Peggy LeeCritiques

Lee sings standards with a small jazz combo.

4/4 (Great).

I knew from a Best Of album that I liked Peggy Lee, but compared to her hits, this album is on another level. It's always a nice surprise to hear recordings of standards that somehow manage not to be redundant.½

TRACK SONG TITLE RATING

01 See See Rider 4
02 Basin Street Blues 3
03 Squeeze Me 4
04 You Don't Know 4
05 Fine and Mellow 4
06 Baby Please Come Home 4
07 Kansas City 4
08 Birmingham Jail 3
09 Love Me 4
10 Beale Street 4
11 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 3
12 God Bless the Child 4

Peggy Lee, in this autumnal effort, sings jazz standards very pleasantly. She was of course better than “pleasant” in her prime and the songs of course have been covered better by others, maybe covered better by her in her younger years. Still, I am grateful for this.½

INFORMATION-This album contains the following tracks:
1 You Can Depend on Me (Charles Carpenter / Louis Dunlap / Earl Hines), 1:26
2 I've Had My Moments (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn), 2:58
3 Sugar (Edna Alexander / Sidney Mitchell / Maceo Pinkard), 2:36
4 I Should Care (Sammy Cahn / Axel Stordahl / Paul Weston), 3:39
5 Someday, Sweetheart (Benjamin Franklin Spikes / John Spikes), 2:13
6 September in the Rain (Jimmy Henderson / Sydney Robin / Bertha Scott), 3:08
7 That Old Gang of Mine (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin), 2:35
8 Nice Work If You Can Get It (Duke Ellington / Don George / Johnny Hodges / Harry James), 2:19
9 I'm Beginning to See the Light (Herbert Magidson / Allie Wrubel), 2:35
10 Gone With the Wind (Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh), 1:56
11 Don't Blame Me (Charles Warfield / Clarence Williams), 2:45
12 Baby Please Come Home (Haven Johnson), 1:51
13 My Last Affair (Doc Daugherty / Al J. Neiburg / Ellis Reynolds), 2:49
14 I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (Doc Daugherty / Al J. Neiburg / Ellis Reynolds), 2:37

These 1940s radio transcriptions were released by Laserlight in 1991

INFORMATION-This album contains the following tracks:
1 Day In - Day Out (Rube Bloom / Johnny Mercer), 1:44
2 Moments Like This (Burton Lane / Frank Loesser), 2:59
3 Fever (Eddie Cooley / John Davenport), 2:54
4 The Second Time Around (Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen), 3:05
5 Medley: One Kiss/My Romance/The Vagabond King Waltz (Lorenz Hart / Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers), 2:55
6 I Got a Man (Ray Charles), 2:40
7 Peggy Lee Bow Music (Bill Holman), 0:22
8 Call Me Darling (Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear) (Dorothy Dick / Mort Fryberg / Rolf Marbet / Bert Reisfeld), 2:41
9 I Love Being Here With You (Peggy Lee / Bill Schluger), 2:43
10 But Beautiful (Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen), 2:51
11 Them There Eyes (Maceo Pinkard / Doris Tauber / William Tracey), 1:51
12 A Tribute to Ray Charles: Just for a Thrill (Ray Charles), 3:18
13 A Tribute to Ray Charles: Yes Indeed, 3:11
14 Peggy Lee Bow Music (Bill Holman), 1:23

Recorded live at Basin Street East [in New York] in an after-hours performance ... on Feb. 9 and at a New York studio on March 8, 1961

INFORMATION:
This album contains the following tracks
1 You'll Remember Me (Arthur Hamilton / Stanley Worth), 3:15
2 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon), 5:05
3 The Thrill Is Gone, 3:33
4 Something Strange, 3:23
5 Have You Seen My Baby (Randy Newman), 2:42
6 He Used Me (Jim Weatherly), 3:48
7 (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me (Burt Bacharach / Hal David), 2:42
8 I See Your Face Before Me (Arthur Schwartz), 4:01
9 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Burt Bacharach / Hal David), 3:50
10 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (Alan Bergman / Marilyn Keith / Michel Legrand), 3:06