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The Very Best of Peggy Lee

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date August 21, 2000
Many compilations are titled best of or very best of, but this one really is. Most of the collection is made up of Peggy’s recordings for Capitol, but EMI (who own Capitol) got permission from other companies to include Black coffee, He’s a tramp and Siamese cat song – the most important recordings of those she didn’t record for Capitol.

The rest of the collection includes all the essentials including Fever, the novelty song Manana and The folks who live on the hill. I find Peggy’s version of Big spender much more appealing than Shirley Bassey’s more aggressive version of the song.

This collection demonstrates Peggy’s versatility –upbeat swinging songs, slow, sexy songs, Disney ... Read More:

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Black Coffee: Best Of The Decca Years

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date March 20, 1999
I've never been a particular Peggy Lee fan (until now).... I purchased this CD wondering what I was going to get, but I needn't have been worried. Every track is truly excelent!!

If you want to get one Peggy Lee CD, then I think that this is the one to get... but beware - if you're not a Peggy Lee fan, you will be after you listen to this.... What more can I say?

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Natural Woman/Is That All There Is

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date October 20, 2003
Peggy mixes contemporary material with older songs on these two album, but whatever she sings, she does it her way brilliantly.

The first album, Natural woman, contains covers of All of a sudden my heart sings (Kathryn Grayson - from the movie Anchors aweigh), Don't smoke in bed (Billie Holiday), Can I change my mind (Tyrone Davis), Dock of the bay (Otis Redding), You make me feel like a natural woman (Aretha Franklin), Everyday people (Sly and the family Stone), Please send me someone to love (Percy Mayfield), Spinning wheel (Blood sweat and tears) and I think it's gonna rain today (Randy Newman). May of these are classic songs but Peggy's often-different interpretations bring a freshness to them.

Peggy also contributed a song ... Read More:

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The Essential Collection

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date April 23, 2007
Avid originally issued some of Peggy Lee's broadcasts from Bing Crosby Radio Shows on AVC 549 ("I've Got A Crush On You"). It's now been reissued, along with three extra tracks from AVC 624 (one of the CDs in a Bing Crosby Radio Shows double), as the first CD in this double set. The broadcasts date from between December 1946 and November 1953, and all the accompaniments are by Bing's long-standing associate John Scott Trotter. Needless to say, it's a harvest of delights, and includes two songs ("On A Slow Boat To China" and "Baby You Can Count On Me") on which Bing and Peggy duet.

If that were not enough, the second disc kicks off with all 12 tracks from the renowned album "Black Coffee", includes six songs from the 1955 film "Pete Kelly's ... Read More:

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Latin a La Lee/Ole a La Lee

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date March 24, 1997
These two albums were recorded in 1960 and feature Peggy singing to a Latin-styled musical backing. Despite the music, Peggy sings the same way she always did, and the songs selected here are also typical although the second album on this twofer contains some Latin songs – Fantastico, Non dimenticar and Ole..

Many of the songs will therefore be familiar to fans of the Great American Songbook and Broadway show tunes, right from the opening Heart (if that title doesn’t mean anything, you may remember the chorus line You gotta have heart). On the street where you live, Surrey with the fringe on top, Hey there, I could have danced all night, The party’s over, I enjoy being a girl, Come dance with me, Love and marriage, You stepped ... Read More:

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Christmas With Peggy Lee

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date November 06, 2006
These two albums were recorded in 1960 and feature Peggy singing to a Latin-styled musical backing. Despite the music, Peggy sings the same way she always did, and the songs selected here are also typical although the second album on this twofer contains some Latin songs – Fantastico, Non dimenticar and Ole..

Many of the songs will therefore be familiar to fans of the Great American Songbook and Broadway show tunes, right from the opening Heart (if that title doesn’t mean anything, you may remember the chorus line You gotta have heart). On the street where you live, Surrey with the fringe on top, Hey there, I could have danced all night, The party’s over, I enjoy being a girl, Come dance with me, Love and marriage, You stepped ... Read More:

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Black Coffee/Seashells

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date February 02, 2004
'Black Coffee' is one of the all-time great late night jazz vocal records: it paved the way for the best work of June Christie, Julie London and others; as good as Sheila Jordan's Blue Note 'Portrait' of 1962.

Recorded with her small band in 1953 it was one of the very first sessions to be more than just a random collection of songs--it sets a mood, it is all of a piece, it is thematically coherent. Love, regret, sensuality, loneliness (though also with bits of charm and joy--check that wonderful 'My heart Belongs To Daddy'or 'Under My Skin'!) Four bonus tracks extend the mood, finishing with a breath-taking Rogers/Hart 'There's a Small Hotel'.

But what a bonus with 'Sea Shells', recorded three years later; not a big seller, and ... Read More:

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Duets

by: Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Peggy Lee, Matt Monro, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Sacha Distel, Anthony Newley, The Everly Brothers

Release Date March 13, 2007
Wonderful! The Petula Clark Fanclub anounced this album long time ago. Now it's out - and it offers a few surprises. Petulas duet with Lai, "Windmills Of Your Mind" - superb! Her medley with her personal idol Peggy Lee, her post-making duet with Dusty Springfield and the fine work with the Everly Brothers... I mean, the whole CD is a dream that comes true!

CD-Charts Position 9
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The Best of Peggy Lee

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date March 17, 1997
Wonderful! The Petula Clark Fanclub anounced this album long time ago. Now it's out - and it offers a few surprises. Petulas duet with Lai, "Windmills Of Your Mind" - superb! Her medley with her personal idol Peggy Lee, her post-making duet with Dusty Springfield and the fine work with the Everly Brothers... I mean, the whole CD is a dream that comes true!

CD-Charts Position 10
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Beauty and the Beat

by: Peggy Lee

Release Date June 02, 2003
I always found the original 'live' version of this album unlistenable to because of the obviously fake applause and announcements and worse, the nightclub 'ambience', a continual background hubbub of chatter and cutlery that was dubbed in even under the actual songs!

What a joy to find the album released at last with all extraneous noise deleted, so we can listen to these pure, perfect, beautifully recorded studio recordings, for my money some of the finest work Lee and Shearing ever created. What a pity they did not do a series, as Shearing was later to do with Mel Torme.

The song choices and their considered interpretations are models of good taste. Lee's astonishing dramatic gift, singing at times in barely a whisper and yet so affectingly rich in ... Read More: