The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography:
Chronological 45-Rpm Index

by Iván Santiago

Page generated on Sep 17, 2021

Title: {Apples, Peaches, And Cherries / How Strange} [different pairing than in USA singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA©Festival Cat. Num.: (Australia) Dj 1 Rel. Year: 1955

03:24	September 14, 1953	L 7357	Master Take (Decca)	Apples, Peaches, And Cherries (Lewis Allan aka Abe Meeropol)
02:54	February 13, 1953	L 7052	Master Take (Decca)	How Strange (Peggy Lee, Victor Popular Young)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marty Paich (arr, p), Sy Oliver, Victor Young (con), Victor Young And His Singing Strings (acc), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Peggy Lee (v), Walter "Pete" Candoli, Session Musicians, Unknown (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Note About The Images Seen Above

A non-American item dating from 1955, the above-shown 45-rpm single contains two songs that Peggy Lee had recorded for Decca Records in 1953. Back then, Decca released both songs on an American album called Songs In An Intimate Style. (Festival also released its own version of that album. Merely for illustration purposes, its front cover is pictured above.)

American Decca also issued one of these two songs ("Apples, Peaches, And Cherries") on an 45-rpm/78-rpm single. In the United States, the other song ("How Strange") was restricted to the album however.

In New Zealand and Australia, Decca's catalogue was released through Festival Records. The Festival single under scrutiny is a promotional single. Visible on both sides of the disc, the prefix "DJ" probably stands for the term "disc jockey," and thus pinpoints to the realm of radio as the original recipient of the item.

This promotional single should not be studied in isolation. The next entry (Sp 45 750) showcases a Fonit retail single from the same year and by the same singer. Since both Dj 1 and Sp 45 750 feature the song "Apples, Peaches And Cherries," it could be theorized that the former was meant to be the promotional version of the latter. But, if such was truly the case, then Festival's original plan for commercial release might have undergone a belated modification: one of the promoted prospects, "How Strange," would have been substituted with Lee's Decca recording of "Baubles, Bangles, And Beads." The fact that "Baubles" had been a hit for Lee in the United States could serve as a rationale for such a substitution. Besides, this third number was also a track from the aforementioned Decca album Songs In An Intimate Style, which Festival Records released in 1955 as well.

Alternatively, there might have been no substitution, and we are just witnessing some other form of marketing strategy on Festival's part. In other words, the promotional and the retail singles might have always been intended to feature the songs that they do. Festival's marketing agents could have considered it worthwhile to add a third number ("How Strange") to the roster of songs that would promote the company's own 1955 reissue of the album Songs In An Intimate Style.

Notes About This Index's Contents

The last of three indexes dedicated to listing Peggy Lee's singles, this page covers items that came out only on 45-rpm format in their country of origin. All singles are listed chronologically by year of release. In cases where the release date remains unknown to me, the single in question has been relegated to the bottom of the page.

Throughout, you will notice the inclusion of relevant pictorial material, such as images of 45-rpm labels and ads promoting the singles. My intention is to keep adding more of such pertinent images as I find them. Also found throughout this index are notes about certain singles. Replicas of many of those notes can be found, sometimes in expanded versions, in this discography's sessionography. (Should you be interested in consulting the sessionography, place your cursor on the words "Studio Sessions" in the blue bar above.)

If you are searching for details about a particular USA 45-rpm single by Peggy Lee, and if you do not find any information about it herein, consult the second index as well. (The second index concentrates on singles which came out on both 78-rpm and 45-rpm configurations, rather than just on 45 rpm.) Of course, you can contact me directly, too, through my email address. Furthermore, bear in mind that some so-called 45-rpm singles are instead pieces of EPs which, with the passing of time, became detached from their cardboard cover. As a result, such EP pieces have ended up being unwittingly listed as singles even in specialized magazines and at record auctions. In the present index, I have tried to include only authentic 45-rpm singles, as opposed to EP units.

In this page, non-American 45-rpm singles have been included only when they do not have a USA counterpart. Separate pages for such foreign counterparts actually exist in this discography: one of them specifically for British items, the other for any additional foreign items. [By a foreign "counterpart," I mean a 45-rpm single that (a) was manufactured and released outside of the United States but (b) contains the exact same two master performances as an US single.]

Finally, I should point out that I have made a few exceptions to my main policy for this page. As already stated, the page is circumscribed to singles that were released only on 45 rpm, not on 78 rpm; however, you will spot below a tiny quantity of singles that did come out on both configurations. (They are identified as such on the notes under them.) An explanation for these exceptions is in order. The main sources from which I originally built my discographical work consisted of official paperwork (e.g., artist files) from the Capitol label and, in the case of other record companies, the label discographies published by Michel Ruppli. I have belatedly found out that the official documentation omits the existence of 78-rpm versions for a few singles that were issued in or around 1957 and 1958. By that time, the 78-rpm configuration might have not been deemed relevant enough to warrant inclusion in the artist files of the record company. The shellac pressings might have consisted of quantities small enough to fall within the realm of custom-made requests. (I should stress that the points made in this paragraph pertain only to singles pressed in the United States. In other countries, such as Canada, 78-rpm pressings of Capitol/EMI singles were regularly made during the late 1950s and even in the early 1960s.) There in one more exception to note: also belatedly incorporated to this page were CD singles, of which there are no more than a handful.

Title: {Baubles, Bangles And Beads / Apples, Peaches And Cherries} [different pairing than in USA singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA©Festival Cat. Num.: (Australia) Sp 45 750 Rel. Year: 1955

03:24	September 14, 1953	L 7357	Master Take (Decca)	Apples, Peaches, And Cherries (Lewis Allan aka Abe Meeropol)
02:54	February 13, 1953	L 7052	Master Take (Decca)	How Strange (Peggy Lee, Victor Popular Young)

NOTES:

According to David Kent’s Australian Chart Book (1940– 1969), the above-seen 45-rpm single (bearing matrix numbers 885 and 886) holds the distinction of having reached the top ten in Australia's music chart.

In the United States, these Peggy Lee interpretations had been issued two years earlier, on not one but two configurations: album and single. (The American album in question was Songs In An Intimate Style. For illustration purposes, i have included a picture of the album's front cover above, in its EP edition.)

As for the single configuration, more than one item was actually part of the equation: the two songs did not appear on the same America single. To be more specific, Decca issued "Baubles, Baubles And Beads" on a 1953 single (#28890) whose flip side is "Love You So". Meanwhile, "Apples, Peaches And Cherries" was released on American Decca single #28889, with "The Night Holds No Fear For The Lover" on the flip side. (Neither of those USA singles is listed in the present page. Because they were issued not only on 45 rpm but also on 78 rpm, you will find details about them on this separate page.)

Title: {Where Flamingos Fly / The Gypsy With Fire In His Shoes}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA Cat. Num.: 9 30117 Rel. Year: 1957

02:28	June 8, 1956	L 9286	Master Take (Decca)	Where Flamingos Fly (John Benson Brooks, Harold Courlander, Elthea Peale)
02:50	May 26, 1954	L 7715	Master Take (Decca)	The Gypsy With Fire In His Shoes (Laurindo Almeida, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Gil Evans (arr), Sy Oliver (con), The Sy Oliver Orchestra (acc), Laurindo Almeida (g), Sammy Davis, Jr., Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

In the United States, almost all of Peggy Lee's Decca singles came out on both 78-rpm and 45-rpm speeds. There were only four exceptions. All of them are 45-speed issues. Part of the reason for the bypassing of the 78 format is that all four singles were released at a relatively late date (1964, 1959, 1958, 1957), when the format had lost its currency in the US. The item shown herein is the earliest of the four exceptions. (Incidentally, Lee was no longer under contract with Decca where these exceptions made their commercial debut. Probably aiming at cashing in on the singer's continuing popularity during her Capitol years, the label also issued several Lee albums as well. Some of the singles contained songs also found on the albums, and thus served as promotion for the LPs.)

I must stress that my comments about are circumscribed to American Decca singles. Elsewhere, Decca and its affiliates issues their own versions of this single. While most of them were on 45, there is at least one on 78, from Japan. If curious to see the Japanese edition, consult this discography's chronologically arranged 78 index, year 1957).

Title: {Baby, Baby, Wait For Me / Every Night}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 3722 Rel. Year: 1957

02:32	April 13, 1957 (1:00-4:30 p.m.)	16840-14	Master Take (Capitol)	Every Night (Scott J. Johnson, Jr., Ronie Rae, Ed Townsend)
01:56	April 22, 1957 (9:00-12:00)	16862-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Baby, Baby, Wait For Me (Joseph Davis Hooven, Marilyn K. Hooven)

Peggy Lee (ldr), David Klein (om), Voyle Gilmore (pdr), Nelson Riddle (arr, con), John "Plas" Johnson (sax), Robert "Bob" Bain, Al Hendrickson, Jack Marshall (g), Max K. Bennett, George "Red" Callender (b), Lou Levy, Ray Sherman (p), Roy Harte, Raymond Martinez (d), Peggy Lee (v), The Modern Men (Tony Katics, Al Oliveri, Paul Salamunovich, Bob Smart) (bkv)

NOTES:

Capitol 45-rpm single #3722 was sent to radio stations with a misleading label that read "promotional debut record." Though by no means Peggy Lee's debut record, it was the singer's first release after her return to the label that she had left five years earlier. Shown above are two promotional ads, as well as the sleeve of the promotional disc, whose sides can be inspected below.

The above-seen images show the two sides of the commercial 45-rpm single and also both sides of its promotional version.

Though only listed as a 45-rpm release in the Capitol files that I consulted, single #3722 exists in 78-rpm format, too. I have seen copies on the web. They do appear to be of American, not foreign origin: the legend "manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc. . Hollywood, California . U.S.A." appears on the physical label. As already mentioned, the present page makes room for a few exceptions to its policy of listing original 45-rpm singles with no 78-rpm counterpart in their country of origin. I have made one of such exceptions for Capitol single #3722, in part because I wanted to maintain the chronological flow of these discographical pages. See also notes under the 1958 single "Fever / You Don't Know."

Title: {Listen To The Rockin' Bird / Uninvited Dream}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 3811 Rel. Year: 1957

02:13	August 30, 1957 (8:00-11:30/12:00 p.m.)	17424-6	Master Take (Capitol)	Listen To The Rocking Bird (Alice Hawthorne aka Septimus Winner, Hal Levy, Richard "Whistling Dick" Milburn)
02:02	August 30, 1957 (8:00-11:30/12:00 p.m.)	17426-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Uninvited Dream (Burt Bacharach, Sammy Gallop)

Peggy Lee (ldr), David Klein (om), Nelson Riddle (arr, con), The Nelson Riddle Orchestra (acc), Buddy Collette, Joe Cook, Skeets Herfurt aka Arthur Herfurt, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz, William "Buck" Skalak (sax), Walter "Pete" Candoli, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Vito "Mickey" Mangano (t), Richard "Dick" Noel, Tommy Pederson aka Pullman Pederson, George Roberts, Juan Tizol (tb), Barney Kessel (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Mel Lewis (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Shown above are two pieces of promotion on behalf of this single. The first is a trade ad, the second a British demo, presumably sent to radio stations or to other pertinent outfits. It is also worth noting that, while the original USA release came out only on 45-rpm speed, its British counterpart was also issued on 78 rpm. (The shown demo is a 45-rpm disc, however.)

Seen directly above are the USA commercial single and a promo of that single. Shown below is the same single's Japanese edition, whose catalogue number (7P 67) is different from the one used for the original American release and the British counterpart (F 3811 in both cases). On a more general note, the determination of which of the two sides was the primary one seems tricky. An inspection of the above-pictured pieces of advertisement leads to the impression that both sides were plugged -- as might have been Capitol's strategic practice for many a promising single from these years. I have ended up giving more weight to the fact that "Listen To The Rocking Bird" is listed first on a full-page Buyboard ad that Capitol placed on Billboard magazine. (One out of several regularly created by the label during this time period, this particular Capitol Buyboard ad is on page 93 of the magazine's November 11, 1957 issue.) Reinforcement for my choice of "side A" can be drawn from the fact that the same song had been discussed first on the magazine's review of the single (October 14, 1957, page 48.)

Title: {Johnny Guitar / Autumn In Rome}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA Cat. Num.: (Japan) Ds 98 [Also Ds 237] Rel. Year: 1958

02:56	March 1, 1954	L 7583	Master Take (Decca)	Johnny Guitar (Peggy Lee, Victor Popular Young)
02:41	March 1, 1954	L 7584	Master Take (Decca)	Autumn In Rome (Sammy Cahn, Paul Weston, Alessandro Cicognini)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Victor Young (arr, con), Victor Young And His Singing Strings (acc), Vicente Gomez (g), Unknown (b, p), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Originally issued in February of 1958, the Japanese 45-rpm single under discussion has gone through numerous editions. Unfortunately, I know of no explanation for this variety, although it can be safely assumed to be that it point to the popularity and demand for things "Johnny Guitar" in Japan. I also lack knowledge on the matter of which of these editions came first, let along their chronological sequence. (Were I asked to make an educated guess, the first of the above-shown pictures sleeves would be my candidate for the original one from 1958. I have found no editions or variations for it, which could be a clue to its arcane, "prehistoric" quality. For what s worth, I have leo come across an experienced seller's auction in which the second, green-colored cover is dated 1958.)

It is worth noting that, visually, all these sleeves follow a pattern: each one features a still from the movie Johnny Guitar. We may divide this batch of sleeves into sub-groups, based on which movie still graces the front cover.

The largest sub-group includes at least nine sleeves. (I use the qualifier "at least" because there could very well be additional sleeves of which I am yet to become aware.) When I first became aware of the existence of this large sub-group, I assumed that each of the seven sleeves had been released at a different time. I am now entertaining the alternative possibility that some if not all of them were simultaneously issued.

Decca single Ds 98 consisted of the vinyl, an outer cover (i.e., the picture sleeve) and an inner, additional sleeve for the vinyl. The latter can be seen in the fourth row above.

As for the color of the vinyl's label, so far I have seen just the three versions included above: some are red, some are in one of two variations of blue. This is true of not only of the sub-label that features different background colors, but also the other Decca Ds 98 reissues whose labels I have inspected.

Of the 14 front picture sleeves shown in the present entry, I should clarify that all the ones displayed above bear the catalogue number Ds 98. Of the trio of items seen below, only the first of them bears that number. (Incidentally, that first item identifies itself as being part of a suitably titled "Eternal 2" series.)

The second item shown below is a complete mystery to me. It seems to include "Johnny Guitar" but I am unclear as to whether Peggy Lee's version is the one featured. Moreover, "Autumn In Rome" might not be part of this release, which I am including here in the hope that a collector or a Japanese reader can kindly help me with the missing details. An online seller has given United Artists as the releasing company, but I have not found any corroboration elsewhere.

The third and last item uses a different catalogue number (D45-237), but does include the same pairing as Ds 98 (i.e., "Johnny Guitar" / "Autumn In Rome"). This particular item actually has a 78-rpm counterpart and, for that reason, is further discussed in this discography's pictorial index for 78 & 45 issues. (The discussion of the 78-rpm disc is located near the bottom of that index, among the undated singles).

Title: {Bella Notte / Let Me Go Lover (aka Cobra)} [Different pairing than in USA singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Fonit Cetra Licensed Cat. Num.: (Italy) Sp 50021 Rel. Year: 1958

03:07	December 6, 1954	L 8040	Master Take (Decca)	Bella Notte (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee)
03:02	November 18, 1954	L 7989	Master Take (Decca)	Let Me Go, Lover! (Jenny Lou Carson, Al Hill)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Victor Young And His Orchestra (acc), Marty Paich (p), Peggy Lee (v), Unknown (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Due to its age and non-domestic origin, this issue has proven difficult to track down and document. So far, I have found evidence for a 45-rpm single only, but I cannot discard the possibility that a 78-rpm disc was issued as well.

To reiterate a point explained at its outset, this particular page lists foreign singles only when they do not have an exact USA counterpart. In the present case, we have an Italian issue consisting of songs that were issued on separate singles in America. US Decca single #29460 coupled "Bella Notte" with "La La Lu," both compositions being from the Walt Disney film Lady And The Tramp. A very popular mid-1950s song that numerous artists recorded at the request of their respective labels, "Let Me Go Lover" was paired with the more obscure "Bouquet Of Blues" on US Decca single #29373. Both of those American singles came out in two speeds, 78-rpm and 45-rpm.

The re-titling of "Let Me Go, Lover" as "Cobra" is curious. To account for it, a native Italian speaker might be required. I can say with full confidence that, in versions sung in Italian, the word "cobra" clear substitutes for the English word "lover." Since both Italian and English speakers typically understand the term "cobra" to refer to the infamous snake, it might be that Italian "cobra" also has a colloquial meaning of which I am unaware.

Alternatively (though less likely, in my opinion), Italian translators could have taken liberties with the song's original semantics. They would have over-stressed the dangerous, spiti(e)ful, and lethal nature of the song's lover. In such an alternative approach, the term "cobra" would carry the same vituperative connotation as the related English noun "viper."

Title: {Fever / You Don't Know [1958 master]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 3998 Rel. Year: 1958

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:31	May 25, 1958	19200-7-mono	Master Take (Capitol)	You Don't Know (Walter Spriggs)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Howard Roberts (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Joe Harnell (p), Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's recording of "Fever" debuted in Billboard's Hot 100 during the week of July 21, 1958. It peaked at #8 and stayed in the chart for 13 weeks. At Cashbox, it did even better, peaking at #6 and spending 14 weeks in the Best Selling Singles chart. The song also reached the top ten of two specialized Billboard charts: #9 in the Best Seller list, #10 in the Jockey list. Shown above are several Capitol trade ads that promoted this number, along with others that were released arround the same time.

The single's flip side, "You Don't Know," is a number that was recorded by Peggy Lee several times, at different sessions. Prospective collectors might also want to know that two takes from this session have been released. Capitol single #3998 contains the master take, and so do for most other releases. The other take did not make its commercial debut until 2008, on the Collectors' Choice CD All Aglow Again!. This master is in mono, the alternate in stereo.

The original American 45-rpm single is seen directly above, its German edition in the preceding pictures. (Unlike the United States and most other countries on which the 45 was released in the late 1950s, Germany prepared a picture sleeve edition.) Among the images of the Aemerican single, the middle one displays the promo that was sent out to radio stations. It was housed in a sleeve bearing a sensationalistic text. The other two images exhibit both sides of the commercial single.

Capitol's session files indicate that the single Fever / You Don't Know was released on 45-rpm speed in both the United States (#3998) and the United Kingdom (#14902). There is no listing whatsoever for a 78-rpm disc.

However, the first of the images seen directly above serves as evidence that the single did come out on 78 rpm in the United States, while the second image proves that it was issued on that same speed in the United Kingdom. Perhaps 78-rpm discs were omitted from the US Capitol files which I consulted because, by the mid-1950s, that format had become something of a specialty. But, even if the format was on its way out, a single as popular as "Fever" might have elicited demand from music lovers who were still clinging to the old format.

Meanwhile, the newer speed (45-rpm) was also being embraced above, but the old speed was not being abandoned by any means. Canadian and Argentinian 78-rpm versions of the single user scrutiny are on display amidst the images above.

To reiterate a point made at the very outset, the present page is dedicated to itemizing singles issued on 45-rpm only. Issues known to have been released on both 45 and 78 are listed on a different page. But there are always exceptions to every rule. Case in point: Capitol single #3998 is one of the very few releases for which I have made allowances. (Such allowances were motivated by my desire to maintain the chronological flow of these discographical pages. To be more specific, It would be somewhat incongruous for this page to list all of Lee's original singles from 1957 to 1977, with the sole omission of "Fever / You Don't Know." Yet such an incongruity would take place if "Fever / You Don't Know" were to be entered as both a 45 and a 78 in my discographical database.

Title: {Never Mind / Wrong, Wrong, Wrong}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA Cat. Num.: 9 30494 Rel. Year: 1958

03:08	June 8, 1956	L 9287	Master Take (Decca)	Never Mind (Jerry Bock, George David Weiss)
02:24	June 8, 1956	L 9288	Master Take (Decca)	Wrong, Wrong, Wrong (Milton DeLugg, Allan Roberts)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Sy Oliver (con), The Sy Oliver Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

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Title: {Mañana / Golden Earrings} ("Special Hit Parade" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Bovema Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) Hf 9 Rel. Year: 1958

02:45	November 25, 1947	2609-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Mañana (Dave Barbour, Peggy Lee)
03:00	September 24, 1947	2278-3	Master Take (Capitol)	Golden Earrings (Raymond B. "Ray" Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Popular Young)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Lee Gillette (pdr), John Palladino (eng), Henry J. "Heinie" Beau (arr, f, cl), Dave Barbour (con, g), Dave Barbour And His Orchestra, Dave Barbour And The Brazilians (acc), Harry Klee (f, cl), Unknown (f, b, str, p, d), Aloysio de Oliveira, Joe de Oliveira (g), Arthur Bernstein (b), Tommy Romersa (d), Ivan Lopes (bo), Oswaldo Gogiano, Antonio Martins, Paulo de Castro Monte (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Only one side of this issue is visible above. I am missing images for the side that features "Golden Earrings."

Note that this 45-rpm disc links itself to the 12" LP edition of the album Rendezvous With Peggy Lee. Both items were presumably issued around the same title in the Netherlands.

As part of its "Star★Line" 45-rpm series, Capitol also paired up these songs in the United States. See below, year 1961.

Title: {Light Of Love / Sweetheart}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 4071 Rel. Year: 1958

01:30	September 14, 1958 (3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)	30107-14-mono	Master Take (Capitol)	Light Of Love (Charles Singleton)
02:22	September 14, 1958 (3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)	30108-21-mono	Master Take (Capitol)	Sweetheart (Winfield Scott)

Peggy Lee (ldr), David Klein (om), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Jack Marshall (arr, con), William "Bill" Pitman, Hilmer "Tiny" Timbrell (g), Max K. Bennett (b), John Williams (p), Verlye Mills Brilhart (hrp), Larry Bunker, Shelly Manne (d), Peggy Lee (v), The Evelyn Freeman Singers (bkv)

NOTES:

The gospel-tinged "Light Of Love" peaked at #63. After its debut during the week of November 3, 1958, it spent six weeks in Billboard's Hot 100. The flip side managed to crack the top 100, staying at #98 for two weeks in November of 1958. "Sweetheart" actually fared slightly better in Cashbox's Top 100 Singles, earning a #92 peak.

In Canada, Capitol #4071 had a warmer reception. Tabulated as an unity, "Light Of Love" and "Sweetheart" reached #30 in CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade, a top 50 airplay chart tabulated by Toronto's radio station CHUM. (Incidentally, the single was also issued on 78 rpm in Canadian land.)

Prospective collectors should bear in mind that, for both of these mono masters, stereo alternate takes were issued by the label Collectors' Choice in the 2008 CD All Aglow Again!. The alternate of "Light Of Love" had also been previously in the 2000 Capitol CD Rare Gems And Hidden Treasures.

Title: {Blues In The Night / Singing The Blues [vocal by Guy Mitchell]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: AFRS 45 Label: US Government's Army Recruitment Service Cat. Num.: Oss 1734-1735 Rel. Year: 1958

03:15

December 24, 1941; 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

CO 32051-1

Master Take (Columbia)

Blues In The Night (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)

Benny Goodman (ldr), Eddie Sauter (arr), The Benny Goodman Sextet (acc), Benny Goodman (cl), Cutty Cutshall (tb), Lou McGarity (tb, v), Tom "Tommy" Morgan (g), Sid Weiss (b), Mel Powell (p), Ralph Collier (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

In addition to the performances by Peggy Lee (with the Benny Goodman Orchestra) and Guy Mitchell, this Army Recruitment single features an announcer who identifies both sides as previously issued in Columbia's "Hall Of Fame" EP series. That series was dedicated to million sellers only, states the announcer. I have found no corroboration for the claim that the Goodman-Lee number was a million seller. At the present time, I can only say that, given the absence of verification, the claim is not highly likely -- though neither is it impossible.

Title: {Alright, Ok, You Win / My Man}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 4115 Rel. Year: 1959

02:52	May 25, 1958	19202-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Alright, Okay, You Win (Maym(i)e Watts, Sidney Wyche)
02:10	October 17, 1958 (8:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.)	30430-9	Master Take (Capitol)	My Man (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (om, t), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bill Holman (arr), Jack Marshall (arr, con), Jack Marshall and His Orchestra, Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Justin Gordon, George Smith (r), Mahlon Clark (cl), Benny Carter (as), Don Fagerquist, Conrad Gozzo (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart (tb), Bob Enevoldsen (vtb), Barney Kessel, Howard Roberts (g), Joe Mondragon, Meyer "Mike" Rubin (b), Joe Harnell, James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Shelly Manne (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

"Alright, Okay, You Win" entered Billboard's Hot 100 during the week of January 26, 1959 and stayed for six weeks, peaking at #68. It became Lee's 51st entry in Billboard's singles charts -- and her fourth hit after returning to Capitol. It also charted in Cashbox's Best Selling Singles chart, where it spent seven weeks and peaked at #62.

"My Man" entered the Hot 100 during the week of January 19, 1959 and stayed for six weeks in the chart, peaking at #81. Its showing was slightly better in Cashbox's Top 100 Singles chart: a #76 peak and a seven-week-stay total.

Capitol #4115 also fared well when it traveled north of the border. The single peaked at #28 in CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade, a top 50 airplay chart tabulated by Toronto's radio station CHUM.

Prospective collectors should bear in mind that two takes of "My Man" were released by Capitol, both of them in 1959. The other one made its debut in the LP I Like Men. Also that year, the present take was also released Peggy Lee EP Alright, Okay, You Win (Eap 1-1213).

Shown above is a Capitol trade ad for a batch of singles released in early 1959, including the 45-rpm disc being discussed, whose two sides can be seen below.

Title: Music In The Air {Hallelujah I Love Him So /Timothy [Henry Mancini instrumental]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: AFRS 45 Label: US Government's Air Force Recruitment Service Cat. Num.: Programs No. 59-60 Rel. Year: 1959

02:26

March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)

31444-11

Master Take (Capitol)

Hallelujah, I Love Him So (Ray Charles)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (om, t), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Jack Marshall (arr, con), Jack Marshall and His Orchestra (acc), Don Fagerquist, Uan Rasey (t), Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Stuart "Stu" Williamson (tb), John Cave, Herman Lebow, Richard Perrisi (hrn), Al Hendrickson, William "Bill" Pitman, Allan Reuss, Howard Roberts (g), Max K. Bennett (b), James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Larry Bunker, Shelly Manne, Lou Singer (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This is the earliest of Peggy Lee's five entries in the USAF series Music In The Air, which seems to have taken flight in 1958. (Such is the year that sellers have generally claimed for the earliest Music In The Air single which I have seen so far, containing programs no. 13 and no. 14.) The present single (no. 59-60) contains masters that Capitol and RCA had originally released on their own labels. Those original singles date from 1959.

On the basis of the above-made comments, I have entered 1959 as the release year of this USAF single. My assignation should be deemed likely to be correct, but still tentative.

Lee's other Music In The Air entries (no. 115, 133, 169 or 170, 245) are covered below, They have also received tentative dates as well, ranging from 1960 to 1962.

Title: {Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / It Ain't Necessarily So}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA Cat. Num.: 9 30879 Rel. Year: 1959

02:28	January 6, 1956	L 8910	Master Take (Decca)	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Traditional)
03:21	April 3, 1956	L 9122	Master Take (Decca)	It Ain't Necessarily So (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Neal Hefti (arr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Sy Oliver (con), The Sy Oliver Orchestra (acc), William "Bill" Pitman (g), Buddy Clark (b), Lou Levy (p), Larry Bunker (vib, d, per), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Session Musicians (bkv)

NOTES:

Title: {Hallelujah, I Love Him So / I'm Looking Out The Window} [mono]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 4189 [purple label] Rel. Year: 1959

02:26	March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	31444-11	Master Take (Capitol)	Hallelujah, I Love Him So (Ray Charles)
02:49	March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	31446-16	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm Looking Out The Window (Traditional)

NOTES:

Capitol single #4189 was released in both mono and stereo. Visually, the two can be differentiated by the color of the label (red or purple-violet) and by the prefix letter in the catalogue number (F or S). For a few details about a popular mash-up generally known as "Hallelujah," involving Ludacris and Peggy Lee, consult the sessionography's notes, under session dated March 28, 1959.

Title: {Hallelujah, I Love Him So / I'm Looking Out The Window} [stereo]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: S 4189 [red label] Rel. Year: 1959

02:26	March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	31444-11	Master Take (Capitol)	Hallelujah, I Love Him So (Ray Charles)
02:49	March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	31446-16	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm Looking Out The Window (Traditional)

NOTES:

Capitol 45-rpm disc #4189 was released in both mono and stereo. Visually, the two can be differentiated by the color of the label (red or purple) and by the prefix letter in the catalogue number (F or S). This item was part of the very first batch of stereo singles ever issued by Capitol Records. Released between April and May of 1959, the batch consisted of six singles whose catalogue numbers ran from 4168 to 4193. According to the Both Sides Now discographical website, they were:

S4168 - Castin' My Spell / Telephone Baby (Johnny Otis Show)
S4176 - The Bunny Hop / Walkin' To Mother's (Ray Anthony)
S4189 - Hallelujah, I Love Him So/ I'm Lookin' Out the Window (Peggy Lee)
S4192 - Here I Am / Big Fat Sally (Ronnie And Roy)
S4193 - Little Child / Rhythm (Bobby Hammack)
S4194 - Wanna Kiss You To-Night / I'm In The Mood For Love (Earl Holliman)

Title: {You Came A Long Way From St. Louis / I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: F 4243 Rel. Year: 1959

03:16	Possibly June 1959	31803-1 / 31893-edit	Master Take (Capitol)	You Came A Long Way From St. Louis (John Benson Brooks, Bob Russell)
02:47	Possibly June 1959	31810 / 31894-edit	Master Take (Capitol)	I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City (Johhny Lange, Leon Rene)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), {Head Arrangement} (arr), The George Shearing Quintet (acc), Toots Thielemans (g), Carl Pruitt (b), George Shearing (p), Ray Alexander (vib), Ray Mosca (d), Armando Peraza (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

The commercial single is shown in the second image (red-purple label). The other two images (light blue label) show the promotional version. Both versions contain edited versions of the two masters. On the first image, the vinyl wax identifies the master number as 31893.

Title: {So in Love / Jim} [neither released as a single in the USA]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Bovema Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) Hf 231 Rel. Year: 1959

02:33	October 19, 1958	30438-14	Master Take (Capitol)	So In Love (Cole Porter)
02:59	October 22, 1958	30470-9-mono	Master Take (Capitol)	Jim (Caesar James Petrillo, Nelson A. Shawn, Milton Samuels)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Jack Marshall (con), Jack Marshall and His Orchestra (acc), Harry Klee (cl, as, wds), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Murray McEachern, Randall Miller, Si Zentner (tb), Howard Roberts (g), Meyer "Mike" Rubin, Michael Meyer Rubin (b), James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Ann Mason Stockton (hrp), Larry Bunker (d), Shelly Manne (per), Jacques Gasselin, James Getzoff, Mort Herbert, George Kast, Murray Kellner, Joseph Livoti, Daniel "Dan" Lube, Emanual Moss, Erno Neufeld, Nathan Ross (vn), Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn (vl), David Filerman, Edgar Lustgarten (vc), Morris Berkow, Justin Gordon, Ted Nash aka Theodore Nash, Arthur C. Smith (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {You Deserve / Where Do I Go From Here?}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4298 Rel. Year: 1959

02:26	March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	31445-10	Master Take (Capitol)	You Deserve (Kenny Jacobson, Rhoda Roberts)
02:18	October 10, 1959	32507-10-mono	Master Take (Capitol)	Where Do I Go From Here? (Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock)

NOTES:

Retail and promotional and editions of Capitol single #4298. Red-colored labels are common to the various 1959 Capitol promos which I have seen. Capitol had also used that color for its first batch of stereo singles, released on the same year, back in April. (Single #4298 was issued a few months later, in October.) Hence there is a question mark as to whether the promo edition of 4298 is a stereo release. It is a question for which I do not yet have an answer, unfortunately. I have not been able to audition #4298, nor do my sources have any specifics to offer on this matter.

Title: {The Tree / The Christmas List}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4311 Rel. Year: 1959

01:41	October 10, 1959	32505-6	Master Take (Capitol)	The Tree (Peggy Lee)
02:38	October 10, 1959	32506-5	Master Take (Capitol)	The Christmas List (Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Billy May (arr), Jack Marshall (con), Jack Marshall and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v), Jimmy Joyce Children's Choir (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Promotional and retail editions of Capitol US single #4311. The picture sleeve appears to have been exclusive to the promo, which was probably aimed at radio stations and disc jockeys in particular. (The retail edition was issued in a plain sleeve.)

Red-colored labels are common to the various 1959 Capitol promos which I have seen. Capitol had also used that color for its first batch of stereo singles, released on the same year, back in April. (Single #4311 was issued in November 1959.) Hence there is a question mark as to whether the promo edition of 4311 is a stereo release. It is a question for which I do not yet have an answer, unfortunately. I have not been able to audition #4311, nor do my sources have any specifics to offer on this matter.

Title: {You Deserve / Things Are Swingin' [not released as a single in the USA]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15103 & (Netherlands) Hf 237 Rel. Year: 1959

02:10	May 19, 1958	19142-6	Master Take (Capitol)	Things Are Swingin' (Peggy Lee, Jack Marshall)
02:26	March 28, 1959 (5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	31445-10	Master Take (Capitol)	You Deserve (Kenny Jacobson, Rhoda Roberts)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (om, t), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Jack Marshall (arr, con), Jack Marshall and His Orchestra, Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Justin Gordon, George Smith (r), Don Fagerquist, Conrad Gozzo, Uan Rasey (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Stuart "Stu" Williamson (tb), John Cave, Herman Lebow, Richard Perrisi (hrn), Bob Enevoldsen (vtb), Al Hendrickson, William "Bill" Pitman, Allan Reuss, Howard Roberts (g), Max K. Bennett, Joe Mondragon (b), Joe Harnell, James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Larry Bunker, Shelly Manne, Lou Singer (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Released in Europe, not in the United States. EMI issued it in the United Kingdom, Emi-Bovema in the Netherlands. Unlike American 45-rpm singles, whose large inner holes required the insertion of a so-called 45-rpm record adapter before they could be played on a turntable, 45-rpm singles in the United Kingdom had the same type of small hole that is found in 12" LPs. For many years, British and Australian editions of these singles also allowed for the option of detaching the area surrounding the small hole, thereby rendering the single playable only with a 45-rpm record adapter, like the American counterparts. (The presumed rationale for making this option available would have been the needs of portable record player and jukebox machine owners. When it came to 45-rpm singles, jukebox machines were able to play them only if they had large holes; ditto for some portable record players.)

Title: {Heart / C'est Magnifique}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4349 Rel. Year: 1960

02:06	August 12, 1959	32217-9	Master Take (Capitol)	C'est Magnifique (Cole Porter)
01:59	August 13, 1959 (1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)	32228-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Heart (Richard Adler, John M. "Jack" Elliot, Jerry Ross)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (om), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Jack Marshall, Marty Paich (arr), Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Justin Gordon (r), Jules Kinsler, Harry Klee, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz (sax), Rubén León, Arthur C. Smith (f), Rudolph "Rudy" Loera, Henry Miranda, Alfonso "Al" Rojo, Ray Vázquez (t), Bobby Gibbons, William "Bill" Pitman, Tony Rizzi, Howard Roberts, Tommy Tedesco (g), Tony Reyes (b), Eduardo "Eddie" Cano (p), Eduardo Aparicio, Manuel E. López, Carlos Mejía, Ramón "Ray" Rivera (d, per), Luis "Puntilla" Kant (cng), Peggy Lee (v), Session Musicians (bkv)

NOTES:

Lee's Grammy-nominated version of "Heart" did not enter Billboard's Hot 100, but it did manage to sneak into Cashbox's Top 100 Singles for a week, placing at #97 (April 9, 1960 issue). Above, the first row of images shows the single in a promotional edition, housed inside a sleeve whose design highlights the main side. The single's commercial edition is on display in the second row, along with another promotional edition (center).

Red-colored labels are common to various 1959 and 1960 Capitol promos which I have seen. Capitol had also used that color for its first batch of stereo singles, released in April 1959. (Single #4349 was issued in March 1960.) Hence there is a question mark as to whether the promo edition of 4349 is a stereo release. It is a question for which I do not yet have an answer, unfortunately. I have not been able to audition #4349, nor do my sources have any specifics to offer on this matter.

Title: Music In The Air {Whee Baby / In Your Arms [Tony Reynolds vocal]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: AFRS 45 Label: US Government's Air Force Recruitment Service Cat. Num.: Programs No. 115-116 Rel. Year: 1960

02:23

February 18, 1952

9430-5

Master Take (Capitol)

Whee, Baby (Alice Larson, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Unknown (t, g, b, p, d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This is the second of Peggy Lee's five entries in the USAF series Music In The Air. The above-shown year of release should be deemed probably correct, though still in need of confirmation. For more details about the five Lee entries in the USAF series, see note under the first of them (no. 59-60), believed to have been released in 1959.

Title: {I'm Gonna Go Fishin' / My Gentle Young Johnny}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4449 Rel. Year: 1960

02:09	July 26, 1960	34271-23	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee)
02:37	September 1, 1960	34418-5	Master Take (Capitol)	My Gentle Young Johnny (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bill Holman (arr, con), Ralph Carmichael (con), Ralph Carmichael and His Orchestra, Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: Music In The Air {I'm Gonna Go Fishin' / Midnight Lace [Ray Ellis instrumental]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: AFRS 45 Label: US Government's Air Force Recruitment Service Cat. Num.: Programs No. 133-134 Rel. Year: 1960

02:05

July 26, 1960

34271-12

Alternate Take (Capitol)

I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bill Holman (arr, con), Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This is the third of Peggy Lee's five entries in the USAF series Music In The Air. The above-shown year of release should be deemed probably correct, though still in need of confirmation. For more details about the five Lee entries in the USAF series, see note under the first of them (no. 59-60), believed to have been released in 1959.

Title: Merry Christmas From Peggy Lee {Jingle Bells (I Like A Sleighride) / Christmas Carousel}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4474 Rel. Year: 1960

02:26	June 15, 1960 (4:30 p.m - 8:00 p.m.)	33977-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Christmas Carousel (Peggy Lee)
02:03	June 19, 1960 (1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.)	34022-11	Master Take (Capitol)	Jingle Bells / I Like A Sleighride (James Lord Pierpont, possibly Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr, arr), Billy May (arr, con), Jimmy Joyce (vdr), Billy May And His Orchestra (acc), Harry Klee, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz (r, sax), Ronnie Lang (r), Arthur "Art" Fleming, Jules Jacob[s], Ted Nash aka Theodore Nash (sax), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa, Richard "Dick" Perissi (frh), Clarence Karella (tu), George Van Eps (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Stan Levey (d), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (per), Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, Harold Dicterow, Jacques Gasselin, Anatol Kaminsky, Murray Kellner, Marvin Limonick, Joseph Livoti, Nathan Ross, Felix Slatkin (vn), Alvin Dinkin, Virginia Majewski, Alex Niemann, Abraham Weiss (vl), Charles Gates, Edgar Lustgarten, David Pratt, Joseph Saxon (vc), Peggy Lee (v), Jimmy Joyce Children's Choir (bkv)

NOTES:

Title: {Toys For Tots (sung by Peggy Lee) / Toys For Tots (sung by Nat King Cole)}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 33 rpm single Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: Kb 2820 - Kb 2821 Rel. Year: 1960

02:03

August 19, 1960

34349-34350

Master Take (Capitol)

Toys For Tots (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v), The Chipmunks (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee was one of various Capitol artists who recorded a promotional spot in support of the Marine Reserve charity campaign Toys For Tots, which distributes toys to children in need. Nat King Cole, Vic Damone, and Nancy Wilson were among the other artists who recorded the spot. All of them are presumed to have sung the lyrics to a pre-recorded track. Not sold in commercial stores, "Toys For Tots" singles were probably were sent directly to Marine Corps facilities for use as the agency saw fit, and to radio stations, for airplay. Due to the lack of commercial data, a release date is harder than usual to pinpoint. The one given above is in need of confirmation.

Title: {(Ghost) Riders In The Sky / Pepe [number by Les Baxter]} [Different pairing that in USA and UK singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (Perú) 45 7658 Rel. Year: 1960

02:41

April 18, 1949

4215-5

Master Take (Capitol)

(Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (Stan Jones)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Lee Gillette (pdr), Henry J. "Heinie" Beau (arr), Dave Barbour All-Stars (acc), Peggy Lee (v), The Jud Conlon Singers (bkv)

NOTES:

"Jinetes en el cielo" is the Spanish title for "Riders In The Sky." In the United States, "(Ghost) Riders in The Sky" was released in an all-Peggy Lee single that paired the number with her version of "Please, Love Me Tonight." (That 1949 single was included in the page that precedes this one.) From the 1960 movie of the same title, most versions of "Pepe" were released in the US on that year, this one by Les Baxter included. The Peruvian issue under scrutiny might have also been issued in 1960, or otherwise within the next few years. The above-given release date should thus be considered approximate.

Title: {A Bucket Of Tears / I Love Being Here With You}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4498 Rel. Year: 1960

02:17	July 26, 1960	34269-9	Master Take (Capitol)	A Bucket Of Tears (Dorothy Goodman, Winfield Scott)
02:44	September 1, 1960	34420-1	Master Take (Capitol)	I Love Being Here With You (Dave Cavanaugh aka Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee)

NOTES:

The label of this single identifies one of its songs as "Bucket Of Tears." In all other sources, including the Capitol album The Hits Of Peggy Lee, the title is found with an initial article: "A Bucket Of Tears." We thus have a minor discrepancy. (In its online documentation, copyright owner BMI does not include the initial article. However, and in spite of its official status, the source in question can be deceptive: the skipping of initial articles is a standard practice in BMI's database.) For the time being, I am listing the song as "A Bucket Of Tears" everywhere else in this discography.

Title: {Till There Was You [not released as a single in the USA] / (A) Bucket Of Tears}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15184 & (Netherlands) Hf 259 Rel. Year: 1961

02:31	August 12, 1959	32218-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Till There Was You (Meredith Willson)
02:17	July 26, 1960	34269-9	Master Take (Capitol)	A Bucket Of Tears (Dorothy Goodman, Winfield Scott)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Bill Holman (arr, con), Jack Marshall (arr), Bill Holman and His Orchestra, Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Jules Kinsler, Harry Klee, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz (sax), Arthur C. Smith (f), Bobby Gibbons, William "Bill" Pitman, Tony Rizzi, Howard Roberts, Tommy Tedesco (g), Tony Reyes (b), Eduardo "Eddie" Cano (p), Eduardo Aparicio, Manuel E. López, Carlos Mejía, Ramón "Ray" Rivera (per), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Faced with a prohibition to include the showtune "Till There Was You" in the 1960 British edition of the LP Latin Ala Lee! (due to the fact that the show had yet to premiere in the United Kingdom), EMI decided to instead issue the song on a British single about a year later, when restrictions no longer applied. In the United States, the number was never issued as a single. (In the Netherlands, this single was issued in 1962.)

"Till There Was You" made its debut on the British music chart during the week of March 25, 1961 and stayed for just a week, placing at #40. But shortly afterwards (during the week of April 8), it re-entered the chart, staying for three more weeks. That second time around, it peaked at #30.

This belated release of "Till There Was You" had a felicitous side effect. Paul McCartney heard the single and loved Lee's rendition. The song was recorded by The Beatles soon thereafter. An admiring McCartney eventually wrote and produced a track for a Lee album, too. (See early June, 1974 session.)

The label of this single identifies one of its songs as "Bucket Of Tears." Most everywhere else, the song is listed with an initial article ("A Bucket Of Tears").

Title: {Yes, Indeed / Boston Beans}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4576 Rel. Year: 1961

03:11	February 9, 1961 (Extra Show, With Invited Audience)	23466-"B"	Mastered By Capitol	Yes, Indeed! (Sy Oliver)
02:02	April 15, 1961	35746-2	Master Take (Capitol)	Boston Beans (Dave Cavanaugh aka Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee, Milt Raskin)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Quincy Jones (arr, con), Joe Harnell (con, p), Bob Donovan (r, f), Benny Carter, Bill Green (as), John "Plas" Johnson, Bill Perkins (ts), Jack Nimitz (bar), Robert "Bob" Fowler, Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon, Danny Stiles, Phil Sunkel, Willie Thomas (t), Ray De Sio, Vernon "Vern" Friley, Mickey Gravine, Lewis "Lew" McCreary, George Roberts, Frank Rosolino (tb), Dennis Budimir, Howard Roberts (g), Max K. Bennett (b), James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Abe Rosen (hrp), Stan Levey (d), Francisco "Chino" Pozo (bo, cng, per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This single combines a song from the Basin Street East dates ("Yes, Indeed!") with a song from Lee's ensuing Blues Cross Country sessions ("Boston Beans"). Curiously, a Capitol ad for this single suggests that it was rush-released. The alleged reason for the rush was the unexpected demand for "Boston Beans," particularly in the Massachusetts record market. There were also intimations of public appreciation for the song in the United Kingdom, where this single was also issued. (See pictures of both the US and UK 45 rpm discs below.) If these claims about the song's demand and popularity are true -- rather than mere promotional overstatement, as they very well may be -- then perhaps both sides of the single were originally slated to contain numbers from the Basin Street East sessions, and the substitution was made once word of an incipient interest in "Boston Beans" poured in.

According to an oral report for which I have no official confirmation, at one point in time Capitol had the intention to release a single containing Peggy Lee's rendition of "Moments Like This" from the Basin Street East sessions. If I may be allowed to speculate, it occurs to me that "Moments Like This" could have been originally scheduled to be the B side of Capitol single #4576. In the end, Capitol would have settled for "Boston Beans" instead. (Incidentally, the version of "Moments Like This" allegedly under consideration was not the live one heard on the album Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee LP. It was instead a studio remake of that live version. Peggy Lee and Dave Cavanaugh seem to have recorded that remake with a view toward making a substitution on the album, only to ultimately decide that the live version was satisfactory enough to be included. Since the studio remake is also a very good performance, perhaps Cavanaugh and Lee considered the alternative of releasing it on a single. It was not to be. The studio remake of "Moments Like This" languished in Capitol's vaults, unissued, until 2002, when it was finally included in The Singles Collection.)

Title: Music In The Air {Yes, Indeed / I Can Just Imagine [Floyd Cramer instrumental]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: AFRS 45 Label: US Government's Air Force Recruitment Service Cat. Num.: Programs No. 169-170 Rel. Year: 1961

03:11

February 9, 1961 (Extra Show, With Invited Audience)

23466-"B"

Mastered By Capitol

Yes, Indeed! (Sy Oliver)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Joe Harnell (con, p), Bob Donovan (r, f), Danny Stiles, Phil Sunkel, Willie Thomas (t), Ray De Sio, Mickey Gravine (tb), Dennis Budimir (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Abe Rosen (hrp), Stan Levey (d), Francisco "Chino" Pozo (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

Title: {Hey, Look Me Over / When He Makes Music}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4610 Rel. Year: 1961

01:55	May 19, 1961 (First of two sessions)	35954-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Hey, Look Me Over (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
02:50	September 1, 1960	34417-6	Master Take (Capitol)	When He Makes Music (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Ralph Carmichael, Quincy Jones (arr, con), Ralph Carmichael and His Orchestra (acc), Benny Carter, Bill Green (as), John "Plas" Johnson, Bill Perkins (ts), Jack Nimitz (bar), Walter "Pete" Candoli, Robert "Bob" Fowler, Al Porcino, Ray Triscari (t), Hoyt Bohannon, Lewis "Lew" McCreary, Richard T. "Dick" Nash (tb), Bob Knight (bt), Dennis Budimir (g), Max K. Bennett (b), James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Stan Levey (d), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {The Folks Who Live On The Hill [not released as a single in the USA] / Mañana}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15214 Rel. Year: 1961

03:39	April 4, 1957 (8:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)	E 16802-6	Master Take (Capitol)	The Folks Who Live On The Hill (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
02:45	November 25, 1947	2609-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Mañana (Dave Barbour, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Lee Gillette, Voyle Gilmore (pdr), John Palladino (eng), Henry J. "Heinie" Beau (arr, f, cl), Nelson Riddle (arr), Dave Barbour (con, g), Frank Sinatra (con), Dave Barbour And The Brazilians (acc), Harry Klee (f, cl, as), Buddy Collette (as), Warren "Champ" Webb (ts), Joe Koch (bar), Harry "Sweets" Edison, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Tommy Pederson aka Pullman Pederson (tb), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa (frh), Juan Tizol (vtb), George Roberts (bt), Nick Bonney, Aloysio de Oliveira, Joe de Oliveira (g), Max K. Bennett, Arthur Bernstein (b), Lou Levy (p), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Tommy Romersa, Lou Singer (d), Ivan Lopes (bo), Oswaldo Gogiano, Antonio Martins, Paulo de Castro Monte (per), Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Henry Hill, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson (vn), Alvin Dinkin, Maxine Johnson, Barbara Simons (vl), Cy Bernard, Ennio Bolognini, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin (vc), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

These photos show two versions of single 45-CL 15214, which is a British issue. The differences are most noticeable in the publishing credits. In one version, "Mañana" is credited to Southern Music (second image above). Campbell and Connelly are added to the credits of the other version, seen in the third and fourth images. (Meanwhile, promo copies credit only Campbell and Connolly.)

Title: {I Like A Sleigh Ride (Jingle Bells) / The Tree} [different pairing than in USA singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15227 Rel. Year: 1961

02:03	June 19, 1960 (1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.)	34022-11	Master Take (Capitol)	Jingle Bells / I Like A Sleighride (James Lord Pierpont, possibly Peggy Lee)
01:41	October 10, 1959	32505-6	Master Take (Capitol)	The Tree (Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr, arr), Billy May (arr, con), Jimmy Joyce (vdr), Jack Marshall (con), Billy May And His Orchestra (acc), Arthur "Art" Fleming, Jules Jacob[s], Harry Klee, Ted Nash aka Theodore Nash, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz (sax), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa, Richard "Dick" Perissi (frh), Clarence Karella (tu), George Van Eps (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Stan Levey (d), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (per), Peggy Lee (v), Jimmy Joyce Children's Choir (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {Mañana / Golden Earrings} ("Star★Line" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 6013 Rel. Year: 1961

02:45	November 25, 1947	2609-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Mañana (Dave Barbour, Peggy Lee)
03:00	September 24, 1947	2278-3	Master Take (Capitol)	Golden Earrings (Raymond B. "Ray" Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Popular Young)

NOTES:

According to the December 11, 1961 issue of Billboard, Capitol Records was about to "add ... singles to its heretofore LP-only Star Line series with the release next week (18) of 25 of its all-time best selling disks. Records have been re-coupled to pair two former top hits by each artist represented in the release." The series' LP line dated back to May of 1960. (At that time, one of the 15 LPs issued was Peggy Lee's All Aglow Again.)

Numerically, the 25-piece batch started off with a Pee Wee Hunt release (#6001, "Twelfth Street Rag"/"Oh!"), and included Peggy Lee among the select few artists with two singles. To wit: Stan Kenton (#6005 & #6006) Tennessee Ernie Ford (#6007 & #6008), and Peggy Lee (#6013 & #6014).

Branching out to include British releases, this American vinyl series would prove far-reaching and long-lasting. Singles production lasted into the late 1980s. The early 1980s has been mentioned as the release period of the last LPs, but some data suggest that a reactivation might have taken place later than decade.

In passing, it should be noted that the series altered its name in 1967. Before that year, it was consistently printed as "THE STAR LINE" on the label of each vinyl. Afterwards, the spelling was modified to "star★line", all of it in lowercase, with no prefix. (For the purpose of consistence, I have tried to stick to the variant "Star★Line" throughout the rest of this discography.)

As for the specific case of Capitol single #6013, it contained two of Lee's earlier hits, both recorded and released in 1947.

Incidentally, US Capitol #6013 was not the only single on which the two songs were paired. There was also a Dutch single, already discussed on this page. (See 1958 entries.) That single happened to be part of a reissue series, too.

The images above testify to the fact that Capitol pressed single #6013 twice, yet only the earlier pressing was part of the Star★Line series. The other pressing (dating from either 1971 or 1972) is not part of any particular series. Capitol's decision to "move" the single out of the series is a curious one. (I have yet to look into whether other singles were similarly moved.)

Title: {Fever / Alright, Okay, You Win} ("Star★Line" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 6014 Rel. Year: 1961

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:52	May 25, 1958	19202-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Alright, Okay, You Win (Maym(i)e Watts, Sidney Wyche)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bill Holman (arr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Jack Marshall (con), Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Justin Gordon, George Smith (r), Don Fagerquist, Conrad Gozzo, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart (tb), Bob Enevoldsen (vtb), Howard Roberts (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Joe Harnell (p), Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

Capitol single #6014 was part of the label's Star★Line series, discussed at some length under the preceding entry. Please remember that this is a reissue series. In other words, the above-shown single is not the original 45-rpm release of "Fever." That would be Capitol #3998, a 1958 single already listed in this page. Similarly, flip side "Alright, Okay, You Win" first came out on a 1959 single that was previously discussed, too.

The golden pressing above was the original one (1961). The unknown date of the black-label pressing must falls between the summer of 1962 and the summer of 1964. I have come across two original release dates for single #6014: December 18, 1961 and December 1962. It occurs to me that perhaps the 1962 date belongs to this black label edition.

In addition to the two earliest editions of Capitol #6014, an early sleeve for this single can also be seen above. Both sides of said sleeve are on display.

Over the decades, Capitol re-released single #6014 numerous times on its Star★Line series. Each re-release uses the same catalogue number and features the same pair of songs, but bears a different, re-designed label (used not just for the one single in question but for all contemporaneous releases in the series). I have tracked down a total of nine editions of Capitol #6014, including the couple already discussed.

Two more can be seen right above. The one with a green label came out at some point between 1965 and 1967, the one with the red-white label between 1968 and 1972.

The next two editions have the same tan color. (The picture quality of the second copy has been slightly altered. In actuality, the shade of its label matches that of the first copy.) Although colors and catalogue numbers are about identical, these editions can be easily distinguished from another, thanks to their respective Capitol logos. The first release came out some time between 1972 and 1978, the second between 1978 and 1981.

Here is another couple of editions that bear the same color -- blue, in this case. They are characterized by prefixed catalogue numbers appears Reissue single A-6014 was released in 1981 or 1982, reissue single X 6014 between 1982 and 1986. This last item (X 6014) can also be found in a pressing that adds a dash between the letter and the numbers (i.e., X-6014).

In the row immediately above, the date of the edition of single #6014 which bears Capitol's rainbow rings dates from some time between 1983 and 1988.

As can be gathered from the remaining two images, single #6014 was licensed to the reissue label Collectables, which issued it under the company's own catalogue number.

Readers interested in further pursuing the topic of Peggy Lee's version of "Fever" on 45 rpm should also bear in mind the foreign market. Abroad, the single "Fever" has been reissued numerous times as well, though never, as far as I know, in combination with "Alright, Okay, You Win." (About 10 of such non-domestic reissues are listed in this discography's page for foreign issues -- without pictures.)

Title: Music In The Air {Together Wherever We Go / Calcutta [Lawrence Welk instrumental]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: AFRS 45 Label: US Government's Air Force Recruitment Service Cat. Num.: Program No. 245 Rel. Year: 1961

01:46

July 16, 1960

34208

Master Take (Capitol)

Together Wherever We Go (Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Joe Harnell (arr, con), Justin Gordon, Jules Kinsler, Harry Klee, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz (sax), Henry Miranda, Alfonso "Al" Rojo, James "Jimmy" Salko (t), Tony Reyes (b), Eduardo "Eddie" Cano (p), Eduardo Aparicio, Carlos Mejía, Ramón "Ray" Rivera, Pascual Rodríguez (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:
This is the last of Peggy Lee's five entries in the USAF series Music In The Air. The above-shown year of release should be deemed probably correct, though still in need of confirmation. For more details about the five Lee entries in the USAF series, see note under the first of them (no. 59-60), believed to have been released in 1959.

Title: {Kansas City / Goin' To Chicago Blues} (Selections From The Album Blues Cross Country)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: Pro 1976 Rel. Year: 1962

02:28	April 14, 1961	35741-8	Master Take (Capitol)	Kansas City (Mike Stoller, Jerry Leiber)
02:34	April 15, 1961	35743-8	Master Take (Capitol)	Goin' To Chicago Blues (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Richard "Dick" Hazard (arr), Quincy Jones (arr, con), Benny Carter, Buddy Collette (as), Bill Green (as, ts), John "Plas" Johnson, Bill Perkins (ts), Jack Nimitz (bar), Robert "Bob" Fowler, Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon (t), Vernon "Vern" Friley, Lewis "Lew" McCreary, George Roberts, Frank Rosolino (tb), Bob Knight (bt), Dennis Budimir, Howard Roberts (g), Max K. Bennett (b), James "Jimmy" Rowles, Frank Strazzeri (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco "Chino" Pozo (cng, per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

The item on display is a promotional 45-rpm disc. For reasons unknown to me, no commercial single from the album Blues Cross Country was ever sent out for retail. ("Boston Beans" was actually issued on a single, but only as the B side of a disc whose A side bears no connection to Blues Cross Country. "Hey, Look Me Over" was another song from these Blues Cross Country sessions that was released on 45-rpm, but that song was not included in the album, and does not bear any thematic connection to it.) Perhaps the album cuts were not deemed to have commercial appeal, as they were either old standards or specialty tunes that Lee herself had written. The one exception to that general description is the opening cut, "Kansas City," which is the tune picked for this promotional item, and which could have easily garnered sales as well as radio airplay for Lee. Perhaps another Capitol artist had also recorded the Leiber & Stoller tune around the same time, and Capitol might have decided to promote that version over Lee's.

Title: {The Sweetest Sounds / Loads Of Love}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4750 Rel. Year: 1962

02:21	March 28, 1962	37394-3	Master Take (Capitol)	Loads Of Love (Richard Rodgers)
01:52	April 4, 1962	37473-5	Master Take (Capitol)	The Sweetest Sounds (Richard Rodgers)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Billy Byers (arr, tb), Benny Carter (con), Justin Gordon, Bill Green, Paul Horn (r), Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Uan Rasey, Jack Sheldon, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock, Ray Triscari (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, George Roberts, Tom Shepard, Kenny Shroyer (tb), Herb Ellis, Al Hendrickson (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (vib, per), Mel Lewis (d), Francisco "Chino" Pozo (d, per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Tell All The World About You / Amazing}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4812 Rel. Year: 1962

02:31	March 31, 1962	37438-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Tell All The World About You (Ray Charles)
02:35	April 2, 1962	37444-8	Master Take (Capitol)	Amazing (Norman Gimbel, Emil Stern)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Billy May (arr), Benny Carter (con), Justin Gordon (r), Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock, Ray Triscari (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Billy Byers, Kenny Shroyer (tb), John Cave, Willard Culley, Vincent DeRosa, Sinclair Lott (frh), Clarence Karella (tu), Al Hendrickson (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (vib, per), Mel Lewis (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: Walt Disney's Lady And The Tramp ("Little Gem" Series) {Bella Notte [sung by George Givot?] / He's A Tramp}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DISNEYLAND Cat. Num.: Lg 755 Rel. Year: 1962

02:10

December 20, 1954

87268-doubling

Master Take (Decca)

He's A Tramp (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee)

Oliver Wallace (con), Unknown (b, d, cym), Sonny Burke (p, chi, mar), Peggy Lee (gng, bel, v), The Mellomen {Bill Lee, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith, Bob Stevens} (bkv)

NOTES:

Since I have not listened to this single, its inclusion should be deemed tentative. When it comes to crediting Peggy Lee, Disneyland records can be deceptive. Some front covers acknowledge Lee without specifying whether the acknowledgment is as songwriter or as a vocalist. In those same cases, neither the jacket nor the disc clarify who the solo vocalists are: the original soundtrack’s cast (Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, George Givot) or one of various singers belatedly hired by Disneyland Records for the purpose of re-recording the vocals from the soundtrack. In this particular case, "He's A Tramp" could be sung by Lee, while "Bella Notte" would be likelier to be sung by George Givot. (Or so I speculate. We will only know for certain if we audition a copy of the single.)

Title: Siamese Cat Song ("Little Gems" Series) {The Siamese Cat Song / Home, Sweet Home ["barked" by The Mellomen]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DISNEYLAND Cat. Num.: Lg 756 Rel. Year: 1962

02:07

Between 1952 And 1954

unknown

Master Take (Disney/Decca)

The Siamese Cat Song (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee)

Sonny Burke (chi, mar), Peggy Lee (gng, bel, v)

NOTES:

Since I have not listened to this single, its inclusion should be deemed tentative. When it comes to crediting Peggy Lee, Disneyland records can be deceptive. Some front covers acknowledge Lee without specifying whether the acknowledgment is as songwriter or as a vocalist. In those same cases, neither the cover nor the vinyl clarify who the solo vocalists are: the original soundtrack’s cast (Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, George Givot) or one of various singers belatedly hired by Disneyland Records for the purpose of re-recording the vocals from the soundtrack. If Peggy Lee is heard at all in this 45-rpm item, it should be on only one of the sides, "The Siamese Cat Song." The flip side, "Home Sweet Home," is a wordless vocal, tunefully barked by The Mellomen in their movie role as the Pound Hounds.

Title: {I'm A Woman / Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4888 Rel. Year: 1962

02:36	March 31, 1962	37439-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh, Mike Stoller (pdr, arr), Jerry Leiber (pdr), Benny Carter (arr, con), Billy May (arr), Justin Gordon (r), Gene Quill (as), Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock, Ray Triscari, Unknown (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Billy Byers, Kenny Shroyer (tb), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy, Mike Melvoin (p), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (vib, per), Mel Lewis (d), Stan Levey (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

"I'm A Woman" spent nine weeks in Billboard's Hot 100. After entering the chart during the week of January 5, 1963, it peaked at #54. In Cashbox magazine, it peaked at #71 and spent six weeks in the chart.

Title: {I Believe In You / The Best Is Yet To Come} [single never issued in the USA]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15289 & (Australia) Cp 1525 Rel. Year: 1963

02:47	March 28, 1962	37395-15	Master Take (Capitol)	I Believe In You (Frank Loesser)
03:21	March 31, 1962	37440-5	Master Take (Capitol)	The Best Is Yet To Come (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Benny Carter (arr, con), Quincy Jones (arr), Justin Gordon (r), Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock, Ray Triscari (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Billy Byers, George Roberts, Tom Shepard, Kenny Shroyer (tb), Al Hendrickson (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (vib, per), Mel Lewis (d), Francisco "Chino" Pozo (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

These two songs are cuts from the 1962 Lee album Sugar 'n' Spice, which Capitol naturally released in not only the United States but also around the globe. However, this particular single was issued in two continents (Australia, Europe), but not in America. Another curious factoid: in four years, EMI UK would pick "I Believe In You" for inclusion on another single. (To see that second single, scroll down this page, until you reach the 1967 entries.)

Title: {The Alley Cat Song / Little Boat}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 4942 Rel. Year: 1963

02:10	January 4, 1963	38922-7	Master Take (Capitol)	The Alley Cat Song (Frank Bjorn, Jack Harlen)
02:07	February 6, 1963	39148-45	Master Take (Capitol)	Little Boat (O Barquinho) (Ron Boscoli, Roberto Menescal, Buddy Kaye)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Richard "Dick" Hazard (con), Justin Gordon (f), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Bob Corwin, Mike Melvoin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Got That Magic / A Doodlin' Song}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5001 Rel. Year: 1963

01:40	May 29, 1963	39907-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Got That Magic (Dave Cavanaugh aka Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee)
02:06	May 29, 1963	39908-15	Master Take (Capitol)	A Doodlin' Song (Doop Doo-De Oop) (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Max K. Bennett (con), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {Toys For Tots (sung by Peggy Lee) / Toys For Tots (sung by Vic Damone)}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: Pro. 1940-1941 Rel. Year: 1963

02:03

August 19, 1960

34349-34350

Master Take (Capitol)

Toys For Tots (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v), The Chipmunks (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee was one of various Capitol artists who recorded a promotional spot in support of the Marine Reserve charity campaign Toys for Tots, which distributes toys to children in need. Nat King Cole, Vic Damone, and Nancy Wilson were among the other artists who recorded the spot. All of them are presumed to have sung the lyrics to a pre-recorded track. Not sold in commercial stores, "Toys For Tots" singles were probably sent directly to Marine Corps facilities for use as the agency saw fit, and to radio stations, for airplay.

This single is not listed in Peggy Lee's Capitol files, nor in any of my other primary sources. I learned of their existence through secondary sources, including an eBay auction. A so-called release year is harder than usual to pinpoint.

The date that I am giving above is only an estimate of mine, relying on the assumption that Vic Damone recorded his vocal while he was under Capitol contract. (There is a pattern at play. All the other listed artists who recorded the versions of "Toys For Tots" -- Cole, Lee, and Wilson did so while they were at the label.) For the record, Damone's Capitol session work started in late September 1961 and finished in early April 1964. Hence "late 1961" is the earliest possible date for the release of single pro. 1940-1941, and early 1964 the last possible date. While hoping for the discovery of more exact or illuminating information, I have assigned a ca. December 1963 to this promo.

The second picture above is an ad, with no direct connection to the single. I have included it for decorative purposes.

Title: {You've Got To See Mama Every Night / Black Coffee}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA Cat. Num.: 25623 Rel. Year: 1964

02:45	January 6, 1956	L 8907	Master Take (Decca)	You've Got To See Mamma Ev'ry Night (Con Conrad, Billy Rose)
03:07	May 4, 1953	84433	Master Take (Decca)	Black Coffee (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Paul Francis Webster)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Milt Gabler (pdr), Benny Carter (arr), James "Jimmy" Rowles (arr, p), Sy Oliver (con), The Sy Oliver Orchestra (acc), Walter "Pete" Candoli (t), Max Wayne (b), Ed Shaughnessy (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Though often celebrated nowadays, Peggy Lee's interpretation of "Black Coffee" was not originally issued as a single. When the album Black Coffee was released in its original 10" LP version (1953), the titular number remained within its constraints. And when it was expanded to its 12" version (1956), the song was still confined to the long play. In 1964, the above-seen single belatedly rectified the matter. Of the four photos seen directly above, the first two show the promotional version of the single. The third and fourth photos show the commercially issued single. Incidentally, this was not MCA's only showing of "Black Coffee" in 45-rpm single. Subsequently, the label granted "bBack Coffee" several additional showings on its 45-rpm reconfiguration (as shall also be illustrated in this page, down below, years 1970 and 1982).

One additional note: online, I have seen a a site on which the promo is dated 1958. I do not know the site's source for that alleged dating. The commercial edition of the single is dated 1964 in my sources. The 1958 dating claim might be wrongly predicated on the fact that another single containing one of these songs ("You've Got To See Mamma Every Night") was released by Decca in 1958. That single (#29837) bears no direct connection to the one presently under discussion.

I have also come across one site on which the existence of a 78-rpm single is claimed, also without corroboration. It could be that Decca did originally issue this single on 45 an 78 in 1958, then reissued it in 1964. But, if such was the case, I have yet to come across any confirmation.

Title: {A Lot Of Living To Do / I Can't Stop Loving You}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5121 Rel. Year: 1964

02:34	October 30, 1963	50794-4	Master Take (Capitol)	A Lot Of Livin' To Do (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse)
03:05	December 7, 1963	50976-5	Master Take (Capitol)	I Can't Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bill Holman (arr), Max K. Bennett (con), Unknown (orc, str), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Once (Ils S'Amaient / I've Got Your Number)} [single never issued in the US]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15342 Rel. Year: 1964

02:38	November 2, 1963 (3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)	50825-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Once (Ils S'Aimaient) (Guy Magenta, Norman Gimbel, Eddy Marnay)
01:59	October 30, 1963	50793-7	Master Take (Capitol)	I've Got Your Number (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bill Holman, Shorty Rogers (arr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Unknown (orc, f), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa, Richard "Dick" Perissi (frh), Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Lou Levy (p), Francisco Aguabella, Stan Levey (d), Victor Arno, Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, David Frisina, James Getzoff, Ben Gill, Stanley Plummer, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure, Marshall Sosson, William Weiss (vn), Justin Gordon (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {In The Name Of Love / My Sin}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5241 Rel. Year: 1964

02:17	June 26, 1964	52308-7	Master Take (Capitol)	My Sin (Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
02:03	June 26, 1964	52309-12	Master Take (Capitol)	In The Name Of Love (Estelle Levitt, Kenny Rankin)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Joe Polito (eng), {Head Arrangement} (arr), Robert "Bob" Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's version of the song "In The Name Of Love" made an appearance in Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart in the #132 position.

Title: {After You've Gone / Talk To Me, Baby}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5289 Rel. Year: 1964

02:26	June 26, 1964	52307-4	Master Take (Capitol)	After You've Gone (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton)
02:46	July 1, 1964	52345-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Talk To Me, Baby (Robert Emmett Dolan, Johnny Mercer)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Hugh Davies, Joe Polito (eng), {Head Arrangement}, Dave Grusin (arr), Conrad Gozzo, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, Ray Triscari (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Kenny Shroyer (tb), James "Jim" Decker (frh), Robert "Bob" Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Justin Gordon, Paul Horn, Ted Nash aka Theodore Nash, Maury Stein (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Garota de Ipanema / Insensatez} [single never issued in the USA]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Odeon (SP) Cat. Num.: (Brazil) 7c 11034 Rel. Year: 1964

02:21	July 1, 1964	52348-5	Master Take (Capitol)	The Girl From Ipanema {Garota de Ipanema} (Vinicius DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim)
02:48	November 2, 1963 (3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)	50824-10	Master Take (Capitol)	How Insensitive (Insensatez) (Vinicius DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Hugh Davies (eng), Billy May, Shorty Rogers (arr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Unknown (f), Conrad Gozzo, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, Ray Triscari (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Kenny Shroyer (tb), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa, Richard "Dick" Perissi (frh), Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Francisco Aguabella (d, bo, cng), Stan Levey (d), Victor Arno, Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, David Frisina, James Getzoff, Ben Gill, Stanley Plummer, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure, Marshall Sosson, William Weiss (vn), Justin Gordon, Paul Horn, Ted Nash aka Theodore Nash, Maury Stein (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This is a 33.3 rpm single from "Capitol's Compact Long-Play" series. Despite the addition of an accent (visible just on the yellow label above), I have found no indication that the Portuguese word "garota" carries one in Portuguese.

Title: {Pass Me By / That's What It Takes}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5346 Rel. Year: 1964

02:23	December 9, 1964	53142-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Pass Me By (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
02:17	December 9, 1964	53143-7	Master Take (Capitol)	That's What It Takes (Dave Cavanaugh aka Bill Schluger, Cy Coleman, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Dave Grusin, Shorty Rogers (arr), Lou Levy (con), Unknown (oc), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Since the advent of rock 'n' roll, singles by vintage pop-jazz artists such as Peggy Lee had been at a serious disadvantage in Billboard's charts. Data from adult contemporary stations was not being published. The magazine had been tabulating airplay mostly from stations that concentrated on kiddie pop and other mainstream music. This situation was finally rectified in 1965, when Billboard started publishing a tally for adult-oriented popular music in a chart that over the years has been variously called Easy Listening, Pop-Standard, Middle-of-the-Road, or Adult Contemporary. (For more details about this chart, see notes under Capitol session dated December 9, 1964.) During the week of March 13, 1965, "Pass Me By" reached a #20 position in that chart.

"Pass Me By" also made the lower part of the more mainstream charts. In Billboard's Hot 100, the song made its debut during the week of February 27, 1965 and stayed for 3 weeks, peaking at #93. In Cashbox's Top 100 Singles, it debuted one week earlier (February 20, 1965) and spent 4 weeks. Cashbox tallied together the popularity of two recordings of "Pass Me By," Peggy Lee's and Mike Douglas'; they peaked at #86.

As a policy, this bio-discography relegates foreign issues of American singles to two miscellaneous pages, one focused on British ones, the other on all additional countries. When foreign issues are showcased in the present page, the reason is that they do not have an exact counterpart among the American singles. (In other words, the two songs on the foreign single were never paired on an American single. Right below, I have made an exception for Capitol Cl 15376, the British counterpart to the main item under discussion (i.e., US Capitol 5346). The motivation behind the exception is to illustrate that the British single was curiously released with two different labels. For good measure, I am also including the British singles' promo (third image). I am featuring just the "Pass Me By"side.

Title: {Alright, Ok, You Win / Golden Earrings} [Different pairing than in USA singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©Toshiba-EMI Cat. Num.: (Japan) Cr 1008 Rel. Year: 1964

02:52	May 25, 1958	19202-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Alright, Okay, You Win (Maym(i)e Watts, Sidney Wyche)
03:00	September 24, 1947	2278-3	Master Take (Capitol)	Golden Earrings (Raymond B. "Ray" Evans, Jay Livingston, Victor Popular Young)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh, Lee Gillette (pdr), Henry J. "Heinie" Beau, Bill Holman (arr), Jack Marshall (con), Dave Barbour And His Orchestra, Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Justin Gordon, George Smith (r), Unknown (f, b, str, p, d), Don Fagerquist, Conrad Gozzo, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart (tb), Bob Enevoldsen (vtb), Dave Barbour, Howard Roberts (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Joe Harnell (p), Shelly Manne (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Sneakin' Up On You / Bewitched }
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5404 Rel. Year: 1965

02:06	February 7, 1965	53395-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Bewitched (Howard Greenfield, Jack Keller)
02:21	February 18, 1965	53396-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Sneakin' Up On You (Ted Daryl, Chip Taylor)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), {Head Arrangement} (arr), Lou Levy and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, William "Bill" Pitman (g), Bob Whitlock or Don Prell (b), Lou Levy (p), John Guerin (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {The Shadow Of Your Smile / Maybe This Summer}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5469 Rel. Year: 1965

02:23	June 18, 1965 (3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)	53838-16	Master Take (Capitol)	The Shadow Of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster)
01:57	June 18, 1965 (3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)	53839-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Maybe This Summer (Bruno Martino, Bruno Brighetti, Arthur Altman, Al Stillman)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller (arr, con), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, John Collins, Barney Kessel (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Victor Feldman, John Guerin (d), Victor Arno, Edward Bergman, Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Daniel "Dan" Lube, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Marshall Sosson (vn), Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn (vl), Joseph Saxon, Eleanor Slatkin (vc), Ted Nash aka Theodore Nash (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {I Go To Sleep / Stop Living In The Past}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5488 Rel. Year: 1965

02:27	June 18, 1965 (3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)	53841-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Stop Living In The Past (Howlett Smith)
01:59	July 7, 1965	53899-11	Master Take (Capitol)	I Go To Sleep (Ray Davies)

NOTES:

In addition to the two sides of the American original 45-rpm release, the above-seen pictures show two foreign versions of this single, one from Denmark, with a picture sleeve (catalogue number K 23.086), and the other from Australia (catalogue number Cl 15413). The latter (Cl 15413) is also the number for the British edition, which is not shin here (and which did not come on a picture sleeve).

Title: {Everybody Has The Right To Be Wrong / Free Spirits}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5521 Rel. Year: 1965

01:53	July 7, 1965	53897-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Free Spirits (Norman Mapp)
01:52	September 21, 1965	55175-7	Master Take (Capitol)	Ev'rybody Has The Right To Be Wrong! (At Least Once) (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller (arr, con), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's version of "Free Spirits" entered Billboard's Easy Listening chart during the week of October 23, 1965. It stayed for seven weeks, peaking at #29. Shown above is Capitol's trade ad for the single; images of the single should be viewable below.

Title: {Big Spender / Trapped (In The Web Of Love)}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5557 Rel. Year: 1965

02:07	10/27/1965	55280-14	Master Take (Capitol)	Big Spender (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields)
02:07	September 21, 1965	55174-8	Master Take (Capitol)	Trapped (In The Web Of Love) (Jeanie Burns)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Sid Feller (arr, con), Dave Grusin (arr), Bill Holman (con), Sid Feller and His Orchestra, Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's seminal version of "Big Spender" reached the top 10 of the Easy Listening chart. After making its debut during the week of January 29, 1966, Lee's recording spent nine weeks in that chart, peaking at #9.

Title: {Pass Me By / Bewitched} [Different pairing than in USA & UK singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (Australia) Cp 1601 Rel. Year: 1965

02:23	December 9, 1964	53142-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Pass Me By (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
02:06	February 7, 1965	53395-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Bewitched (Howard Greenfield, Jack Keller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), {Head Arrangement}, Dave Grusin (arr), Lou Levy (con, p), Lou Levy and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, William "Bill" Pitman (g), Bob Whitlock or Don Prell (b), Unknown (oc), John Guerin (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {Senza Fine / When In Rome} [single never issued in the USA]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (Italy) Qcl 178 Rel. Year: 1965

02:30	July 6, 1964	52371-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Senza Fine (Gino Paoli, Alec Wilder)
02:01	July 1, 1964	52347-6	Master Take (Capitol)	When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do) (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)

NOTES:

Title: {Toys For Tots (sung by Peggy Lee) / Toys For Tots (sung by Nancy Wilson)}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: Tb 2497-2498 Rel. Year: 1965

02:03

August 19, 1960

34349-34350

Master Take (Capitol)

Toys For Tots (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v), The Chipmunks (bkv), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee was one of various Capitol artists who recorded a promotional spot in support of the Marine Reserve charity campaign Toys for Tots, which distributes toys to children in need. Other artists to do so were Nat King Cole, Vic Damone, Buck Owens, Red Simpson, and Nancy Wilson -- each and all Capitol artists in the late 1950s and/or early 1960s. Do note that Capitol did not send any of these singles to commercial stores. They were sent instead to Marine Corps facilities and/or radio stations. The aforementioned artists probably sang their respective interpretations to a pre-recorded track. (Those I have heard seem to feature the same track.)

An earlier "Toys For Tots" single (Kb 2820, tentatively dated 1960) is listed in Peggy Lee's Capitol session file. As for the present one (Tb 2497-2498), it is not on file. I learned of its existence through secondary sources. Since Nancy Wilson recorded her version in June of 1965, I am inclined to think that this single was produced and sent out to radio stations in the second half of 1965, or otherwise in 1966. The release year that I have entered for Tb 2497-2498 should thus be deemed approximate, and liable to alteration -- the latter dependent on whether additional information ever turns up. (One additional side note: Capitol also produced a jukebox 33-rpm single that paired Wilson's version of "Toys For Tots" with Buck Owens' take of the same promotional spot.)

Title: {That Man / You Don't Know [1966 master]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5605 Rel. Year: 1966

01:57	February 1, 1966	55605-5-OverdubMix	Alternate Take (Capitol)	That Man (Dave Cavanaugh aka Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee)
02:37	February 1, 1966	55604-5	Master Take (Capitol)	You Don't Know (Walter Spriggs)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), {Head Arrangement} (arr), Unknown (f, g, b, p, d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

After its debut during the week of April 9, 1966, this humorous Peggy Lee novelty spent five weeks in the Easy Listening chart, peaking at #31. "That Man" became the vocalist's ninth self-penned Billboard entry.

Title: {You've Got Possibilities / Come Back To Me}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5653 Rel. Year: 1966

02:17	10/27/1965	55279-7	Master Take (Capitol)	Come Back To Me (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner)
02:10	February 1, 1966	55606-4	Master Take (Capitol)	You've Got Possibilities (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), {Head Arrangement}, Mundell Lowe (arr), Bill Holman (arr, con), Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Unknown (f, g, b, p, d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's version of the Broadway showtune "You've Got Possibilities" reached a #36 peak in Billboard's Easy Listening chart, where it stayed for four weeks. The tune made its debut during the week of June 18, 1966.

Title: {Happy Feet / (Stay With Me) Stay With Me }
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5678 Rel. Year: 1966

01:47	May 21, 1966	56010-1B	Master Take (Capitol)	Happy Feet (Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee)
02:40	May 21, 1966	56012-4/1A	Master Take (Capitol)	(Stay With Me) Stay With Me (Peggy Lee, Quincy Jones)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Quincy Jones (arr, con), Bob Cooper, Harry Klee, Jack Nimitz, Bud Shank (r), Aubrey Bouck, Bill Henshaw, Sinclair Lott, Henry Sigismonti (frh), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Toots Thielemans (g, w), Max K. Bennett (b), Unknown (str), Lou Levy (p), Artie Kane (org), Earl Palmer (d), Larry Bunker, Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Seen in the first and last images, the American issue bears no picture sleeve. The item seen in the central image is the Japanese edition of the issue, Capitol Cr 1564.

Title: {Walking Happy / So, What's New?}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5758 Rel. Year: 1966

02:34	September 13, 1966	56569-7	Master Take (Capitol)	Walking Happy (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)
02:16	September 13, 1966	56570-10	Master Take (Capitol)	So, What's New? (Peggy Lee, John Pisano)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dave Grusin (arr, con), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

"So, What's New?" entered the Easy Listening chart during the week of October 15, 1966. This Lee recording peaked at #20 and stayed for seven weeks. "So, What's New?" was also Peggy Lee's 10th self-penned number to make the charts.

"Walking Happy" debuted a week later, and reached a higher position: #14. It stayed in the chart for eleven weeks.

Title: {So, What's New? / Happy Feet} [Different pairing than in USA & UK singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (Australia) Cp 1671 Rel. Year: 1966

02:16	September 13, 1966	56570-10	Master Take (Capitol)	So, What's New? (Peggy Lee, John Pisano)
01:47	May 21, 1966	56010-1B	Master Take (Capitol)	Happy Feet (Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Robert "Bob" Bain (arr, con, g), Quincy Jones (arr, con), Bob Cooper, Harry Klee, Jack Nimitz, Bud Shank (r), Aubrey Bouck, Bill Henshaw, Sinclair Lott, Henry Sigismonti (frh), Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Unknown (str), Lou Levy (p), Artie Kane (org), Earl Palmer (d), Larry Bunker, Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (per), Toots Thielemans (w), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Pass Me By / Big Spender} [Different pairing than in USA & UK singles]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (Germany) K 23 148 Rel. Year: 1966

02:23	December 9, 1964	53142-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Pass Me By (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
02:07	10/27/1965	55280-14	Master Take (Capitol)	Big Spender (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Dave Grusin (arr), Bill Holman, Lou Levy (con), Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Unknown (oc), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: Fever ("International Hits" Series) {Fever / I'm A Woman}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Pathé Marconi Cat. Num.: (France) Clf 505 Rel. Year: 1966

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh, Mike Stoller (pdr, arr), Jerry Leiber (pdr), Benny Carter (arr, con), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Gene Quill (as), Unknown (t), John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett, Joe Mondragon (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Shelly Manne (d), Stan Levey (per)

NOTES:

The present item is dated 1966 in one source, 1968 in another. An Italian seller describes his copy as bearing a "prima stampa originale COLUMBIA France 1966 - nr catalogo CLF505." The copy which I have inspected clearly identifies itself as having been "made in France by Pathé Marconi," and is believed to date from 1968. It might be that this item was first issued in 1966, then reissued in 1968, with the same front but a slightly different cover. (According to some online accounts, the fourth image above shows a back cover. Other online accounts make the same claim for the sixth image.)

There are numerous European EMI singles that pair "Fever" with "I'm A Woman." The one under discussion seems to be the earliest of them. I should also point out that my identification of this single as belonging to a series called "International Hits" is based merely on what we see on the back cover. Neither the front cover not the vinyl disc make mention of a series. Still, I have decided to tentatively assume that there was such a series -- in part because the single's incorporation to a series makes it easier to differentiate it from the reissues, which do belong to other series.

The single was actually reissued at least three times on the long-running French-Dutch "Dance For Ever" series (1972, 1975, 1979). Other European issues and reissues date from 1972 ("Golden Memories" series, Belgium), 1979 ("Music In Gold" series, France), 1981 ("Do You Remember" series, Netherlands), 1985 ("Golden 45's" series, United Kingdom), and 1992 ("Impulse Fragrance TV commercial" edition, United Kingdom). There could be more, which I would naturally be adding to this page after my discovery of them.

Title: {I Feel It / The Lonesome Road}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 5988 Rel. Year: 1967

02:30	June 6, 1967	57766-7	Master Take (Capitol)	Lonesome Road (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkrat)
02:30	June 6, 1967	57767-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I Feel It (Frank Hamilton, Ernie Sheldon)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Billy May (arr), Ralph Carmichael (con), Anthony Terran, James C. "Jimmy" Zito (t), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, Arnold Delnick, Bonnie Douglas, David Frisina, Jacques Gasselin, Nat Kaproff, Erno Neufeld, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci (str), Lou Levy (p), Toots Thielemans (h), Nick Ceroli (d), Justin Gordon, John "Plas" Johnson (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's version of "I Feel It" reached the top 10 of Billboard's Easy Listening chart. After making its debut during the week of September 30, 1967, it peaked at #8 and stayed for ten weeks.

Title: {I Believe In You [not released as a single in the USA]/ So, What's New?}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Cl 15498 Rel. Year: 1967

02:47	March 28, 1962	37395-15	Master Take (Capitol)	I Believe In You (Frank Loesser)
02:16	September 13, 1966	56570-10	Master Take (Capitol)	So, What's New? (Peggy Lee, John Pisano)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Robert "Bob" Bain, Benny Carter (arr, con), Justin Gordon (r), Conrad Gozzo, Al Porcino, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock, Ray Triscari (t), Milton "Milt" Bernhart, George Roberts, Tom Shepard, Kenny Shroyer (tb), Al Hendrickson (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (vib, per), Mel Lewis (d), Francisco "Chino" Pozo (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

In the United States, Peggy Lee's version of the song "I Believe In You" was released only as part of her 1962 album Sugar 'n' Spice. In the United Kingdom, the song was released not once but twice on Peggy Lee EMI singles (1963, 1967). Seen above is the second of those British editions, in its retail and promotional versions.

Title: {Reason To Believe / Didn't Want To Have To Do It}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2171 Rel. Year: 1968

02:25	March 18, 1968 (3:00-6:00 p.m.)	59409	Master Take (Capitol)	Reason To Believe (Tim Hardin)
02:43	March 18, 1968 (3:00-6:00 p.m.)	59410	Master Take (Capitol)	Didn't Want To Have To Do It (John Benson Sebastian)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Don Randi (om, key), Charles Koppelman, Don Rubin (pdr), Shorty Rogers (arr, con), William H. "Bill" Hood (bar), Jack Sheldon, Stuart "Stu" Williamson (t), Dick Hyde, Richard Leith (tb), Unknown (bfb), Arnold Belnick, Emil F. Briano, William "Bill" Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Daryl Terwilliger, Tibor Zelig (vn), Joseph Di Tullio, Nathan "Nate" Gershman, Raymond J. Kelley, Jerome A. Kessler (vc), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

The above-seen images show both the promotional (P 2171) and retail (2171) versions of the single under scrutiny.

Title: {It'll Never Happen Again / Misty Roses}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2308 Rel. Year: 1968

02:15	March 21 (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) & 22 (1:00-4:00 p.m.), 1968	59660[LA]/70394[NY]	Master Take (Capitol)	It'll Never Happen Again (Tim Hardin)
02:20	March 21 (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) & 22 (1:00-4:00 p.m.), 1968	59661[LA]/70393[NY]	Master Take (Capitol)	Misty Roses (Tim Hardin)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Don Randi (om), Charles Koppelman, Don Rubin (pdr), Shorty Rogers (con), James R. "Jim" Horn, John "Plas" Johnson (sax), Stan Fishelson, Jack Sheldon, Stuart "Stu" Williamson (t), Richard Leith, Lewis "Lew" McCreary (tb), Max K. Bennett, Brian Williams (b), Lou Levy (p), Michael Lang (key), Hal Blaine, Norman Jeffries (d), David Cohen (per), George F. Poole, Daryl Terwilliger (vn), Norman Botnick (vl), Jesse Ehrlich (vc), John E. Lowe (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

The above-seen images show both the promotional (P 2308) and retail (2308) versions of the single under inspection.

Title: {Spinning Wheel / Lean On Me}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2477 Rel. Year: 1969

02:35	January 31, 1969 (Second session, 10:30-1:30 a.m.)	71774-_	Master Take (Capitol)	Spinning Wheel (David Clayton Thomas)
02:42	February 15, 1969 (8:00-12:00 p.m.)	71871	Master Take (Capitol)	Lean On Me (Peggy Lee, Mundell Lowe, Mike Melvoin)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b), Phil Wright (pdr), Mike Melvoin (arr, con, org), James R. "Jim" Horn (sax, o), Paul Horn (sax, f), Donald J. "Don" Menza (sax), Pete Christlieb, John "Plas" Johnson (ts), John Audino, Robert "Bobby" Bryant, Marion "Buddy" Childers, James C. "Jimmy" Zito (t, fh), Paul Hubinon, Dick Hyde, Charles C. "Charlie" Loper, Lewis "Lew" McCreary (tb), Richard Leith, Donald Waldrop (tb, bt), David Allan Duke, William Hinshaw (frh, tu), Michael Anthony (g), James Burton (g, Gut, slg), Fred Robinson (g, 12g, Gut), Lawrence "Larry" Knechtel (p, hps, org), Michael Lang (p, elp, org), Michael Deasy (gch, hal, bel), Joe Porcaro (mal, per), James "Jim" Gordon (d, Lat, per), Paul Humphrey, Grady Tate (d), Kenneth Watson (trd, tym, Lat), Peggy Lee (v), Sister Love's Ghen Berry, Sister Love's Lillie Fort, Sister Love's Vermettya Royster (bkv)

NOTES:

After making its debut during the week of May 3, 1969, Peggy Lee's recording of "Spinning Wheel" peaked at #24 and spent six weeks in the chart. Lee's take on this rock number also charted in Canada's RPM Weekly, where it reached the top 20 of the so-called Young Adult chart. Both sides of the US single are seen herein.

Because all Capitol 2477 copies that I have seen are sleeveless, the above-shown picture sleeve is a mystery to me. I found it online, where it is identified as the US edition of 2477. Among the possible explanations: it could be a foreign edition. Germany and the Netherlands would be among the likeliest countries to have issued this picture sleeve.

Another possibility: it might be a promotional item. Such a possibility could be easily tested through an inspection of this issue's back cover and vinyl. Unfortunately, I found no scans of either online. Typically, a Capitol promotional disc will bear the exact same color and design as its commercial counterpart, but will identify itself as a "promotional record" that is "not for sale." Furthermore, its catalogue number will be preceded by an one-letter prefix (a p), showing on the label of the vinyl.

Title: {Big Spender / Sweet Charity [vocal by Lou Rawls]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) & (France) C 006 28 394 Rel. Year: 1969

02:07

10/27/1965

55280-14

Master Take (Capitol)

Big Spender (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Dave Grusin (arr), Bill Holman (con), Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

The first of the above-shown sleeves belongs to a Scandinavian edition of this single, the second to a French edition which also seems to have been issued in Germany. Pathé Marconi was EMI's issuing sub-label in France; EMI Bovema in Scandinavia. My acquaintance with both editions is limited to commercial websites, whose degree of reliability and accuracy vary widely. Some of such sites give 1965 release dates to these items, whereas others list them as issued in 1969. The most logical choice is 1969, because the 1969 Universal film Sweet Charity is referenced in both sleeves.

Title: {Is That All There Is? / Me And My Shadow} [primary version of #2602]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2602 Rel. Year: 1969

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
03:04	February 4 & January 29, 1969	71866-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Me And My Shadow (Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson, Billy Rose)

Peggy Lee (ldr), S. W. Spampinato (om), Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (pdr), Bill Halverson, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (eng), Mundell Lowe (arr), Randy Newman (arr, con), Carlo A. Spiga (ccm), William Ernest Green, Jack Nimitz (r), William H. "Bill" Hood (bar), John Audino (t, fh), Anthony Terran (t), Michael "Mike" Barone, Ernie Tack (tb), Vincent DeRosa (frh), David Allan Duke, John "Tommy" Johnson (tu), Louis "Lou" Morell (g), Donald "Don" Bagley, James "Jimmy" Bond (b), Merlyn Ray Pohlman (eb), Myron Sandler (str), Maury Dell (p), Jerry D. Williams (d), Bobby Bruce, Leonard Malarsky, Wilbert Nuttycombe, George F. Poole, Jerome Joseph Reisler, Leonard Selic, Daryl Terwilliger, Abraham Weiss, Walter S. Wiemeyer (vn), Alfred Barr, Samuel Boghossian (vl), Justin DiTullio, Jesse Ehrlich, Jerome A. Kessler, Gloria Strassner (vc), Peggy Lee (v, spk), William Murasch, John Rotella (unk)

NOTES:

The single "Is That All There Is?" enjoyed extensive chart success. In Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, it reached #1 during the week of October 18, 1969 and stayed in that position for two weeks. Earlier, on October 11, 1969, "Is That All There Is?" had also entered Billboard's Hot 100, where it eventually peaked at #11.

In the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart, "Is That All There Is?" reached #10 during the week of November 8, 1969. It had made its debut on September 27 and would go on to stay in that chart until the week of December 6, for a total of 11 weeks. In Record World's chart, Lee's recording did even better. It peaked at #8.

In Canada, "Is That All There Is?" reached #6 in the RPM 100 chart and #1 in the Young Adult chart of RPM Weekly. The number reached those peak positions during November 1969.

Shown above are Capitol's trade ads, along with the picture sleeve of versions of this issue from Japan (Cr 2410) and the Netherlands (5C 006.80.182). Shown below are both sides of the original 45-rpm single, as well as Capitol's sleeves for this single. Bear in mind that the company also released single #2602 in an alternate version, to be discussed immediately after this entry.

Title: {Is That All There Is? / I'm A Woman} [alternate version of Capitol single #2602]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2602 Rel. Year: 1969

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), S. W. Spampinato (om), Dave Cavanaugh, Mike Stoller (pdr, arr), Jerry Leiber (pdr), Bill Halverson, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (eng), Benny Carter, Randy Newman (arr, con), Carlo A. Spiga (ccm), William Ernest Green, Jack Nimitz (r), Gene Quill (as), William H. "Bill" Hood (bar), John Audino (t, fh), Anthony Terran, Unknown (t), Michael "Mike" Barone, Ernie Tack (tb), Vincent DeRosa (frh), David Allan Duke, John "Tommy" Johnson (tu), Louis "Lou" Morell, John Pisano (g), Donald "Don" Bagley, Max K. Bennett, James "Jimmy" Bond (b), Myron Sandler (str), Maury Dell, Mike Melvoin (p), Jerry D. Williams (d), Stan Levey (per), Bobby Bruce, Leonard Malarsky, Wilbert Nuttycombe, George F. Poole, Jerome Joseph Reisler, Leonard Selic, Daryl Terwilliger, Abraham Weiss, Walter S. Wiemeyer (vn), Alfred Barr, Samuel Boghossian (vl), Justin DiTullio, Jesse Ehrlich, Jerome A. Kessler, Gloria Strassner (vc), Peggy Lee (v, spk), William Murasch, John Rotella (unk)

NOTES:

Capitol's motivation for releasing this alternate version of 45-rpm single #2602 is unknown to me. A few clues can be gathered from a comparison between the two discs' labels.

1) In the original release, songwriter Jerry Leiber's last name is misspelled once (on the "Is That All There Is?" side of the disc). In the alternate version, the misspelling has been corrected.

2) The alternate also has one credit that is missing from the original: "Is That All There Is" is identified as a song "from the forthcoming production International Wrestling Match." (This credit, also found in the LP Is That All There Is?, refers to a Leiber & Stoller Broadway production that was ultimately cancelled.

3) The original single features the standard "Me And My Shadow" on its B side. The re-release substitutes it with "I'm A Woman," a song also written by Leiber & Stoller back in the early 1960s. Both numbers were included in the LP Is That All There Is?, though only the former was a new recording. The latter had been recorded in 1962. "Me And My Shadow" was produced by Leiber & Stoller; "I'm A Woman" was produced by Dave Cavanaugh, but Leiber & Stoller were present at the session and claim to have contributed substantial input.

Cumulatively, these details raise suspicion about the possibility that the songwriters requested the release of this particular version of the single. For the benefit of viewers interested in making comparisons, I have also included the Canadian edition of the single, below.

Title: {Whistle For Happiness / Something}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2696 Rel. Year: 1969

03:14	October 15, 1969 (8:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight)	73314-3	Master Take (Capitol)	Something (George Harrison)
02:25	October 15, 1969 (8:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight)	73318-6	Master Take (Capitol)	Whistle For Happiness (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b), Phil Wright (pdr), Mike Melvoin (arr, con), George Tipton (arr, ccm), Charles T. Harrington (r), James R. "Jim" Horn, Donald J. "Don" Menza (r, unk), Marion "Buddy" Childers, Oliver "Ollie" Mitchell, James C. "Jimmy" Zito (t, unk), James "Jimmy" Cleveland (tb), Dick Hyde (tb, unk), William Hinshaw, Henry Sigismonti (tu), Dennis Budimir, Peter Woodford (g, unk), Howard Roberts (g), Lou Levy (p, unk), Victor Feldman (vib, unk), Gayle (aka Gail) Levant (hrp), Gary Coleman (d, per, unk), Earl Palmer (d, unk), Israel Baker, Assa Drori, William Hector, Bernard Kundell, Henry Peber, Stanley Plummer, Ralph Schaefer, Tibor Zelig (vn), Raymond J. Kelley, Ralph "Ray" Kramer (vc), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

"Whistle For Happiness" was the third Leiber & Stoller number that Peggy Lees placed in the Billboard charts. Its six weeks in the Easy Listening chart began on December 20, 1969. In the United States, it peaked at #13. "Whistle For Happiness" also charted in Canada's RPM Weekly, reaching the top 20 of the Adult chart (#19, January 1970) and the top 80 of the RPM100 chart. Below is Capitol's promotional ad for the song and single. Notice that flip side "Something" is not even mentioned -- perhaps to avoid any competition with the version by The Beatles, which was still popular when Lee's own version was issued.

The commercial single is shown on the first image, its sleeve on the second image. The last image presents the promotional version of the single, which is essentially identical to the commercial one, except for its self-identification as a promo.

Title: {Love Story (Short Version) / My Old Flame}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2721 {dj copy} Rel. Year: 1970

02:32	October 14, 1969 (8:00 p.m.-12:00 midnight)	70557-Edit	Alternate Take (Capitol)	Love Story [Short Version] (Randy Newman)
04:24	February 28, 1969 (10:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.)	71936-3	Master Take (Capitol)	My Old Flame (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b), Phil Wright (pdr), Robert "Bobby" Bryant (arr, con, t), Mundell Lowe (arr, con), Charles T. Harrington (sax, unk), James R. "Jim" Horn (sax, o), John "Plas" Johnson (sax, f), Donald J. "Don" Menza (f, ts), John Audino, Paul Hubinon (t, fh, unk), Marion "Buddy" Childers (t, fh), R. D. McMickle (t), Anthony Terran, James C. "Jimmy" Zito (t, unk), James "Jimmy" Cleveland, Charles C. "Charlie" Loper, Richard "Dick" Noel (tb), Richard Leith (tb, bt), William Hinshaw, Henry Sigismonti (frh, tu), Donald Waldrop (tu, bt, unk), Michael Anthony, Howard Roberts, Louis "Louie" Shelton, Peter Woodford (g), Dennis Budimir, John J. Kelson Jr., Tom "Tommy" Morgan (g, unk), James Burton (12g, slg, nec), Lou Levy (p, unk), Michael Lang (elp), Lawrence "Larry" Knechtel (org), Hal Blaine (d), Gary Coleman, Earl Palmer (d, per), Peggy Lee (v), B. K. Lewis, Thomas W. "Tom" Scott (unk)

NOTES:
I have no specifics about this special version of Capitol single #2721, reportedly prepared for radio airplay only -- nor have I ever heard it. Apparently, its version of "Love Story" was shortened to satisfy the demands or expectations of radio disc jockeys. However, if such was the case, why wasn't flip side "My Old Flame" shortened as well?

Title: {Love Story / My Old Flame}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2721 Rel. Year: 1970

03:28	October 14, 1969 (8:00 p.m.-12:00 midnight)	73311-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Love Story (Randy Newman)
04:24	February 28, 1969 (10:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.)	71936-3	Master Take (Capitol)	My Old Flame (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's version of "Love Story" appeared in the Easy Listening chart during the week of February 7, 1970. It spent five weeks therein, peaking at #26. In March 1970, it similarly reached #25 in the Adult chart of Canada's RPM Weekly, too. Lee's treatment of "Love Story" also made Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart at #105.

Title: {Lean On Me / Mohair Sam} ("Star★line" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 6131 Rel. Year: 1970

02:42	February 15, 1969 (8:00-12:00 p.m.)	71871	Master Take (Capitol)	Lean On Me (Peggy Lee, Mundell Lowe, Mike Melvoin)
02:10	July 18, 1966 (8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)	56274-8/10A	Master Take (Capitol)	Mohair Sam (Dallas Frazier)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b), Marion L. Klein (om), Dave Cavanaugh, Phil Wright (pdr), {Head Arrangement} (arr), Mike Melvoin (arr, con), Dave Grusin (con), James R. "Jim" Horn (sax, o), Donald J. "Don" Menza (sax), John "Plas" Johnson (ts), John Audino, Marion "Buddy" Childers, James C. "Jimmy" Zito (t, fh), Richard Leith, Donald Waldrop (tb, bt), Charles C. "Charlie" Loper (tb), David Allan Duke, William Hinshaw (frh, tu), Laurindo Almeida, Michael Anthony, Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Collins, Herb Ellis, Al Hendrickson, Louis "Lou" Morell (g), James Burton (g, Gut, slg), Lawrence "Larry" Knechtel (p, hps, org), Michael Lang (p, elp, org), Lou Levy (p), Michael Deasy (gch, hal, bel), Joe Porcaro (mal, per), Francisco Aguabella, Larry Bunker, John Guerin, Grady Tate (d), James "Jim" Gordon (d, Lat, per), Peggy Lee (v), Sister Love's Ghen Berry, Sister Love's Lillie Fort, Sister Love's Vermettya Royster (bkv)

NOTES:

Title: {Is That All There Is? / Spinning Wheel} ("Star★Line" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 6161 Rel. Year: 1970

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
02:35	January 31, 1969 (Second session, 10:30-1:30 a.m.)	71774-_	Master Take (Capitol)	Spinning Wheel (David Clayton Thomas)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b), S. W. Spampinato (om), Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Phil Wright (pdr), Bill Halverson, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (eng), Mike Melvoin (arr, con, org), Randy Newman (arr, con), Carlo A. Spiga (ccm), William Ernest Green, Jack Nimitz (r), Paul Horn (sax, f), Pete Christlieb (ts), William H. "Bill" Hood (bar), John Audino, Robert "Bobby" Bryant, Marion "Buddy" Childers (t, fh), Anthony Terran (t), Michael "Mike" Barone, Paul Hubinon, Dick Hyde, Lewis "Lew" McCreary, Ernie Tack (tb), Vincent DeRosa, William Hinshaw (frh), David Allan Duke, John "Tommy" Johnson (tu), James Burton (g, Gut), Louis "Lou" Morell (g), Fred Robinson (g, 12g, Gut), Donald "Don" Bagley, James "Jimmy" Bond (b), Myron Sandler (str), Maury Dell (p), Michael Lang (p, elp), Paul Humphrey, Jerry D. Williams (d), Kenneth Watson (trd, tym, Lat), Bobby Bruce, Leonard Malarsky, Wilbert Nuttycombe, George F. Poole, Jerome Joseph Reisler, Leonard Selic, Daryl Terwilliger, Abraham Weiss, Walter S. Wiemeyer (vn), Alfred Barr, Samuel Boghossian (vl), Justin DiTullio, Jesse Ehrlich, Jerome A. Kessler, Gloria Strassner (vc), Peggy Lee (v, spk), William Murasch, John Rotella (unk)

NOTES:

Capitol's Star★Line series was dedicated to reissues. Accordingly, both songs in this single had been previously issued on other 45-rpm discs. "Is That All There Is?" " had originally appeared in Capitol single #4888, issued in 1962; "Spinning Wheel" had first shown up in Capitol single #2477, also from 1977.

As the images above and below should make evident, Capitol Star★Line single #6161 was reissued numerous times. The "Spinning Wheel" side of all the (re)issues is seen above, the "Is That All There Is?" side below. The issue shown on the first images came out between 1978 and 1981, the second (above only) probably in 1972, the third between 1969 and 1972, the fourth (A-6161) in 1981 or 1982, the fifth and sixth (both numbered X-6161) between 1982 and 1986. At the present time, I am not aware of any others reissues in US soil.

Finally, here is one curious detail of note (as well as a matter that could add to any confusion): Capitol Star★Line singles #6161 and #6191 are both dedicated to Peggy Lee masters, and they even share one song, "Is That All There Is?"

Title: {You'll Remember Me / Have You Seen My Baby?}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2817 Rel. Year: 1970

03:15	February 20, 1970 (6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)	74047-16	Master Take (Capitol)	You'll Remember Me (Stan Worth, Arthur Hamilton)
02:42	February 17, 1970 (7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)	74035	Master Take (Capitol)	Have You Seen My Baby? (Randy Newman)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b, unk), Phil Wright (pdr), Hank Cicalo (eng), Mike Melvoin (arr, con), Thomas W. "Tom" Scott (r), Charles T. Harrington (sax), James R. "Jim" Horn, Donald J. "Don" Menza (sax, unk), Marion "Buddy" Childers, Charles "Chuck" Findley, Oliver "Ollie" Mitchell (t, unk), Dick Hyde (t, tb), George Bohanon, Richard T. "Dick" Nash (tb), Vincent DeRosa, David Allan Duke, William Hinshaw (frh), Dennis Budimir, Louis "Louie" Shelton, Peter Woodford (g, unk), Lou Levy (p, unk), Lawrence "Larry" Knechtel (org, unk), Pete Jolly, Joseph L. "Joe" Sample (key, unk), Gary Coleman (d, per, unk), Victor Feldman, James "Jim" Gordon, Milton Holland (per, unk), Earl Palmer (per), Robert "Bob" Hardaway (wds, unk), Peggy Lee (v), Anthony Ortega (unk)

NOTES:

One of various Arthur Hamilton numbers associated with Peggy Lee (others being "Sing a Rainbow" and "Rain Sometimes"), "You'll Remember Me" peaked at #16 in Billboard's Easy Listening chart. It made its debut during the week of May 9, 1970 and stayed for six weeks. All three pictures above belong to specialty versions of this commercial single. The vinyl on display is actually the promotional version of the single. It is essentially identical to the commercial version, except for the specification that it is a promo. As far as I know, both the commercial and the promotional versions came out on plain sleeves in the United States. The picture sleeve above belongs to the single's Dutch edition (5C 006 80428).

Title: {One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round / Pieces Of Dreams}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 2910 Rel. Year: 1970

02:18	July 21, 1970 (8:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight)	74959	Master Take (Capitol)	One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka)
02:40	June 1, 1970	75313	Master Take (Capitol)	Pieces Of Dreams (Little Boy Lost) (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith aka Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Phil Wright (pdr), Benny Golson (arr, con), Michel Legrand (con), Unknown (acc), Gene L. "Gino" Bozzacco, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Robert "Bob" Ascher, George Bohanon (tb), David Allan Duke, Alan Robinson (frh), Donald Waldrop (tu), Dennis Budimir, Peter Woodford (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy, James "Jimmy" Rowles (p), Carl Fortina (pac), John Guerin (d), Jules Greenberg, Emil Radocchia aka Richards (per), Israel Baker, Erno Neufeld, Stanley Plummer, Nathan Ross (vn), Gene Cipriano, Mel Tax (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee had a #21 Easy Listening hit with her Capitol version of "One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round." The single entered that Billboard chart during the week of October 3, 1970 and stayed for five weeks. Both sides of the original American original single are show above.

The sleeves of several non-American editions of this single are shown directly above: EMI Italiana 006-80592 (#1), Capitol Cr 2829 (#3 & #4, Japanese), EMI Bovema C 006.80.592 (#5 & #6; also, allegedly, #2, Dutch), and Capitol Cp 9259 (#7 & #8, Australian).

Title: {Johnny Guitar / Black Coffee} ("Golden Best Seller" & "New Coupling Best Vocal Version" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA©MCA Cat. Num.: (Japan) D 1033 [reissued as Vim 1009] Rel. Year: 1970

02:56	March 1, 1954	L 7583	Master Take (Decca)	Johnny Guitar (Peggy Lee, Victor Popular Young)
03:07	May 4, 1953	84433	Master Take (Decca)	Black Coffee (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Paul Francis Webster)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Milt Gabler (pdr), James "Jimmy" Rowles (arr, p), Victor Young (arr, con), Victor Young And His Singing Strings (acc), Walter "Pete" Candoli (t), Vicente Gomez (g), Unknown (b, p), Max Wayne (b), Ed Shaughnessy (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Where Did They Go? / All I Want}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 3113 Rel. Year: 1971

03:53	April 6, 1971	76620-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Where Did They Go? (Harry Lloyd, Gloria Sklerov)
02:40	April 6, 1971	76622-7	Master Take (Capitol)	All I Want (Steve Clayton aka P. Tedesco, Gladys Shelley)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Thomas L. "Snuff" Garrett (pdr), Thorne Norgar, Phil Ramone (eng), Don Sebesky (arr, con), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {Is That All There Is? / I'm A Woman} ("Star★Line" Reissue Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 6191 Rel. Year: 1972

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

Seen above is Capitol Star★Line single #6191, which was issued a minimum of four times. The edition with the light brown label is from 1972. The first of the editions with the blue label (catalogue number A-6191) is from either 1981 or 1982. The second blue-labeled edition (catalogue number X-6191) dates from the 1982-1986 period, as does the rainbow-colored edition. (I am missing a picture for the "Is That All There Is" side of edition X-6191.)

Capitol's Star★Line series was dedicated to reissues. Accordingly, both songs in this single had been previously issued on other 45-rpm discs. "I'm A Woman" had originally appeared in Capitol single #4888, issued in 1962; "Is That All There Is?" had first shown up in Capitol single #2602, from 1969.

A curious detail: Capitol Star★Line singles 6161 and 6191 are both dedicated to Peggy Lee masters, and they even share one song, "Is That All There Is?"

Title: {Love Song / Someone Who Cares}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 3439 Rel. Year: 1972

03:22	April 24, 1972	78550	Master Take (Capitol)	Love Song (Lesley Duncan)
03:04	April 24, 1972	78554-_	Master Take (Capitol)	Someone Who Cares (Alex Harvey)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Tom Catalano (pdr), Armin Steiner (eng), Artie Butler (arr, con, p), Larry Carlton, Louis "Louie" Shelton (g), Reinhold Press (b), Unknown (str), Michael Omartian (p), Earl Palmer (d), Gary Coleman, Victor Feldman (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Peggy Lee's 69th number to enter Billboard singles charts made its debut in the Easy Listening chart on the week of October 7, 1972 and stayed for four weeks. Lee's version of "Love Story" peaked at #34. Her "Love Story" also charted in the Contemporary Adult chart of Canada's RPM Weekly, reaching a #21 peak in the magazine's November 18, 1972 issue.

Title: Fever ("Dance For Ever" Series, No. 8) {Fever / I'm A Woman}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Pathé Marconi Cat. Num.: (France) 2c 006 81169 Rel. Year: 1972

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This is an oft-released EMI single. Several (re)issues are listed herein. Three of them, including this one, were issued as part of a so-called "Dance For Ever" series (1972, 1975, 1979). Others were part of European series bearing different though similar -- "Golden Memories" (1972), "Music In Gold" (1979), "Do You Remember" (1981) ... Many of them carry the same numerical suffix, 81169, too. For a longer overview, consult notes under the earliest known issue to pair "Fever" with "I'm A Woman," dated 1966.

Title: {Fever / I'm A Woman} ("Golden Memories" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Bovema Cat. Num.: (Belgium) 4c 006 81.169 Rel. Year: 1972

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This is the Belgian counterpart to a single that was often reissued in France in the 1970s, primarily as part of the long-running French-Dutch "Dance For Ever" series. Although this analogue from a nearby nation is on a different series, its catalogue number still carries the same main digits as most of the French ones, 81169. I have also seen a 1979 release date for this issue. Furthermore, there is a later Dutch edition (1981), on a different series. For an overview of various other European reissues, consult notes under the earliest known issue, dated 1966. In the photos above, note the misspelling of one of the songwriters' names. Jerry Leiber's last name has been changed to "Leibar."

Title: {Fever / Mañana} ("Hits Come Back" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Bovema Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 5c 006 81.275 Rel. Year: 1972

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:45	November 25, 1947	2609-4	Master Take (Capitol)	Mañana (Dave Barbour, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Lee Gillette (pdr), John Palladino (eng), Henry J. "Heinie" Beau (arr, f, cl), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Dave Barbour (con, g), Dave Barbour And The Brazilians (acc), Harry Klee (f, cl), Aloysio de Oliveira, Joe de Oliveira (g), Arthur Bernstein, Joe Mondragon (b), Shelly Manne, Tommy Romersa (d), Ivan Lopes (bo), Oswaldo Gogiano, Antonio Martins, Paulo de Castro Monte (per)

NOTES:

I found two release years for this item, 1972 and 1985. Since neither has corroboration, both should be deemed tentative.

Title: {Mack The Knife / Barbara's Song [vocal by Giselle May]} ("Le Canzoni Più Belle" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Fratelli Fabbri Editori Licensed Cat. Num.: (Italy) Cpb 10 Rel. Year: 1973

02:43

January 5, 1963

38931-12

Master Take (Capitol)

Mack The Knife (Die Moritat Von Mackie Messer) (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Richard "Dick" Hazard (con), Other Individuals Unknown (acc), Paul Horn (r), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Dave Wells (tb), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (per), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This 45-rpm release (second image above) was part of a series of about 80 singles (first image above), all of them included as bonus or adjunct items to the Italian magazine Le Canzone Più Belle. Music disc and music magazine thus formed an unit, presumably on sale at magazine stands (and perhaps at record stores, too). The images right below present an example of one such unit: magazine issue no. 54 showed Juliette Greco on its front cover, while accompanying single Cpb 54 offered two of her interpretations.

The series ran from 1973 to 1974, opening with a disc that presented Johnnie Ray's version of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" on one side, Nat King Cole's interpretation of "St. Louis Blues" on the other side. The second volume featured Tony Bennett and Percy Faith, while the third added Frank Sinatra (the first of many appearances of the Italian-American in the series), along with a second serving of Nat King Cole.

Le Canzoni Più Belle was by no means Fratelli Fabbri's first series. Back in 1968, the editorial house had started a 45-rpm disc line titled "L'Educatore Italiano," which was followed in 1969 by another called Il Jazz. Then there were Canzone Napoletana and La Canzone Italiana, both of which debuted in 1970.

I should add that I have not inspected physical copies of the Lee issue under discussion. My exposure is limited to online pictures and online information. I am assuming that the first of the ensuing images is showcasing magazine no. 10. The single is obviously seen on the second image. Note, by the way, that the focus of this release is not on the singers per se, but on the music of Brecht and Weil. Also shown below is the single's back cover (in very low resolution, unfortunately).

Title: {Why Don't You Do Right? / Flying Home [Benny Goodman instrumental]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Gold Mor Licensed Cat. Num.: Gm 00009 Rel. Year: 1974

03:12

July 27, 1942

CO 33048-1

Master Take (Columbia)

Why Don't You Do Right? (Joe McCoy)

Benny Goodman (ldr), Morty Palitz (pdr), Mel Powell (arr, p), The Benny Goodman Orchestra (acc), Benny Goodman (cl), Clint Neagley, Herman "Hymie" Sche[r]tzer (as), Leonard Sims, Jon Walton (ts), Robert "Bob" Poland (bar), Benny Baker, Tony Faso (aka Joseph Fasulo), James "Jimmy" Maxwell, Lawrence Stearns, aka Alfred Sculco (t), Charlie Castaldo, Lou McGarity (tb), Dave Barbour (g), Cliff Hill (b), Howard "Hud" Davies (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Let's Love}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: ATLANTIC Cat. Num.: 3215 [promo] Rel. Year: 1974

02:58

June 3-5, 1974

29425

Master Take (Atlantic)

Let's Love (Paul McCartney, Linda Louise McCartney)

Paul McCartney (pdr, arr, p), Alan Parsons, Pat Stapley (eng), Other Individuals Unknown (acc), Unknown (str, wds), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

This was a promotional 45-rpm disc, sent only to radio disc jockeys and other music industry parties, and not sold in stores. Both sides featured "Let's Love," one side in mono, the other in stereo. (For the commercially issued single, see next two entries.)

Title: {Let's Love / Always}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: ATLANTIC Cat. Num.: 3215 Rel. Year: 1974

02:58	June 3-5, 1974	29425	Master Take (Atlantic)	Let's Love (Paul McCartney, Linda Louise McCartney)
03:51	Late April, 1974	29429	Master Take (Atlantic)	Always (Irving Berlin)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Grusin (pdr, arr, con, p, fen, snt, per), Peggy Lee (pdr, v), Paul McCartney (pdr, arr, p), Alan Parsons, Phil Schier, Pat Stapley (eng), Erno Neufeld (ccm), Other Individuals Unknown (acc), Pete Christlieb (f, ts), Jerome Richardson (ss, as, bar), Charles "Chuck" Findley (t), Frank Rosolino (tb), Vincent DeRosa (frh), Gene Cipriano (o), Dennis Budimir, Dan Ferguson, Lee Ritenour, David T. Walker (g), Chuck Rainey (b), Unknown (str, wds), George Gaffney (p), Dick Borden (d), Harvey Mason (d, per), Bobbye Hall (cng), Jim Gilstrap, Joe Green, Marti McCall, Jackie Ward, Edna Wright (bkv)

NOTES:

Written especially for her, Paul McCartney's composition "Let's Love" became Peggy Lee's 70th and last entry in Billboard's song charts. Lee's chart debut had taken place back in 1941, when she was part of The Benny Goodman Orchestra. She made her debut with Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad." As for the songstress' first entry as a solo artist, it was "Waitin' For The Train To Come In" (according to Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories, 1890-1954), released in 1945.

"Let's Love" peaked at #22 in Billboard's Easy Listening chart during the week of November 2, 1974. It also charted in the Contemporary Adult chart of Canada's RPM Weekly, where it peaked at #41 in the December 21, 1974 issue.

Title: {Let's Love / The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter [not released in USA singles]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: ATLANTIC Cat. Num.: (France) 10545 Rel. Year: 1974

02:58	June 3-5, 1974	29425	Master Take (Atlantic)	Let's Love (Paul McCartney, Linda Louise McCartney)
03:04	Late April, 1974	29432	Master Take (Atlantic)	The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Dave Grusin, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Grusin (pdr, arr, con, p, fen, snt, per), Peggy Lee (pdr, v), Paul McCartney (pdr, arr, p), Alan Parsons, Phil Schier, Pat Stapley (eng), Erno Neufeld (ccm), Other Individuals Unknown (acc), Pete Christlieb (f, ts), Jerome Richardson (ss, as), Charles "Chuck" Findley (t), Frank Rosolino (tb), Vincent DeRosa (frh), Gene Cipriano (o), Dennis Budimir, Dan Ferguson, Lee Ritenour, David T. Walker (g), Chuck Rainey (b), Unknown (str, wds), Harvey Mason (d, per), Bobbye Hall (cng), Jim Gilstrap, Joe Green, Marti McCall, Jackie Ward, Edna Wright (bkv)

NOTES:

Title: Fever ("Dance For Ever" Series, No. 6) {Fever / I'm A Woman}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Pathé Marconi Cat. Num.: (France) 2c 004 81.169 (also 2c 010 81.169) Rel. Year: 1975

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

Each of the vertical rows above showcase a slightly different version of the same French issue (2c 004 81169). The differences are most apparent when the back covers are compared.

All three back covers also feature a 1975 production date, which is not always reflected on the vinyl's labels. (Some of the discs have instead a 1972 production date, pointing to the Dance For Ever single's debut version, which featured altogether different artwork, and which has been already showcased on this page.)

One of these three versions was issued in 1975. The two variants could have also been issued in 1975, or they could be from ensuing years.

Very frequently reissued in Europe, this single ("Fever / I'm A Woman") has a complicated history. For an overview of that history, consult the notes under the earliest known European issue (1966).

(I am currently missing a scan for the "I'm A Woman" side of the second variant.)

Title: {He's A Tramp / Home, Sweet Home [performed by The Pound Hounds]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DISNEY's Buena Vista Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Bv 2 Rel. Year: 1975

02:10

December 20, 1954

87268-doubling

Master Take (Decca)

He's A Tramp (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee)

Oliver Wallace (con), Unknown (b, d, cym), Sonny Burke (p, chi, mar), Peggy Lee (gng, bel, v), The Mellomen {Bill Lee, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith, Bob Stevens} (bkv)

NOTES:

Title: {Some Cats Know (full version) / Some Cats Know (edited version)}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: A&M Cat. Num.: 1771 S [promo] Rel. Year: 1975

04:22

May 30, 1975

0000

Master Take (A&M)

Some Cats Know (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (pdr), Pete Romano, Carmen aka Carmine Rubino (eng), Meco Monardo (s-a), George Young (f), Ray Brown (b), Unknown (str), {Head Arrangement}, Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

A&M single #1771 exists in two versions. The regular, commercial version features the songs "Some Cats Know" and "I Remember." This other version is a promo that features "Some Cats Know" only, on both sides of the single. One side offers the song in full (4:22), whereas the other side presents it in edited form (3:39). The first of the above-shown images is believed to spotlight an American copy, the last a British copy. The other copies are believed to be either Canadian or American. All promo versions use the catalogue number of the US commercial edition. See also note under preceding entry.

Title: {Some Cats Know / I Remember}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: A&M Cat. Num.: 1771 Rel. Year: 1975

02:50	Between Monday, June 2 and Thursday, June 5, 1975	0000	Master Take (A&M)	I Remember (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
04:22	May 30, 1975	0000	Master Take (A&M)	Some Cats Know (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (pdr), Hank Cicalo, Pete Romano, Carmen aka Carmine Rubino (eng), Johnny Mandel (arr, con), Meco Monardo (s-a), Georgia Alwan, Norman Benno, Gene Cipriano, Harry Klee, Ronald Langinger, Abe Most, John Neufield, Jack Nimitz, Bill Perkins, Jerome Richardson, Thomas W. "Tom" Scott, Bud Shank (r), George Young (r, f), Joe Burnett, Marion "Buddy" Childers, Charles "Chuck" Findley, Paul Hubinon, Malcolm McNab, Anthony Terran (t), Charles C. "Charlie" Loper, Richard T. "Dick" Nash, Kenny Shroyer, Phillip Tule, Mike Vlatkovich, Chauncey Welsch (tb), Vincent DeRosa, Alan Robinson, Marilyn Robinson (hrn), John "Tommy" Johnson, Bill Masonheimer (tu), Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, Tommy Tedesco (g, bj), Ray Brown, Joe Mondragon (b), Fred Seykora (b, vc), Unknown (str), Clare Fischer, Dave Grusin, Artie Kane, Michael Lang, Mike Melvoin, Varda Ullman (key), Stephen Paietta (pac), Corky Hale (hrp), Larry Bunker, Gene Estes, John Guerin, Ken Park, Joe Porcaro, Emil Radocchia aka Richards, Jack Ranelli, Mark Stevens, Alvin Stoller, Kenneth Watson (d, per), Victor Feldman (per), Arnold Belnick, Blanche Belnick, Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, Norman Carr, Harold Dicterow, Assa Drori, Irving Geller, William "Bill" Kurasch, Betty Lamagna, Carl Lamagna, Guy Lumia, Erno Neufeld, Wilbert Nuttycombe, John Pintavalle, Tony Posk, Elliot Rosoff, Bob Sanov, Paul Shure, Richard Sortomme, Mari Tsumura, Gerald Vinci, Shari Zippert (vn), Julien Barber, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Barbara Thomason (vl), Anne Goodman, Dennis Karmazyn, Jess Levy, Edgar Lustgarten, Jackie Lustgarten (vc), {Head Arrangement} (v), Peggy Lee (v, spk)

NOTES:

The American edition (#1771) of this A&M single is shown in the first row above. The second row presents both the disc and the sleeve of the British edition (#7213). (As for the American sleeve, it is not displayed above. I believe it to be a plain, simple sleeve.) Aside from the sleeves, the most noticeable differences between these American and British editions pertain to (a) catalogue numbering and (b) amount of text featured in the label of the vinyl. See also next entry.

Title: {I've Got Them Feelin' Too-Good-Today Blues / A Little White Ship} [single never released in the USA]
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: A&M Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Ams 7225 Rel. Year: 1976

02:20	August 1, 1975	0000	Master Take (A&M)	I've Got Them Feelin' Too-Good-Today Blues (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
03:04	August 1, 1975	0000	Master Take (A&M)	A Little White Ship (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (pdr), Hank Cicalo (eng), Johnny Mandel (arr, con), Georgia Alwan, Norman Benno, Gene Cipriano, Harry Klee, Ronald Langinger, Abe Most, John Neufield, Jack Nimitz, Bill Perkins, Jerome Richardson, Thomas W. "Tom" Scott, Bud Shank, George Young (r), Joe Burnett, Marion "Buddy" Childers, Charles "Chuck" Findley, Paul Hubinon, Malcolm McNab, Anthony Terran (t), Charles C. "Charlie" Loper, Richard T. "Dick" Nash, Kenny Shroyer, Phillip Tule, Mike Vlatkovich, Chauncey Welsch (tb), Vincent DeRosa, Alan Robinson, Marilyn Robinson (hrn), John "Tommy" Johnson, Bill Masonheimer (tu), Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, Tommy Tedesco (g, bj), Ray Brown, Joe Mondragon (b), Fred Seykora (b, vc), Clare Fischer, Dave Grusin, Artie Kane, Michael Lang, Mike Melvoin, Varda Ullman (key), Stephen Paietta (pac), Corky Hale (hrp), Larry Bunker, Gene Estes, John Guerin, Ken Park, Joe Porcaro, Emil Radocchia aka Richards, Jack Ranelli, Mark Stevens, Alvin Stoller, Kenneth Watson (d, per), Victor Feldman (per), Arnold Belnick, Blanche Belnick, Harry Bluestone aka Blostein, Norman Carr, Harold Dicterow, Assa Drori, Irving Geller, William "Bill" Kurasch, Betty Lamagna, Carl Lamagna, Guy Lumia, Erno Neufeld, Wilbert Nuttycombe, John Pintavalle, Tony Posk, Elliot Rosoff, Bob Sanov, Paul Shure, Richard Sortomme, Mari Tsumura, Gerald Vinci, Shari Zippert (vn), Julien Barber, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Barbara Thomason (vl), Anne Goodman, Dennis Karmazyn, Jess Levy, Edgar Lustgarten, Jackie Lustgarten (vc), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Why Don't You Do Right? / I Got It Bad} ("Hall Of Fame" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: COLUMBIA Cat. Num.: 13 33305 Rel. Year: 1976

03:14	July 27, 1942	CO 33048-2	Alternate Take (Columbia)	Why Don't You Do Right? (Joe McCoy)
03:14	October 2, 1941; 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	CO 31391-1	Master Take (Columbia)	I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)

Benny Goodman (ldr), Morty Palitz (pdr), Mel Powell (arr, p), Eddie Sauter (arr), The Benny Goodman Orchestra (acc), Benny Goodman (cl), Skip Martin, Clint Neagley, Herman "Hymie" Sche[r]tzer (as), George Berg, Vido Musso, Leonard Sims, Jon Walton (ts), Chuck Gentry, Robert "Bob" Poland (bar), Benny Baker, Billy Butterfield, Al Davis, Tony Faso (aka Joseph Fasulo), James "Jimmy" Maxwell, Lawrence Stearns, aka Alfred Sculco, Cootie Williams (t), Charlie Castaldo, Cutty Cutshall, Lou McGarity (tb), Dave Barbour, Tom "Tommy" Morgan (g), Cliff Hill, Morty Stuhlmaker (b), Sid Catlett, Howard "Hud" Davies (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

Title: {Lover / I'm Not In Love}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: POLYDOR Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 2058 865 Rel. Year: 1977

04:06	From March 7 To March 9, 1977 (10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)		Master Take (Polydor)	Lover (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
04:47	From March 7 To March 9, 1977 (10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)		Master Take (Polydor)	I'm Not In Love (Graham Keith Gouldman, Eric Michael Stewart)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Ken Barnes (pdr), Steve Taylor (eng), Peter Moore (arr, snt), The Pete Moore Orchestra (acc), Richard Edwards (tb), Peggy Lee (v, bkv)

NOTES:

Title: {I Like A Sleigh Ride (Jingle Bells) / White Christmas}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Bovema Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 5D 006 85323 Rel. Year: 1977

02:03	June 19, 1960 (1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.)	34022-11	Master Take (Capitol)	Jingle Bells / I Like A Sleighride (James Lord Pierpont, possibly Peggy Lee)
02:01	June 15, 1960 (4:30 p.m - 8:00 p.m.)	33974-8	Master Take (Capitol)	White Christmas (Irving Berlin)

NOTES:

Title: {Fever / I'm A Woman} ("Music In Gold" Series, No. 19)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (France) 2s 008 81.169 Rel. Year: 1979

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This is a frequently released EMI single. Several other (re)issues are listed herein. A fair number carry the same main catalogue number, 81169. For an overview of all such reissues, consult notes under the earliest known issue, dated 1966.

Title: Fever ("Dance For Ever" Series) {Fever / I'm A Woman}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 1a 006 81169 Rel. Year: 1979

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This is the Dutch edition of a single that has been often reissued, especially by EMI's Pathé Marconi in France. Other European issues and reissues date from 1966 ("International Hits" series) and 1972 (two of them, one on the "Golden Memories" series, the other on the "Dance For Ever" series), 1979 ("Music In Gold" series), 1981 ("Do You Remember" series), 1985 ("Golden 45's" series), and 1992 ("Impulse Fragrance TV commercial" edition). There could be more, which I would naturally be adding to this page after my discovery of them.

The present issue happens to use the exact same front cover as the 1975 French reissue, but lacks the prominent volume number (a six) found on that earlier cover. More obvious are the differences between the vinyl discs (their physical labels, that is to say). These (re)issues and some of the aforementioned ones carry the same numerical suffix, too (81169). While the suffix or main number is thus the same, the accompanying prefixes can serve as distinguishing national codes: "1a" stands for Dutch releases, "2c" for French releases.

Title: {Somebody Nobody Loves / [other song titles unknown]}
Artist: Benny Goodman
Format: 33 rpm single Label: Phontastic Nostalgia Collectors' Label Cat. Num.: (Sweden) Phon Mlp 80 Rel. Year: 1980

November 13, 1941; 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

CO 31742-"A"

Alternate Take (Columbia)

Somebody Nobody Loves (Seymour Miller)

Benny Goodman (ldr), Eddie Sauter (arr), The Benny Goodman Orchestra (acc), Benny Goodman (cl), Clint Neagley, Jules "Julie" Schwartz (as), George Berg, Vido Musso (ts), Chuck Gentry (bar), Billy Butterfield, Al Davis, James "Jimmy" Maxwell (t), Cutty Cutshall, Lou McGarity (tb), Tom "Tommy" Morgan (g), Sid Weiss (b), Mel Powell (p), Ralph Collier (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:
This elusive item is suspected to be a 7-inch LP prepared by Phontastic as a bonus or commemorative issue, and pressed in a small quantity of copies (perhaps somewhere between 50 and 75). It would have not been made for sale. Recipients of such special issues tended to be circumscribed to the circle of associates and friends of the label's owner (Anders Ragnar Öhman). The LP's title and full contents are currently unknown to discographers. There has been speculation of its being a tribute to Mel Powell, and thereby consisting of three or four numbers arranged and/or performed by him. The above-given 1980 release date should be deemed tentative, or approximate. (Note also that the item under discussion was originally and erroneously listed as a 45-rpm single in the present discography. The error has now been corrected.) My thanks to Dave Jessup for informing me about the current extent of knowledge and speculation about this issue.

Title: {Is That All There Is / Me And My Shadow} ("Do You Remember?" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 1a 006 80182 Rel. Year: 1981

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
03:04	February 4 & January 29, 1969	71866-10	Master Take (Capitol)	Me And My Shadow (Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson, Billy Rose)

NOTES:

I have also seen a 1979 release date for this issue.

Title: {Fever / I'm A Woman} ("Do You Remember?" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 1a 006 81.169 Rel. Year: 1981

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This is a Dutch counterpart to a single that was often reissued as part of the long-running French-Dutch "Dance For Ever" series. (For an overview of the various European reissues, consult notes under the earliest known issue, dated 1966). Although this Scandinavian analogue is on a different series, its catalogue number still carries the same main digits, 81169. On another note, I have also seen a 1979 release date for this issue.

Title: {I Don't Want To Play In Your Back Yard [not released as a single in the USA] / Black Coffee}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA©MCA Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 782 Rel. Year: 1982

02:31	February 7, 1955 (Second Of Two Sessions)	L 8167	Master Take (Decca)	I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard (Henry W. Petrie, Henry Sawyer, Philip Wingate)
03:07	May 4, 1953	84433	Master Take (Decca)	Black Coffee (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Paul Francis Webster)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Milt Gabler, Tom Mack (pdr), {Head Arrangement} (arr), James "Jimmy" Rowles (arr, p), Walter "Pete" Candoli (t), Max Wayne (b), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Ed Shaughnessy (d), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

In the United States, "Black Coffee" was originally released on LP (1953) and, belatedly, on 45-rpm single (1964). "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" was never released as a single in America; it was issued instead on LP (1953) and, eventually, on CD. (In the case of foreign singles, this discographical page lists only those that do not contain the same songs as the American originals.)

Title: {Hit The Road Jack (Sung by Ray Charles) / Fever} ("Great Oldies By Request" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Arc Licensed Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 018 82 Rel. Year: 1982

03:19

May 19, 1958

19145-5

Master Take (Capitol)

Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Joe Mondragon (b), Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

I am familiar with this issue only through the above-seen pictures. Judging from the existence of sleeves in different colors (magenta, black, violet), it was released at least twice. (The violet cover could be the result of an uploader's alteration of the magenta one. For that violet variant, I have found pictures of the front cover only -- not the back, and not the vinyl disc.) Note also that this issue claims to feature stereophonic sound on both sides. The stereo version of "Fever" is relatively rare. Confirmation from copy owners would be appreciated.

Title: Fever ("Dance For Ever" Series, No. 28) {Fever / Listen To The Rockin' Bird}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Pathé Marconi Cat. Num.: (France) 2c 008 83378 Rel. Year: 1983

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:13	August 30, 1957 (8:00-11:30/12:00 p.m.)	17424-6	Master Take (Capitol)	Listen To The Rocking Bird (Alice Hawthorne aka Septimus Winner, Hal Levy, Richard "Whistling Dick" Milburn)

Peggy Lee (ldr), David Klein (om), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Nelson Riddle (arr, con), The Nelson Riddle Orchestra (acc), Buddy Collette, Joe Cook, Skeets Herfurt aka Arthur Herfurt, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz, William "Buck" Skalak (sax), Walter "Pete" Candoli, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Vito "Mickey" Mangano (t), Richard "Dick" Noel, Tommy Pederson aka Pullman Pederson, George Roberts, Juan Tizol (tb), Barney Kessel (g), Max K. Bennett, Joe Mondragon (b), Lou Levy (p), Mel Lewis, Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

One of two Peggy Lee singles released in EMI's long-running "Dance For Ever" series. The other single -- an often reissued one -- contains "Fever" and "I'm A Woman." This single was also reissued, at least once (1990), and the reissue is listed below. In this particular issue, "Fever" is heard in stereo (not in mono, as is the case for most other releases).

Title: {Fever / I'm A Woman} ("Golden 45s" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) G45 38 Rel. Year: 1985

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This item is actually part of British EMI's Golden 45 reissue series, which consisted of popular 45-rpm singles issued from March of 1984 to February of 1985. The roster of artists in the collection's catalogue ranged from Queen (#1) and John Lennon (#2) to Sam Cooke (#44) and Donovan (#45).

This item should also be deemed a British counterpart to a single that EMI reissued numerous times across Europe in the 1970s, most notably always as part of the long-running "Dance For Ever" French-Dutch series. For an overview of the various European reissues, consult notes under the earliest known issue (on the "International Hits series"), dated 1966.

Title: {Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me (by Johnny Otis & His Orch.; vocal by Marie Adams) / Fever}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Old Gold Licensed Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Og 9720 Rel. Year: 1987

03:19

May 19, 1958

19145-5

Master Take (Capitol)

Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Joe Mondragon (b), Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

Title: A Ring-Side Souvenir From Miss Peggy Lee And The Ballroom {Fever / Is That All There Is?}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: 9042 Ls 57047 Rel. Year: 1989

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Peggy Lee (ldr), S. W. Spampinato (om), Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (pdr), Bill Halverson, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (eng), Peggy Lee (arr, v, spk), Randy Newman (arr, con), Carlo A. Spiga (ccm), William Ernest Green, Jack Nimitz (r), William H. "Bill" Hood (bar), John Audino (t, fh), Anthony Terran (t), Michael "Mike" Barone, Ernie Tack (tb), Vincent DeRosa (frh), David Allan Duke, John "Tommy" Johnson (tu), Louis "Lou" Morell (g), Donald "Don" Bagley, James "Jimmy" Bond, Joe Mondragon (b), Myron Sandler (str), Maury Dell (p), Shelly Manne, Jerry D. Williams (d), Bobby Bruce, Leonard Malarsky, Wilbert Nuttycombe, George F. Poole, Jerome Joseph Reisler, Leonard Selic, Daryl Terwilliger, Abraham Weiss, Walter S. Wiemeyer (vn), Alfred Barr, Samuel Boghossian (vl), Justin DiTullio, Jesse Ehrlich, Jerome A. Kessler, Gloria Strassner (vc), William Murasch, John Rotella (unk)

NOTES:

Probably manufactured in response to audience demand for the two Lee hits included, this item was a "special order" single, commissioned to be sold at The Ballroom nightclub in New York, during Peggy Lee's concerts. She performed at the Ballroom from 1985 to 1990. The release date that I have found for it is 1989. On both sides of the vinyl disc, the label identifies the performances as monophonic. That is an error in the case of "Is That All There Is"?", which is instead heard in stereo.

Title: Fever (Musique Du Spot TV DeliChoc) {Fever / Listen To The Rockin' Bird}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Pathé Marconi Cat. Num.: (France) 203 107 (also Pm 102) Rel. Year: 1990

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:13	August 30, 1957 (8:00-11:30/12:00 p.m.)	17424-6	Master Take (Capitol)	Listen To The Rocking Bird (Alice Hawthorne aka Septimus Winner, Hal Levy, Richard "Whistling Dick" Milburn)

NOTES:

The back cover and label of this single contain the phrase "1958, Réedition de 1983." The 1983 date refers to single no. 28 from the "Dance For Ever" series, of which the present single is a reissue. Note also that this is one of two European singles prepared after Peggy Lee's recording of "Fever" was heard on TV commercials there. The other single and TV commercial, from 1992, will be itemized next.

Title: {Unforgettable [vocal by Nat King Cole] / Fever] ("Evergreens" Series)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (Finland) 777 2056017 Rel. Year: 1991

03:19

May 19, 1958

19145-5

Master Take (Capitol)

Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Joe Mondragon (b), Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

The first image presents the picture sleeve of this 45-rpm single. The second image adds the front cover of both a CD and LP that are part of this "Evergreen" set of releases. Both "Fever" and "Unforgettable" are included among the 15 tracks of the compact disc and long play. Also on both is a second Peggy Lee selection, "Johnny Guitar." The credits indicate that manufacturing or pressing took place in the Netherlands, but the copyright belongs to Oy EMI Finland Ab.

Title: {Fever / It's A Good Day}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: CD single Label: EMI Cat. Num.: (France) 2047746 2 Rel. Year: 1992

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:53	July 12, 1946	1199-4	Master Take (Capitol)	It's A Good Day (Dave Barbour, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Lee Gillette (pdr), Henry J. "Heinie" Beau (arr, cl), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Dave Barbour And His Orchestra (acc), Herbert "Herbie" Haymer (ts), Robert "Bob" Lawson (bar), Ray Linn (t), Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Carl Loeffler, Elmer Smithers, Si Zentner (tb), Dave Barbour (g), Edwin "Buddy" Cole (b, p), Joe Mondragon, Phil Stephens (b), Nick Fatool, Shelly Manne (d), Reynold Johnson (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {Is That All There Is / The Folks Who Live On The Hill}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: CD single Label: CAPITOL©EMI's Bovema Cat. Num.: (Netherlands) 8802762 Rel. Year: 1992

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
03:39	April 4, 1957 (8:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)	E 16802-6	Master Take (Capitol)	The Folks Who Live On The Hill (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)

Peggy Lee (ldr), S. W. Spampinato (om), Voyle Gilmore, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (pdr), Bill Halverson, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (eng), Randy Newman (arr, con), Nelson Riddle (arr), Carlo A. Spiga (ccm), Frank Sinatra (con), William Ernest Green, Jack Nimitz (r), Buddy Collette, Harry Klee (as), Warren "Champ" Webb (ts), William H. "Bill" Hood, Joe Koch (bar), John Audino (t, fh), Harry "Sweets" Edison, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, Anthony Terran (t), Michael "Mike" Barone, Tommy Pederson aka Pullman Pederson, Ernie Tack (tb), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa (frh), Juan Tizol (vtb), David Allan Duke, John "Tommy" Johnson (tu), George Roberts (bt), Nick Bonney, Louis "Lou" Morell (g), Donald "Don" Bagley, Max K. Bennett, James "Jimmy" Bond (b), Myron Sandler (str), Maury Dell, Lou Levy (p), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Lou Singer, Jerry D. Williams (d), Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Bobby Bruce, Henry Hill, Leonard Malarsky, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Erno Neufeld, Wilbert Nuttycombe, George F. Poole, Jerome Joseph Reisler, Leonard Selic, Eudice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, Daryl Terwilliger, Abraham Weiss, Walter S. Wiemeyer (vn), Alfred Barr, Samuel Boghossian, Alvin Dinkin, Maxine Johnson, Barbara Simons (vl), Cy Bernard, Ennio Bolognini, Justin DiTullio, Jesse Ehrlich, Jerome A. Kessler, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin, Gloria Strassner (vc), Peggy Lee (v, spk), William Murasch, John Rotella (unk)

NOTES:

Two-track CD single. Additional confirmation is needed on the matter of the above-entered label (EMI Bovema).

Title: Fever (Impulse Fragrance TV Commercial) {Fever/I'm A Woman}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Peg 1 Rel. Year: 1992

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

In Great Britain, Peggy Lee's version of "Fever" not only peaked at #5 upon its debut released there (1958), but it also managed to re-enter the British charts in 1992, reaching the #75 slot. This re-entry was the result of a TV commercial that featured the recording, and which compelled EMI to issue the above-pictured CD single. The front cover's shot was actually taken from the commercial, which at the time of this writing could still be seen here.

In making the decision to pair "Fever" with "I'm A Woman," British EMI was just taking advantage of the existence of numerous European editions of such a single, released over the previous three decades. For details, consult notes under the earliest known issue to feature the pair of songs; it is dated 1966.

This item also exists in the CD single format, sporting the exact same front cover but incorporating two more songs. (See below.) Both the 45-rpm single and the CD single identify themselves as being from "the forthcoming album Fever." The album in question was probably Alan Dell's fine 1992 CD of the same title, released in the United Kingdom.

Title: Fever (Impulse Fragrance TV Commercial)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: CS/CD single Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) 7243 8 80202 2 0; also Lc 0148 Rel. Year: 1992

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
03:39	April 4, 1957 (8:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)	E 16802-6	Master Take (Capitol)	The Folks Who Live On The Hill (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
02:23	December 9, 1964	53142-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Pass Me By (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh, Mike Stoller (pdr, arr), Voyle Gilmore, Jerry Leiber (pdr), Benny Carter (arr, con), Dave Grusin, Nelson Riddle (arr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Lou Levy (con, p), Frank Sinatra (con), Buddy Collette, Harry Klee, Gene Quill (as), Warren "Champ" Webb (ts), Joe Koch (bar), Harry "Sweets" Edison, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Unknown (t, oc), Tommy Pederson aka Pullman Pederson (tb), James "Jim" Decker, Vincent DeRosa (frh), Juan Tizol (vtb), George Roberts (bt), Nick Bonney, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett, Joe Mondragon (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Shelly Manne, Lou Singer (d), Stan Levey (per), Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Henry Hill, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson (vn), Alvin Dinkin, Maxine Johnson, Barbara Simons (vl), Cy Bernard, Ennio Bolognini, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin (vc), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

The item under discussion was released by EMI in the wake of a popular TV commercial for the fragrance Impulse Free Spirit, which used Lee's version of "Fever" and brought that classic hit recording back into the European music charts. The above-seen front cover is actually a shot from the commercial. At the time of this writing, the TV spot could still be seen here.

Some music catalogues claim that this four-song item came in a cassette single edition as well; I have yet to find actual proof of the cassette's existence. Easier to corroborate is, on the other hand, the existence of a two-track, 45-rpm edition, with the exact same front cover. See preceding entry.

Whereas the pictured copy identifies itself as "made in Holland," music catalogues and online vendors list it as British. It may well be that EMI issued editions of the four-track CD single in several European countries; it could also be that different markets chose a different quantity of tracks. I have chosen to list both formats (two-track, four-track) as British.

Both on CD and 45-rpm single, this item identifies itself as being from "the forthcoming album Fever." The reference was probably to Alan Dell's excellent 1992 CD of the same title, released in the United Kingdom. For its part, Free Spirit (the company behind the Impulse perfume deodorant) did its own additional music marketing. In Italy and the Netherlands, it made arrangements with Sony Special Marketing to release a self-promotional album (Col 47 1960) on CD, LP, and cassette. Dedicated almost entirely to hit performances by then-current female singers, this 1992 opens with Peggy Lee at the helm. Merely for illustration purposes, I am providing below pictures of the issue, in all three formats. Seen last below is the cassette edition of the British EMI issue under discussion, too.

Title: [Gilbert O'Sullivan And Peggy Lee] CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: CD single Label: PARK Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Parkcd 15 Rel. Year: 1992

04:04

August or Early September 1992

Master Take (Park?)

Can't Think Straight (Raymond O'Sullivan)

Gilbert O'Sullivan (ldr), Gilbert O'Sullivan (pdr, arr, key, v), Alan Branch, Mark Flannery, Steve Lowe (eng), John Gallen, Mike Ross (eng, eng-voc), Geoff Foster (eng-voc), Laurie Holloway (arr, ccm), orchestra (acc), Geoff Whitehorn (g), Bob Skeat (bgtr), Mick Parker (pac), Roly Kerridge (per), Peggy Lee (v, spk), Other Individuals Unknown (v)

NOTES:

This 1992 CD single describes itself as an advance sample from the album Sounds Of The Loop. In 1993, Park indeed re-released that album, which had been issued in Japan before. (The original Japanese version contains the same tracks except in the case of "Can't Think Straight," which features not Peggy Lee but another vocal partner. For additional details, consult this discography's Chesky Contract And The Guest Vocals page.)

The present single actually contains a trio of songs, all of them written by Gilbert O'Sullivan: "Can't Think Straight", "Sometimes", and "Divorce Irish Style." The fine print in this promo states that all three of them were "taken from the forthcoming album Sounds Of The Loop.

In the front cover, "Gilbert O'Sullivan & Peggy Lee" are jointly identified as the featured act, and the two artists are seen together. The more accurate billing for Lee would have been guest star, since the single's other two songs feature O'Sullivan alone (naturally).

The cover's photograph has a slightly fake appearance which initially led me to assume that two shots -- one of each singer -- had been pasted together. I still feel that such might be the case, but I am also considering the possibility that the two artists were photographed together. If the latter, the appearance of "fakeness" would be caused by the manipulation and alteration of the photo's original background, which has been substituted with a yellow canvas. (The clothes seen in the photo are the same ones that the artists are seen wearing for the video of the song which they made.)

The above-given release year for this album has been corroborate, but the full recording date should be considered an approximation. The exact day is unknown; the month is believed to have been either August or early September. The personnel should also be considered tentative. (It is a collective personnel, taken from the Sounds Of The Loop album.)

Title: {Fever / Alright, Okay, You Win}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Collectables Licensed Cat. Num.: Col 6074 Rel. Year: 1993

03:19	May 19, 1958	19145-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)
02:52	May 25, 1958	19202-5	Master Take (Capitol)	Alright, Okay, You Win (Maym(i)e Watts, Sidney Wyche)

NOTES:

This is a licensed reissue of a single that Capitol originally issued in 1961, as part of its "Star★Line" series. According to online reports that might or might not be accurate, Collectables itself reissued this version again in 2006.

Title: {Is That All There Is? / I'm A Woman}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Collectables Licensed Cat. Num.: Col 6075 Rel. Year: 1993

04:20	January 24 & 29, 1969 (29: 8:00-11:00)	71710-20	Master Take (Capitol)	Is That All There Is? (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
02:07	November 14, 1962 (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)	24433-10	Master Take (Capitol)	I'm A Woman (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

NOTES:

This is a licensed reissue of a single that Capitol originally issued in 1969, and then reissued in 1969, as part of its "Star★Line" series. According to online reports that might or might not be accurate, Collectables itself reissued its version of the single in 2006.

Title: {Happy Holiday / Auld Lang Syne [instrumental by Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: jukebox single Label: CAPITOL©EMI Special Markets Cat. Num.: S7 19343 Rel. Year: 1996

01:51

July 9, 1965

53901

Master Take (Capitol)

Happy Holiday (Irving Berlin)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller (con), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Further details unknown. Obtained through an online search, the release date should be deemed tentative, or in need of confirmation. At the very least, it should be close to the mark, if not accurate. EMI or EMI-related releases with a S prefix do date from the 1990s, and those with a 7 are indeed singles. For instance, S7 18735 is another jukebox single (featuring Boy George), released by Virgin in conjunction with Cema Special Markets, and bearing a 1995 date on its label. (The label of this Peggy Lee single does not carry a date, unfortunately.) Jukebox singles could run at either 45 rpm or 33 rpm. This one ran at 45 rpm.

Title: Senza Fine
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: CD single Label: CAPITOL©EMI Cat. Num.: Pcdbz 1157? Rel. Year: 2001

02:30

July 6, 1964

52371-10

Master Take (Capitol)

Senza Fine (Gino Paoli, Alec Wilder)

NOTES:

A non-commercial CD single, this item served as musical promotion for the French movie Va Savoir, whose soundtrack indeed included Peggy Lee's rendition of "Senza Fine." It was probably distributed only to a select number of facilities. (I do not count with any specifics.)

Title: Fever Single Remix
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: CD single Label: CAPITOL Cat. Num.: 70876 17990 2 6 Rel. Year: 2003

03:19

May 19, 1958

19145-5

Master Take (Capitol)

Fever (Otis Blackwell aka John Davenport, Eddie Cooley, uncredited Sid Kuller & Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Peggy Lee (arr, v), Joe Mondragon (b), Shelly Manne (d)

NOTES:

The single under consideration actually contains three tracks, although only one is listed herein. The unlisted tracks are remixes of "Fever" prepared by the Italian duo known as Gabin. This digitally manipulated version of master 19145 features the same vocal but has been set to electronica beats and recast into an atmosphere typical of house music. 3:22 timing. The CD comes without a front cover; the above-shown image of Lee serves as the jewel case's back cover.

Title: {Get Up, Stand Up (Vocal By The Butts Band) / Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: Dynamite Soul Public Domain Cat. Num.: (United Kingdom) Ds 7007 Rel. Year: 2007

02:37

February 12, 1969 (7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)

71840-1

Master Take (Capitol)

(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Steve Cropper, Otis Redding)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (om, b), Phil Wright (pdr), Robert "Bobby" Bryant (arr), Pete Christlieb (f, bar), Donald J. "Don" Menza (f, ts), Ernest Watts (f, ts, t, o), Marion "Buddy" Childers (t, c, fh), Reunald Jones, Paul Rubinon (t, fh), George Bohanon (tb, eu), David Allan Duke (tb, tu), William Hinshaw (frh, tu), Donald Waldrop (tu, bt), Louis Blackburn (bt, tnt), Mundell Lowe (g, elg), Michael Anthony (elg, 12g), Michael Lang (p, elp), Merlyn Ray Pohlman (pac, ela), Earl Palmer (d, tym, bel), Sandra Crouch (tam), Peggy Lee (v), Sister Love's Ghen Berry, Sister Love's Lillie Fort, Sister Love's Vermettya Royster (bkv)

NOTES:

One of a series of at least 20 singles released between 2007 and 2008 by Dynamite Soul Records, a British label which might or might have not been an unauthorized company. I have not listened to this single, Because other artists named Peggy Lee exist (including a soul-oriented lady, possibly a British native, who released a single on Lake Records, featuring a number titled "Times We Had"), I am unable to fully guarantee that the present single features the main artist under discussion.

Title: {Peace On Earth-Silent Night / What Is A Baby [edit]}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: DECCA Cat. Num.: 9 38005

03:09	December 6, 1954	L 8041	Master Take (Decca)	Peace On Earth / Silent Night (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee, Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr)
03:07	December 6, 1954	L 88894	Edit	What Is A Baby? [Shortened Version] (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Victor Young And His Orchestra (acc), Marty Paich (p), Peggy Lee (v), The Walt Disney Chorus (bkv)

NOTES:

Curiously, this single is not listed in Peggy Lee's session files. It is listed, however, in two other sources: Michel Ruppli's The Decca Labels: A Discography and Charles Garrod's Decca New York Masters, Volume 7 (8700-8999). Garrod states that this master was "not used" -- i.e., not issued at all. The pictures shown above proves that, at the very least, promotional copies were pressed.

Title: {It's In The Book [by Johnny Standley] / Who's On First [by Abbott & Costello] / The Wearing Of The Green}
Artist: Various
Format: 45 Label: Do You Remember Cat. Num.: 367

02:31

3/31/1955

L 8275

Master Take (Decca)

The Wearing Of The Green (Traditional)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Tom Mack (pdr), {Head Arrangement} (arr), Stella Castellucci (hrp), Peggy Lee (v)

NOTES:

I have seen this curious item online only. It might be a test pressing.

Title: {C'est Magnifique / The Party's Over}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©Toshiba-EMI Cat. Num.: (Japan) 7P 188 Kr4

02:06	August 12, 1959	32217-9	Master Take (Capitol)	C'est Magnifique (Cole Porter)
03:18	August 14, 1959	32237-8	Master Take (Capitol)	The Party's Over (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Jack Marshall (arr, con), Marty Paich (arr), Jack Marshall's Music (acc), Justin Gordon, Jules Kinsler, Harry Klee, Wilbur "Willie" Schwartz (sax), Arthur C. Smith (f), Rudolph "Rudy" Loera, Henry Miranda, Alfonso "Al" Rojo (t), Bobby Gibbons, William "Bill" Pitman, Tony Rizzi, Howard Roberts, Tommy Tedesco (g), Tony Reyes (b), Eduardo "Eddie" Cano (p), Eduardo Aparicio, Manuel E. López, Carlos Mejía, Ramón "Ray" Rivera (per), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

Title: {I Like A Sleighride (Jingle Bells) / Christmas Carousel}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: 45 Label: CAPITOL©Toshiba Musical Industries Cat. Num.: (Japan) Cr 1013

02:03	June 19, 1960 (1:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.)	34022-11	Master Take (Capitol)	Jingle Bells / I Like A Sleighride (James Lord Pierpont, possibly Peggy Lee)
02:26	June 15, 1960 (4:30 p.m - 8:00 p.m.)	33977-9	Master Take (Capitol)	Christmas Carousel (Peggy Lee)

NOTES:

Title: Suave ... Como Una Caricia {Bella Notte}
Artist: Peggy Lee
Format: phonographic postcard 45 Label: Hispano Fonoscope Licensed Cat. Num.: (Spain) unknown

03:07

December 6, 1954

L 8040

Master Take (Decca)

Bella Notte (Joseph F. "Sonny" Burke, Peggy Lee)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Victor Young And His Orchestra (acc), Marty Paich (p), Peggy Lee (v), Other Individuals Unknown (unk)

NOTES:

A 45-rpm disc with a rectangular or quadrangular: the phonographic postcard is an obscure, nearly forgotten binary format. US residents of a certain age might think of it as a precursor to or variation on another specialty format, the flexi-disc, which found a modicum of favor among certain American consumers (notably, fanzine subscribers, boxed cereal lovers and, more generally, children) from the 1950s to the 1980s. (Flexi-discs are actually still being made, serving mainly as collectibles and, per tradition, as marketing or promotional tools.)

This format seems to have enjoyed some currency in 1950s Spain. Therein, the cards were known as "postales sonoras." The label Hispano Fonoscope probably specialized in them. Curious viewers can see a phonographic postcard in action by checking a YouTube clip (at 1:00, 1:28, 1:42, 2:23) of the song called "Torero," as interpreted in Italian by Renato Carozone

The phono cards shown in the present entry were not retail but custom-made items. Hispano Fonoscope manufactured them for distribution among Spanish sellers of a product called Firestone Foamex. The product was a rubber latex, sold by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company as padding for all sorts of furniture, appliances and personal wear. To wit: car seats, cradles, hammocks, pillows, shoes, sofas, et cetera.

You are seeing the front cover of three custom-made postcards. Two covers (one above, one below) go by the name or motto of Suave ... como una caricia. The flexi-disc on them contains Peggy Lee's Decca recording of "Bella Notte." As a bonus to viewers interested in this format, I am also showing the front cover of a different Foamex postcard (below). I am calling it a bonus because the recording on its disc is a composition by Charlie Chaplin, not Peggy Lee. (The Chaplin tune is "Candilejas" or, in its original English title, "Limelight.") Both discs seem to be one-sided. Their release year could fall anywhere between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, with the late 1950s as a bit likelier.

The back covers of both "Bella Notte" copies are seen above, each one showing a different carrier or dealer (Ximénez y Compañía, Casa San Pedro). Out of curiosity, I have done a cursory search for information about one of the dealers. Ximénez y Compañía was primarily a seller of car accessories, and a main carrier of Firestone tires. Reportedly founded in 1924 (and currently closed for business?), the company's chain of stores ranged across Northeast Spain.

The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography:Chronological 45-Rpm Index

by Iván Santiago

Issues Reported: 136

The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography:
Chronological 45-Rpm Index