[78-L] Jane or Eileen?

[David Lennick]

Ver-r-r-ry interesting! And of course RCA had Marilyn so Decca couldn't use her 
on "There's No Business like Show Business" (revenge for Merman and Call Me Madam).

When was the Fox album (5000) originally issued?

dl

David Weiner wrote:
> Jane is on the original MGM album - when the Marilyn tracks were reissued by
> 20th Fox & Movietone, they replaced Jane's vocals with Eileen Wilson -
> apparently MGM had Jane under a recording contract and wouldn't let her
> tracks be used - the old Decca ploy!
> 
> Dave W.
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> Subject: [78-L] Jane or Eileen?
> 
> Did Jane Russell do her own singing in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" or was she
> 
> dubbed by Eileen Wilson? Every issue I've ever seen of the GPB soundtrack,
> on 
> MGM, Stet and various other labels credits Jane, but the Movietone LP (The 
> Unforgettable Marilyn Monroe) lists Eileen Wilson. MGM was usually accurate
> in 
> listing soundtrack vocalists, and the MGM Books list Jane..or did 20th
> Century 
> Fox and later Movietone use different tracks?
> 
> dl
>