The Peggy Lee Music Catalog
Original Albums And Official Anthologies
(1948-2022)
by Iván Santiago
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This page lists a total of 122 Peggy Lee albums, all of them initially released in the United States or, otherwise, the United Kingdom. (Lee carried out all of her recording activity in those two nations.) Please note that only authorized releases have been counted. In other words, the tally excludes public domain and bootleg items. (Arguable exceptions were made for certain albums containing radio performances, and also in the case of an album released by the Camay label, whose issuing rights were legally disputed at one point in time.)
For our tallying purposes, an album is understood to be a collection of tracks made available in one or more of the following configurations: 78 album, LP, CD, MP3 file, streaming file. None of the lesser formats, such as cassette tape or 8-track cartridge, have been factored into this overview. (Exceptions have been granted in the rare cases of albums which only came out in the form of cassette tapes.)
ORIGINAL ALBUMS
Preceding our 122-item inventory, this pictorial checklist aims at facilitating the reader's assimilation of the vast amount of albums to be itemized. Photography of each album's front cover is on display, along with the album's title and its assigned number. Viewers interested in continuing and expanding on their pictorial exploration should feel free to visit my Peggy Lee bio-discography -- especially, but not exclusively, the main Capitol, Decca, and Late-Period album galleries.
1. Rendezvous With Peggy Lee / 2. Black Coffee With Peggy Lee (10" LP edition) / 2. Black Coffee With Peggy Lee (12" LP edition) / 3. Peggy - Songs In An Intimate Style / 4. Songs From Walt Disney’s Lady And The Tramp
5. Songs From Pete Kelly’s Blues / 6. Dream Street / 7. The Man I Love / 8. Jump For Joy / 9. Sea Shells
10. Things Are Swingin’ / 11. Miss Wonderful / 12. I Like Men! / 13. Beauty And The Beat! / 14. Latin Ala Lee!
15. Pretty Eyes / 16. Christmas Carousel / 16. Ultimate Christmas (expanded version of Christmas Carousel) / 17. Olé Ala Lee! / 18. Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee
19. If You Go / 20. Blues Cross Country / 21. Sugar 'N' Spice (front cover) / 21. Sugar 'N' Spice (back cover) / 22. Peggy Lee's Greatest
23. I’m A Woman / 24. Mink Jazz ("Dimensions In Jazz" Series) / 25. In Love Again! / 26. In The Name Of Love / 27. Pass Me By
28. Then Was Then And Now Is Now! / 29. Big $pender / 30. Guitars Ala Lee / 31. Somethin’ Groovy! / 32. Two Shows Nightly
33. A Natural Woman / 34. Is That All There Is? / 35. Bridge Over Troubled Water / 36. Make It With You / 37. Where Did They Go
38. Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota / 39. Let’s Love / 40. Mirrors / 40. Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller (expansion of Mirrors) / 41. Live In London
42. Peggy / 43. Close Enough For Love / 44. You Can Depend On Me / 44. Peggy Lee With The Dave Barbour Band (CD reissue of You Can Depend On Me) / 45. Peggy Sings The Blues
46. There’ll Be Another Spring - The Peggy Lee Songbook / 47. Moments Like This / 48. Love Held Lightly - Rare Songs By Harold Arlen / 49. Why Don't You Do Right 1947-1948 / 50. The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions
50. Trav'lin' Light (Capitol Transcriptions primer) / 51. Peggy At Basin Street East / 52. At Last - The Lost Radio Recordings / 53. World Broadcast Recordings 1955 / 54. Something Wonderful - Peggy Lee Sings The Great American Songbook
ORIGINAL ALBUMS
(1948-2021)
The first half of this page is dedicated to the original albums of Peggy Lee. The 54 qualifying albums are listed chronologically, by year of release. An original album offers a program of numbers which, for the most part, have not appeared on previous albums. (In contrast, anthologies consist primarily of previously issued numbers. The second half of this page is dedicated to showcasing anthological albums.)
Through this entire inventory, track titles have been listed in the same sequence in which they appear in the albums. (For LPs, the titles on the A side are thus listed first, those on the B side second. For 78 albums, the tracks on the lower-numbered disc are similarly listed first, the tracks on the higher-numbered disc last.) Note also that, wherever a song written or cowritten by Peggy Lee appears, that song has been identified with an asterisk.
Album 1
RENDEZVOUS WITH PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Capitol label over three sessions held in mid-November 1947 (except for track #6, recorded with partially different personnel in early December 1947). Originally released in March 1948 as a 78-rpm album (Capitol CC-72), consisting of three discs (#10118 o #10120).
Original Tracks
1. Why Don’t You Do Right / 2. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (first disc)
3. Them There Eyes / 4. Stormy Weather (second disc)
5. 'Deed I Do / 6. Don’t Smoke In Bed (third disc)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in June 1952 as a 10-inch LP (Capitol H-151). Added tracks:
7. While We're Young (recorded in late November 1947)
8. I Don’t Know Enough About You* (December 1945)
Reissued again in April 1955 as a 12-inch monaural LP (Capitol T-151). Added tracks:
9. Hold Me (recorded as part of the album sessions)
10. Mañana* (late November 1947)
11. Golden Earrings (September 1947)
12. It's A Good Day* (July 1946)
All LP and CD reissues of this album offer the 12 above-listed tracks. Additional tracks
were included only in the unique case of a 1974 reissue of Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
which was not officially acknowledged as such. These are the tracks added to that 1973 Japanese
LP reissue, titled Peggy Lee With Dave Barbour ("Jazz Vocal Best Collection" Series):
13. Everybody Loves Somebody (recorded as part of the album sessions)
14. Sugar (September 1947)
15. Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow (October 1949)
16. My Man (October 1958)
Additional Reissue Notes
American and British releases are the focus of the present overview. However, allowances have been made for foreign reissues such as the just mentioned Japanese LP, with its additional tracks and its deceptive title (a title so different from its original American counterpart that it would be easy to mistake it for a compilation). See also a related 2000 British release titled Rendezvous With Peggy Lee, listed under Anthological Albums, itemized in the lower half of this page, .
Album 2
BLACK COFFEE WITH PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Decca label over three sessions held in April and May 1953. Originally released in August 1953 as a 10-inch LP (Decca DL 5482).
Original Tracks
1. Black Coffee / 2. I’ve Got You Under My Skin / 3. Easy Living / 4. My Heart Belongs To Daddy (A side)
5. A Woman Alone With The Blues / 6. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / 7. When The World Was Young / 8. Love Me Or Leave Me (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in August 1956 as a monaural 12-inch LP (Decca DL 8358), with four additional tracks, all of them recorded on April 3, 1956:
9. It Ain’t Necessarily So
10. Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?
11. You’re My Thrill
12. There’s a Small Hotel
Two additional masters recorded at this April 3, 1956 date ("Do I Love You?," "Guess I'll Go Back Home Next Summer") have yet to be incorporated to any official album reissues.
Additional Reissue Notes
In Brazil, the 10-inch LP edition of Black Coffee With Peggy Lee was issued around 1954 under a different title -- namely, Peggy Lee Canta para Você ... (Decca LTS-23.016). In the United States, one of Decca's branches issued a LP titled Crazy in the Heart (Vocalion VL 7 3903). Released in March 1970, that budget LP contains a total of 10 tracks, out of which seven were culled from Black Coffee with Peggy Lee. (The source for the remaining tracks was another original Lee album, Miss Wonderful.) While all known USA copies of Crazy in the Heart are in simulated stereo, a monaural alternative was definitely released in other countries.
Album 3
PEGGY - SONGS IN AN INTIMATE STYLE
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in September 1953 except for #2 (November 1952), 6 and 7 (both February 1953). Originally released in August 1954 as a 10-inch LP (Decca DL 5539). Monaural.
Original Tracks
1. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 2. That’s Him Over There / 3. The Tavern / 4. Apples, Peaches And Cherries (A side)
5. That’s What A Woman Is For / 6. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 7. How Strange* / 8. Love You So (B side)
Reissue Notes
As of early 2022, this album has been digitally available only as a 1999 premium Japanese CD reissue, exclusively offered to buyers of a 20-CD set titled Universal Female Vocal Collection.
Additional Reissue Notes
Issued under the title Peggy Lee Canta e suas Interpretaçoes (Decca LTN-54) in Brazil. No twelve-inch LP version of this album was ever released.
Album 4
SONGS FROM WALT DISNEY'S LADY AND THE TRAMP
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in December 1954 and released in March 1955 as a 10-inch LP (Decca DL 5557). All numbers by Peggy Lee except for an instrumental by conductor Oliver Wallace with the Disney Studio Orchestra (#3) and two vocals by cast members of the titular Disney movie (#8, 9).
Original Tracks
1. Bella Notte* / 2. Peace On Earth* / 3. Lady / 4. What Is A Baby?* (A side)
5. La La Lu* / 6. The Siamese Cat Song* / 7. He’s A Tramp* / 8. Home Sweet Home / 9. Bella Notte* And Finale (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in April 1957 as a monaural 12-inch LP (Decca DL 8262) with four additional Lee vocals, all of them recorded in December 1956:
10. Jim Dear* / 11. Old Trusty* (featuring Sonny Burke)
12. Singing ('Cause He Wants To Sing)* / 13. That Fellow’s A Friend Of Man*
Additional Reissue Notes
Besides the customary Decca editions of the LP for the Australian, Brazilian and Japanese markets (among others), there is a 1975 UK reissue of this album on Buena Vista Records (a Disney branch), in electronically processed stereo (BVS 2C 5008s). As of early 2022, this album has never been digitally available. However, all the Peggy Lee vocals in it have made appearances on her Decca CD anthologies. (There are also Disney CD editions of the movie's actual soundtrack. Some of those Disney editions feature Lee singing the three above-listed numbers which she interprets in the soundtrack: #5, 6, 7. Please note that, during the LP era, Disney and its branches also issued several albums with those three numbers sung by other vocalists, yet erroneously crediting Lee as the singer.)
Album 5
SONGS FROM PETE KELLY'S BLUES
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in July 1955 as Decca DL 8166. All numbers interpreted by Peggy Lee except for three tracks, sung by Ella Fitzgerald (#8, 9, 12). Lee vocals recorded in May 1955. Monaural.
Original Tracks
1. Oh, Didn’t He Ramble / 2. Sugar / 3. Somebody Loves Me / 4. I’m Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now / 5. I Never Knew / 6. Bye Bye Blackbird (A side)
7. What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry? / 8. Hard-Hearted Hannah / 9. Ella Hums The Blues / 10. He Needs Me / 11. Sing A Rainbow / 12. Pete Kelly’s Blues (B side)
Album 6
DREAM STREET
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in June 1956 and originally released in January 1957 as Decca DL 8411.
Original Tracks
1. Street Of Dreams / 2. What’s New? / 3. You’re Blasé / 4. It’s All Right With Me / 5. My Old Flame / 6. Dancing On The Ceiling (A side)
7. It Never Entered My Mind / 8. Too Late Now / 9. I’ve Grown Accustomed To His Face / 10. Something I Dreamed Last Night / 11. Last Night When We Were Young / 12. So Blue (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in December 1966 as So Blue (Vocalion VL 3776), with three of the original tracks dropped (#2, 4, 6) and one track added ("The Night Holds No Fear for the Lover," recorded in September 1953), for a total of ten tracks. That Vocalion LP was in turn reissued in April 1984 as Peggy Lee (Coral CR 20187), with yet one more original track dropped (#12), for a total of nine tracks.
Album 7
THE MAN I LOVE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Capitol label in April 1957 and originally released in July 1957 as Capitol T-864. Monaural only. (Music industry insiders have claimed that stereophonic masters lie unreleased in the vaults. Though voiced by reliable witnesses, those claims have yet to be proven.)
Original Tracks
1. The Man I Love / 2. Please Be Kind / 3. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe / 4. Just One Way To Say “I Love You” / 5. That’s All / 6. Something Wonderful (A side)
7. He’s My Guy / 8. Then I’ll Be Tired Of You / 9. My Heart Stood Still / 10. If I Should Lose You / 11. There Is No Greater Love / 12. The Folks Who Live On The Hill (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued by EMI's Music for Pleasure in 1970 as Peggy Lee in both the United Kingdom (MFP 8094) and Australia (MFPA 8094). In the US, Capitol also reissued it in 1970 as The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Capitol DF-518), with two of the original tracks dropped (#4, 8) and in simulated stereo. Yet another 1970 pseudo-stereo reissue was pressed across the pond by the EMI-owned World Record Club (The Man I Love, catalogue number ST 925, all 12 tracks).
Album 8
JUMP FOR JOY
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in December 1957 and January 1958. Released in April 1958 as Capitol T-979 (mono), and then in March 1959 as Capitol ST-979 (stereo). Earliest Lee album whose masters are known to be extant in stereophonic reproduction (though not her earliest LP to be released in stereo; see entry #12 below).
Original Tracks
1. Jump For Joy / 2. Back In Your Own Back Yard / 3. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street / 4. I Hear Music / 5. Just In Time / 6. Old Devil Moon (A side)
7. What A Little Moonlight Can Do / 8. Four Or Five Times / 9. Music, Music, Music / 10. Cheek To Cheek / 11. The Glory Of Love / 12. Ain’t We Got Fun (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued by the World Record Club in the UK, both in mono (T 524) and stereo (ST 524), in 1966. (The Club reissued it in other nations as well.) Reissued by EMI's Music for Pleasure in 1970 in stereo, as The Song Is You in the United Kingdom (MFP 1358), and as Peggy Lee (MFP 5092) in several other countries, including the Netherlands and South Africa.
Album 9
SEA SHELLS
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in February and March 1955 but not released until June 1958, as Decca DL 8591. Monaural. Of the 16 tracks, 12 are vocals or recitations performed by Peggy Lee. The other four (#4, 6, 11, 13) are instrumentals by harpist Stella Castellucci, some of them with supplementary harpsichord accompaniment from Gene DiNovi.
Peggy Lee considered this album to be unfinished. Hence she was surprised when Decca belatedly released it without having consulted her. (At the time of the release, she was no longer under contract with Decca.) In an interview for the BBC, the artist succinctly said that she would have liked to make "little changes."
Original Tracks
1. Sea Fever / 2. Nine Thorny Thickets / 3. Little Old Car* / 4. Greensleeves / 5. Chinese Love Poems: The Fisherman, Autumn Evening / 6. The Happy Monks* / 7. The White Birch And The Sycamore* / 8. Of Such Is The Kingdom Of God (A side)
9. A Brown Bird Singing / 10. I Don’t Want To Play In Your Yard / 11. The Maid With The Flaxen Hair / 12. The Wearing Of The Green / 13. Chaconde / 14. Chinese Love Poems: Going Rowing, Like The Moon, The Musicians / 15. The Riddle Song / 16. The Gold Wedding Ring* (B side)
Album 10
THINGS ARE SWINGIN
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in May 1958. Released in November 1958 as Capitol T-1049 (mono), and then in May 1959 as Capitol ST-1049 (stereo).
Original Tracks
1. It’s A Wonderful World / 2. Things Are Swingin’* / 3. Alright, Okay, You Win / 4. Ridin’ High / 5. It’s Been A Long, Long Time / 6. Lullaby In Rhythm (A side)
7. Alone Together / 8. I’m Beginning To See The Light / 9. It’s A Good, Good Night* / 10. You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me / 11. You’re Mine You / 12. Life Is For Livin’ (B side)
Album 11
MISS WONDERFUL
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Decca label in January and June 1956 but not released until either December 1958 or January 1959, as Decca DL 8816. Monaural.
Original Tracks
1. Mr. Wonderful / 2. They Can’t Take That Away From Me / 3. Where Flamingos Fly / 4. You’ve Got To See Mamma Every Night / 5. The Come Back / 6. Take A Little Time To Smile* (A side)
7. I Don’t Know Enough About You* / 8. Joey, Joey, Joey / 9. Crazy In The Heart / 10. You Oughta Be Mine / 11. We Laughed At Love / 12. That’s Alright, Honey (B side)
Reissue Notes
This LP's British edition (Brunswick 8287) does not include track #8 above. The edition replaces "Joey, Joey, Joey" with "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong," a Lee interpretation that had not yet been made available in the UK in 1959, although it had been recently issued on a Decca single in the US (1958).
Album 12
I LIKE MEN!
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in October 1958 and originally issued in February 1959, as Capitol (S)T-1131. Earliest Lee album to be released in stereophonic sound (though not the earliest to be recorded in stereo; see Album VIII above).
Original Tracks
1. Charley, My Boy / 2. Good-For-Nothing Joe / 3. I Love To Love / 4. When A Woman Loves A Man / 5. I Like Men!* / 6. I’m Just Wild About Harry (A side)
7. My Man / 8. Bill / 9. So In Love / 10. Jim / 11. It’s So Nice To Have A Man Around The House / 12. Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! (B side)
Album 13
BEAUTY AND THE BEAT!
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded either on the last day of May or otherwise in early June 1959. Originally released in July 1959 as Capitol (S)T-1219. All selections are Peggy Lee vocals with the George Shearing Quintet except for three tracks (#5, 6, 12) which are instrumentals by the quintet's members.
This album is a studio recreation of the originally intended release: a May 30, 1959 concert at the Americana Hotel in Miami. Capitol's engineers taped that concert, but deemed their sound quality too poor for release. (One Lee concert vocal, having survived in exceptionally good condition, was issued as part of a 2003 British CD anthology titled Best of the Singles Collection, itemized further down below.)
Original Tracks
1. Do I Love You? / 2. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City / 3. If Dreams Come True / 4. All Too Soon / 5. Mambo In Miami / 6. Isn’t It Romantic? (A side)
7. Blue Prelude / 8. You Came A Long Way From St Louis / 9. Always True To You In My Fashion / 10. There’ll Be Another Spring* / 11. Get Out Of Town / 12. Satin Doll (B side)
Album 14
LATIN ALA LEE!
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in August 1959 and originally released in April 1960, as Capitol (S)T-1290.
Original Tracks
1. Heart / 2. On The Street Where You Live / 3. Till There Was You / 4. I Am In Love / 5. Hey There / 6. I Could Have Danced All Night (A side)
7. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top / 8. The Party’s Over / 9. Dance Only With Me / 10. Wish You Were Here / 11. C’est Magnifique / 12. I Enjoy Being A Girl (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in July 1970 as Broadway Ala Lee (Capitol SF-519), with two tracks dropped (#8, 11) and in simulated stereo.
Album 15
PRETTY EYES
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in February 1960 and originally released in July 1960 as Capitol (S)T-1401.
Original Tracks
1. As You Desire Me / 2. It Could Happen To You / 3. Pretty Eyes / 4. Moments Like This / 5. Remind Me / 6. You Fascinate Me So (A side)
7. I Wanna Be Loved / 8. I’m Walking Through Heaven With You / 9. I Remember You / 10. Too Close For Comfort / 11. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 12. Because I Love Him So* (B side)
Album 16
CHRISTMAS CAROUSEL
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in June 1960 except for #5 and 10, which were recorded in October 1959 and made available as a Capitol single shortly thereafter. Album originally released in October 1960 as Capitol (S)T-1423.
Original Tracks
1. I Like A Sleighride (Jingle Bells) / 2. The Christmas Song / 3. Don’t Forget To Feed The Reindeer* / 4. The Star Carol / 5. The Christmas List* / 6. Christmas Carousel* (A side)
7. Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town / 8. The Christmas Waltz / 9. The Christmas Riddle* / 10. The Tree* / 11. Deck The Halls / 12. White Christmas (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in October 1965 as Capitol (S)T-2390, under the title Happy Holiday. For that US reissue, three of the original tracks were dropped (#3, 4, 9) and three tracks were added, all of them recorded in July 1965:
13. Happy Holiday / 14. Winter Wonderland / 15. The Little Drummer Boy
Additional Reissue Notes
Since the advent of the CD era, a variety of holiday-Lee anthologies have been issued, all of them culling tracks from Christmas Carousel. Some have also offered performances from other labels (Decca) or media (radio). At the time of this writing (early 2022), the latest and best of such anthologies is Ultimate Christmas, released by Universal Music in September 2020 as both a downloadable music file and a streaming file, as well as on LP (B 0032274 1) and CD (B 0032274 2). Of the 15 Capitol tracks listed above, 13 are included in Ultimate Christmas (# 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). The other numbers in the 21-track anthology are the two sides of an earlier Capitol single (14. Song At Midnight / 15. The Christmas Spell), a trio oh holiday recordings on Decca (16. Peace On Earth* / 17. Ring Those Christmas Bells / 18. It's Christmas Time Again), duet performances from Bing Crosby radio shows (19. Here Comes Santa Claus / 20. Little Jack Frost, Get Lost), and one concert vocal originally on Capitol (21. Here's To You*). As a bonus track of sorts, the physical editions (LP, CD) also include a number co-written and sung by Lee in the early 1980s (22. My Dear Acquaintance*).
Album 17
OLÉ ALA LEE!
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in July 1960 and originally released in December 1960, as Capitol (S)T-1475.
Original Tracks
1. Come Dance With Me / 2. By Myself / 3. You’re So Right For Me / 4. Just Squeeze Me / 5. Fantástico / 6. Together (Wherever We Go) (A side)
7. Love And Marriage / 8. Non Dimenticar / 9. From Now On / 10. You Stepped Out Of A Dream / 11. Olé* / 12. I Can’t Resist You (B side)
Album 18
BASIN STREET EAST PROUDLY PRESENTS MISS PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded live at the Basin Street East nightclub (NY) in February 1961, and at a Capitol studio in March 1961. Originally released in March 1961 as Capitol (S)T-1520. About half of the tracks are from the concert tapes. The decision to record the other half in the studio -- most notably, the slow-paced ballads -- was made due to a combination of adverse factors (i.e., the sound-quality problems typically faced at club venues, and a bad cold that the singer was nursing at the time). Tracks #7 and 13 are instrumentals, though a spoken goodbye from Lee is subsumed in the latter.
Original Tracks
1. Day In, Day Out / 2. Moments Like This / 3. Fever / 4. The Second Time Around / 5. Medley: One Kiss - My Romance - The Vagabond King Waltz / 6. I Got A Man / 7. Peggy Lee's Bow Music (A side)
8. I Love Being Here With You* / 9. But Beautiful / 10. Them There Eyes / 11. Just For A Thrill (A Tribute To Ray Charles) / 12. Yes Indeed (A Tribute To Ray Charles) / 13. Peggy Lee Bow Music (B side)
Album 19
IF YOU GO
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in June 1961 and originally released in October 1961 as Capitol (S)T-1630.
Original Tracks
1. As Time Goes By / 2. If You Go / 3. Oh Love, Hast Thou Forsaken Me? / 4. Say It Isn’t So / 5. I Wish I Didn’t Love You So / 6. Maybe It’s Because (I Love You Too Much) (A side)
7. I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life / 8. I Get Along Without You Very Well / 9. (I Love Your) Gypsy Heart* / 10. When I Was A Child / 11. Here’s That Rainy Day / 12. Smile (B side)
Album 20
BLUES CROSS COUNTRY
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in April 1961, except for #3, which dates from the following month. Originally released in March 1962 as Capitol (S)T-1671.
Original Tracks
1. Kansas City / 2. Basin Street Blues / 3. Los Angeles Blues* / 4. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City / 5. The Grain Belt Blues* / 6. New York City Blues* (A side)
7. Goin’ To Chicago Blues / 8. San Francisco Blues* / 9. Fisherman’s Wharf* / 10. Boston Beans* / 11. The Train Blues* / 12. St. Louis Blues (B side)
Album 21
SUGAR 'N' SPICE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in late March and early April 1962. Originally released in October 1962 as Capitol (S)T-1772.
Original Tracks
1. Ain’t That Love / 2. The Best Is Yet To Come / 3. I Believe In You / 4. Embrasse Moi* / 5. See See Rider / 6. Teach Me Tonigh (A side)
7. When The Sun Comes Out / 8. Tell All The World About You / 9. I Don’t Wanna Leave You Now* / 10. The Sweetest Sounds / 11. I’ve Got The World On A String / 12. Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) (B side)
Reissue Notes
Not issued in the UK (until the CD era).
Album 22
PEGGY LEE'S GREATEST
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released by Camay Records in December 1962 as CA-3003. Contains audio taken from music videos taped by Peggy Lee for the company Snader Telescriptions in September 1950.
Original Tracks
1. I Only Have Eyes For You / 2. I May Be Wrong / 3. While We're Young / 4. I Cover The Waterfront / 5. I Don’t Know Enough About You* (A side)
6. Mañana* / 7. What More Can A Woman Do* / 8. It's A Good Day* / 9. You Was Right Baby*⋆ / 10. Why Don't You Do Right (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued by Camay in abbreviated form (eight tracks, missing #1, 4) around 1964, and again around 1965 -- on that last occasion, under the shortened title of Peggy Lee. Suffering from wretched sound quality and having a murky licensing background, the legality of all three iterations of this LP release was in contention in the mid-1960s, when a joint lawsuit against the Camay company was filed by Peggy Lee herself and the Nat King Cole estate. However, Camay alleged to have properly licensed the material from the holders of the Snaders catalogue.
Album 23
I'M A WOMAN
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in early January 1963, except for #6 (November 1962) and 9 (March 1962). Originally released in February 1963 as Capitol (S)T-1857.
Original Tracks
1. The Alley Cat Song / 2. Mama’s Gone, Goodbye / 3. I’m Walkin’ / 4. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 5. There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth The Salt Of My Tears / 6. I’m A Woman (A side)
7. Mack The Knife / 8. You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / 9. I’ll Get By / 10. I Left My Heart In San Francisco / 11. A Taste Of Honey / 12. One Note Samba (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in April 1970 as part of the 3-LP boxed set Peggy Lee (Capitol STCL-576), with two tracks dropped (#5, 12).
Album 24
MINK JAZZ ("DIMENSIONS IN JAZZ" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in early February 1963, except for #2, 3 and 10, which date back to late March 1962. Originally released in June 1963 as Capitol (S)T-1850.
Original Tracks
1. It’s A Big, Wide, Wonderful World / 2. Whisper Not / 3. My Silent Love / 4. The Lady Is A Tramp / 5. Days Of Wine And Roses / 6. As Long As I Live (A side)
7. I Won’t Dance / 8. Cloudy Morning / 9. I Could Write A Book / 10. I Never Had A Chance / 11. Close Your Eyes / 12. Where Can I Go Without You?* (B side)
Album 25
IN LOVE AGAIN!
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded between late October and early December 1963, except for #4 (May 1963). Originally released in February 1964 as Capitol (S)T-1969.
Original Tracks
1. A Lot Of Livin’ To Do / 2. I’ve Got Your Number / 3. Little By Little / 4. Got That Magic* / 5. The Moment Of Truth / 6. That’s My Style⋆ (A side)
7. I Can’t Stop Loving You /8. Unforgettable / 9. Once (Ils S’aimaient) / 10. (I’m) In Love Again* / 11. I Got Lost In His Arms / 12. How Insensitive (B side)
Album 26
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in late June and early July 1964. Originally released in August 1964 as Capitol (S)T-2096.
Original Tracks
1. In The Name Of Love / 2. My Sin / 3. The Boy From Ipanema / 4. Shangri-La / 5. Talk To Me Baby / 6. There’ll Be Some Changes Made (A side)
7. After You’ve Gone / 8. The Right To Love / 9. Just Call Me Love Bird (Theme From Joy House)* / 10. Senza Fine / 11. When In Rome (B side)
Album 27
PASS ME BY
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in February 1965, except for #2 and 11 (December 1964). Originally released in April 1965 as Capitol (S)T-2320.
Original Tracks
1. Sneakin’ Up On You / 2. Pass Me By / 3. I Wanna Be Around / 4. Bewitched / 5. My Love, Forgive Me (Amore, Scusami) / 6. You Always Hurt The One You Love (A side)
7. A Hard Day’s Night / 8. L-O-V-E / 9. Dear Heart / 10. Quiet Nights (Corcovado) / 11. That’s What It Takes* (B side)
Album 28
THEN WAS THE AND NOW IS NOW!
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded between June and September 1965 except for #9 (December 1964) and 5 (May 1963). Originally released in November 1965 as Capitol (S)T-2388.
Original Tracks
1. Trapped (In The Web Of Love) / 2. Losers Weepers / 3. Free Spirits / 4. I Go To Sleep / 5. Leave It To Love / 6. The Shadow Of Your Smile (A side)
7. They Say / 8. Seventh Son / 9. Then Was Then (And Now Is Now)* / 10. Ev’rybody Has The Right To Be Wrong (At Least Once) / 11. (I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over (B side)
Album 29
BIG $PENDER
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in late October 1965 except for #2 and 9 (February 1966). Originally released in April 1966 as Capitol (S)T-2475
Original Tracks
1. Come Back To Me / 2. You’ve Got Possibilities / 3. It’s A Wonderful World / 4. I’ll Only Miss Him When I Think Of Him / 5. Big Spender / 6. I Must Know (A side)
7. Alright, Okay, You Win / 8. Watch What Happens / 9. You Don’t Know / 10. Let’s Fall In Love / 11. Gotta Travel On (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in April 1970 as part of the 3-LP boxed set Peggy Lee (Capitol STCL-576), with one track dropped (#6).
Album 30
GUITARS ALA LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in July 1966 and originally released in October 1966 as Capitol (S)T-2469.
Original Tracks
1. Nice ’N’ Easy / 2. Strangers In The Night / 3. Mohair Sam / 4. Goodbye, My Love* / 5. Think Beautiful / 6. An Empty Glass (A side)
7. Good Times / 8. Sweet Happy Life / 9. Touch the Earth / 10. Beautiful, Beautiful World / 11. My Guitar / 12. Call Me (B side)
Album 31
SOMETHIN' GROOVY!
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in June 1967 and originally released in August 1967 as Capitol (S)T-2781. The last of Lee's original albums to be made available in both monaural and stereophonic sound. (Ensuing ones came out only in stereo.)
Original Tracks
1. Something Stupid / 2. Makin’ Whoopee / 3. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby / 4. I Can Hear The Music / 5. It Might As Well Be Spring / 6. Two For The Road (A side)
7. Release Me / 8. Sing A Rainbow / 9. No Fool Like An Old Fool / 10. (Our) Love Is Here To Stay / 11. I’m Gonna Get It* (B side)
Reissue Notes
Unreleaed in the UK (until the CD era).
Album 32
TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY
Release & Recording Notes
Taped live in April 1968 at the Copacabana nightclub (NY), a venue which vintage record engineers frequently characterized as problematic and unsatisfactory for optimal recording. Facing poor sound quality challenges in a few spots, some inserts were made later in the studio. Voiceovers were also belatedly conceived, taped, and incorporated in the studio.
Scheduled to be released in November 1968 as Capitol ST-105. Withdrawn from the US market immediately upon its initial release, as Peggy Lee felt that some tracks still suffered from flawed sound reproduction.
Original Tracks
1. Do I Hear A Waltz? / 2. By The Time I Get To Phoenix / 3. Reason To Believe / 4. Didn’t Want To Have To Do It / 5. My Personal Property / 6. Hand On The Plow (A side)
7. Until It’s Time For You To Go / 8. Something Stupid / 9. What Is A Woman? / 10. Alright, Okay, You Win / 11. Here’s To You* / 12. Come Back To M (B side)
Reissue Notes
Though quickly withdrawn in the US and not issued in the UK, this original album was still released in small-pressing quantities in other nations (Australia, Japan, New Zealand), as par for the course when it came to Lee's Capitol LPs.
Until the album's appearance on CD, the only LP issues in circulation were such non-American copies, along with American remainders. Dropped by Capitol at charity organizations and other suitable facilities, the remainders typically exhibited the word "free," punched on the upper-top right side of the front cover.
The CD era brought bright news for the album: it was properly remastered and reissued on compact disc in 2009. Had she still been with us then, Miss Lee would have probably marveled at the improved sound quality of that CD edition.
Album 33
A NATURAL WOMAN
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded between late January and late February 1969. Originally released in May 1969 as Capitol ST-183.
Original Tracks
1. (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings / 2. Don’t Explain / 3. Can I Change My Mind? / 4. Lean On Me* / 5. (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay / 6. A Natural Woman (A side)
7. Everyday People / 8. Please Send Me Someone To Love / 9. Spinning Wheel / 10. Living Is Dying Without You / 11. I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in April 1970 as part of the 3-LP boxed set Peggy Lee (Capitol STCL-576), with one of the original tracks dropped (#10). Not issued in the UK (until the CD era).
Album 34
IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in November 1969 as Capitol ST-386. Six of this album's tracks were recorded in mid-October 1969. The others date from late January/February 1969 (tracks #1, 3, 4) and November 1962 (track #5, previously issued on album XXIII above).
Original Tracks
1. Is That All There Is? / 2. Love Story / 3. Me And My Shadow / 4. My Old Flame / 5. I’m A Woman (A side)
6. Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show / 7. Something / 8. Whistle For Happiness / 9. Johnny (Linda) / 10. Don’t Smoke In Bed (B side)
Album 35
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in mid-February 1970 and originally released in April 1970 as Capitol ST-463.
Original Tracks
1. You’ll Remember Me / 2. Bridge Over Troubled Water / 3. The Thrill Is Gone / 4. Something Strange / 5. Have You Seen My Baby? (A side)
6. He Used Me / 7. (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me / 8. I See Your Face Before Me / 9. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head / 10. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? (B side)
Reissue Notes
Not issued in the UK.
Album 36
MAKE IT WITH YOU
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded in July and August 1970 except for #9 (February 1970, also issued as part of entry #35). Originally released in November 1970 as Capitol ST-622.
Original Tracks
1. One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round / 2. The Long And Winding Road / 3. That’s What Living’s About / 4. The No-Color Time Of The Day / 5. Let’s Get Lost In Now (A side)
6. Make It With You / 7. Passenger Of The Rain* / 8. I’ve Never Been So Happy In My Life / 9. You’ll Remember Me / 10. Goodbye (B side)
Album 37
WHERE DID THEY GO?
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in April and May 1971. Originally released in July 1971 as Capitol ST-810.
Original Tracks
1. Where Did They Go? / 2. My Rock And Foundation / 3. Help Me Make It Through The Night / 4. All I Want / 5. I Don’t Know How To Love Him (A side)
6. Goodbye Again / 7. Sing / 8. I Was Born In Love With You / 9. Losing My Mind / 10. My Sweet Lord (B side)
Reissue Notes
Not issued in the UK.
Album 38
NORMA DELORIS EGSTROM FROM JAMESTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded in April 1972 and originally released in June 1972 as Capitol ST-11077. Peggy Lee’s last original album for Capitol Records.
Original Tracks
1. Love Song / 2. Razor (Love Me As I Am) / 3. When I Found You / 4. A Song For You / 5. It Takes Too Long To Learn To Live Alone (A side)
6. Superstar / 7. Just For A Thrill / 8. Someone Who Cares / 9. The More I See You / 10. I’ll Be Seeing You (B side)
Album 39
LET'S LOVE
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded for the Atlantic label in April 1974 except for #1 and 11 (early June 1974). Originally released in late September 1974 as Atlantic SD 18108.
Original Tracks
1. Let’s Love / 2. He Is The One / 3. Easy Evil / 4. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight / 5. Always (A side)
6. You Make Me Feel Brand New / 7. Sweet Lov’liness / 8. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter* / 9. Sweet Talk / 10. Sometimes / 11. Let’s Love (Reprise) (B side)
Album 40
MIRRORS
Release & Recording Notes
All tracks recorded for the A&M label in early June and early August 1975, except for #2 (late May 1975). Originally released in late September 1975 as A&M SP-4547.
Original Tracks
1. Ready To Begin Again / 2. Some Cats Know / 3. I’ve Got Them Feeling-Too-Good-Today Blues / 4. A Little White Ship / 5. Tango (A side)
6. Professor Hauptmann’s Performing Dogs / 7. The Case Of M.J. / 8. I Remember / 9. Say It / 10. Longings For A Simpler Time (B side)
Reissue Notes
Besides being available on CD issues and streaming files of the album Mirrors, these 10 tracks can be found in the 2005 CD Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller. Prepared with the direct involvement of the titular songwriting-producing team, that CD also offers two previously unissued 1975 A&M tracks:
11. Don Juan / 12. I Ain't Here
Also part of the CD are three reissued tracks from the singer's Capitol years (13. Kansas City / 14. I'm a Woman / 15. Is That All There Is?). Additional 1975 A&M tracks remain unissued as of early 2022.
Album 41
LIVE IN LONDON
Release & Recording Notes
Taped live at the London Palladium on March 13, 1977. Released in the United Kingdom in June 1977 as Polydor Super 2383 448.
Original Tracks
1. Love For Sale / 2. Everything Must Change / 3. You Gotta Know How / 4. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 5. I Don’t Want To Play In Your Yard / 6. Have A Good Time / 7. Touch Me In The Morning / 8. Make Believe (A side)
9. Fever / 10. Why Don’t You Do Right / 11. Is That All There Is? / 12. Sing A Rainbow / 13. Mr. Wonderful / 14. Mack The Knife / 15. Dreams Of Summer / 16. Here’s To You* (B side)
Reissue Notes
A second London Palladium concert, dating from March 21, 1977, has also been made commercially available. Both concerts can be found on a 2015 CD/DVD set titled Peggy Lee Live in London, listed among the anthologies below.
Album 42
PEGGY
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Polydor label in London in March 1977. Originally released in the United Kingdom in October 1977 as Polydor Super 2383 458.
Original Tracks
1. The Hungry Years / 2. Here And Now / 3. I Go To Rio / 4. I’m Not In Love / 5. Star Sounds / 6. What I Did For Love (A side)
7. Misty / 8. Every Little Movement / 9. Courage, Madame* / 10. Switchin’ Channels / 11. Just For Tonight / 12. Lover (B side)
Album 43
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the DRG label in May 1979 and originally released in August 1979 as DRG SL-5190.
Original Tracks
1. You / 2. Easy Does It* / 3. Close Enough For Love / 4. A Robinsong / 5. Just One Of Those Things (A side)
6. I Can’t Resist You / 7. Come In From The Rain / 8. In The Days Of Our Love* / 9. Through The Eyes Of Love / 10. Rain Sometimes (B side)
Reissue Notes
This album was also issued by DRG on DXB LP (ca. 1981) and CD (1988). However, DRG's best-sounding edition of the album is a 2002 CD reissue. Not currently available for streaming.
Album 44A [Glendale issue]
YOU CAN DEPEND ON ME
Release & Recording Notes
Released by the California-based independent label Glendale Records in 1981 as LP GL 6023. All tracks recorded by Peggy Lee for the MacGregor Transcription Service in January 1945, and originally intended for radio airplay.
Original Tracks
1. You Can Depend On Me / 2. I've Had My Moments / 3. Sugar / 4. I Should Care / 5. Someday, Sweetheart / 6. September In The Rain / 7. That Old Gang Of Mine (A side)
8. Nice Work If You Can Get It / 9. I'm Beginning To See The Light / 10. Gone With The Wind / 11. Don't Blame Me / 12. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home / 13. My Last Affair / 14. I'm Confessin' (B side)
Reissue Notes
Not currently available for streaming (unlike most of the original material listed in this inventory).
Album 45
PEGGY SINGS THE BLUES
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the MusicMasters label in February 1988. Originally released in November 1988 as MusicMasters CIJD 20155K (LP) and CIJD 60155F (CD). A second, 1992 MusicMasters pressing uses a different set of catalogue numbers (5005 for the LP, 5005 2C for the CD).
Original Tracks
1. See See Rider / 2. Basin Street Blues / 3. Squeeze Me / 4. You Don’t Know / 5. Fine And Mellow / 6. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home? (A side)
7. Kansas City / 8. Birmingham Jail / 9. Love Me / 10. Beale Street / 11. 'Tain’t Nobody’s Business / 12. God Bless The Child (B side)
Reissue Notes
Issued in the United Kingdom in 1989 as Limelight 820 809 2 (CD). Reissued in 1990 in the US as Musical Heritage Society MHS 512487M (CD). Remastered and reissued again, with enhanced sound quality, in November 2002, as Jazz Heritage Society 5124878 (CD). Not currently available for streaming.
Album 46
THERE'LL BE ANOTHER SPRING - THE PEGGY LEE SONGBOOK
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the MusicMasters label in November 1989. Originally released in June 1990 as MusicMasters CIJD 20249 (LP) and CIJD6 0249K (CD). Album copies with slight numerical variations (e.g., MMD 60249K, for the CD) were pressed, too. There is also a later pressing with a different set of catalogue numbers (60340K for the LP, 503424 2C for the CD).
Original Tracks
1. Circle In The Sky* / 2. I Just Want To Dance All Night* / 3. He’s A Tramp* / 4. There’ll Be Another Spring* / 5. Johnny Guitar* / 6. Fever* (A side)
7. I’ll Give It All To You* / 8. Sans Souci* / 9. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 10. Boomerang (I’ll Come Back To You)* / 11. Things Are Swingin’* / 12. Over The Wheel* / 13. The Shining Sea* (B side)
Reissue Notes
Issued in the United Kingdom in 1989 as Limelight 820 821-2 (CD). Reissued in 1990 in the US as Musical Heritage Society MHS 912697Z (LP). Reissued in 1999 as Jazz Heritage Society 515674H (CD). Not currently available for streaming.
Album 44B [Laserlight reissue]
PEGGY LEE WITH THE DAVE BARBOUR BAND ("THE JAZZ COLLECTOR EDITION" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Unacknowledged reissue of the 1981 Glendale LP You Can Depend on Me, which contains 14 numbers recorded for the MacGregor Transcription Service in January 1945.
Additional Reissue Notes
Released by Laserlight Records on compact disc in October 1991, as CD 15742. Unappealingly drab and in need of pitch correction. As of early 2022, Lee fans remain hopeful about the likelihood of a future, fine-quality release containing Lee's entire MacGregor catalogue, consisting of 17 tracks.
Album 47
MOMENTS LIKE THIS
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Chesky label in September 1992. Released as Chesky CD JD 84 in December 1992 (with a 1993 copyright).
Original Tracks
1. I Don’t Know Enough About You* / 2. (I’m) In Love Again* / 3. Why Don’t You Do Right / 4. Remind Me / 5. Moments Like This / 6. (Our) Love Is Here To Stay / 7. Don’t Ever Leave Me / Mañana* / 8. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 9. S’ Wonderful / 10. Amazing / 11. Do I Love You? / 12. You’re My Thrill / 13. Always True To You (In My Fashion) / 14. Then Was Then (And Now Is Now)*
Album 48
LOVE HELD LIGHTLY - RARE SONGS BY HAROLD ARLEN
Release & Recording Notes
Recorded for the Harbinger label in late August and early September 1988 but not released until February 1993, as EMI/Angel CD CDC-54798.
Original Tracks
1. Look Who’s Been Dreaming / 2. Love Held Lightly / 3. Buds Won’t Bud / 4. Can You Explain? / 5. Wait’ll It Happens To You / 6. Come On, Midnight / Happy With The Blues* / 7. Bad For Each Other / 8. Love’s No Stranger To Me / 9. I Could Be Good For You / 10. Got To Wear You Off My Weary Mind / 11. I Had A Love Once / 12. Love’s A Necessary Thing / 13. My Shining Hour
Reissue Notes
Reissued in 2006 as Harbinger CD HCD-2401.
Album 49
WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT 1947-1948
Release & Recording Notes
Released by the small independent label Viper's Nest in January 1995 as CD VN-158. All tracks originally broadcast on The Jimmy Durante Show (For Rexall) between October 1947 and June 1948 (except for #21, which was instead taken from a 1952 episode of the National Guard's recruitment show Let's Go to Town). Offers a nearly complete catalogue of Peggy Lee solo performances with Durante, who hired her as his so-called girl singer for one full season of his radio program.
Original Tracks
1. Why Don't You Do Right / 2. It's The Sentimental Thing To Do / 3. I May Be Wrong / 4. All Of Me / 5. I'll Dance At Your Wedding / 6. There'll Be Some Changes Made / 7. You Don't Have To Know The Language / 8. The Christmas Song / 9. I Can't Give You Anything But Love / 10. Lone Star Moon / 11. Mañana* / 12. But Beautiful / 13. Golden Earrings / 14. How Lucky You Are / 15. The Secretary Song / 16. Laroo Laroo Lili Bolero / 17. You Turned The Tables On Me / 18. I Went Down To Virginia / 19. Nature Boy / 20. Baby Don't Be Mad At Me / 21. Wish You Were Here
Album 50A [Mosaic collection]
THE COMPLETE PEGGY LEE & JUNE CHRISTY CAPITOL TRANSCRIPTION SESSIONS
Release & Recording Notes
Released in November 1998 as Mosaic MD5-184 (CD); licensed from EMI Music. Recorded between May 1946 and April 1949 for Capitol's radio transcription service, and thus originally intended for radio airplay only.
Original Tracks
June Christy tracks (first disc)
1. Wherever There's Me There's You / 2. All The Cats Join In / 3. A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues / 4. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 5. The Best Man / 6. If You Were The Only Boy / 7. Love Doesn't Grow On Trees / 8. I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home / 9. My Sugar Is So Refined (second disc, excluding additional Christy tracks)
10. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me / 11. Lonesome Road / 12. Them There Eyes / 13. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me / 14. The Glory Of Love / 15. Melancholy Lullaby / 16. Taking A Chance On Love / 17. A Cottage For Sale / 18. Fools Rush In / 19. Sometimes I'm Happy / 20. The Way You Look Tonight / 21. Love Is Just Around The Corner / 22. Porgy / 23. Blue Skies / 24. I've Had My Moments / 25. Blue Moon / 26. Don't Be So Mean To Baby* / 27. Can't Help Lovin' That Man / 28. Mean To Me / 29. I'm Confessin' / 30. Summertime (third disc)
31. I Can't Give You Anything But Love / 32. Georgia On My Mind / 33. Rockin' Chair / 34. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 35. Just Like A Gypsy / 36. Somebody Loves Me / 37. Lullaby Of Broadway / 38. In My Solitude / 39. I Get A Kick Out Of You / 40. Lover Come Back To Me / 41. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 42. Oh, Look At Me Now / 43. I Got It Bad / 44. Someday, Sweetheart / 45. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight / 46. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes / 47. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone / 48. Birth Of The Blues / 49. Careless / 50. (I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I'll Be Happy / 51. I Only Have Eyes For You / 52. Back In Your Own Backyard / 53. How Long Has This Been Going On? (fourth disc)
54. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart / 55. As Long As I'm Dreaming / 56. Swingin' On A Star / 57. Aren't You Glad You're You / 58. Trav'lin' Light / 59. Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow / 60. Oh You Crazy Moon / 61. 'S Wonderful / 62. Imagination / 63. This Can't Be Love / 64. You're Driving Me Crazy / 65. Goody Goody / 66. I Ain't Got Nobody / 67. Molly Malone / 68. This Little Piggie / 69. But Beautiful / 70. Fine And Dandy / 71. 'T Ain't So, Honey, 'T Ain't So / 72. When A Woman Loves A Man (fifth disc)
Reissue Notes
A limited edition, the aforementioned Mosaic CD set has long been out of print. All 72 Lee tracks were made available by Universal/Capitol on streaming and MP3 file (but not on any physical format) in July 2020, as The Capitol Transcriptions 1946-1949. It is also worth pointing out here that Peggy Lee waxed vocals for three radio transcription services. This release offers her output for just one of those services. Although her work for the other two transcription companies (MacGregor, World) has been commercially issued in the past, as of early 2022 it has yet to appear in a high-quality, properly remastered and annotated package comparable to this Mosaic set. (Peggy Lee Associates LLC hopes to be able to release such a World-MacGregor music set in the future.)
Album 50B [Capitol omnibus selection]
TRAV'LIN' LIGHT
Release & Recording Notes
Culled from the preceding Mosaic boxed set by Peggy Lee herself (who had earlier expressed momentary hesitation about the suitability of making her radio transcription work commercially available). Released by Capitol Jazz in February 2000 as CD 7243 5 23567 2 0.
Culled Tracks
1. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart / 2. Aren't You Glad You're You / 3. As Long As I'm Dreaming / 4. Somebody Loves Me / 5. Trav'lin' Light / 6. I Ain't Got Nobody / 7. Oh You Crazy Moon / 8. Goody Goody / 9. Imagination / 10. You're Driving Me Crazy / 11. Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow / 12. But Beautiful /13. Fine And Dandy / 14. When A Woman Loves A Man / 15. 'T Ain't So, Honey, 'T Ain't So
Album 51
PEGGY AT BASIN STREET EAST
Release & Recording Notes
Released in November 2002 as Collectors' Choice CCM-294-2 (CD); licensed from EMI Music. Taped live at the Basin Street East nightclub (NY) in February 1961. The vocal performances on this album are different from those heard in the 1961 LP Basin Street Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee. Tracks #1 and 13 are instrumentals. Closing commentary from Lee can be heard in the last track.
Original Tracks
1. Overture / 2. Day In, Day Out / 3. Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear / 4. Medley: One Kiss - My Romance - The Most Beautiful Man In The World / 5. Medley: But Beautiful - The Second Time Around / 6. Fever / 7. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’* / 8. I Love Being Here With You* / 9. By Myself / 10. Heart / 11. I’ve Never Left Your Arms / 12. Ray Charles Tribute Medley: Opening - Hallelujah, I Love Him So - I Got A Man - You Won't Let Me Go - Just For A Thrill - Yes Indeed! / 13. Peggy Lee's Bow Music / 14. Encore (Hits Medley): I Don’t Know Enough About You* - Mañana* - Why Don’t You Do Right - Lover - It’s A Good Day*
Album 52
AT LAST - THE LOST RADIO RECORDINGS
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in March 2015 as Real Gone Music RGM0341 (CD); licensed through Peggy Lee Associates LLC. Taken from Peggy Lee's own radio show, these 44 performances were originally broadcast between January and September 1952.
Original Tracks
1. Peggy Lee Radio Show Opening / 2. It’s A Most Unusual Day / 3. I’ll See You In My Dreams / 4. Getting To Know You / 5. Cry / 6. You Belong To Me / 7. Takes Two To Tango / 8. Solitaire / 9. Did Anyone Call? / 10. Please Mr. Sun / 11. The Wheel Of Fortune / 12. Life Is A Beautiful Thing / 13. Somewhere Along The Way / 14. And So To Sleep Again / 15. Undecided / 16. Everything Happens To Me / 17. A Kiss To Build A Dream On / 18. Botch-A-Me / 19. My Darling, My Darling / 20. Just One More Chance / 21. Since My Love Has Gone / 22. Zing A Little Zong / 23. Skylark (first disc)
24. I Got Rhythm / 25. Pretty-Eyed Baby / 26. Ole Buttermilk Sky / 27. The Little White Cloud That Cried / 28. When I Fall In Love / 29. Come What May / 30. Johnny One-Note / 31. Singin’ In The Rain / 32. Come On-A My House / 33. Here In My Heart / 34. Danny Boy / 35. Half As Much / 36. Go, Go, Go / 37. I’ll Never Smile Again / 38. After All, It’s Spring / 39. Trust In Me / 40. Blacksmith Blues / 41. Domino / 42. Heigh Ho (It’s Off To Work We Go) / 43. Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be? / 44. I’m Gonna Live Till I Die / 45. At Last (second disc>
Album 53
WORLD BROADCAST RECORDINGS 1955
Release & Recording Notes
Released by the independent label Audiophile Records around September 2017, as ACD-354/355. All tracks recorded for the World Transcription Service over four 1955 dates (February 8 and 9, August 8 and 9), and originally intended for radio airplay only.
Original Tracks
1. That Old Black Magic / 2. My Romance / 3. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea / 4. Love Me Or Leave Me / 5. 'Deed I Do / 6. Autumn In New York / 7. Just One Of Those Things / 8. Let's Call It A Day / 9. Let There Be Love / 10. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 11. I May Be Wrong 12. I Feel A Song Comin' On / 13. You're Mine, You / 14. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues / 15. Try A Little Tenderness / 16. Too Marvelous For Words / 17. I Get A Kick Out Of You / 18. What Is This Thing Called Love? / 19. It's A Good Day* / 20. I Got It Bad / 21. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive / 22. Sans Souci* / 23. Them There Eyes / 24. From This Moment On / 25. You (first disc)
26. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top / 27. My Ideal / 28. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning / 29. You Do Something To Me / 30. I Never Knew / 31. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry / 32. What's New / 33. Almost Like Being In Love / 34. Fools Rush In / 35. Mean To Me / 36. My Future Just Passed / 37. People Will Say We're In Love / 38. It Ain't Necessarily So / 39. We Kiss In A Shadow / 40. Me / 41. Don't Worry 'Bout Me / 42. Button Up Your Overcoat / 43. Somebody Loves Me / 44. Mountain Greenery / 45. Speak Low / 46. The Best Things In Life Are Free / 47. Hard Hearted Hannah / 48. Bye Bye Blackbird / 49. Taking A Chance On Love (second disc)
Reissue Notes
A limited-pressing LP of the same title, identifying itself as Volume 1 and containing 14 tracks culled from this CD set (#19, 1, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, 40, 37, 31, 28, 49, 48) was prepared for Record Store Day (July 17, 2021). Neither the LP nor the CD set was sanctioned by the Peggy Lee estate, which owns transfers of all 55 tracks in superior sound quality, and hopes to be able to release those higher-quality transfers in the future.
Album 54
SOMETHING WONDERFUL - PEGGY LEE SINGS THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK
Release & Recording Notes
Released for retail in April 2021 as Omnivore CD OV-385; licensed through Peggy Lee Associates LLC. Taken from Peggy Lee's own radio shows, most of these performances were originally broadcast between January and September 1952, with the remaining handful dating back to the summer of 1951.
Programming
1. Introduction Of Peggy Lee / 2-9. Songwriter Johnny Mercer Segment / 10-16. Songwriters Rodgers & Hart & Hammerstein Segment / 17-20. Songwriter Cole Porter Segment / 21-22. Songwriter Matt Dennis Segment (first disc)
23-26. Songwriter Peggy Lee Segment / 27-28. Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael Segment / 29-31. Songwriter Frank Loesser Segment / 32-40. More American Songbook Classics (second disc)
Original Tracks
1. Opening / 2. Introductory Chatter (featuring Lee And Mercer) / 3. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (featuring Mercer With Lee) / 4. Goody Goody / 5. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 6. That Old Black Magic / 7. When The World Was Young / 8. Chatter (featuring Lee And Mercer) / 9. Medley (featuring Mercer With Lee): Jeepers Creepers - Too Marvelous For Words - Mandy Is Two - Blues In The Night / 10. My Funny Valentine / 11. The Lady Is A Tramp / 12. I Could Write A Book / 13. This Can’t Be Love / 14. Lover / 15. Something Wonderful / 16. Mountain Greenery / 17. From This Moment On / 18. I’ve Got You Under My Skin / 19. What Is This Thing Called Love? / 20. Just One Of Those Things / 21. Everything Happens To Me / 22. Medley (featuring Dennis With Lee): We Belong Together - Angel Eyes - Let’s Get Away From It All / 23. It’s A Good Day* / 24. I Don’t Know Enough About You* / 25. Mañana* / 26. Whee Baby* / 27. Skylark / 28. Chatter And Medley (featuring Carmichael With Lee): Georgia On My Mind - I Get Along Without You Very Well - Ole Rockin’ Chair - Little Old Lady - Two Sleepy People / 29. Hoop Dee Doo / 30. Introductory Chatter (featuring Lee And Loesser) / 31. Medley (featuring Loesser With Lee): Jingle, Jangle, Jingle - If I Were A Bell - On A Slow Boat To China - A Bushel And A Peck - Baby, It’s Cold Outside / 32. Introduction (featuring a poem composed and recited by Peggy Lee) / 33. Somebody Loves Me / 34. Oh, Look At Me Now / 35. Unforgettable / 36. Lullaby Of Broadway / 37. Alone Together / 38. When You’re Smiling / 39. Try A Little Tenderness / 40. All Of Me
Reissue Notes
Peggy Lee's incursions into the realm of radio were extensive. Besides numerous guest appearances on other artists' shows, her vast amount of radio material includes three series which she hosted or co-hosted in the 1940s (Rhapsody In Rhythm, The Summer Electric Hour, Chesterfield Supper Club). The tracks in Something Wonderful and At Last were culled from two more series that she hosted in the early 1950s, and from which plenty of additional Lee performances still remain unissued. All that material awaits collection, licensing, remastering and release through proper, Peggy Lee estate-sanctioned channels.
ANTHOLOGIES
The present section aims at illustrating the items to be listed in this page's second half. Accordingly, each anthology itemized below has been herein pictured, along with its respective title and assigned number. Please bear in mind that -- as already stated at the outset of the page -- this inventory is circumscribed to American and British anthologies. (Unique Lee anthologies were prepared in many other countries as well, from Argentina and Australia to the Netherlands and New Zealand.) Viewers wanting to further explore album photography should feel free to visit the pictorial galleries of my Peggy Lee bio-discography -- especially, but not exclusively, those dedicated to official Capitol and Decca compilations.
55. Benny Goodman And His Orchestra And Sextet; Vocals By Peggy Lee (78 Album) / 55. Benny Goodman And His Orchestra And Sextet; Vocals By Peggy Lee (10" LP) / 56. My Best To You / 57. Capitol Presents ... Peggy Lee / 57. The Fabulous Miss Lee (reissue of Capitol Presents ...)
58. Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman / 58. "We'll Meet Again" - Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman (Hallmark reissue) / 58. Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman (Cameo reissue) / 59. All Aglow Again! (The Star★Line Series) / 60. The Best Of Peggy Lee
61. Bewitching Lee! (The Star★Line Series) / 62. Lover / 63. The Fabulous Peggy Lee / 64. Extra Special! / 65. The Hits Of Peggy Lee (The Star★Line Series)
66. Once More With Feeling & I've Got The World On A String - Two Sensational Albums In One Hit Package (twofer LP edition) / 66. Once More With Feeling (single LP edition) / 66. I've Got The World On A String (single LP editiion) / 66. Peggy Lee ("Archives of Folk & Jazz Music" Series) (reissue of I've Got The World On A String) / 67. Peggy Lee's Greatest! (The Star★Line Series)
68. The Sights & Sounds Of The Seventies (portfolio editiion) / 68. The Sounds Of The Seventies (single LP edition) / 68. The Sounds Of The Seventies (reissue) / 69. Then And Now - Peggy Lee, Jack Jones / 70. Miss Peggy Lee
71. Raindrops / 71. Raindrops (reissue) / 72. The Very Best Of Peggy Lee / 73. Songs For My Man / 74. Miss Peggy Lee Sings The Songs Of Cy Coleman
75. I'm A Woman / 76. 'perfect-lee' / 77. Fever And Other Hits (original CS edition) / 77. Fever And Other Hits (reissue CD edition) / 78. Peggy Lee ("Legendary Singers" Series)
79. Unforgettable ("15 Golden Classics" Series) /
84. All-Time Greatest Hits, Volume 1 / 85. Fever - The Best Of Peggy Lee / 86. Benny Goodman Featuring Peggy Lee ("Best Of Big Bands" Series) / 87. Classics / 88. The Beautiful Music Company Presents Peggy Lee
89. The Best Of Peggy Lee, 1952-1956 / 89. The Best Of Peggy Lee, 1952-1956 (collectors' edition) / 89. The Best Of Peggy Lee, 1952-1956 (reissue) / 90. Black Coffee And Other Delights - The Decca Anthology / 91. Greatest Hits
92. Peggy Lee ("Spotlight On ... Great Ladies And Gentlemen Of Song" Series) / 93. Miss Peggy Lee ("Some Of The Best" Series) / 94. Miss Peggy Lee ("More Of The Best" Series) / 95. The Best Of The Decca Years / 96. Black Coffee - Best Of The Decca Years
97. The Best Of Peggy Lee - The Capitol Years (Blues & Jazz Sessions) / 98. Peggy Lee ("EMI Presents The Magic Of" Series) / 98. The Very Best Of Peggy Lee (alternate edition of EMI Presents The Magic) / 99. Miss Peggy Lee / 99. The Best Of Miss Peggy Lee (primer)
100. C'est Magnifique / 101. Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman: The Complete Recordings, 1941-1947 / 102. The Legendary Peggy Lee / 103. Peggy Lee ("36 All-Time Greatest Hits" Series) / 104. The Peggy Lee Collection ("HMV Easy" Series)
105. Rare Gems And Hidden Treasures / 106. The Very Best Of Peggy Lee / 107. Rendezvous With Peggy Lee / 108. Peggy Lee Sings The Standards / 109. The Best Of Peggy Lee ("20 Century Masters - The Millennium Collection" Series)
110. The Marvelous Miss Lee / 111. Fever / 112. The Singles Collection / 112. The Best Of The Singles Collection (American primer) / 112. The Best of The Singles Collection (British primer)
113. Love Songs / 114. The Best Of Peggy Lee (10 Best Series) / 115. Classics & Collectibles / 116. Peggy Lee ("The Collection" Series) / 117. Peggy Lee ("The Silver Collection" Series)
118. The Ultimate Collection / 119. The Lost '40s & '50s Capitol Masters / 120. Come Rain Or Come Shine ("Opus Collection" Series) / 121. Decca Rarities / 122. Ultimate Peggy Lee
ANTHOLOGICAL ALBUMS
(1948-2020)
The second half of this page focuses on Peggy Lee's official American and British anthologies. All 68 qualifying anthologies have been sequenced chronologically, by year of release. In the tracks listings, songs written or cowritten by Peggy Lee have been identified with an asterisk.
An anthological album is understood to consist of previously issued numbers -- as opposed to original albums, which offer a program of mostly newly released numbers. As for the term "official," it refers to commercial issues released by (or licensed from) the companies which own Lee's music masters.
Album 55
BENNY GOODMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA AND SEXTET; VOCALS BY PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in August 1948 as a 78-rpm album (Columbia Set C-170) consisting of four discs (#38280 to #38283). All tracks had been previously available as 78-rpm singles, and all numbers dated back to Peggy Lee's period of recording activity with Benny Goodman (1941-1942).
Tracks
1. My Little Cousin / 2. Not Mine (first disc)
3. Let's Do It / 4. Where Or When (second disc)
5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street / 6. The Way You Look Tonight (third disc)
7. Winter Weather (duet with Art London) / 8. Somebody Nobody Loves (fourth disc)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in 1949 as a ten-inch LP (Columbia CL 6033) and as an EP set (B-406).
Additional Reissue Notes
An even earlier Goodman-Lee anthology had been once scheduled by Columbia, but plans for its 1947 release in the USA were abandoned when Goodman left the label. To be titled Benny's Best; All Time Favorites By Benny Goodman And His Orchestra (C 122), half of its eight scheduled cuts featured Peggy Lee on vocals. (The company's Canadian branch did issue the album, as Columbia A52.)
Album 56
MY BEST TO YOU
Release Notes
Released in April or May 1950 as a ten-inch LP (Capitol H-204). Six of these tracks would also be included in the 1955 edition of the original album Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (12" LP format). The other two tracks (#4, 6) had been out on 78-rpm singles.
Tracks
1. It’s A Good Day* / 2. Hold Me / 3. Mañana* / 4. A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues (A side)
5. Golden Earrings / 6. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 7. While We’re Young / 8. Why Don’t You Do Right (B side)
Additional Notes
The present inventory does not discuss EPs or 45 albums. However, it is worth making an exception in this case, to clarify that the 45-rpm box version of My Best to You (CCF-204) atypically features less tracks than its ten-inch LP counterpart. The tracks omitted from that boxed set were #4 and 7.
Album 57A
CAPITOL PRESENTS ... PEGGY LEE
Release Notes
Released in the UK around July 1953 as a ten-inch LP (Capitol LC 6584). All eight tracks previously available on 78-rpm singles, but half of them never before on an album. Not released in the US, this album belonged to the Capitol Presents ... series, whose volumes were primarily issued in the United Kingdom and South Africa.)
Tracks
1. The Cannonball Express / 2. Stormy Weather / 3. Somebody Loves Me / 4. Birmingham Jail (A side)
5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love / 6. Where Are You? / 7. Why Don't You Do Right / 8. Just A Shade On The Blue Side (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in 1963 by the EMI-affiliated, mail order World Record Club, under the title The Fabulous Miss Lee (TP 352), to be itemized below.
Album 58
PEGGY LEE SINGS WITH BENNY GOODMAN
Release & Recording Notes
Released in August 1957 as a twelve-inch LP on Columbia's budget line, Harmony (HL 7005). Electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo. A couple of tracks notoriously miss parts of Lee's vocal. All tracks previously issued on 1940s singles except for #7 and 9, both of which made their commercial debut in the 1953 Columbia album Benny Goodman Presents Arrangements by Eddie Sauter.
Tracks
1. How Long Has This Been Going On? / 2. That Did It, Marie / 3. Elmer's Tune / 4. I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean / 5. We'll Meet Again (A side)
6. My Old Flame / 7. That's The Way It Goes / 8. All I Need Is You / 9. Not A Care In The World / 10. Full Moon (B side)
Reissue Notes
This 1957 Harmony LP was repeatedly reissued decades later on Columbia/Sony Special Products in the US (LP, CD) and as part of CBS' Cameo series in the UK (LP). Also licensed to UK's Hallmark Records, which issued it first as We'll Meet Again (1967 LP) and later as Why Don't You Do Right (1998 CD).
Album 59
ALL AGLOW AGAIN! (THE STAR★LINE SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in May 1960 as Capitol LP T-1366. Monaural. Most tracks previously issued on 1958-1959 singles, the exceptions being #6 (a blockbuster hit single, originally issued in 1948), 11, 3, 9, 12 (all previously unissued, the first taken from a 1957 singles session, the other three from a 1952 singles session).
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Where Do I Go From Here? / 3. Whee, Baby* / 4. My Man / 5. You Deserve / 6. Mañana* (A side)
7. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 8. You Don’t Know / 9. Louisville Lou / 10. I’m Looking Out The Window / 11. It Keeps You Young / 12. Let’s Call It A Da (B side)
Album 60
THE BEST OF PEGGY LEE
Release Notes
Originally released in August 1960 as Decca DXB 164, which is a deluxe gatefold-edition album with a six-photo gallery and extensive liner notes by music critic Leonard Feather. Monaural.
Tracks
1. Lover / 2. Apples, Peaches And Cherries / 3. That’s What A Woman Is For / 4. I Don’t Know Enough About You* / 5. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 6. Ooh, That Kiss (A side, 1st LP)
7. Mr Wonderful / 8. Love Me Or Leave Me / 9. How Bitter, My Sweet / 10. Black Coffee / 11. They Can’t Take That Away From Me / 12. The Siamese Cat Song* (B side, 1st LP)
13. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 14. I’m Glad There Is You / 15. It’s All Right With Me / 16. Guess I’ll Go Back Home (This Summer) / 17. Never Mind / 18. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (A side, 2nd LP)
19. Sans Souci* / 20. Love Letters / 21. He Needs Me / 22. My Heart Belongs To Daddy / 23. I Never Knew / 24. (Sorry Baby) You Let My Love Get Cold (B side, 2nd LP)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in 1966 as Decca DXSB 164, a simulated stereo 2-LP set. Reissued several more times during the 1970s and 1980s, both in the US and the UK (mostly under the same title as the 1960 Decca issue, but occasionally with the title shortened to Peggy Lee). Those reissues came out in an array of Decca-affiliated and Decca-owning labels (Brunswick, Coral, MCA), and also in a variety of formats (sometimes as two separately sold volumes, other times as one abridged LP; in some instances without photography or liner notes, in other instances as part of UK series such as Golden Greats).
Album 61
BEWITCHING LEE! (THE STAR★LINE SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in July 1962 as Capitol T-1743. Also made available in "duophonic" or simulated stereo (Capitol DT-1743). Contains hit records and signature performances, the earliest from 1945 (#8), the most recent from 1959 (#6).
Tracks
1. Why Don’t You Do Right / 2. Don’t Smoke In Bed / 3. It’s A Good Day* / 4. Alright, Okay, You Win / 5. Golden Earrings / 6. Hallelujah, I Love Him So (A side)
7. Fever / 8. I Don’t Know Enough About You* / 9. Them There Eyes / 10. While We’re Young / 11. Mañana* / 12. My Man (B side)
Album 57B [Club Edition]
THE FABULOUS MISS LEE
Release Notes
Released by the EMI-affiliated, mail order World Record Club in the UK in 1963, as TP 352. This is an unacknowledged reissue of the 1953 ten-inch LP Capitol Presents ... Peggy Lee, with five tracks added (#1-5), one track dropped ("Why Don't You Do Right"), and the other tracks reshuffled. Never issued in the US.
Tracks
1. Hold Me / 2. A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues / 3. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 4. Every Night / 5. Uninvited Dream / 6. The Cannonball Express (A side)
10. I Can't Give You Anything But Love / 11. Where Are You? / 7. Why Don't You Do Right / 12. Just A Shade On The Blue Side / 7. Stormy Weather / 8. Somebody Loves Me / 9. Birmingham Jail (B side)
Album 62
LOVER
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in January or early February 1964 as Decca DL 4458. Also made available in simulated stereo (Decca DL 74458). This anthology focuses on Peggy Lee's collaborations with Gordon Jenkins, all of them recorded in 1952 and originally released around that time. Album not issued in the UK.
Tracks
1. Lover / 2. Forgive Me / 3. I Hear The Music Now / 4. You Go To My Head / 5. That’s Him Over There / 6. River, River (A side)
7. I’m Glad There Is You / 8. Sans Souci* / 9. Be Anything (But Be Mine) / 10. Just One Of Those Things / 11. Go You Where You Go / 12. This Is A Very Special Day* (B side)
Album 63
THE FABULOUS PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in May 1964 as Decca DL 4461. Also made available by the label in its brand of simulated stereo, called "hi-fi stereophonic" (Decca DL 74461). Compiles numbers recorded between 1953 and 1956, all of them initially issued as singles, except for #7 (previously unissued) and 4 (previously on an original 1954 Lee LP).
Tracks
1. (Sorry Baby) You Let My Love Get Cold / 2. Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me / 3. Oh! No! (Please Don’t Go) / 4. The Tavern / 5. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong / 6. The Gypsy With Fire In His Shoes (A side)
7. Do I Love You? / 8. Wrong Joe / 9. Me / 10. Johnny Guitar* / 11. I Belong To You / 12. Autumn In Rome (B side)
Album 64
EXTRA SPECIAL!
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in April 1967 as Capitol (S)T-2732. All twelve numbers are from singles sessions, including previously unissued tracks #4, 6, and 8. Beginning with 1960 and ending in 1966, each year of the '60s happens to be represented with at least one track, except for 1964. Not issued in the UK until the CD era.
Tracks
1. Hey, Look Me Over / 2. When He Makes Music / 3. Walking Happy / 4. Oh You Crazy Moon / 5. So What’s New?* (A side)
6. Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear / 7. A Bucket Of Tears / 8. The Shining Sea* / 9. A Doodlin’ Song / 10. Amazing / 11. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’* (B side)
Album 65
THE HITS OF PEGGY LEE (THE STAR★LINE SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in April 1967 as Capitol ST-2887. Offers nine tunes recorded by Lee during the 1960s along with two career-defining numbers, one from the 1950s (#3), the other from the 1940s (#6).
Tracks
1. The Alley Cat Song / 2. I'll Only Miss Him When I Think Of Him / 3. Fever / 4. The Shadow Of Your Smile / 5. Big Spender / 6. Mañana* (A side)
7. A Lot Of Living To Do / 8. I'm A Woman / 9. Call Me / 10. Pass Me By / 11. Yes, Indeed (B side)
Reissue Notes
In the UK, this album was re-conceived as Capitol (S)T 21141 and released under the title The Best of Peggy Lee in April 1968. Different title and artwork, but same 11 tunes in the same sequence, plus five additional tracks tacked at the end of the program:
12. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 13. Till There Was You / 14. Alright, Okay, You Win / 15. Don't Smoke In Bed / 16. Why Don't You Do Right
Reissued once again in the UK as The Best of Peggy Lee (EMI Music for Pleasure MFP 5605) in 1983, with the same 16 tracks and artwork as the 1968 edition, except for a distinctive color alteration of the front cover (red instead of the earlier blue).
Album 66
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING / I'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING - TWO SENSATIONAL ALBUMS IN ONE HIT PACKAGE
Release & Recording Notes
Originally released in 1969 or 1970 as Pickwick PTP-2028. All tracks on this twofer album are Capitol masters recorded between 1957 and 1965.
Tracks
1. Kansas City / 2. You're Mine You / 3. As You Desire Me / 4. I Hear Music / 5. Ridin' High (A side, 1st LP)
6. I Wanna Be Loved / 7. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street / 8. It Could Happen To You / 9. So In Love / 10. Moments Like This (B side, 1st LP)
11. I've Got The World On A String / 12. The Shadow Of Your Smile / 13. I've Got Your Number / 14. Ev'rybody Has The Right To Be Wrong / 15. Unforgettable (A side, 2nd LP)
16. I've Got A Lot Of Livin' To Do / 17. How Insensitive / 18. The Best Is Yet To Come / 19. The Sweetest Sounds (B side, 2nd LP)
Reissue Notes
The first half, Once More with Feeling was separately released again in January 1968 in both monophonic (Pickwick PC-3090) and "electronically enhanced for stereo" (SPC-3090) sound. The twofer's second half, I've Got the World on a String, was separately released in 1969 as Pickwick SPC-3192, then reissued in August 1974 as Peggy Lee - Archives of Folk & Jazz Music on Everest, a Pickwick subsidiary (FS 294). All listed iterations were prepared under agreement with Capitol Records.
Album 67
PEGGY LEE'S GREATEST! (THE STAR★LINE SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released in October 1969 as Capitol DKAO-377. "Duophonic" or simulated stereo. All tracks are Capitol masters, half of them recorded between 1945 and 1947, the other half between 1958 and 1965.
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Alright, Okay, You Win / 3. Golden Earrings / 4. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 5. Come Back To Me (A side)
6. Heart / 7. Don't Smoke In Bed / 8. Why Don't You Do Right / 9. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 10. It's A Good Day* (B side)
Album 68
THE SOUNDS OF THE SEVENTIES
Release & Recording Notes
Released in June 1970 as Capitol Creative Products SL-6694. Commissioned by Sylvania Electronics as part of a package called The Sights and Sounds of the Seventies, which also included facsimiles of four still-life Peggy Lee painting s. All 10 tracks are Capitol masters recorded during the sixties, except for one blockbuster hit number recorded back in 1947 (#5). According to the advertisement, the tracks for this premium album were chosen by Lee herself, In conjunction with Capitol Records.
Tracks
1. Alright, Okay, You Win / 2. It's A Wonderful World / 3. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay / 4. Release Me / 5. Mañana* (A side)
6. Hey, Look Me Over / 7. My Old Flame / 8. Spinning Wheel / 9. (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings / 10. Watch What Happens (B side)
Reissue Notes
After its exclusivity Sylvania period, reissued as Capitol Special Markets SL-6694, with the same title but a different front cover (and without the facsimiles).
Album 69
THEN AND NOW - PEGGY LEE, JACK JONES
Release & Recording Notes
One of three premium LPs produced by MCA Special Markets (DL-734728) for the Colgate-Palmolive company, which made them available around July 1970, as part of a promotional offer. Each album featured two different artists -- one on each side. With a minimum of four qualifying product purchases, these albums could be obtained at participating drugstores and supermarkets.
Tracks
1. Lover / 2. Black Coffee / 3. Just One Of Those Things / 4. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face / 5. Love Letters (A side)
[Jack Jones tracks] (B side)
Album 70
MISS PEGGY LEE
Release Notes
Released in October or November 1970 on CBS' budget line, Harmony, as H 30024. All tracks previously issued on either 78-rpm discs or LPs credited to Benny Goodman (with his Orchestra or Sextet, and featuring Peggy Lee).
Tracks
1. Why Don't You Do Right / 2. My Old Flame / 3. All I Need Is You / 4. Not A Care In The World / 5. Full Moon (A side)
6. Elmer's Tune / 7. I Got It Bad / 8. The Way You Look Tonight / 9. We'll Meet Again (B side)
Album 71
RAINDROPS
Release & Recording Notes
Released in 1971 as Capitol Creative Products SL-6723. Produced by Capitol for Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company. Lee had recorded six of the ten tracks in 1970, the other four between 1965 and 1969.
Tracks
1. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head / 2. The Shadow Of Your Smile / 3. Make It With You / 4. Watch What Happens / 5. You'll Remember Me (A side)
6. Two For The Road / 7. Let's Get Lost In Now / 8. Pieces Of Dreams / 9. Spinning Wheel / 10. (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (B side)
Reissue Notes
Reissued, after its exclusivity Abbott period, as Capitol Special Markets SL-723, with the same title but a different front cover.
Album 72
THE VERY BEST OF PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released in the UK in 1973 as Capitol/EMI UK E-ST 23168. Capitol masters, recorded between 1958 and 1972. This album was not issued in the US.
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Alright, Okay, You Win / 3. Don't Smoke In Bed / 4. On The Street Where You Live / 5. My Man / 6. Me And My Shadow / 7. I Could Have Danced All Night / 8. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (A side)
9. Is That All There Is? / 10. Makin' Whoopee / 11. The Long And Winding Road / 12. Help Me Make It Through The Night / 13. Bridge Over Troubled Water / 14. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? / 15. Superstar / 16. Love Story (B side)
Album 73
SONGS FOR MY MAN
Release & Recording Notes
Released in the UK in May 1977 as CAPS 1006. Capitol masters, recorded between 1957 and 1964. This album was not issued in the US.
Tracks
1. My Man / 2. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe / 3. The Man I Love / 4. Charley My Boy / 5. Bill / 6. He's My Guy / 7. I'm Just Wild About Harry (A side)
8. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 9. Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh! / 10. Because I Love Him So* / 11. There Ain't No Sweet Man (That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears) / 12. When He Makes Music / 13. I Got Lost In His Arms / 14. The Boy From Ipanema (B side)
Album 74
MISS PEGGY LEE SINGS THE SONGS OF CY COLEMAN
Release & Recording Notes
Released in 1979 as Capitol SN-11969. All 10 tracks are Capitol masters, recorded between 1961 and 1965.
Tracks
1. Hey, Look Me Over / 2. The Best Is Yet To Come / 3. I've Got Your Number / 4. (I'm) In Love Again* / 5. Pass Me By (A side)
6. That's My Style* / 7. A Doodlin' Song / 8. When In Rome / 9. Then Was Then*⋆ / 10. Big Spender (B side)
Reissue Notes
Four tracks were added to the 2021 version of this album (available as MP3 file and for streaming, but not on any physical format). All four additions are Coleman compositions that Lee recorded for Capitol between 1961 and 1968:
11. I'm Gonna Laugh You Out Of My Life / 12. That's What It Takes*
13. You Fascinate Me So / 14. My Personal Property
Album 75
I'M A WOMAN
Release & Recording Notes
Produced by Capitol's Cema Special Markets (SL-8298) in 1982 for the exclusive use of Columbia House, a mail-order music company. Capitol masters from the 1958-1970 period, except for a couple, one dating back to 1947 (#2), the other to 1946 (#15).
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Why Don't You Do Right / 3. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 4. The Alley Cat Song / 4. Alright, Okay, You Win / 6. A Doodlin' Song / 7. You've Got Possibilities / 8. I Feel It / 9. Love Story / 10. Heart (A side)
11. Is That All There Is? / 12. I'm A Woman / 13. Come Back To Me / 14. Big Spender / 15. It's A Good Day* / 16. My Man / 17. Pass Me By / 18. One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round / 19. So What's New?* / 20. Spinning Wheel (B side)
Album 76
'PERFECT-LEE'
Release & Recording Notes
Released by MCA in the UK in April 1984, as LP MCL 1794. Decca masters (1952-1956).
Tracks
1. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 2. I'm Glad There Is You / 3. Ooh! That Kiss / 4. Who's Gonna Pay The Check?* / 5. Sugar / 6. Where Flamingos Fly / 7. That's Alright Honey (A side)
8. I Don't Wanna Play In Your Yard / 9. You've Got To See Mamma Every Night / 10. Street Of Dreams / 11. Be Anything (But Be Mine) / 12. I Hear The Music Now / 13. Moonflowers / 14. Johnny Guitar* / 15. This Is A Very Special Day* (B side)
Reissue Notes
Re-released as a CD (DMCL 1794) in 1989.
Album 77A
FEVER AND OTHER HITS
Release & Recording Notes
Released in 1984 as Capitol Special Markets 07777-57358-4-0, a cassette tape. Capitol masters (1958-1969).
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. I'm A Woman / 3. Heart / 4. Big Spender / 5. The Alley Cat Song (A side)
6. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 7. Is That All There Is? / 8. Alright, Okay, You Win / 9. A Doodlin' Song (B side)
Album 78
PEGGY LEE ("LEGENDARY SINGERS" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released in 1985 as a 2-LP set on the Time Life Music label (SLGD-07). Consists of 22 Capitol and Decca numbers, recorded between 1944 and 1969, some of which qualified as rarities at release time. Previously unissued tracks: #9, 11. Tracks variously licensed from Capitol and MCA.
Tracks
1. Why Don't You Do Right / 2. Golden Earrings / 3. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 4. Ain't Goin' No Place / 5. Black Coffee (A side, 1st LP)
6. Lover / 7. Alright, Okay, You Win / 8. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 9. Make Believe / 10. It's A Good Day* / 11. Deep Purple (B side, 1st LP)
12. Fever / 13. Bye Bye Blues / 14. Don't Smoke In Bed / 15. Lonesome Road / 16. The Best Is Yet To Come (A side, 2nd LP)
17. My Man / 18. I'm A Woman / 19. My Old Flame / 20. By The Time I Get To Phoenix / 21. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis / 22. Is That All There Is? (B side, 2nd LP)
Album 79
UNFORGETTABLE ("15 GOLDEN CLASSICS" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by the Castle Communications label in the UK in December 1987, on both LP (UNLP 027) and CD (UNCD 027). Decca masters (1952-1956), licensed from MCA.
Tracks
1. Mr. Wonderful / 2. Lover / 3. I Didn't Know What Time It Was / 4. Black Coffee / 5. Love Me Or Leave Me / 6. My Heart Belongs To Daddy / 7. I've Got You Under My Skin / 8. When The World Was Young
Side Two: 9. The Siamese Cat Song* / 10. He's A Tramp* / 11. Let Me Go Lover / 12. Easy Living / 13. Johnny Guitar* / 14. He Needs Me / 15. Joey, Joey, Joey
Album 80
PEGGY LEE ("THE BEST OF THE CAPITOL YEARS" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI Records in the UK in June 1988 as a LP (Capitol EMS 1294). Eleven of these 16 tracks were recorded between 1957 and 1969, the other five in the years 1946 and 1947. The back cover of the LP lists a CD counterpart (CDEMS 1294) supposedly released in 1988, but I have yet to find corroboration that such a CD was actually issued.
Tracks
1. Mañana* / 2. Golden Earrings / 3. It's A Good Day* / 4. Don't Smoke In Bed / 5. Why Don't You Do Right / 6. Fever / 7. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 8. Hallelujah, I Love Him So (A side)
9. I'm A Woman / 10. A Doodlin' Song / 11. Big Spender / 12. So What's New?* / 13. The Shining Sea* / 14. Alright, Okay, You Win / 15. Is That All There Is? / 16. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'* (B side)
Reissue Notes
An EMI CD reissue came out in 1999, with catalogue number CDP 7 90552.
Album 81
SEDUCTIVE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Pair Records in 1989 as a CD (PCD-2 1194). Capitol tracks, falling within the 1958-1963 period, except for #11 (1947) and 15 (1970). Licensed from Capitol Special Markets.
Tracks
1. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 2. The Best Is Yet To Come / 3. Hey! Look Me Over / 4. So In Love / 5. Heart / 6. When A Woman Loves A Man / 7. I'll Get By / 8. Yes Indeed / 9. I've Got Your Number / 10. Alright, Okay, You Win / 11. Don't Smoke In Bed / 12. My Man / 13. A Doodlin' Song / 14. I Enjoy Being A Girl / 15. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? / 16. I Get Along Without You Very Well
Album 82
THE EARLY YEARS - COLLECTORS' SERIES, VOLUME 1
Release & Recording Notes
Released in May 1990 as Capitol CD #7 93195 2. All numbers date from the 1945-1950 period and are sequenced in loose chronological order, with studio chatter included at the start of two tracks (#12, 18).
Tracks
1. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 2. I'm Glad I Waited For You / 3. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 4. Linger In My Arms A Little Longer / 5. It's All Over Now / 6. It's A Good Day* / 7. Everything's Movin' Too Fast* / 8. Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) / 9. Sugar / 10. Golden Earrings / 11. I'll Dance At Your Wedding / 12. Mañana* / 13. All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart / 14. Talkin' To Myself About You / 15. Why Don't You Do Right / 16. 'Deed I Do / 17. Don't Smoke In Bed / 18. Caramba! It's The Samba / 19. Them There Eyes / 20. Baby, Don't Be Mad At Me / 21. Bali Ha'i / 22. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair / 13. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / 24. The Old Master Painter (duet with Mel Tormé) / 25. Show Me The Way Out Of This World
Reissue Notes
For an unofficial sequel to this release (i.e., Volume 2), see the 2000 issue Rare Gems and Hidden Treasures, itemized below.
Album 83
PEGGY LEE ("PORTRAIT OF A SONG STYLIST" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Harmony Records in the UK in May 1990 as CD HARCD 116. Capitol tracks from the 1957-1961 period, except for #11 (1947), 13 and 14 (1969). Licensed from EMI Records UK.
Tracks
1. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 2. As Time Goes By / 3. Old Devil Moon / 4. Cheek To Cheek / 5. When A Woman Loves A Man / 6. I Hear Music / 7. The Party's Over / 8. Till There Was You / 9. I Enjoy Being A Girl / 10. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 11. Stormy Weather / 12. Alright, Okay, You Win / 13. Something / 14. Is That All There Is?
Album 84
ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS, VOLUME 1
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Curb Records in October 1990 as CD D2-77379. Capitol tracks, with dates ranging from 1946 to 1969 (seven of them circumscribed to the 1958-1959 two-year period). Licensed from Capitol's Cema Special Markets.
Tracks
1. It's A Good Day* / 2. Is That All There Is? / 3. Fever / 4. I'm A Woman / 5. Mañana* / 6. Alright, Okay, You Win / 7. Why Don't You Do Right / 8. Heart / 9. My Man / 10. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 11. I Enjoy Being A Girl
Reissue Notes
For the de facto second volume (or sequel) to this release, see the 1993 issue Classics, itemized below.
Album 77B [Alternate Edition]
FEVER AND OTHER HITS (10 BEST SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Cema Special Markets in 1990 as CDL-57358. This CD is a re-packaging of a similarly titled 1984 cassette tape (already itemized above), with one additional performance (#3) and the original track order partially reshuffled.
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. I'm A Woman / 3. Is That All There Is? / 4. Heart / 5. My Man / 6. A Doodlin' Song / 7. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 8. Big Spender / 9. Alright, Okay, You Win / 10. The Alley Cat Song
Reissue Notes
Reissued by Collectables in 2003 as COL-CD-9321 (under license from EMI Music Special Markets), and again in 2006 (with a front cover different from the 2003 reissue).
Album 85
FEVER - THE BEST OF PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI in the UK in 1992 as CD #7 80361 2 8 (aka CDFEVER 1). All tracks recorded between 1957 and 1967, except for #5, 11, and 19, which date back to 1946 and 1947.
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Things Are Swingin'* / 3. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 4. I'm A Woman / 5. Mañana*⋆ / 6. I'll Get By / 7. Pass Me By / 8. Till There Was You / 9. I'm Just Wild About Harry / 10. Sneakin' Up On You / 11. It's A Good Day* / 12. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 13. Come Dance With Me / 14. The Best Is Yet To Come / 15. It Could Happen To You / 16. You Deserve / 17. Love And Marriage / 18. Charley, My Boy / 19. Sugar / 20. Sing A Rainbow / 21. Makin' Whoopee / 22. It's A Wonderful World / 23. The Party's Over / 24. Hey, Look Me Over
Album 86
BENNY GOODMAN FEATURING PEGGY LE ("BEST OF BIG BANDS" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released in June 1993 as Columbia Legacy CD CK 53422. Chronologically covers the first half of Lee's canary period with the Benny Goodman Orchestra (1941).
Tracks
1. Elmer's Tune / 2. I See A Million People / 3. That's The Way It Goes / 4. I Got It Bad / 5. My Old Flame / 6. How Deep Is The Ocean / 7. Shady Lady Bird / 8. Let's Do It / 9. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place / 10. Somebody Nobody Loves / 11. How Long Has This Been Goin On? / 12. That Did It Marie / 13. Winter Weather (duet with Art London) / 14. Ev'rything I Love / 15. Not Mine / 16. Not A Care In The World
Album 87
CLASSICS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Curb Records in July 1993 as CD D2-77629. Capitol masters recorded between 1959 and 1965. Licensed from Capitol's Cema Special Markets.
Tracks
1. Mack The Knife / 2. A Taste Of Honey / 3. The Shadow Of Your Smile / 4. There'll Be Some Changes Made / 5. On The Street Where You Live / 6. Hey, Look Me Over / 7. The Boy From Ipanema / 8. The Surrey With The Fringe On The Top / 9. Big Spender / 10. The Alley Cat Song
Reissue Notes
In 2021, a so-called limited 180-gram LP edition of this CD was being sold as an exclusive at Walmart stores, with catalogue number K1 77629, and identified by a sticker as part of the American chain's Plum Vinyl series.
Album 88
THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC COMPANY PRESENTS PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Made available by The Beautiful Music Company (primarily a mail order label) in 1993, on both LP (BMLP S21-56958) and CD (BMC S21-56958). Seven of the tracks are Decca masters (1952-1956). All others tracks are Capitol masters from the 1957-1965 period (aside from #13 and 24, both 1947 Capitol masters). Produced by and licensed from Cema Special Markets.
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Love Letters / 3. You Go To My Head / 4. I Wanna Be Around / 5. I'll Get By / 6. Say It Isn't So / 7. Alright, Okay, You Win / 8. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 9. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / 10. The Man I Love / 11. Watch What Happens / 12. If I Should Love You / 13. Mañana* / 14. Pass Me By / 15. Lover / 16. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 17. Mr. Wonderful / 18. You Always Hurt The One You Love / 19. There Is No Greater Love / 20. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars / 21. My Heart Stood Still / 22. Love Me Or Leave Me / 23. Be Anything (But Be Mine) / 24. Them There Eyes
Album 89
THE BEST OF PEGGY LE, 1952-1956
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Music Collection International in the UK in May 1994, as Music Club MCCD 157. Decca tracks (1952-1956), licensed from MCA.
A limited collector's edition was also issued in 1994, with catalogue number MCCDSE 157. That edition comes in a cardboard box and includes three postcard-size prints, all them photographs of Peggy Lee.
Tracks
1. Lover / 2. Black Coffee / 3. My Heart Belongs To Daddy / 4. It Ain't Necessarily So / 5. There's A Small Hotel / 6. A Brown Bird Singing / 7. He's A Tramp* / 8. Mr. Wonderful / 9. The Siamese Cat Song* / 10. Sing A Rainbow / 11. Somebody Loves Me / 12. I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard / 13. Street Of Dreams / 14. It's All Right With Me / 15. It Never Entered My Mind / 16. Too Late Now / 17. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face / 18. Something I Dreamed Last Night
Reissue Notes
Reissued by Demon Music Group in the UK in October 2000, as Music Club MCCD 426.
Album 90
BLACK COFFEE AND OTHER DELIGHTS - THE DECCA ANTHOLOGY
Release & Recording Notes
Released by MCA in October 1994 as MCAD2-11122. Decca tracks (1952-1956), including one previously unissued master (#43).
Tracks
1. Lover / 2. Be Anything (But Be Mine) / 3. You Go To My Head / 4. Just One Of Those Things / 5. Forgive Me / 6. I'm Glad There Is You (In This World Of Ordinary People) / 7. Watermelon Weather (duet with Bing Crosby) / 8. Moon Flowers / 9. River, River / 10. Sans Souci* / 11. That's Him Over There / 12. Who's Gonna Pay The Check* / 13. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 14. My Heart Belongs To Daddy / 15. Easy Living / 16. Black Coffee / 17. Apples, Peaches And Cherries / 18. When The World Was Young / 19. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 20. Johnny Guitar* / 21. Sisters / 22. Bouquet Of Blues / 23. Love Letters / 24. Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me (1st disc)
25. Let Me Go, Lover! / 26. I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard / 27. Sugar / 28. Somebody Loves Me / 29. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry / 30. Sing A Rainbow / 31. Mr. Wonderful / 32. He Needs Me / 33. They Can't Take That Away From Me / 34. You've Got To See Mamma Every Night / 35. Joey, Joey, Joey / 36. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 37. Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer) / 38. You're Blasé / 39. It's All Right With Me / 340. It Never Entered My Mind / 41. Too Late Now / 42. My Old Flame / 43. I Still Get A Thrill (Thinking Of You) / 44. Dancing On The Ceiling / 45. Where Flamingos Fly / 46. Street Of Dreams (2nd disc)
Reissue Notes
Reissued in 1997 by the mail order label Jazz Heritage (524865M). The booklet of this 1997 reissue misses all the photos from the 1994 original.
Album 91
GREATEST HITS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Capitol's Cema Special Markets in 1994 as CD S21-17888. Tracks dating from 1947 to 1969.
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Mañana* / 3. My Man / 4. Alright, Okay, You Win / 5. I'm A Woman / 6. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 7. Is That All There Is? / 8. Why Don't You Do Right
Album 92
PEGGY LEE ("SPOTLIGHT ON ... GREAT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF SONG" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Capitol in May 1995 as CD #7243 8 28533 2 9. Tracks dating from 1957 to 1965.
Tracks
1. I've Got The World On A String / 2. When A Woman Loves A Man / 3. I'm Beginning To See The Light / 4. There Is No Greater Love / 5. Too Close For Comfort / 6. Unforgettable / 7. Close Your Eyes / 8. If I Should Lose You / 9. I'm Just Wild About Harry / 10. Deep Purple / 11. It's Been A Long, Long Time / 12. The Man I Love / 13. I Wanna Be Around / 14. The Best Is Yet To Come / 15. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 16. Fever / 17. I Hear Music / 18. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Album 93
MISS PEGGY LEE ("SOME OF THE BEST" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by LaserLight Digital in September 1996 as CD #12641. Combines seven Decca tracks (1952-1956) with three radio performances from The Bing Crosby Show (1947-1948) and two canary vocals with the Benny Goodman Orchestra (1941-1942). All tracks reported as having been licensed.
Tracks
1. Why Don't You Do Right / 2. You Can Depend On Me / 3. My Old Flame / 4. Just One Of Those Things / 5. It's A Good Day* / 6. Golden Earrings / 7. Maybe You'll Be There / 8. That Old Feeling / 9. Let There Be Love / 10. For Sentimental Reasons / 11. Baby You Can Count On Me / 12. I'm Beginning To See The Light
Album 94
MISS PEGGY LE ("MORE OF THE BEST" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by LaserLight Digital in September 1996 as CD #12642. Combines six Decca tracks (1952-1956) with three numbers recorded for radio transcription services (1945, 1955), two radio performances from The Bing Crosby Show (1947), and one Capitol master (1944). All tracks reported as having been licensed.
Tracks
1. Just One Of Those Things / 2. That Old Feeling / 3. Let There Be Love / 4. Little Old Car* / 5. For Sentimental Reasons / 6. Baby You Can Count On Me / 7. Love You So / 8. I Hear The Music Now / 9. Last Night When We Were Young / 10. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 11. I'm Beginning To See The Light / 12. Of Such Is The Kingdom Of God
Album 95
THE BEST OF THE DECCA YEARS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by MCA in February 1997 as CD MCAD-11571. Decca tracks (1952-1956).
Tracks
1. Lover / This Is A Very Special Day* / 2. Just One Of Those Things / 3. Be Anything (But Be Mine) / 4. Black Coffee / 5. He's A Tramp* / 7. It Must Be So* (duet with The Mills Brothers) / 8. Where Can I Go Without You* / 9. Somebody Loves Me / 10. Sans Souci* / 11. The Possibility's There / 12. I Hear The Music Now / 13. Johnny Guitar* / 14. The Siamese Cat Song* / 15. He Needs Me / 16. Mr. Wonderful
Album 96
BLACK COFFEE - THE BEST OF THE DECCA YEARS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Half Moon in the UK in October 1997 as CD HMNCD 023. Licensed from Universal Music UK. Decca tracks (1952-1956).
Tracks
1. Black Coffee / 2. Lover / 3. Mr. Wonderful / 4. Johnny Guitar* / 5. You Go To My Head / 6. I've Got You Under My Skin / 7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 9. I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard / 10. Love Letters / 11. Apples, Peaches And Cherries / 12. Sisters / 13. Bye Bye Blackbird / 14. He Needs Me / 15. Sing A Rainbow / 16. How Bitter, My Sweet / 17. They Can't Take That Away From Me / 18. My Heart Belongs To Daddy / 19. Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me / 20. Sans Souci* / 21. I Never Knew / 22. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face / 23. What's New
Album 97
THE BEST OF PEGGY LEE - THE CAPITOL YEARS (BLUES & JAZZ SESSIONS)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Capitol Jazz in November 1997 as CD #7243 8 21204 2 1. All tracks are blues-oriented Capitol masters, the earliest from 1947, the most recent from 1972. Compiled by Will Friedwald.
Tracks
1. Why Don't You Do Right / 2. For Every Man There Is A Woman / 3. Fever / 4. Alright, Okay, You Win / 5. Blue Prelude / 6. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 7. Just For A Thrill / 8. Goin' To Chicago Blues / 9. I'm A Woman / 10. See See Rider / 11. You Don't Know / 12. Call Me / 13. Whisper Not / 14. The Thrill Is Gone / 15. Seventh Son / 16. Please Send Me Someone To Love / 17. Mama's Gone, Goodbye / 18. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'*
Album 98A
PEGGY LEE (EMI PRESENTS THE MAGIC OF ... SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI UK in 1997, as CD #7243 8 57013 2 0 (also CDMFP 6371). Carries the EMI 100 centennial logo, which was commonly found in music released by the British label in 1997. For further details, consult next entry.
Tracks
1. As Time Goes By / 2. Basin Street Blues / 3. Stormy Weather / 4. Cheek To Cheek / 5. Come Dance With Me / 6. Fever / 7. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 8. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 9. From Now On / 10. Unforgettable / 11. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 12. Happy Holiday / 13. I Am In Love / 14. I Could Have Danced All Night / 15. I Hear Music / 16. I'm A Woman / 17. The Man I Love / 18. The Lady Is A Tramp / 19. Mack The Knife / 20. On The Street Where You Live
Album 98B [Alternate Edition]
THE VERY BEST OF PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released as CD #7243 8 56805 2 6 (also CDMFPE 6342). Like the preceding item, this CD was also issued by EMI UK in 1997. Same 20 Capitol tracks (1947-1965), though in a partially different sequence. Different title and artwork. No EMI 100 Centennial logo.UK EMI UK's rationale for the concurrent release of these sibling CDs remains unclear to me. Perhaps this Very Best edition was manufactured for distribution elsewhere in Europe.
Tracks
1. Come Dance With Me / 2. As Time Goes By / 3. Basin Street Blues / 4. Stormy Weather / 5. Cheek To Cheek / 6. Fever / 7. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 8. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 9. From Now On / 10. Unforgettable / 11. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 12. Happy Holiday / 13. I Am In Love / 14. I Could Have Danced All Night / 15. I Hear Music / 16. I'm A Woman / 17. The Man I Love / 18. The Lady Is A Tramp / 19. Mack The Knife / 20. On The Street Where You Live
Album 99A
MISS PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Capitol in April 1998 as boxed CD set #0777 7 97826 2 8. Previously unissued tracks: #29, 32, 39, 45 (master version from 1947), 50, 55, 65, 76, 108.
Tracks
1. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 2. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 3. It's All Over Now / 4. It's A Good Day* / 5. Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) / 6. Golden Earrings / 7. Why Don't You Do Right / 8. Mañana* / 9. Don't Smoke In Bed / 10. Bali Ha'i / 11. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / 12. The Old Master Painter (duet with Mel Tormé) / 13. Fever / 14. Alright, Okay, You Win / 15. My Man / 16. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 17. Heart / 18. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'* / 19. Hey, Look Me Over / 20. I'm A Woman / 21. The Alley Cat Song / 22. Pass Me By / 23. Come Back To Me / 24. Big Spender / 25. So What's New?* / 26. Walking Happy / 27. I Feel It / 28. Is That All There Is? / 29. Meals For Millions* (1st disc)
30. Them There Eyes / 31. That Old Feeling / 32. You Can Depend On Me / 33. Stormy Weather / 34. They Can't Take That Away From Me / 35. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 36. Crazy He Calls Me / 37. Lover Come Back To Me / 38. For Every Man There's A Woman / 39. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling / 40. A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues / 41. Whee Baby* / 42. I'll Dance At Your Wedding / 43. Where Are You? / 44. There'll Be Some Changes Made / 45. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe / 46. Somebody Loves Me / 47. (When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas / 48. 'Deed I Do / 49. Baby (Is What He Calls Me) / 50. Bye Bye Blues / 51. While We're Young / 52. I Can't Give You Anything But Love / 53. Show Me The Way To Get Out Of This World / 54. You Was (duet with Dean Martin) / 55. One Day / 56. Three-Thirty Jump (2nd disc)
57. It's A Wonderful World / 58. My Heart Stood Still / 59. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 60. I'm Walking Through Heaven With You / 61. But Beautiful / 62. Old Devil Moon / 63. (I'm) In Love Again⋆ / 64. Talk To Me Baby / 65. Again / 66. Do I Love You? / 67. Bill / 68. Just In Time / 69. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe / 70. Close Your Eyes / 71. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me / 72. I Believe In You / 73. As Time Goes By / 74. It Could Happen To You / 75. Cheek To Cheek / 76. I'm A Fool To Want You / 77. Let's Fall In Love / 78. Shangri-La / 79. Basin Street Blues / 80. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You / 81. Oh You Crazy Moon / 82. That's All / 83. Lullaby In Rhythm / 84. There'll Be Another Spring* (3rd disc)
85. I Love Being Here With You* / 86. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis / 87. Good-For-Nothin' Joe / 88. Back In Your Own Backyard / 89. The Second Time Around / 90. I'll Get By / 91. Here's That Rainy Day / 92. You Stepped Out Of A Dream / 93. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 94. Just For A Thrill / 95. Get Out Of Town / 96. Then I'll Be Tired Of You / 97. Ain't We Got Fun / 98. The Right To Love / 99. Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear / 100. Watch What Happens / 101. So In Love / 102. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 103. (Our) Love Is Here To Stay / 104. Moments Like This / 105. When The Sun Comes Out / 106. Say It Isn't So / 107. Wish You Were Here / 108. I'll Be Around / 109. Don't Ever Leave Me / 110. Them There Eyes / 111. The Glory Of Love / 112. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 113. I'll Be Seeing You (4th disc)
Album 99B [Omnibus Selection]
THE BEST OF MISS PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Commercial sampler released by Capitol in October 1998 as CD #7243 4 97308 2 3. Culls 16 tracks from the already itemized Miss Peggy Lee set (1998). All tracks were actually taken from that set's first disc, except for "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe," which is from the second disc. In the boxed set, the tracks below are sequenced as follows: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 45 (second disc), 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 28.
Tracks
1. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 2. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 3. It's All Over Now / 4. It's A Good Day* / 5. Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) / 6. Golden Earrings / 7. Why Don't You Do Right / 8. Mañana* / 9. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / 10. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe / 11. Fever / 12. Alright, Okay, You Win / 13. I'm A Woman / 14. Pass Me By / 15. Big Spender / 16. Is That All There Is?
Album 100
C'EST MAGNIFIQUE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI in the UK in November 1998 as CD #7243 4 97143 2 8 (also CDTRBOX340). All Capitol tracks (1947-1972) except for, curiously, #36 (a 1953 Decca master).
Tracks
1. C'est Magnifique / 2. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 3. Always Something There To Remind Me / 4. Big Spender / 5. Cheek To Cheek / 6. Love And Marriage / 7. Makin' Whoopee / 8. I'm A Woman / 9. The Cannonball Express / 10. He's My Guy / 11. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 12. Smile / 13. I Can't Stop Loving You / 14. The Man I Love / 15. Nice 'N' Easy (1st disc)
16. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 17. Let's Fall In Love / 18. When A Woman Loves A Man / 19. The More I See You / 20. After You've Gone / 21. As Time Goes By / 22. The Days Of Wine And Roses / 23. Have You Seen My Baby? / 24. I Could Have Danced All Night / 25. I Wish I Didn't Love You So / 26. 'Till There Was You / 27. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me / 28. It's A Wonderful World / 29. I Left My Heart In San Francisco / 30. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (2nd disc)
31. Fever / 32. From Now On / 33. Mañana* / 34. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby / 35. I Can Hear The Music / 36. I've Got You Under My Skin / 37. Bewitched / 38. Sing A Rainbow / 39. I Remember You / 40. Here's That Rainy Day / 41. Come Dance With Me / 42. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'* / 43. (I Love Your) Gypsy Heart* / 44. The Best Is Yet To Come / 45. It Might As Well Be Spring (3rd disc)
Album 101
PEGGY LEE & BENNY GOODMAN: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS (1941-1947)
Release & Recording Notes
Released in June 1999 as Columbia Legacy CD C2K 65686. Chronologically covers Lee's entire catalogue of canary recordings with the Benny Goodman Orchestra (1941-1943). Also throws into the mix a few alternate takes from the same period, as well as three reunion tracks, recorded for Capitol in 1947.
Tracks
1. Elmer's Tune / 2. I See A Million People / 3. That's The Way It Goes / 4. I Got It Bad / 5. My Old Flame / 6. How Deep Is The Ocean / 7. Shady Lady Bird / 8. Let's Do It / 9. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place / 10. Somebody Nobody Loves / 11. How Long Has This Been Goin On? / 12. That Did It Marie / 13. Winter Weather (duet With Art London) / 14. Ev'rything I Love / 15. Not Mine / 16. Not A Care In The World / 17/ My Old Flame / 18. How Deep Is The Ocean / 19. Let's Do It (1st disc)
20. Blues In The Night / 21. Where Or When / 22. On The Sunny Side Of The Street / 23. The Lamp Of Memory / 24. If You Build A Better Mousetrap (duet with Art London) / 25. When The Roses Bloom Again / 26. My Little Cousin / 27. The Way You Look Tonight / 28. I Threw A Kiss On The Ocean / 29. We'll Meet Again / 30. Full Moon / 31. You're Easy To Dance With / 32. There Won't Be A Shortage Of Love / 33. All I Need Is You / 34. Why Don't You Do Right / 35. Let's Say A Prayer / 36. The Freedom Train (group vocal with Benny Goodman, Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Margaret Whiting) / 37. Keep Me In Mind /38. For Every Man There's A Woman (2nd disc)
Album 102
THE LEGENDARY PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Reader's Digest in 1999 as CD set KRF 140. Primarily Capitol material (1954-1972), supplemented with 11 Decca masters and two World transcription performances (#38, 48). Tracks variously licensed from EMI Music Special Markets (72434 99216 2 7), Universal Special Music Markets, and Hindsight Records.
Tracks
Her All-Time Greatest Hits: 1. It's A Good Day* / 2. Golden Earrings / 3. Lover / 4. Laroo Laroo Lili Bolero / 5. Linger In My Arms A Little Longer Baby / 6. Fever / 7. Mr. Wonderful / 8. Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) / 9. It's All Over Now / 10. Mañana* / 11. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 12. I'll Dance At Your Wedding / 13. (When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas / 14. Bali Ha'i / 15. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / 16. Is That All There Is? (1st disc)
Her All-Time Film Favorites: 17. Big Spender / 18. Sing A Rainbow / 19. Joey, Joey, Joey / 20. This Is A Very Special Day* / 21. My Heart Stood Still / 22. Somebody Loves Me / 23. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 24. Why Don't You Do Right / 25. Johnny Guitar* / 26. Sugar / 27. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Peggy with Bing ... And Other Friends: 28. Watermelon Weather (duet with Bing Crosby) / 29. Do I Love You? / 30. The Old Master Painter (duet with Mel Tormé) / 31. For Every Man There's A Woman / 32. You Was (duet with Dean Martin)
On Stage ... In Concert ... At Basin Street East: 33. I Love Being Here With You* / 34. But Beautiful / 35. Fever / 36. The Second Time Around / 37. Yes, Indeed! (2nd disc)
By Request: 38. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning / 39. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis / 40. Caramba! It's The Samba / 41. Similau / 42. Heart / 43. I Feel It / 44. Alright, Okay, You Win / 45. Bubble-Loo Bubble Loo / 46. Light Of Love / 47. My Man / 48. You / 49. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 50. Just One Of Those Things / 51. I'm A Woman / 52. Show Me The Way To Get Out Of This World / 53. Baby, Don't Be Mad At Me / 54. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 55. I'll Be Seeing You (3rd disc)
Album 103
PEGGY LEE ("36 ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Prepared by EMI Music Special Markets for GSC Music, and released in 1999 as CD set #7243 4 96336 2 9 (also GSC 15453). Capitol tracks (1945-1969).
Tracks
1. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 2. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 3. Linger In My Arms A Little Longer / 4. It's All Over Now / 5. It's A Good Day* / 6. Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino, Go To Sleep) / 7. I'll Dance At Your Wedding / 8. Sugar / 9. Golden Earrings / 10. Why Don't You Do Right / 11. 'Deed I Do / 12. Them There Eyes (1st disc)
13. Baby Don't Be Mad At Me / 14. Caramba! It's The Samba / 15. Mañana* / 16. Don't Smoke In Bed / 17. Similau / 18. Bali Ha'i / 19. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair / 20. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / 21. The Old Master Painter (duet with Mel Tormé) / 22. Lover Come Back To Me / 23. (When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas / 24. Fever (2nd disc)
25. Alright, Okay, You Win / 26. I'm A Woman / 27. Light Of Love / 28. Sweetheart / 29. My Man / 30. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 31. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 32. A Lot Of Living To Do / 33. Pass Me By / 34. Big Spender / 35. Call Me / 36. Is That All There Is? (3rd disc)
Album 104
THE PEGGY LEE COLLECTION ("HMV EASY" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Prepared by EMI in the UK in 1999 as CD #7243 5 22253 2 3. Exclusively sold at HMV music stores. Capitol tracks (1947-1972).
Tracks
1. As Time Goes By / 2. Basin Street Blues / 3. Stormy Weather / 4. Makin' Whoopee / 5. Fever / 6. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 7. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 8. Always Something There To Remind Me / 9. I Am In Love / 10. Mack The Knife / 11. I Could Have Danced All Night / 12. On The Street Where You Live / 13. I'm A Woman / 14. Come Dance With Me / 15. I Hear Music / 16. Love And Marriage / 17. The More I See You / 18. Let's Fall In Love / 19. From Now On / 20. Cheek To Cheek / 21. Smile
Album 105
RARE GEMS AND HIDDEN TREASURES
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Capitol in July 2000 as CD #72435 27564 2 1. Conceived as the sequel to the 1990 release The Early Years - Collectors' Series, Volume 1, though not marketed nor overly identified as such. Capitol commercial masters (1946-1962), except for track #18, a Capitol radio transcription. Previously unissued tracks: #4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 19. Track #5 previously issued only in a licensed, limited-edition Benny Goodman boxed set from the Mosaic label.
Tracks
1. Every Night / 2. Please Don't Rush Me* / 3. Light Of Love / 4. Ain't Doin' Bad Doin' Nothin' / 5. Eight, Nine And Ten / 6. Oh, Baby, Come Home* / 7. I Love The Way You're Breaking My Heart / 8. Why Should I Cry Over You? / 9. Bubble-Loo Bubble-Loo / 10. Blum Blum* / 11. Similau / 12. Laroo Laroo Lili Bolero / 13. Hold Me / 14. (I'm Not Gonna) Let It Bother Me* / 15. (It's) The Bluest Kind Of Blues / 16. While You're Young / 17. Foolin' Nobody But Me / 18. All The Cats Join In / 19. Farewell To Arms
Album 106
THE VERY BEST OF PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI UK in August 2000 as CD #7243 5 27818 2 9. Capitol material (1947-1970) except for three Decca/Disney tracks (#2, 8, 11).
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. He's A Tramp* / 3. Things Are Swingin'* / 4. Alright, Okay, You Win / 5. Caramba! It's The Samba / 6. I Enjoy Being A Girl / 7. Mañana* / 8. The Siamese Cat Song* / 9. Big Spender / 10. I'm A Woman / 11. Black Coffee / 12. Don't Smoke In Bed / 13. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 14. Till There Was You / 15. Why Don't You Do Right / 16. Golden Earrings / 17. I Go To Sleep / 18. I Feel It / 19. I Get Ideas / 20. Bali Ha'i / 21. So What's New?* / 22. You'll Remember Me / 23. Walking Happy / 24. Pass Me By
Album 107
RENDEZVOUS WITH PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Dutton Vocalion in September 2000 as CD CDUS 3008. Capitol tracks (1946-1949). Reported as authorized by EMI, though mastered from needledrops, instead of tape transfers. Starts off with the contents of the 1948 original 78 album Rendezvous with Peggy Lee.
Tracks
1. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / 2. Why Don’t You Do Right / 3. Stormy Weather / 4. Them There Eyes / 5. 'Deed I Do / 6. Don’t Smoke In Bed / 7. There’ll Be Some Changes Made / 8. A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues / 9. Everything’s Moving Too Fast* / 10. It’s Lovin’ Time / 11. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 12. Linger In My Arms A Little Longer, Baby / 13. Laroo Laroo Lili Bolero / 14. Aren’t You Kind Of Glad We Did? / 15. Caramba! It’s The Samba / 16. Bubble-Loo Bubble-Loo / 17. It’s All Over Now / 18. Please Love Me Tonight / 19. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / 20. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere / 21. She Didn’t Say Yes / 22. I’ll Dance At Your Wedding / 23. Golden Earrings / 24. Everybody Loves Somebody / 25. It Takes A Long, Long Train With A Red Caboose / 26. Just An Old Love Of Mine*
Album 108
PEGGY LEE SINGS THE STANDARDS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI UK in April 2001 as CD 7243 5 32580 2 3. Capitol tracks (1957-1972).
Tracks
1. Cheek To Cheek / 2. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 3. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me / 4. I Could Have Danced All Night / 5. I'll Be Around / 6. Oh You Crazy Moon / 7. Old Devil Moon / 8. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 9. Basin St. Blues / 10. When A Woman Loves A Man / 11. Then Was Then And Now Is Now* / 12. I've Got Your Number / 13. Just For A Thrill / 14. L-O-V-E / 15. Release Me / 16. Smile / 17. As Time Goes By / 18. Unforgettable / 19. I Left My Heart In San Francisco / 20. Strangers In The Night / 21. Something / 22. Bridge Over Troubled Water
Album 109
THE BEST OF PEGGY LEE ("20 CENTURY MASTERS - THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by MCA Decca in May 2002 as CD 088 112 866 2. Decca tracks (1952-1956).
Tracks
1. Lover / 2. Be Anything (But Be Mine) / 3. Just One Of Those Things / 4. Sans Souci* / 5. Black Coffee / 6. Somebody Loves Me / 7. Let Me Go, Lover / 8. The Siamese Cat Song* / 9. Johnny Guitar* / 10. Mr. Wonderful / 11. He Needs Me / 12/ I Don't Know Enough About You*
Album 110
THE MARVELOUS MISS LEE
Release & Recording Notes
Released by North Star in June 2002 as CD NS163. Part of the British company's "Vintage Masters" series. Capitol tracks (1945-1969). Licensed from EMI Music Special Markets (72435 40699 2 5).
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 3. It's All Over Now / 4. Why Don't You Do Right / 5. Golden Earrings / 6. Waitin' For The Train To Come In / 7. I'll Dance At Your Wedding / 8. Unforgettable / 9. As Time Goes By / 10. Cheek To Cheek / 11. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 12. Kansas City / 13. See See Rider / 14. Is That All There Is?
Album 111
FEVER
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Green Hill in June 2002 as CD GHD5318. Capitol tracks (1946-1965). Licensed from EMI Music Special Markets (72435 39935 2 8).
Tracks
1. Fever / 2. Too Close For Comfort / 3. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 4. Unforgettable / 5. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 6. There Is No Greater Love / 7. Big Spender / 8. Deep Purple / 9. Why Don't You Do Right / 10. The Man I Love / 11. Alright, Okay, You Win / 12. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 13. It's A Good Day* / 14. Everybody Loves Somebody
Album 112A
THE SINGLES COLLECTION
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Capitol in December 2002 as CD set #7243 5 39756 2 3. All Capitol masters except #1, 2, 3 (Columbia master recordings with the Benny Goodman Orchestra), 4, 5 (Ara master recordings with the Bob Crosby Orchestra), 70, 71, 72, 73 (Decca masters) and 104 (A&M master). Previously unissued: #85 (1961 studio master), 108, 109, 110. Moreover, nearly 50 of these tracks had only been previously available on shellac or vinyl. 72-page booklet, filled with Peggy Lee photography and a lengthy essay by Will Friedwald.
Tracks
1. Let's Do It / 2. Somebody Nobody Loves / 3. Why Don't You Do Right / 4. On The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe / 5. It's Anybody's Spring / 6. What More Can A Woman Do?* / 7. You Was Right, Baby* / 8. Waiting For The Train To Come In / 9. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 10. I Can See It Your Way / 11. Baby, You Can Count On Me / 12. It's A Good Day* / 13. A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues / 14. He's Just My Kind / 15. She Didn't Say Yes / 16. Birmingham Jail / 17. Don't Be So Mean To Baby* / 18. (It's) The Bluest Kind Of Blues / 19. Everything's Moving Too Fast* / 20. Speaking Of Angels / 21. Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino, Go To Sleep) / 22. Just An Old Love Of Mine* / 23. Sugar / 24. Golden Earrings / 25. Why Don't You Do Right / 26. Hold Me / 27. Them There Eyes (1st disc)
28. Everybody Loves Somebody / 29. Caramba! It's The Samba / 30. Mañana* / 31. So Dear To My Heart / 32. While We're Young / 33. Don't Smoke In Bed / 34. Just A Shade On The Blue Side / 35. You Was (duet with Dean Martin) / 36. Someone Like You /37. Please, Love Me Tonight / 38. If You Could See Me Now / 39. Similau / 40. You Can Have Him / 41. At The Café Rendezvous / 42. Goodbye, John / 43. Through A Long And Sleepless Night / 44. Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow / 45. The Old Master Painter (duet with Mel Tormé) / 46. Bless You (For The Good That's In You) (duet with Mel Tormé) * / 47. When You Speak With Your Eyes*⋆ / 48. My Small Señor* / 49. Cry, Cry, Cry / 50. Once Around The Moon / 51. Helpless / 52. They Can't Take That Away From Me / 53. Happy Music* / 54. Life Is So Peculiar (2nd disc)
55. Where Are You? / 56. Once In A Lifetime / 57. The Mill On The Floss / 58. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah / 59. Rock Me To Sleep / 60. He's Only Wonderful / 61. Wandering Swallow / 62. I Love You But I Don't Like You* / 63. Tonight You Belong To Me / 64. Don't Fan The Flame (duet with Mel Tormé) / 65. Would You Dance With A Stranger? / 66. Ev'rytime / 67. Whee Baby* / 68. Louisville Lou / 69. Let's Call It A Day / 70. Lover / 71. Sugar / 72. You’ve Got To See Mamma Every Night / 73. Mr. Wonderful / 74. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 75. Listen To The Rocking Bird / 76. Uninvited Dream / 77. Fever / 78. Alright, Okay, You Win / 79. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 80. I'm Lookin' Out The Window / 81. You Deserve (3rd disc)
82. Heart / 83. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'* / 84. My Gentle Young Johnny / 85. Moments Like This / 86. I Love Being Here With You* / 87. I'm A Woman / 88. Sneakin' Up On You / 89. Pass Me By / 90. Stop Living In The Past / 91. Big Spender / 92. Come Back To Me / 93. Walking Happy / 94. Didn't Want To Have To Do It / 95. Misty Roses / 96. It'll Never Happen Again / 97. Spinning Wheel / 98. Is That All There Is? / 99. Something / 100. You'll Remember Me / 101. Pieces Of Dreams / 102. Where Did They Go? / 103. Love Song / 104. Some Cats Know / 105. Senza Fine / 106. False Start (from the "Caramba! It's The Samba" session takes) / 107. False Start (from the "Mañana"⋆ session takes) / 108. Brief Peggy Lee Remark (from the "Helpless" session takes) / 109. Brief Peggy Lee Remark (from the "My Small Señor"⋆ session takes) / 110. Brief Peggy Lee Remark (from the "I'm Lookin Out the Window" session takes) (4th disc)
Album 112B [American Omnibus selection]
THE BEST OF THE SINGLES COLLECTION
Release & Recording Notes
American CD released in June 2003 as Capitol 7243 82680 2 7. Culls 21 tracks from the just-itemized Singles Collection, where those tracks are numbered as follows: #7, 12, 16, 33, 38, 41, 50, 54, 58, 77, 80, 83, 84, 74, 86, 85, 105, 92, 99, 98, and 69. Adds, as its 22nd track, a modern-day "Fever" remix, created by the duo Gabin (and also included in the 2004 Virgin CD Pink Panther's Penthouse Party).
Tracks
1. You Was Right, Baby* / 2. It's A Good Day* / 3. Birmingham Jail / 4. Don't Smoke In Bed / 5. If You Could See Me Now / 6. At The Café Rendezvous / 7. Once Around The Moon / 8. Life Is So Peculiar / 9. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah / 10. Fever / 11. I'm Lookin' Out The Window / 12. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'* / 13. My Gentle Young Johnny / 14. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 15. I Love Being Here With You* / 16. Moments Like This / 17. Senza Fine / 18. Come Back To Me / 19. Something / 20. Is That All There Is? / 21. Let's Call It A Day / 22. Fever (Remix)
Album 112C [British Omnibus selection]
THE BEST OF THE SINGLES COLLECTION
Release & Recording Notes
British CD released in November 2003 as Capitol 7243 596515 2 1. Offers 22 of the tracks in the just-itemized Singles Collection, where those tracks are numbered as follows: #7, 12, 16, 30, 33, 38, 41, 50, 54, 58, 77, 80, 83, 84, 74, 86, 85, 105, 92, 99, 98, and 69. Also features two numbers not on the Singles Collection: "Till There Was You" and "Always True to You in my Fashion," the latter being a live, previously unissued outtake from Lee's Beauty and the Beat album sessions. Adds, as its final (25th) track, a modern-day "Fever" remix, created by the Italian duo Gabin.
Tracks
1. You Was Right, Baby* / 2. It's A Good Day* / 3. Birmingham Jail / 4. Mañana* / 5. Don't Smoke In Bed / 6. If You Could See Me Now / 7. At The Café Rendezvous / 8. Once Around The Moon / 9. Life Is So Peculiar / 10. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah / 11. Fever / 12. I'm Lookin' Out The Window / 13. Till There Was You / 14. I'm Gonna Go Fishin'* / 15. My Gentle Young Johnny / 16. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 17. I Love Being Here With You* / 18. Moments Like This / 19. Senza Fine / 20. Come Back To Me / 21. Something / 22. Is That All There Is? / 23. Let's Call It A Day / 4. Always True to You in my Fashion / 25. Fever (Remix)
Album 113
LOVE SONGS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Universal Music in January 2003 as CD 088 113 100 2. Decca masters (1952-1956).
Tracks
1. I've Got You Under My Skin / 2. You Go To My Head / 3. Crazy In The Heart / 4. Autumn In Rome / 5. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face / 6. Do I Love You? / 7. I Never Knew / 8. Love You So / 9. Sugar / 10. You're My Thrill / 11. Me / 12. I Belong To You / 13. The Night Holds No Fear For The Lover / 14. Love Letters
Album 114
THE BEST OF PEGGY LEE ("10 BEST" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by EMI Music Special Markets in October 2003 as CD #7243 5 95937 2 2. Capitol masters (1957-1964). Second Peggy Lee issue in the 10 Best Series. The first one (Fever & Other Hits) dates back to 1990.
Tracks
1. Alright, Okay, You Win / 2. Fever / 3. The Man I Love / 4. The Boy From Ipanema / 5. Heart / 6. Unforgettable / 7. I'm A Woman / 8. My Man / 9. I'm Beginning To See The Light / 10. There Is No Greater Love
Album 115
CLASSICS & COLLECTIBLES
Release Notes
Released by Universal Music in the UK in December 2003 as CD set #1130342. Decca masters. Many tracks on the second disc had never or hardly ever been seen on a Peggy Lee CD issue before. Tracks #51 and 52 never on LP pr CD until then, and thus very rare (previously available only on a European single likely to have had limited distribution). Note that some early pressings miss a couple of tracks (#22 and 26).
Tracks
Classics: 1. Mr. Wonderful / 2. He's A Tramp* / 3. Black Coffee / 4. Lover / 5. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 6. This Is A Very Special Day* / 7. Sing A Rainbow / 8. Just One Of Those Things / 9. Johnny Guitar* / 10. The Siamese Cat Song* / 11. The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night / 12. Apples, Peaches And Cherries / 13. (Sorry Baby) You Let My Love Get Cold / 4. Sans Souci* / 15. La La Lu* / 16. I Hear The Music Now / 17. Oh! No! (Please Don't Go) / 18. How Bitter, My Sweet / 19. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 20. It Never Entered My Mind / 21. Ooh, That Kiss / 22. Bella Notte* / 23. I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now / 24. Sisters / 25. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face / 26. Peace On Earth* (1st disc)
Collectibles: 27. I Still Get A Thrill (Thinking Of You) / 28. The Tavern / 29. It Must Be So* (duet with The Mills Brothers) / 30. That's What A Woman Is For / 31. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong / 32. Never Mind / 33. Me / 34. How Strange* / 35. Merry Go Runaround (trio with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby) / 36. Wrong Joe / 37. The Night Holds No Fear For The Lover / 38. Summer Vacation / 39. Go You Where You Go / 40. Straight Ahead* (duet with The Mills Brothers) / 41. The Gypsy With Fire In His Shoes* / 42. Pablo Pasablo / 43. Little Jack Frost, Get Lost / 44. I Belong To You / 45. It's Because We're In Love* (duet with Jimmy Rowles) / 46. Singing ('Cause He Wants To Sing)* / 47. That Fellow's A Friend Of Man* / 48. Old Trusty* (featuring Sonny Burke) / 49. Jim Dear* / 50. What Is A Baby?* / 51. Mister Magoo Does The Cha-Cha-Cha* / 52. Three Cheers For Mister Magoo* (2nd disc)
Album 116
PEGGY LEE ("THE COLLECTION" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Prepared by Universal Music Operations in the UK in 2003 for Marks & Spencer, and sold as CD MS4800P (also M 4747 154 S) exclusively at that company's department stores. Combines 12 Capitol tracks (one from 1947, the others from the 1957-1966 period) with eight Decca titles (1952-1956).
Tracks
1. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 2. I Hear Music 3. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me / 4. Fever / 5. It Ain't Necessarily So / 6. My Heart Belongs To Daddy / 7. Lover / 8. Black Coffee / 9. Mr. Wonderful / 10. Till There Was You / 11. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 12. The Man I Love / 13. I Didn't Know What Time It Was / 14. Baubles, Bangles & Beads / 15. Mañana* / 16. Smile / 17. Strangers In The Night / 18. Autumn In Rome / 19. I'm A Woman / 20. From Now On
Album 117
PEGGY LEE ("THE SILVER COLLECTION" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Universal Music Operations in the UK in June 2007, on the company's budget sub-label, Spectrum Music, as CD #02498 49051. Combines five Decca tracks (all from the 1956 album Black Coffee) with five Polydor tracks (from the 1977 albums Peggy and Live in London).
Tracks
1. Black Coffee / 2. Fever / 3. Easy Living / 4. Love For Sale / 5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was / 6. There's A Small Hotel / 7. Misty / 8. Is That All There Is? / 9. Love Me Or Leave Me / 10. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Album 118
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Reader's Digest in the UK in 2007 as boxed CD set RDCD 5831 3. Primarily Capitol tracks (1944-1970), supplemented with four Decca masters, six Columbia masters with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, six World transcription performances, and four numbers from radio broadcasts.
Tracks
Fever: 1. Fever / 2. Black Coffee / 3. I've Got You Under My Skin / 4. Mr. Wonderful / 5. Lover / 6. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 7. Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe / 8. Hallelujah I Love Him So / 9. (When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas / 10. I Don't Know Enough About You* / 11. They Can't Take That Away From Me / 12. The Lady Is A Tramp / 13. Unforgettable / 14. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 15. It Never Entered My Mind / 16. Cheek To Cheek / 17. The Man I Love / 18. I'm Beginning To See The Light / 19. Mack The Knife / 20. I Could Have Danced All Night (1st disc)
Is That All There Is?: 21. Bali Ha'i / 22. (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon / 23. Till There Was You / 24. Things Are Swingin'* / 25. Caramba! It's The Samba / 26. Mañana* / 27. I Enjoy Being A Girl / 28. Alright, Okay, You Win / 29. Don't Smoke In Bed / 30. As Time Goes By / 31. Golden Earrings / 32. Walking Happy / 33. I Feel It / 34. Pass Me By / 35. Big Spender / 36. I'm A Woman / 37. I Go To Sleep / 38. Something / 39. So What's New?* / 40. Is That All There Is? / 41. You'll Remember Me (2nd disc)
Let There Be Love: 42. Stormy Weather / 43. Waitin' For The Train To Come In / 44. Let's Do It / 45. On The Sunny Side Of The Street / 46. Why Don't You Do Right / 47. How Deep Is The Ocean? / 48. How Long Has This Been Going On? / 49. I Got It Bad / 50. That Old Feeling / 51. Them There Eyes / 52. It's All Over Now / 53. Let There Be Love / 54. Just One Of Those Things / 55. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning / 56. 'Deed I Do / 57. You / 58. What Is This Thing Called Love? / 59. Do I Love You? / 60. I've Got The World On A String / 61. It's A Good Day* / 62. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (3rd disc)
Album 119
THE LOST '40s & '50s CAPITOL MASTERS
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Collectors' Choice in March 2018 as CD set CCM-917 2. Licensed from EMI Music Special Markets (509992 08530 2 0). Capitol masters (1944-1952). Previously unissued tracks: #2, 3 (July 1946 master version), 5, 6 (1946 master version), 7, 8, 13, 16, 17, 19, 25, 26, 28, 30.
Tracks
1. Ain’t Goin’ No Place / 2. A Cottage For Sale / 3. Don’t Be So Mean To Baby* / 4. Aren’t You Kind Of Glad We Did? / 5. I’ve Had My Moments / 6. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / 7. Trouble Is A Man / 8. Music, Maestro, Please / 9. It’s Lovin’ Time / 10. Ain’tcha Ever Comin’ Back? / 11. It Takes A Long Long Train With A Red Caboose (To Carry My Blues Away) / 12. The Freedom Train / 13. A Hundred Years From Today / 14. Keep Me In Mind / 15. Love (Your Spell Is Everywhere) / 16. Love Ye / 17. What’ll It Getcha? / 18. (I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I’ll Be Happy / 19. I Don’t Know What To Do Without You, Baby / 20. Neon Signs* (1st disc)
21. A Man Wrote A Song / 22. Sunshine Cake / 23. Run For Roundhouse, Nellie / 24. The Cannonball Express / 25. Don’t Give Me A Ring On The Telephone (Until You Give Me A Ring On My Hand) / 26. If I Could Steal You From Somebody Else / 27. Ay, Ay, Chug A Chug / 28. Something To Remember You By / 29. Climb Up The Mountain / 30. Pick Up Your Marbles (And Go Home) / 31. That Ol’ Devil (Won’t Get Me)* / 32. If You Turn Me Down (Dee-Own-Down-Down) / 33. Boulevard Café / 34. It Never Happen’ To Me / 35. So Far, So Good / 36. My Magic Heart / 37. Telling Me Yes, Telling Me No (duet with Mel Tormé)* / 38. Shame On You / 39. Goin’ On A Hayride (2nd disc)
Album 120
COME RAIN OR COME SHINE ("OPUS COLLECTION" SERIES)
Release & Recording Notes
Released by Starbucks Entertainment in April 2010 as CD 509996 31359 2 3. Sold exclusively at the company's coffeehouses. Licensed from EMI Music Special Markets. Capitol tracks, (1944-1969) except for one Decca number (#12) and one World transcription performance (#9).
Tracks
1. Once Around The Moon / 2. You Was Right, Baby* / 3. I’m Looking Out The Window / 4. It’s A Good Day* / 5. Fever / 6. Why Don’t You Do Right / 7. Come Rain Or Come Shine / 8. Too Close For Comfort / 9. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning / 10. I’ve Got The World On A String / 11. Big Spender / 12. Black Coffee / 13. I Love Being Here With You* / 14. Senza Fine / 15. Is That All There Is?
Album 121
DECCA RARITIES
Release Notes
Made available by Universal Music in early April 2020 for streaming and as a downloadable music file. No physical formats. Most numbers culled from the 20003 British release Classics & Collectibles, already itemized above.
Tracks
1. Straight Ahead* (duet with The Mills Brothers) / 2. Me / 3. (Sorry Baby) You Let My Love Get Cold / 4. I Still Get A Thrill (Thinking Of You) / 5. Ooh, That Kiss / 6. It Must Be So* (duet with The Mills Brothers) / 7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads / 8. Where Can I Go Without You?* / 9. Summer Vacation / 10. That’s What A Woman Is For / 11. Never Mind / 12. How Strange* / 13. Apples, Peaches And Cherries / 14. The Moon Came Up With A Great Idea Last Night / 15. How Bitter, My Sweet / 16. Merry-Go-Run-Around (trio with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby) / 17. It’s Because We’re In Love* (duet with Jimmy Rowles) / 18. Watermelon Weather (duet with Bing Crosby) / 19. Moon Flowers / 20. Pablo Pasablo / 21. The Possibility’s There (duet with Bing Crosby) / 22. Guess I’ll Go Back Home This Summer / 23. Bouquet Of Blues / 24. That’s Him Over There / 25. Singing (‘Cause He Wants To Sing)* / 26. That Fellow’s A Friend Of Man* / 27. Jim Dear* / 28. Old Trusty* (featuring Sonny Burke) / 29. What Is A Baby?* / 30. La La Lu* / 31. Bella Notte*
Album 122
ULTIMATE PEGGY LEE
Release & Recording Notes
First made available by Universal Music in mid-April 2020, for streaming and as a downloadable music file. Subsequently released, in June 2020, as a 2-LP set (B 0031401 01) and CD (B 0031401 02). Capitol tracks (1946-1969), except for three Decca masters (#4, 16, 18). Previously unissued track: #22.
Tracks
1. I Love Being Here With You* / 2. Fever / 3. Things Are Swingin’* / 4. I Don’t Know Enough About You* / 5. I’m A Woman / 6. Just In Time / 7. Hallelujah, I Love Him So / 8. Sweet Happy Life / 9. Alright, Okay, You Win / 10. Too Close For Comfort / 11. Why Don’t You Do Right / 12. It’s A Good Day* / 13. You Deserve / 14. Heart / 15. Big Spender / 16. He’s A Tramp* / 17. I Wanna Be Around / 18. Black Coffee / 19. I’ve Got The World On A String / 20. The Folks Who Live On The Hill / 21. Is That All There Is? / 22. Try A Little Tenderness
An Autobiography
MISS PEGGY LEE
Part of a much larger project, this page is essentially an addendum to the latest book edition of Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography, published by Peggy Lee Associates LLC in May of 2022. Included in that 2022 edition is not only Lee's own autobiographical narrative but also supplementary documentation of interest to her fans, such as a four-part discography. The main part of the discography lists all the masters recorded by the singer. Another part offers recommendations to prospective Lee listeners. Both of those parts are to be found in the book itself, as expected. Such is not the case, however, for parts three and four. Those are instead freely available as online pages, one of them being the page currently in view. To see the other one (an inventory of Lee's singles), click here.
