PEGGY LEE - Miss Peggy Lee (1998) 4CD / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Except for four hit-making years for Decca in the middle of the '50s, Peggy Lee spent the balance of her career with Capitol. And though her many LPs were among the best recorded at the label, most still lay unreleased by the late '90s. Capitol rectified the situation somewhat with the release of its four-disc treatment, Miss Peggy Lee. Including well over 100 songs spanning the early '40s through the early '70s, and a heavy booklet (with an extended interview/reminiscence written by Gene Lees plus extensive track notations by Jim Pierson), the box set frames Lee as one of the most distinctive vocalists of the era, able to transform herself from coquettish to impassioned to utterly destitute with no lack of conviction. Though her voice was less strident and not as wide-ranging as other female vocalists of the time, Lee frequently proved herself equal to Billie Holiday for her ability to use her vocal limitations to even better effect on her songs. Miss Peggy Lee may be a tad confusing for neophytes -- it skips around through her career with little chronological order -- but the selections and flow are impeccable. by John Bush
Tracklist 1 :
1     Waiting for the Train to Come In 3'06
Martin Block / Sunny Skylar
2     I Don't Know Enough About You 3'20
Dave Barbour / Peggy Lee
3     It's All Over Now 3'01
Don Marcotte / Sunny Skylar
4     It's a Good Day 2'52
Dave Barbour / Peggy Lee
5     Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) 3'03
Mack David / Al Hoffman / Jerry Livingston
6     Golden Earrings 3'01
Ray Evans / Jay Livingston / Victor Young
7     Why Don't You Do Right? 2'27
Kansas Joe McCoy
8     Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me) 2'58
Dave Barbour / Peggy Lee
9     Don't Smoke in Bed 3'10
Willard Robison
10     Bali Ha'i 3'10
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers
11     Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) 2'43
Stan Jones
12     The Old Master Painter 2'50
Haven Gillespie / Harry Beasley Smith
13     Fever 3'21
Eddie Cooley / John Davenport
14     Alright, Okay, You Win 2'54
Mayme Watts / Sidney Wyche
15     My Man 2'13
Jacques Charles / Channing Pollack / Albert Willemetz / Maurice Yvain
16     Hallelujah, I Love Him So 2'30
Ray Charles
17     Heart 1'57
Richard Adler / Jerry Ross
18     I'm Gonna Go Fishin' 2'06
Duke Ellington / Peggy Lee
19     Hey, Look Me Over! 1'53
Cy Coleman / Carolyn Leigh
20     I'm a Woman 2'59
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
21     The Alley Cat Song 2'11
Frank Bjorn / J. Harlen
22     Pass Me By 2'24
Cy Coleman / Carolyn Leigh
23     Come Back to Me 2'19
Burton Lane / Alan Jay Lerner
24     Big Spender 2'06
Cy Coleman / Dorothy Fields
25     So What's New? 2'14
Peggy Lee / John Pisano
26     Walking Happy 2'32
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
27     I Feel It 2'37
Ernie Sheldon
28     Is That All There Is? 4'22
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
29     Meals for Millions 2'34
Peggy Lee
Tracklist 2 :     
1     Them There Eyes 2'57
Maceo Pinkard / Doris Tauber / William Tracey
2     That Old Feeling 2'46
Lew Brown / Sammy Fain
3     You Can Depend on Me 2'53
Charles Carpenter / Louis Dunlap / Earl Hines
4     Stormy Weather 3'09
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
5     They Can't Take That Away from Me 2'32
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
6     Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 2'24
Traditional
7     Crazy He Calls Me 3'10
Bob Russell / Carl Sigman
8     Lover, Come Back to Me 2'51
Oscar Hammerstein II / Sigmund Romberg
9     For Every Man There's a Woman 2'48
Harold Arlen / Leo Robin
10     When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 2'24
Ernest R. Ball / Gary Graff / Chauncey Olcott
11     A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues 3'13
Dick Charles / Larry Markes
12     Whee Baby 2'28
Alice Larson / Peggy Lee
13     I'll Dance at Your Wedding 3'01
Herbert Magidson / Ben Oakland
14     Where Are You? 3'05
Harold Adamson / Jimmy McHugh
15     There'll Be Some Changes Made 3'08
Billy Higgins / W. Benton Overstreet
16     Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe 3'07
Harold Arlen / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
17     Somebody Loves Me 2'58
Buddy DeSylva / George Gershwin / Ballard MacDonald
18     (When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas 2'12
Dorcas Cochran / Felicia Sanders
19     'Deed I Do 3'04
Walter Hirsch / Fred Rose
20     Baby (Is What He Calls Me) 2'59
Kay Butler
21     Bye Bye Blues 2'50
David Bennett / Chauncey Gray / Frederick Hamm / Bert Lown
22     While We're Young 3'10
William Engvick / Morty Palitz / Alec Wilder
23     I Can't Give You Anything But Love 2'34
Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh
24     Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World ('Cause That's Where ...) 2'07
Les Clark / Matt Dennis
25     You Was 2'49
Sonny Burke / Paul Francis Webster
26     One Day 2'55
Jerry Colonna
27     Three-Thirty Jump 3'04
Tracklist 3 :
1     It's a Wonderful World 2'13
Harold Adamson / Jan Savitt / Johnny Watson
2     My Heart Stood Still 2'43
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
3     Come Rain or Come Shine 2'38
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
4     I'm Walking Through Heaven With You 2'42
Jimmie Lunceford / Joe Turner
5     But Beautiful 2'53
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
6     Old Devil Moon 2'59
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg / Burton Lane
7     I'm in Love Again 2'52
Cy Coleman / Peggy Lee / Bill Schluger
8     Talk to Me Baby 2'48
Robert Emmett Dolan / Johnny Mercer
9     Again 2'42
Dorcas Cochran / Lionel Newman
10     Do I Love You? 3'03
Cole Porter
11     Bill 2'46
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern / P.G. Wodehouse
12     Just in Time 2'52
Betty Comden / Adolph Green / Jule Styne
13     Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe 4'05
Harold Arlen / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
14     Close Your Eyes 2'18
Bernice Petkere
15     You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me 2'42
Al Dubin / Harry Warren
16     I Believe in You 2'47
Frank Loesser
17     As Time Goes By 2'52
Herman Hupfeld
18     It Could Happen to You 2'28
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
19     Cheek to Cheek 2'47
Irving Berlin
20     I'm a Fool to Want You 3'18
Joel Herron / Frank Sinatra / Jack Wolf
21     Let's Fall in Love 2'05
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
22     Shangri-La 2'31
Matty Malneck / Robert Maxwell / Carl Sigman
23     Basin Street Blues 3'04
Spencer Williams
24     You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You 2'14
James Cavanaugh / Russ Morgan / Larry Stock
25     Oh, You Crazy Moon 2'47
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
26     That's All 2'53
Alan Brandt / Bob Haymes
27     Lullaby in Rhythm 2'17
Benny Goodman / Walter Hirsch / Clarence Profit / Edgar Sampson
28     There'll Be Another Spring 2'21
Peggy Lee / Hubie Wheeler
Tracklist 4 :
1     I Love Being Here With You 2'46
Peggy Lee / Bill Schluger
2     You Came a Long Way from St. Louis 2'49
John Benson Brooks / Bob Russell
3     Good-For-Nothin' Joe 2'32
Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler
4     Back in Your Own Backyard 2'27
Dave Dreyer / Al Jolson / Billy Rose
5     The Second Time Around 3'05
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
6     I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) 2'17
Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
7     Here's That Rainy Day 2'48
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
8     You Stepped Out of a Dream 2'27
Nacio Herb Brown / Gus Kahn
9     Fly Me to the Moon 2'59
Bart Howard
10     Just for a Thrill 3'42
Louis Armstrong / Don Raye
11     Get Out of Town 1'57
Cole Porter
12     Then I'll Be Tired of You 2'29
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg / Arthur Schwartz
13     Ain't We Got Fun? 2'12
Raymond B. Egan / Gus Kahn / Richard A. Whiting
14     The Right to Love (Reflections) 2'58
Gene Lees / Lalo Schifrin
15     Call Me Darling (Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear) 2'38
Dorothy Dick / Mort Fryberg / Rolf Marbet / Bert Reisfeld
16     Watch What Happens 3'12
Norman Gimbel / Michel Legrand
17     So in Love 2'38
Cole Porter
18     Where Can I Go Without You? 2'46
Peggy Lee / Victor Young
19     Love Is Here to Stay 2'43
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
20     Moments Like This 1'57
Burton Lane / Frank Loesser
21     When the Sun Comes Out 2'49
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
22     Say It Isn't So 2'57
Irving Berlin
23     Wish You Were Here 2'45
Harold Rome
24     I'll Be Around 2'47
Alec Wilder
25     Don't Ever Leave Me 2'56
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
26     Them There Eyes 1'42
Maceo Pinkard / Doris Tauber / William Tracey
27     The Glory of Love 2'37
Billy Hill
28     The Folks Who Live on the Hill 3'35
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
29     I'll Be Seeing You 2'27
Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal

PEGGY LEE - The Peggy Lee Songbook : There'll Be Another Spring (1990) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Tracklist :
1     Circle in the Sky 5'58
Peggy Lee / Emil Palame
2     I Just Want to Dance All Night 4'01
John Chiodini / Peggy Lee
3     He's a Tramp 2'34
Sonny Burke / Peggy Lee
4     There'll Be Another Spring 4'19
Peggy Lee / Hubie Wheeler
5     Johnny Guitar 5'22
Peggy Lee / Victor Young
6     Fever 3'24
Eddie Cooley / John Davenport
7     I'll Give It All to You 3'34
John Chiodini / Peggy Lee
8     Sans Souci 3'10
Sonny Burke / Peggy Lee
9     Where Can I Go Without You? 4'53
Peggy Lee
10     Boomerang (I'll Come Back to You) 3'30
John Chiodini / Peggy Lee
11     Things Are Swingin' 2'31
Peggy Lee / Jack Marshall
12     Over the Wheel 3'30
John Chiodini / Peggy Lee
13     The Shining Sea 2'34
Peggy Lee / Johnny Mandel
Credits :
Bass – Jay Leonhart
Cello – Diane Barere, Melissa Meell
Directed By – John Chiodini, Mike Renzi
Drums – Peter Grant
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – John Chiodini
Harmonica – William Galison
Percussion – Mark Sherman
Piano – Mike Renzi
Violin – Dale Stuckenbruck, Louann Montesi, Regis Iandiorio, Robert Fuchs, Stanley Hunte, Winterton Garvey
Violin, Concertmaster – Sanford Allen

PEGGY LEE - Peggy Lee with the Dave Barbour Band (1991) FLAC (tracks), lossless

In the late '40s, Peggy Lee launched a successful solo singing career on records and radio without doing much in the way of live performing. As a part of that, she made a lot of transcriptions for radio play, backed by a small jazz band led by her guitarist-husband Dave Barbour. This budget compilation contains 14 of the "MacGregor" transcriptions, on which Lee addresses standards like "I Should Care," "September In The Rain," and "Nice Work If You Can Get It," with generous soloing space given to the band. by William Ruhlmann
Tracklist :
1     You Can Depend on Me 1'26
Charles Carpenter / Louis Dunlap / Earl Hines
2     I've Had My Moments 2'58
Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
3     Sugar 2'36
Edna Alexander / Sidney Mitchell / Maceo Pinkard
4     I Should Care 3'39
Sammy Cahn / Axel Stordahl / Paul Weston
5     Someday, Sweetheart 2'13
Benjamin Franklin Spikes / John Spikes
6     September in the Rain 3'08
Jimmy Henderson / Sydney Robin / Bertha Scott
7     That Old Gang of Mine 2'35
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
8     Nice Work If You Can Get It 2'19
Duke Ellington / Don George / Johnny Hodges / Harry James
9     I'm Beginning to See the Light 2'35
Herbert Magidson / Allie Wrubel
10     Gone With the Wind 1'56
Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh
11     Don't Blame Me 2'45
Charles Warfield / Clarence Williams
12     Baby Please Come Home 1'51
Haven Johnson
13     My Last Affair 2'49
Doc Daugherty / Al J. Neiburg / Ellis Reynolds
14     I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) 2'37
Doc Daugherty / Al J. Neiburg / Ellis Reynolds

PEGGY LEE - Moments Like This (1993) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

At this late point in Peggy Lee's career, she was heard best in small doses, singing an emotional ballad for three minutes (such as on "The Folks Who Live on the Hill"). This full-length CD, Moments Like This, finds Lee revisiting her former heights (such as her remakes of "Why Don't You Do Right" and "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"), but without the voice to pull it off. Pianist Mike Renzi provided the sympathetic arrangements for the rhythm section, and saxophonist Gerry Niewood helps out, but the main focus is on the aging singer (then 72), and despite her sincerity, the voice was no longer there. by Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1     I Don't Know Enough About You 2'46
Dave Barbour / Peggy Lee
2     I'm in Love Again 4'33
Cy Coleman / Peggy Lee / Bill Schluger
3     Why Don't You Do Right? 3'36
Kansas Joe McCoy
4     Remind Me 4'07
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern
5     Moments Like This 2'35
Burton Lane / Frank Loesser
6     Love Is Here to Stay 4'21
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
7     Don't Ever Leave Me 3'20
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
8     Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me) 3'03
Dave Barbour / Peggy Lee
9     The Folks Who Live on the Hill 3'53
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
10     'S Wonderful 3'22
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
11     Amazing 3'08
Emil Stern
12     Do I Love You? 3'45
Cole Porter
13     You're My Thrill 4'13
Sidney Clare / Jay Gorney
14     Always True to You in My Fashion 2'56
Cole Porter
15     Then Was Then 4'08
Cy Coleman / Peggy Lee
Credits :
Mike Renzi - arrangements and piano
Gerry Niewood - tenor sax, flute, bass flute, soprano sax
Tony Monte - keyboard synthesizer (6, 10, 11)
Jay Leonhart - bass (1, 5, 8, 11, 14)
Steve Laspina - bass (1, 5, 8, 11, 14)
Jay Berliner - acoustic and electric guitar
Peter Grant - drums