Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - Other Versions

Other Versions

  • Ethel Merman recorded the song in 1950.
  • Lena Horne recorded the song in 1958 for her album Give the Lady What She Wants.
  • Julie London recorded the song in 1961.
  • Eartha Kitt recorded the song in 1962.
  • Emmylou Harris recorded a country/rock version in 1983 for her album White Shoes.
  • Thalía performed this song in 1991 on Spanish television.
  • Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French, dressed as Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, parodied the number in their 1993 BBC special "Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders".
  • Kylie Minogue performed this song in 1995. In 2007 she recorded another version for her film White Diamond. She also performed the song in 1999 dressed as Monroe for the opening of 20th Century Fox's Australian Studios.
  • In 2007, Beyoncé did an updated version for Giorgio Armani's new fragrance Emporio Armani Diamonds in an ad directed by Jake Nava and titled "Can You Resist?".
  • Wendi Peters performed a version for BBC Children in Need on 16 November 2007, adding "I am a Material Girl" half-way through, then returning back to the normal song.
  • Nicole Scherzinger performed a version for the 2007 CBS special, Movies Rock, which paid tribute to the strong relationship between films and music.
  • T-Bone Burnett's rock version of the song is both campy and cynical, while capturing the essence of the lyric.
  • Deanna & The Downbeats, a cabaret-jazz quintet from Portland Oregon, performs a traditional version of the song that segues into a lounge-swing version of Madonna's "Material Girl".
  • In the cartoon Hey Arnold, Helga's mother sang "Beepers Are a Girl's Best Friend" for a commercial in the same manner as Marilyn Monroe's performance.
  • In the 100th episode of Gossip Girl titled "G.G.", Serena Van der Woodsen portrayed by Blake Lively makes a dream in which she is Marilyn Monroe and sings "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend".
  • The scene in which Marilyn Monroe sings the song is parodied in Madonna's song "Material Girl".
  • Christina Aguilera also did the song on her first featured film Burlesque. Kristen Bell and Julianne Hough first lip-synched Marilyn's version then Aguilera finished it with her own vocals.
  • The Puppini Sisters sing a version on their 2011 Album Hollywood
  • The song is performed by Nicole Kidman in the film Moulin Rouge.

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