When Love Goes Wrong / I'm Through With Love

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORMA JEAN
On a Sunday afternoon in June of 1995, Musical Theatre Lovers United presented a Cabaret Tribute to Marilyn Monroe at The Plush Room of The York Hotel in San Francisco. Bonnie Weiss (founder of MTLU) produced the show and I was director and talent coordinator. For weeks I had been researching and gathering music. Mostly with the wonderful help of Bob Grimes. If there were songs that weren`t published, I had them transcribed from recordings. I picked the songs for the singers and mailed each of them the sheetmusic and audio tapes of their songs. We didn`t meet until the morning of the show. Some of us actually met that day. We rehearsed in the morning and did the show in the afternoon. We were lucky enough to have the great Arthur Khu as musical director and accompanist and everything went off with only one hitch. One of the soloists came down with the flu, so I had to go on in her place.That`s so 42nd St., ain`t it ?

I have not included the duet of Let`s Make Love, because altho it was a laugh riot with me in a blonde wig and a beard, I`ll have to ask John Stenger`s permission and maybe put it out there next year along with some of the other artists in the show. In the cast were Warren Brown, Connie Champagne, Jefferson Chen, Rae Worthy Gaeta, Diane Ray, Sarah Reynolds, Gordon Salter, John Stenger, Donna Turner, Bonnie Weiss and me, George Moffatt.
The first part of the show was a sing-a-long, the second was the cabaret and the last was a look and sound alike contest. The judges were Bob Grimes, Ruth Kobart, Dean Goodman and Zena Jones. The winner, by a knock out, was a beautiful 18 year old college student. And she could sing ! I don`t recall her name. Damn.
So, because Holly got sick, I sang Kiss. The number I had been planning to do is a combination of two songs. When Love Goes Wrong, one of the dozen songs composed by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson for the 1953 film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Three of their songs are in the movie. One that was cut just before release is still driving me nuts. You can see part of it in the trailers and it was done by Marilyn and Jane Russell just before Diamonds. What`s with Fox anyway ?
Oh yeah, When Love Goes Wrong I put together with I`m Through With Love, written in 1931 by Gus Kahn, Matt Malneck and Fud Livingston and performed by Marilyn in 1959`s Some Like It Hot.
Okay folks, here`s the stuff. You might like it, I dunno.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gus Kahn
• Matt Malneck
• Fud Livingston
• Marilyn Monroe
• NORMA JEAN
• George Moffatt
• tribute
• Arthur Khu

[bajawoman1]

My Main Roomate George lived in his house in Berkeley great times He still sings great close your eyes and hear mel torme

[Pickinbuddy]

Very nice performance!