", "Monte Carlo Story", "Witness For The Prosecution". It's a fascinating and enjoyable celebration of unique and distinctive star.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Falling in Love Again (1930)
2 Naughty Lola
3 Peter
4 Jonny
5 Quand L'amour Meurt
6 Give Me the Man
7 You Little So and So
8 Assez
9 Moi, Je M'ennuie
10 If It Isn't Pain (Then It Isn't Love)
11 Three Sweethearts Have I
12 Awake in a Dream
13 I've Been in Love Before
14 You Do Something to Me
15 You've Got That Look
16 You Go to My Head
17 Falling in Love Again (1939)
18 See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have
19 The Man's in the Navy
20 He Lied and I Listened
21 Lili Marlene
22 Symphonie
23 Illusions
24 Black Market
25 Sag Mir Adieu (Time on My Hands)
- Disc 2 -
1 Ich Hab' Die Ganze Nacht Geweint (I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last
2 Get Away, Young Man
3 Too Old to Cut the Mustard
4 Good for Nothin'
5 Come Rain or Come Shine
6 Love Me
7 Time for Love
8 Look Me Over Closely
9 Dot's Nice - Donna Fight
10 It's the Same
11 Besides - He's a Man
12 Land Sea and Air
13 La Vie en Rose
14 The Laziest Gal in Town
15 Ich Hab' Noch Einen Koffer in Berlin
16 Back Home Again in Indiana
17 Near You
18 Another Spring, Another Love
19 I May Never Go Home Anymore
20 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
21 Das Lied Ist Aus (Don't Ask Me Why)
22 Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte
23 Cherche la Rose
24 Marie Marie
25 Où Vont Les Fleurs
26 Déjeuner Du Matin
