Marilyn's first solo album is most famous for the tribute to Xena, Warrior Princess. ("If I Could Be Like Xena") It also features a women's drinking song ("Let the Men Buy the Beer") and a plaintive salute to cedar season ("Snot Nosed Rag") "Beethoven's Hair is set (loosely) to the Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and discusses the chemical analysis of a lock of Beethoven's hair. Four of the pieces were arranged by David Earl Holt and recorded with the Big Band Sound of Austin under the direction of Stan Beard("Beauty Treatment", "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To", Barrin Complications" and "My Dragon's Dying") It's a very eclectic album. (Some might say it's all over the place...)
Marilyn's second solo c.d. features "I Love Your Smell", which was featured on the sitcom "The King of Queens" and is a loving tribute to a lover's aroma. "Email Legends" was featured on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes. "Twenty Naked Pentecostals" is a true story, and the liner notes feature the following disclaimer: The composer does not mean to imply that getting buck naked and driving towards Florida reflects the beliefs or attitudes of the main body of the Pentecostal church. Maybe the Lutherans, yes, and a few Methodists. But not most Pentecostals.
Two of the songs on this Third Solo C.D. were selected for the 2006 New Folk Competition. ("Everybody's Somebody Else's Weirdo" and "Drunk on the Sun") Though neither are of course, traditional folk songs in that no zithers are involved. There is a banjo, however, on "Drunk on the Sun". "Grandma Show Us Your Tattoos" was featured on Dr. Demento's basement tapes.
