This attractive two-CD set is an anthology of Peggy Lee's 1952-1956 period with Decca. Much of the music is outside of jazz and more in the genre of period pop and novelties...
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Peggy Lee spent a good many years with Capitol, and it was there that she cut some of her best sides. Save for a few years in the late '40s (and several early hits), Lee hit...
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16-track survey of Lee's recordings for Decca in the early and mid-'50s, much of it from film and stage musicals like The Jazz Singer, Lady and the Tramp, and Johnny Guitar....
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The Best of Peggy Lee: The Blues & Jazz Sessions is an 18-track collection that culls the highlights from Lee's 30-year tenure at Capitol Records. Since the compilation...
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Except for four hit-making years for Decca in the middle of the '50s, Peggy Lee spent the balance of her career with Capitol. And though her many LPs were among the best...
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Peggy Lee's 1979 album Close Enough for Love is a disco-themed take on her classic themes of love and romance. "You" is a light, mellow funk ballad, while the standard "Just...
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The sources for the 12 tracks on this half-hour budget compilation are unidentified, but they seem to be a combination of studio tracks dating back to Peggy Lee's days as a...
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Capitol reissued Peggy Lee's 1958 albums Things Are Swingin' and Jump for Joy on one compact disc in 1997. Many of Lee's records are not all that strong from a jazz...
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Any compilation that properly anthologizes the chart history of Miss Peggy Lee is forced to sprint through 24 years, including a pair of decades that were the most...
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Legendary vocalist Peggy Lee gets the two-fer treatment from EMI on this 1999 release. Includes two of her full-length LPs. Part of EMI's big 100-year-release celebration. ~...
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In 1998, EMI released Latin ala Lee!/Olé a la Lee, which contained two complete albums -- Latin ala Lee! (1960, originally released on Capitol) and Olé a la Lee (1960, also...
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Trav'lin Light collects 15 of the radio transcriptions Peggy Lee recorded between 1946 and 1949, with a quintet including her husband Dave Barbour and George Van Eps on...
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Peggy Lee left Capitol in 1952 for, among several other reasons, the label's refusal to let her record and release an exotic, tumultuous version of "Lover." Lee was...
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Like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee started out as a big band vocalist but was destined to enjoy her greatest success as a solo artist. The band leader who...
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Fever & Other Hits is an 10-track, budget-line collection featuring a smattering of Peggy Lee's '50s and '60s hits -- "Fever," "Is That All There Is?," "Hallelujah, I Love...
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In 1988, Peggy Lee was persuaded to leave her casual retirement by the promise of recording some recently unearthed Harold Arlen songs. Her voice was far less attractive and...
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Intelligent, evocative, understated, and mature are words that come to mind when describing this 1975 recording. The album is the reflection of a middle-aged woman pondering...
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By 1988, 68-year-old Peggy Lee did not have much of a voice left. Although she was still determined, physical problems had weakened her, and despite Gene Lees' absurd raving...
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Contemporary meeting between Peggy Lee and Quincy Jones that's part of Jones' recent return to jazz playing and producing in addition to his highly profitable R&B and pop...
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Upon its first release Beauty and the Beat! was billed as a live recording from a Miami convention of disc jockeys. Though Peggy Lee and George Shearing did in fact perform...
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More than a decade after her massive hit "Mañana," Peggy Lee recorded a full album of Latin themes with Latin ala Lee!. The subtitle -- "Broadway hits styled with an...
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Christmas features holiday-time favorite Peggy Lee performing 11 perennial classics, including such longtime favorites as the album-opening "Winter Wonderland," "Santa Claus...
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One of Peggy Lee's most intriguing concept LPs of the '50s and '60s, Blues Cross Country teams her with the Quincy Jones Orchestra on a set of swinging blues set all over...
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Although the whole collection ranges across six years, 32 of the 35 cuts on this two-CD set were recorded within a year of Peggy Lee's joining Benny Goodman's band, and the...
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Peggy Lee is in fine voice throughout this jazz-flavored set, backed by ensembles arranged by Benny Carter, Billy Byers, Billy May, and Shorty Rogers. The program (which has...
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The Peggy Lee number in Universal's 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection series of discount-priced compilations provides a good, brief selection of the...
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Originally recorded in 1959 upon its first release, Beauty and the Beat! was billed as a live recording from a Miami convention of disc jockeys. Though Peggy Lee and George...
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Record-buying etiquette suggests that if Peggy Lee's The Singles Collection is overly long (in fact, it's a four-disc box set), The Best of the Singles Collection will then...
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In 1999, MCA International released Black Coffee/Sea Shells, which contained two complete albums -- Black Coffee (1953, originally released on Decca) and Sea Shells (1958,...
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"The Best of Peggy Lee" this certainly isn't, though any listener who already has a copy of this brief EMI budget collection won't mind hearing Peggy Lee at the high level...
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In March 2002, the Swiss pianist John Wolf Brennan flew to Vancouver (Canada) for a one-off encounter with the West Coast city's most active free improv couple, cellist...
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Peggy Lee's Love Songs features some of her most romantic performances from her years at Decca, including her lively rendition of "I've Got You Under My Skin," the dreamy...
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