Artist: Carol Channing
Author: Jule Styne/Leo Robin
Label: Columbia
Year: 1949
With Milton Rosenstock's orchestra. Cast as Lorelei Lee in musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Adapted from Anita Loos' bestseller based on her The Lorelei Stories (Sex & The City in the roaring 20s) and first staged in Chicago as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by herself in 1926, followed by a sequel one year later: But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. The first film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes followed in 1928, with Ruth Taylor as Lorelei Lee, who sure enough married a billionaire soon. In 1949, the stage play was reworked into a musical.
Covers:
Marilyn Monroe [in film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]
Dora Bryan [in London cast]
Nicole Kidman-Jim Broadbent-Caroline O'Connor-Natalie Mendoza & Lara Mulcahy [as Sparkling Diamonds in film Moulin Rouge]
Author Jule Styne also wrote Three Coins In The Fountain and Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow.
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