Some Like it Hot – The Music of Marilyn Monroe, as performed by Rebecca Kilgore at Feinstein’s, NYC, tonight and tomorrow, is reviewed here by the New York Times:
‘A pop-jazz singer whose fluent voice conjures sunlight glinting on running water, Ms. Kilgore infuses everything she performs with a sense of lighthearted enjoyment. Her phrasing, like Monroe’s, is naturally curvaceous, although underlined with a stronger current of swing. Instead of striking the pose of a singing pin-up, she conveys the frisky, fun-loving sensibility of a good sport. Delivering ballads like “I’m Through With Love” and “Incurably Romantic,” she refrained from moping.’
The evening ended with a tribute song, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ (first recorded in 1964 by Scotland’s Ian Campbell Folk Group):
“To Hollywood, to Hollywood, to Hollywood, I’ll go
And you will know me by the name of Marilyn Monroe
For soldiers and for sailors, I’ll glitter and I’ll glow
They’ll wish they had a girl like Marilyn MonroeMarilyn, Marilyn, Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe
I’ll light a candle in the sky wherever I might be
For those who have to walk alone and fear the dark like me
For all those lonely women, their names I’ll never know
I’ll glitter in the dark for them, said Marilyn Monroe”
