The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography's Picture Gallery:
Various-Artists Compilations From The Capitol-EMI Family Of Labels
Part 2
by Iván Santiago-Mercado
Generated on Jan 22, 2012
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Scope And Contents
This miscellaneous page of Peggy Lee's pictorial discography is the second out of five that I have dedicated to various-artists anthologies from the EMI family of labels. Due to the wide-ranging (and, arguably, marginal) variety of material covered, the page does not adhere to any strict organizing principles, but follows instead a loose approach to sequencing. The first section samples from Blue Note's ever-appealing catalogue of album covers. (Originally an independent label going back to the 1930s, Blue Note came into EMI's possession in 1979.) After the opening section, this page samples material directly released by Capitol or EMI itself: Capitol 78 albums and reissues of those 78s (II), Capitol LPs (III), Capitol-EMI's custom-made LPs and CDs (IV, V), and, finally, non-domestic EMI LPs and CDs (VI). Do bear in mind that the page's listings are meant to be representative, not exhaustive: there are many other multiple-artists compilations that could have been included as well. Furthermore, the other four aforementioned pages cover yet more Capitol compilations, including Christmas issues, promotional albums, and various album series. Of course, here and elsewhere, the focus is on items that include Peggy Lee tracks, not on EMI's entire catalogue of compilations.
I. BLUE NOTE COMPILATIONS
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1. Title: Misty Blue; Sweet Sisters Swing Songs Of Sorrow And Sadness / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Bn 72435 21151 2 9 / Rel. Year: 1999 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever."
2. Title: Mad About Blue; Blue Note's Sidetracks, Vol. 6 / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) 00946 342786 2 1 / Rel. Year: 2006 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever."
3. Title: Something Old - Something Blue (Blue Note Trip, Mixed By Maestro, Vol. 6) / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) 094639 6170 2 9 / Rel. Year: 2008 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Spinning Wheel."
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4. Title: Blue Note Plays Bossa Nova / Format: CD / Volumes: 3 / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Tocp 70545, 70546, 70547 (1362452) / Rel. Year: 2008 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Little Boat (O Barquinho)."
5. Title: California Cool ("Blue Pacific" Series) / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: Bn 0007 80707 2 6 / Rel. Year: 1993 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Do I Love You?"
6. Title: Blue Mambo / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (Spain/England) 7243 5 23451 2 0 / Rel. Year: 2000 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Always True To You In My Fashion" and "On The Street Where You Live."
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7. Title: Pure Jazz Chillout / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Blue Note?; Virgin EMI / Cat. Num.: (Japan?; England) 7243 8 12798 2 3 & VTDCD459 / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever." Definitely released on EMI's Virgin imprint in England. Less clear is whether an earlier edition had been released by Blue Note in Japan.
8. Title: Jazz Chillout / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Blue Note (also EMI International) / Cat. Num.: (Australia) 7243 5 36418 2 5 / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Days Of Wine And Roses." I should also note that Lee is not credited at all in various websites, where the performer is identified instead as the song's own composer, Henry Mancini. Since I do not own a copy of this CD, I cannot confidently ascertain whether this double credit to Mancini is incorrect, but I am inclined to believe that it is.
9. Title: Jazz Chillout III / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (Japan?) 639725 / Rel. Year: 2006 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Senza Fine." In a related note, it is worth adding that there are other releases in this Blue Note series. One of them bears the title Jazz Chillout II. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate its track listing, nor do I know if Lee has any tracks in it. Another release is entitled Jazz Chillout (just like item #8). There are no Lee tracks in that 2CD set (7243 5 37971 2 6 1; also seemingly reprinted with catalogue number 7243 5 39466 2 3), whose front cover shows a burning candle against a blue background.
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10. Title: Caliente!; Blue Note's Sidetracks; Mixed By Dj Producer Buscemi, Volume 4 / Format: LP & CD / Volumes: 2 [LP] & 1 [CD] / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (Belgium) 7243 5 78015 1 & 7243 5 78015 2 (also listed as 708071) / Rel. Year: 2004 (also listed as 2007) / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay."
11. Title: Female Vocal Classics / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: 7243 8 74373 2 6 / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Mack The Knife."
12. Title: Squeeze ("Blue Juice" Series, Volume 3) / Format: LP & CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (England) 7243 5 23445 1 2 & 7243 523445 2 9 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" and "Spinning Wheel."
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13. Title: Heat Up - Simmer Down (Blue Note Trip, Mixed By Maestro, Vol. 9) / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) 5 099902 8890 2 3 / Rel. Year: 2011 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Spinning Wheel."
14. Title: Routine Jazz!! (DJ Mix By Kei Kobayashi) / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note Toshiba / Cat. Num.: (Japan) 65901 / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of ""I Must Know," as remixed by Kobayashi.
15. Title: Blue Valentines; From Blue Note With Love / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: 7 81331 / Rel. Year: 1999 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "So In Love."
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16. Title: Blue Vocals, Volume 2 / Format: CS & CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: 96583 / Rel. Year: 1992 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Alone Together."
17. Title: Blue Note DJ Mix by Muro / Format: CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: (Japan) 24597 / Rel. Year: 2001 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "On The Street Where You Live."
18. Title: Blue Berlin; Blue Note Plays The Music Of Irving Berlin / Format: CS & CD / Label: Blue Note / Cat. Num.: 99095 / Rel. Year: 1992 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Maybe It's Because I Love You (Too Much)."
II. CAPITOL COMPILATIONS FROM THE 78 ERA (A SAMPLE)
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1 & 2. Title: New American Jazz / Format: 78 album / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Set A3 [reissued as Cd 3] / Rel. Year: 1944 / Note: Includes The Capitol Jazzmen's recordings of "Ain't Goin' No Place" and "That Old Feeling," both of which feature Peggy Lee on vocals. Image #1 displays the front cover, image #2 the booklet.
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3. Title: The Capitol Jazzmen, 1943-47 / Format: LP / Label: Swaggie / Cat. Num.: (Australia) S 1406 / Rel. Year: 1984 / Note: Licensed LP reissue of item #1, with additional tracks by the titular ensemble.
4. Title: The Capitol Jazzmen; Hollywood Sessions / Format: CD / Label: Jazz Unlimited / Cat. Num.: (Denmark) 2044 / Rel. Year: 1995 / Note: Reissue of item #1 (or, more exactly, CD reissue of item #2).
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5. Title: Collector's Items - Top Drawer Jazz Classics (Capitol's Americana Series) / Format: 78 Album / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Ad 62 (48012-48015) / Rel. Year: 1948 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Baby (Is What He Calls Me)."
6. Title: Jerome Kern's Music (Criterion Series) / Format: 78 Album & EP & 10" LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Cd 41(10072-10075) & Ccf 210(F 155501)[reissued as Ebf 210] & H 210/ Rel. Year: 1947 [78 album] & 1950 [10" LP] / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "She Didn't Say Yes."
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7-10. Title: Somebody Loves Me; The Beloved Songs Of Buddy DeSylva (Criterion Series) / Format: 78 Album / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Cd 49 (10085-10088) / Rel. Year: 1947 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Somebody Loves Me."
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11. Title: Songs From Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific / Format: 78 album & 45 Album & 10" LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Cd 162 (57 596-599) & Cdf 163 (54 600-603) & H 163 / Rel. Year: 1949 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Bali Ha'i" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."
12. Title: The Best Of Broadway, Vol. 1: South Pacific - Kiss Me, Kate / Format: CD / Label: DRG / Cat. Num.: 19113 / Rel. Year: 2008 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Bali Ha'i" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair." Reissue of item #11 above, combined with another reissued album, in which Peggy Lee does not participate.
III. CAPITOL COMPILATIONS FROM THE LP ERA (A SAMPLE)
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1. Title: Today's Top Hits By Today's Top Artists, Volume 1 / Format: 10" LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: H 9101 / Rel. Year: 1951 / Note: Part of a Capitol album series. Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "(When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas."
2. Title: The Gold Record / Format: LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: T 830 & Dt 830 / Rel. Year: 1957 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Mañana."
3. Title: I Feel A Song Coming On; A Tribute To Jimmy McHugh From Capitol Records / Format: LP / Label: Capitol Custom / Cat. Num.: Pro 1390-1391 / Rel. Year: 1962 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street."
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4-5. Title: More Stars In Stereo / Format: LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Sw 1142 / Rel. Year: 1960 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever," in its stereo version.
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6. Title: The Great Girl Singers / Format: CS & LP / Volumes: 2 / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: 4x2l 6952 & Slb 6952 / Rel. Year: 1974 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "I Don't Know Enough About You."
7. Title: The Golden Sounds; Pop / Format: 8-Track & Cassette & LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: 8xl 461 & 4xl 461 & M 461 / Rel. Year: 1970 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Is Thal All There Is?"
IV. LPS CUSTOM-MADE BY CAPITOL (A SAMPLE)
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1-2. Title: The Sylvania Challenge / Format: LP / Label: Sylvania - Capitol Creative Products / Cat. Num.: Sl 6773 / Rel. Year: 1972 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "You'll Remember Me." Contains one side of vocals and one side of instrumentals. The notes in the album's back cover pose the titular challenge to listeners: "[p]ick any selection on this record," the annotator writes, "and listen to it come alive with new brilliance on Sylvania Stereo-Plus components. Then try the same selection on any other stereo. And take it home and listen to it on your present equipment. You'll be amazed how much you've been missing all these years." This LP is just one among more than a handful of albums prepared by Capitol for Sylvania. (There was even one Sylvania LP entirely dedicated to Peggy Lee: The Sounds Of The Seventies.)
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3. Title: Esquire's World Of Jazz / Format: LP / Volumes: 2 / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: Tbo 1970 / Rel. Year: 1963 / Note: Includes the Capitol Jazzmen recordings of "That Old Feeling" and "Ain't Goin' No Place," both featuring Peggy Lee on vocals.
4. Title: Los Grandes Éxitos Del Hit Parade / Format: LP / Pieces: 10 / Label: Reader's Digest - Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: (Mexico) Crds 1 / Rel. Year: 1963 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "Mañana."
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5. Title: Magnavox Presents A 4-Sound Experience / Format: LP / Label: Magnavox - Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 1A9332 (also Ql 6953) / Rel. Year: 1974 / Note: A quadraphonic album. Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "You'll Remember Me."
6. Title: Great Songs ... Of The Sixties (The New York Times) / Format: LP / Volumes: 3 / Label: The New York Times - Columbia Special Products / Cat. Num.: C 10000 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Is That All There Is?" and "A Taste Of Honey." My information about this LP comes from internet sites. Although Columbia is listed as the releasing label in those sites, the track listing shows that a fair amount of licensed numbers are by artists from Capitol's roster (e.g., Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, The Kingston Trio, Lou Rawls, Nancy Wilson).
V. CDS CUSTOM-MADE BY EMI-CAPITOL (A SAMPLE)
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1. Title: A Tower Records Tribute To The Beatles / Format: CD / Label: Tower - Capitol Special Markets / Cat. Num.: 7243 8 19257 2 0 / Rel. Year: 1996 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's 1969 Capitol recording of George Harrison's "Something."
2. Title: Batmania; Songs Inspired by the Batman TV Series / Format: CD / Label: Varese Sarabande / Cat. Num.: 5821 / Rel. Year: 1997 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "That Man," a novelty tune in honor of the campy, 1960s televised version of the superhero. Lee co-wrote the tune.
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3. Title: Americans In Paris / Format: CD / Label: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art - Emi Music Special Products / Cat. Num.: 7243 5 71672 2 2 / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: This CD opens Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "C'est Magnifique." EMI Special Products has produced other CDs for the Metropolitan Museum Of Art; see, for instance, item #7 below.
4. Title: Façonnable; Trés Trés Chic / Format: CD / Label: Chic - Emi Music Special Products / Cat. Num.: 72435 93282 25C / Rel. Year: 2003 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "C'est Magnifique." This 10-song item was one of (at least) two promotional CDs on behalf of Façonnable, a French perfume and after-shave fragrance. Volume 2 does not include Peggy Lee tracks.
5. Title: Baby Loves Jazz / Format: CD / Label: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art - Emi Music Special Products / Cat. Num.: unknown / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's recording of "This Little Piggy," which she originally recorded for Capitol's radio transcription service. In addition to ithis item and #5, EMI Special Products has produced at least two other CDs for the Metropolitan Museum Of Art that feature Lee tracks: Flowers In Song ("Days Of Wine And Roses") and Christmas Songs ("I Like A Sleigh Ride").
VI. NON-DOMESTIC COMPILATIONS ON CD AND LP (FROM EMIGOLD, MUSIC FOR PLEASURE, VIRGIN, DISKY, AND TOSHIBA)
Artwork Shown:
1. Title: The Greatest Divas; Classic Tracks By The Legends Of Song / Format: CD / Label: EMIgold / Cat. Num.: (Australia) 7234 7 7327 2 0 / Rel. Year: 2005 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "When A Woman Loves A Man."
2. Title: Sensational Dames / Format: CD / Label: EMI / Cat. Num.: (England) 7243 5 21605 2 5 / Rel. Year: 1999 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "As Time Goes By."
3. Title: Sophisticated Ladies / Format: LP / Volumes: 2 / Label: Connoisseur / Cat. Num.: (England) Svop 102 / Rel. Year: 1987 / Note: Contains Peggy Lee's rendition of "Fever." Said to be a licensed issue; further corroboration needed.
4. Title: Sophisticated Ladies / Format: CD / Volumes: 3 / Label: EMIgold / Cat. Num.: (Australia) 7243 5 22714 2 9 / Rel. Year: 1999 / Note: Opens with Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Love And Marriage" and closes with her recording of "The Folks Who Live In The Hill." There's also another Lee track, "Always Something There To Remind Me," in the collection's second CD. Also found with the release years 2000, 2002, and 2004, all of which point to various reprints, or could alternatively be mistakes. Furthermore, I have a listing for what would seem to be an earlier 5CD/CS version of this set: 1995 Music For Pleasure Cddl 1302 & 7243 8 36550 2 1, maybe British and supposedly including 4 more PL vocals, "I Won't Dance," "It's A Good Day," "Mañana," and "Fever." However, the only online site on which I've located details about that 5piece set does not look highly reliable to me.}
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5. Title: Favourite Fifties / Format: CS & CD / Label: EMIgold / Cat. Num.: (England) 72434 94343 2 5 / Rel. Year: 1998 (may have been reprinted in 2001) / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever."
6. Title: Favourite Female Vocalists / Format: CS & CD / Label: EMIgold / Cat. Num.: (England) 7243 4 94346 2 2 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "The Lady Is A Tramp."
7. Title: Favourite Easy Listening / Format: CS & CD / Label: EMIgold / Cat. Num.: (England) 7243 4 94349 2 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "The Folks Who Live On The Hill."
8. Title: Favourite Capitol Classics / Format: CS & CD / Label: EMIgold / Cat. Num.: (England) 7243 4 94350 2 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "On The Street Where You Live."
General Note About the Favourite Series
The four preceding items obviously belong to a series. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find specifics about the series itself. There must be at the very least 4 more volumes. I actually know the titles of two: Favourite Male Vocalists and Favourite Seventies. Neither includes Peggy Lee tracks. I should also add that this series' country of origin could be Australia instead of England. Furthermore, some online listings attribute selected CDs not to EMIgold but to Music For Pleasure, which could in turn be an indication that the series was originally released by MFP, possibly in the early 1990s.
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9. Title: Memories Are Made Of This / Format: CD / Volumes: 10 / Label: Disky / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) Db 856362 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: One of many Disky compilations to include Peggy Lee tracks, this 10 CD set actually features 12 of them: "I'm Beginning To See The Light," "It's Been A Long, Long Time" "Till There Was You," "I've Got The World On A String," "It's A Wonderful World," "Too Close For Comfort," "Fever," "Love And Marriage," "Come Rain Or Shine," "I Wanna Be Around," "I'll Get By" and "Unforgettable." Each of the CDs in this set contains 20 tracks (a point that I am making for the purpose of comparing this item with the next one). See also items #9 and #10 below.
10. Title: Radio Romance / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Disky / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) Dou 886702 / Rel. Year: 1998 / Note: This 30-track set was apparently culled from item #8, with a few exceptions -- i.e., a few tracks not found in item #8. Each CD contains 15 tracks. Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "It's Been A Long, Long Time" and "I'm Beginning To See The Light."
11. Title: The Greatest Voices And Unforgettable Evergreens / Format: CD / Volumes: 10 / Label: Disky / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) DB 998242 [individual discs also bear numbers, beginning with BX 998632 and BX 998642 for the first two CDs, and concluding with BX 998712 and BX 998722 for the last two discs; these disc numbers rise in increments of 10) / Rel. Year: 2000 / Note: This set is actually a reissue of item #8, with some differences. Besides not bearing the same title and catalogue number, the two sets differ in at least one track: Peggy Lee's recording of "Fever" (item #8) was substituted for Shirley Bassey's version of "What Now My Love." Includes all other 11 Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings: "Unforgettable," "Till There Was You," "I'll Get By," "It's A Wonderful World," "Come Rain Or Shine," "Love And Marriage," "It's Been A Long, Long Time," "Too Close For Comfort," "I Wanna Be Around," "I'm Beginning To See The Light," and "I've Got The World On A String."
12. Title: - Voix Internationales Éternelles / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Disky / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) 7243 5 79209 2 6 / Rel. Year: 2002 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Golden Earrings" and "Mañana." Notice also the curious re-use of the artwork of item #10 -- and ditto for, essentially, the title. Disky presumably prepared this set specifically for the French-speaking market.
A Note About Memories Are Made Of This As An Album Title
Notice that Memories Are Made Of This is a popular title among reissue compilers. Both within the EMI family of labels and outside of it (i.e., among Public Domain labels), numerous compilations named Memories Are Made Of This have been released. Quite a few of them happen to include Lee numbers. British EMI had an entire such series, of which item #19 below seems to be part. Then there are multiple Disky CDs bearing the same moniker, such as item #8 above. Some of the CDs do open with -- or include -- the song "Memories Are Made Of This," which was a manor #1 hit for Dean Martin. Obviously, the choice of this title is an attempt at appealing to certain demographics groups, too.
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13. Title: Late Night Moods / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Virgin - Emi / Cat. Num.: (England) Vidcd 609 & 7243 5 7851 2 3 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "A Taste Of Honey."
14. Title: Forever Cole Porter / Format: CD / Label: Music For Pleasure / Cat. Num.: (England) 6263 / Rel. Year: 1996 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "I Am In Love."
15. Title: Truly Unforgettable / Format: CD / Label: Music For Pleasure / Cat. Num.: (England) 55 / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "The Folks Who Live On The Hill."
16. Title: Cool Summer Jazz / Format: CD / Label: Virgin - EMI / Cat. Num.: (England) 531 / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever."
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17. Title: The Capitol T Album / Format: LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: (Germany) 5C 026 85599 X / Rel. Year: unknown / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Alright, Okay, You Win."
18. Title: Million Selling Hits Of The 50's / Format: CD / Label: Music For Pleasure / Cat. Num.: (England) Cdmfp 6047 (also Cdb7 91477 2) / Rel. Year: 1989 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Fever."
19. Title: Those Were The Hits Of 1950-1951 / Format: LP / Label: Music For Pleasure / Cat. Num.: (The Netherlands) 1A 022 15 8405 1 / Rel. Year: 1986 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "(Ghost) Riders Of The Sky." This item is a part of a series; Peggy Lee's "Fever" is among the tracks in a subsequent volume, Those Were The Hits Of 1958.
20. Title: Christmas Memories ... Are Made Of This / Format: CD / Volumes: 2 / Label: Emi Virgin / Cat. Num.: (England) 7243 8 64940 2 3 / Rel. Year: 2004 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and "Winter Wonderland."
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21-24. Title: Deluxe In Musical (Deluxe Mood Series, No. 12) / Format: LP / Label: Capitol / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Ckb 012 / Rel. Year: unknown, possilby late 1960s or 1970s / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "The Sweetest Sounds" and "Hey There." This gatefold LP includes full size color booklet (image 21), with photos of the artists and transcriptions of the lyrics. A mail order album.
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25. Title: After 5 Jazz Vocal / Format: CD / Label: Toshiba EMI / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Cj28 5025 (also Zj18 5025, found in the back cover) / Rel. Year: 1989 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "Alone Together" and "One Note Samba."
26. Title: I Wish You A Merry Christmas / Format: CD / Label: Toshiba EMI / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Totj 5189 / Rel. Year: 1990 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "The Star Carol."
27. Title: Jazz Vocals For A Romantic Afternoon / Format: CD / Label: Toshiba EMI / Cat. Num.: (Japan) Tocj 5297 and also Tocj 6052 / Rel. Year: 1991 and 1996 (reprint?) / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recording of "Days Of Wine And Roses." Jazz Vocals For A Lonely Night, arguably a companion to the disc under discussion, is another CD from this same Japanese series (from which I have featured just three discs).
VII. LPS AND CDS LICENSED FROM MULTIPLE LABELS, INCLUDING EMI
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1. Title: Million Dollar Memories / Format: Cassette LP / Pieces: 9 / Label: Reader's Digest / Cat. Num.: Rda 166 A / Rel. Year: 1972 / Note: Includes the Benny Goodman- Peggy Lee rendition of "Why Don't You Do Right." This item was not custom-made by Capitol, but I have included it here because of its connection to the next item, and because it does have one Lee track.
2. Title: Million Dollar Memories, Volume II / Format: 8-Track & LP / Pieces: 4 (8-Track) & 9 (LP) / Label: Reader's Digest / Cat. Num.: 2 746 & SL 6911 / Rel. Year: 1973 / Note: Carries both the Reader's Digest and the Capitol Special Markets logos. A sources credits the Longiness Symphonette Society, too. Includes Peggy Lee's renditions of "Golden Earrings," "Mañana," and "Fever."
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3-4. Title: Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars / Format: CD / Label: Readers' Digest / Cat. Num.: Rbd 031 (also Ucd4 5761-5764) / Rel. Year: 1988 / Note: Includes Peggy Lee's Capitol recordings of "One Note Samba," "The Sweetest Sounds," "Bewitched," and "That's All," all of them licensed from EMI America. Notice that Reader's Digest has released two items with this title. Whereas the one under discussion is a 4CD set that includes 4 Peggy Lee tracks, the other one is a 1997 single CD with an entirely different cover (a female head on profile, her eyes closed, stars shining behind her) and no Lee tracks in it.
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