RARE MARILYN MONROE78 DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

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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"

Marilyn Monroe -Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend

DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

The French were bred to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But Diamonds are a girl's best friend

A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These 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 lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend

I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

And I think affairs that you must keep laconic
Are better bets if little pets get big baggettes
Time rolls on and youth is gone
And you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back or stiff knees
You 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 Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. 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 alone
every post meridian
and I'll read my diary
and that book by Mister Gideon.

Bye, bye, baby
remember you're my baby
when they give you the eye,
and just to show that I care
I will write and declare
that I'm on the loose
but I'm still on the square.

I've been lonely
but even though I'm lonely
there'll be no other guy.
Though I'll be gone for a while
I know that I'll be smiling
with my baby by and by
with my baby by and by.

I'll be gloomy
but send that rainbow to me
then my shadows will fly.
Though you'll be gone fo a while
I know that I'll be smiling
with 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 -  EX+   

ALSO COMES IN AN ORIGINAL MGM SLEEVE  -  NICE !!!!

CLASSIC MARILILYN MONROE 78

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