Marlene Dietrich Overseas
| Marlene Dietrich Overseas | ||||
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| Released | 1952 | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop | |||
| Length | 25:08 | |||
| Label | Columbia Records | |||
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Marlene Dietrich Overseas (official title including subtitle: Marlene Dietrich Overseas — American Songs In German For The O.S.S) is a Marlene Dietrich album, issued on 10" LP by Columbia Records (catalogue number LP GL105), released in 1952. All the vocals are in German, translated by Lothar Metzl (except for "Lili Marlene") and the orchestra was conducted by Jimmy Carroll.
Overseas has its origins in Dietrich's contributions to the U.S. war effort during World War II. As an American citizen, she recorded American songs in German for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to be broadcast to German audiences as part of American propaganda efforts. After the war, Dietrich kept her copies of the original recordings and later played them for Columbia's Mitch Miller, who, impressed, had her re-record the songs in the studio.
The album was reissued by Columbia as Lili Marlene with four additional tracks, later included in the compilation Art Deco: The Cosmopolitan Marlene Dietrich, and in 1995 Blue Moon released Marlene Dietrich Sings Lili Marlene and Other Great Songs with the same eight tracks plus eleven from earlier albums.