Her first long-playing album was Marlene Dietrich Overseas, was a prestige success for Columbia Records in 1950.[1] She also recorded several duets with Rosemary Clooney in the early 1950s: these tapped into a younger market and charted.[2] During the 1960s, Dietrich recorded several albums and many singles, mostly with Burt Bacharach at the helm of the orchestra.[3]Dietrich in London, recorded live at the Queen's Theatre in 1964,[4] is an enduring document of Dietrich in concert.
In 1978, Dietrich's performance of the title track from her last film, Just a Gigolo, was issued as a single.[5] She made her last recordings — spoken introductions to songs for a nostalgia album by Udo Lindenberg — from her Paris apartment in 1987.[6]
Dietrich told Maximilian Schell in his documentary, Marlene (1984), that she thought Marlene singt Berlin-Berlin (1964) – her interpretations of Berliner popular songs from the start of the 20th Century – was her best album.
Includes songs from her films: "Jonny"; "Peter"; "Mein Blondes Baby"; "Allein – In Einer Grossen Stadt"; "Wo Ist Der Mann"; "Ja So Bin Ich"; "Moi Je M'ennuie" and "Assez".[9]
Souvenir Album
Released: 1950
Label: Decca Records
Formats: 10"
Includes 8 Dietrich's previously released Decca's singles.[10]
Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1958
Label: Decca Records
Formats: LP
Includes 8 Dietrich's previously released Decca's singles. This compilation contains several re-releases, with the same tracklisting, but vary order: Lili Marlene, Original Favorites, Stars Of The Forties, Ritratto Di... and Her Complete Decca Recordings.[11]
Lili Marlene – Sung In German
Released: 1959
Label: Columbia Records
Formats: LP
Includes 8 Dietrich's songs previously released in the album "Overseas" plus four new songs: "Das Hobellied", "Du Liegst Mir im Herzen", "Muss i denn" and "Du Hast die Seele Mein".[12]
Includes 10 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies. It was released in US as Marlene and in Brazil as Os Mitos.[13]
The Magic Of Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1970
Label: Columbia Records
Formats: LP
Includes previously released songs from the sixties. It was released in Netherlands as The Best Of Marlene Dietrich and as Portrait Of Marlene Dietrich in Greece.[11]
Marlene Dietrich In Deutschland
Released: 1976
Label: EMI
Formats: LP
Includes the two LPs Wiedersehen mit Marlene and Die Neue Marlene in a double album. It was also published in Germany as Mythos Marlene.[14]
Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1978
Label: EMI Records
Formats: LP
Includes 15 previously released songs from the 60s's albums. (EMI – 38 336 4, EMI Electrola – 38 336 4, Bertelsmann Club – 38 336 4)[15] Released in CD as "Lili Marlene" (CDPM 7920132)
Mythos Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1978
Label: EMI Electrola
Formats: LP
2 LP record, includes Marlene's albums: Die neue Marlene and Wiedersehen mit Marlene (EMI Electrola – 1C 134-32 770 / 71, Hörzu Exclusiv – 1C 134-32 770 / 71).[16] The CD version includes only 16 songs (CDP 538-1 59860 2)
The Legendary Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1978
Label: Columbia Special Products
Formats: LP
Includes 36 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies.[17]
Includes 12 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies.[18]
Marlène
Released: 1981
Label: EMI Electrola
Formats: LP
Includes 14 previously released songs from Dietrich's 60s's albums.[19]
Con Plumas
Released: 1982
Label: EMI Odeon
Formats: LP
Includes 13 previously released songs from Dietrich's 60s albums.[20]
The Legendary, Lovely Marlene
Released: 1982
Label: MCA Records
Formats: LP
Includes 18 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies and albums.[21] Also released in CD in 1994 as "Marlene – Her 18 Greatest Recordings" (MCCD 178).
The Best Of Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1985
Label: EMI Records
Formats: LP
Includes 20 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies and albums.[22]
The Blue Angel — The Original Recordings
Released: 1990
Label: Pro Arte Digital
Formats: CD
Includes a parody of "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" recorded in 1941 for the wrap party of The Lady is Willing.[23]
The Essential Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1991
Label: Capitol Records
Formats: CD, digital download
Includes 24 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies and albums.[24]
First issue of "La Vie en Rose", "No Love, No Nothin'", "Something I Dreamed Last Night", "Let's Call It a Day" (all recorded 1952) and "Falling in Love Again" and "Lili Marlene" (both recorded 1953).[25]
Mythos Und Legende / Myth And Legend
Released: 1994
Label: EMI Electrola
Formats: CD
Includes 55 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies and albums.[26]
Falling in Love Again
Released: 1996
Label: MCA Records
Formats: CD
Includes 16 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies.[27] Also released as Universal Legends (Universal – 112 265-2, MCA Records – 112 265-2) and Lili Marlene – The Best Of Marlene Dietrich in 2000 (Spectrum Music 544 293-2).
Marlene Dietrich – Legends Of The 20th Century – Original Recordings
Released: 1999
Label: EMI Music
Formats: CD
Includes 23 previously released songs from Dietrich's movies, newly remastered from original source material at Abbey Road by Ron Hill, February 1999.[28]
Der Blonde Engel
Released: 2001
Label: EMI Music
Formats: CD
First issue of "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte (alternate take, recorded 1930), "Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag" (recorded 1954) and "Qui Me Delivera" (1955).[29] First issue of "My Baby Just Cares For Me" (recorded in 1961 at the Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago) and "I Refuse To Rock And Roll (recorded in 1955 at the Sahara Hotel's Congo Room in Las Vegas).[29]
Marlene Forever
Released: 2002
Label: Universal Music
Formats: CD
First issue of "Moon River" (recorded in 1962 at the Paris Olympia).[29]
Hermine: Udo Lindenberg singt Lieder von 1929 bis 1988 (* Spoken verse introduction to Illusions and Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte[33])
Many of Dietrich's numerous radio performances have been included on compilations of her music.[33]
The Polish label Wifon issued a cassette tape of a Dietrich concert, recorded in Warsaw in 1966, in 1992 (catalogue number MC283).[34][35] The release contained the following tracks: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby", "You're the Cream in my Coffee", "My Blue Heaven", "See What the Boys in the Backroom Will Have", "The Laziest Gal in Town", "Shir Hatan", "La Vie en Rose", "Jonny", "Go 'Way From My Window", "Don't Smoke in Bed", "Lola", "Marie–Marie" and "Frag nicht warum ich gehe".
A limited special edition of the book Photographs and Memories (published in 2001 by Nicolai, Berlin) included a recording of the soundtrack of Dietrich's 1963 filmed concert at Berns Salonger as an audio CD bonus.[36]
The Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin's archival holdings include soundtrack prerecording discs and unissued radio and concert recordings.[37]
The following of Dietrich's studio recordings remain unreleased: "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen", "Aus der Jugendzeit", "Das zerbrochene Ringlein", "Treue Liebe" (all recorded July 1954 with Jimmy Carroll and orchestra)[38] and "Wot cher! [Knocked 'Em In the Old Kent Road]" (recorded in 1955 with Wally Stott and orchestra).[39]
From The Blue Angel. Orchestra: Friedrich Hollaender.
1930
"Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt"
"Nimm dich in Acht vor blonden Frau'n"
Electrola
EG 1770
From Der Blaue Engel. Orchestra: Friedrich Hollaender. Two versions of "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß..." were recorded on different dates. Both were issued under the same catalogue number.
1930
"Ich bin die fesche Lola"
"Kinder, heut' abend, da such ich mir was aus"
Electrola
EG 1802
From Der Blaue Engel. Orchestra: Friedrich Hollaender.
1930
"Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte"
"Leben ohne Liebe kannst du nicht"
Electrola
EG 2265
From "Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht" / "Nie wieder Liebe". Piano: Friedrich Hollaender / Mischa Spoliansky
Arranged and conducted by Burt Bacharach. Dietrich was unhappy with the first issued take of "Bitte Geh Nicht Fort"; at her request the record company used an alternate take for all subsequent pressings.[47]
These recordings were not meant for commercial issue. "Gib doch den Männern am Stammtisch ihr Gift", "Ich Heirate Nie" and "Du hast 'nen Blick" were issued for the first time in 2001 on Der Blonde Engel (EMI 7242 5 27567 2 7). All the other tracks remain unissued, with the partial exception of "Lili Marleen". With its massive success on the war front, specifically on the German language OSS MO radio station "Soldatensender", where it became the station's theme song,[48] the song was re-recorded in English and released, with the spelling "Lili Marlene", as a 10" single by Decca in 1945. Though other recordings of the song in German were performed by Dietrich, the original OSS recording of the track is presumed unissued.
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