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RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE NOW
Only 500 CD copies imported
Not that we want to break our arms patting our overseas cousins on the back, but finally, finally, a Peggy Lee collection without “Fever.” Not that we have anything against that great tune, but sheesh. Much like “Stairway To Heaven,” and “La Primavera” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” it really needs to take a little rest.
Famous for her singing (she was dubbed as “the female Frank Sinatra”) and her songwriting (she composed songs for the animated movie The Lady And The Tramp, as well as for Johnny Mercer and Quincy Jones). She also appeared in a few films as an actress, notably the 1953 remake of The Jazz Singer and 1955’s Pete Kelly’s Blues, opposite Jack Webb, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination. [Just so you don’t have to look it up, she lost to Jo Van Fleet from East Of Eden. You’re welcome.]
This collection is derived from the same period, including her hit “Mr. Wonderful,” a pair of duets with Jim “Thurston Howell III” Backus, and a couple of Bing Crosby duets (one with Bob Hope chiming in).
If you want to hear Peggy Lee in the transitional period between her first flush of success as a solo artist and her return to Capitol with “Fever,” which boosted her career into superstardom, this is the place to come. They just don’t make singers like that anymore.
DID YOU KNOW? Peggy Lee’s real name was Norma Deloris Egstrom.
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