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Music for a Bachelor's Den 7: Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes

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I have bought this fantastic disc and it is the best in my lounge collection. DCC Compact Classics, a little independent label with the utmost best sound quality compared to the big guys, released the Sex Kittens Blondes and Brunettes (where is the redheads - Tina Louise, Ann-Margret - Abbe Lane - Rhonda Fleming, et al ? ) and these discs are great. Rhino's Cocktail Mix also includes the fast and sexy "Come By Sunday", another great Diana Dors track, but on Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi, Blondes, her sassy, downright dirty lyrics for April 1960 were too wild, "Your eyes are lighted windows, there's a party going on inside, Your mouth's a roller coaster, let me buy a ticket let me slip and slide...your mind's just a big brass bed"...WOW! Why Sony Records does not release Diana Dor's complete Columbia (c. 1960) LP "Swingin' Dors" is beyond me. And the Jayne Mansfield track melts this disc! But we are fortunate to have Marshall Blondsteins in the world who put artistic integrity and sound quality in place of large numbers of sales as the big boys do.

This LP is swank!

Give it a spin!

This is a fine collection of "girl singers" from the "bachelor pad" era. This disc spotlights blondes. There is another CD that features brunettes. There isn't a redheads disc, probably because there aren't enough songs by redheads to fill a CD. Anyway, the disc at hand features a lot of fine blonde singers. Everybody knows Doris Day, Peggy Lee, Marilyn Monroe and Julie London, but you also get lesser known girls like Diana Dors, Paula Castle and Marilyn Maxwell. If you are interested in girl singers who can really swing, you should pick up this CD.

We know most of the singers here- but Paula Castle (who happens to be a brunette). Love Paula!

I have in my LP collection the Diana Dors Swinging Dors Lp. Her
version of Rodgers and Hart GENTLEMEN IS A DOPE is great. It was
not included here. I hope they release that Lp on CD soon.
Marilyn Monroe as a singer is a great actress. Her phrasing,
and interpretation of each song she does is superb. There must be
a lot of unreleased Marilyn Monroe songs in the vaults of 2oth
century Fox, many deleted songs from her movies, that have yet to
see the light of day.

You will not be disappointed! Singers you know...and some you don't. It's a fantastic mood CD and goes perfectly with a dirty martini.