Peggy Lee - The Essential Collection (2007)

Tracklist

CD1

Broadcasts from Bing Crosby Radio Shows
01. A Wonderful Guy (1:47)
02. You Go to My Head (3:25)
03. Just One of Those Things (2:45)
04. Trouble Is a Man (2:59)
05. Golden Earrings (3:12)
06. Just Squeeze Me (2:27)
07. Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe (3:26)
08. It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose (2:47)
09. So Dear to My Heart (2:16)
10. Louisa from Lake Louise (1:11)
11. When You Speak with Your Eyes (2:23)
12. Lover (3:16)
13. You and the Night and the Music (1:59)
14. It's Lovin' Time (3:00)
15. Then I'll Be Happy (1:41)
16. Linger in My Arms a Little Longer Baby (2:45)
17. Orange Colored Sky (2:08)
18. I've Got a Crush on You (2:49)
19. Ophelia Blues (1:14)
20. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (2:25)
21. Bali Ha'i (3:21)
22. Speaking of Angels (3:22)
23. What Is This Thing Called Love? (2:05)
24. When Is Sometime? (1:35)
25. Would I Love You (2:14)
26. On a Slow Boat to China (feat. Bing Crosby) (2:11)
27. He's Just My Kind (2:59)
28. Baby You Can Count on Me (feat. Bing Crosby) (2:48)
29. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere (2:56)
30. I Got Lucky in the Rain (2:15)

CD2

Black Coffee
01. Black Coffee (3:09)
02. I've Got You Under My Skin (2:32)
03. Easy Living (2:46)
04. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (2:10)
05. It Ain't Necessarily So (3:25)
06. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You? (3:25)
07. A Woman Alone with the Blues (3:16)
08. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (2:20)
09. When the World Was Young (3:20)
10. Love Me or Leave Me (2:10)
11. You're My Thrill (3:26)
12. There's a Small Hotel (2:52)
Six from "Pete Kelly's Blues"
13. Sugar (2:39)
14. Somebody Loves Me (3:31)
15. I Never Know (3:03)
16. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? (2:13)
17. He Needs Me (2:38)
18. Sing a Rainbow (2:49)
Favourites
19. Mr. Wonderful (3:22)
20. He's a Tramp (2:43)
21. Where Can I Go Without You? (3:19)
22. Sisters (2:29)
23. Love You Didn't Do Right by Me (3:03)
24. I Don't Know Enough About You (3:00)
25. Johnny Guitar (3:03)
26. Baubles, Bangles and Beads (3:19)
27. They Can't Take That Away from Me (2:59)

By contrast to Billie Holiday, AVID’s next female jazz singer travelled a very different career path!
Peggy Lee was born five years later than Billie in 1920 and had an equally tough upbringing courtesy of a cruel stepmother. Fortunately she managed to escape and by 1941 found her way into the Benny Goodman Band. Briefly settling down to married life she was back at Capitol Records by 1944 and ready to continue her recording career.
Our first CD in this fine re-mastered double features Peggy with Bing Crosby on his hugely popular radio shows where she was a regular favourite. We also feature tracks from her stay at Decca Records including the hit “Lover” before returning to Capitol in 1957.
CD 2 comprises her classic Decca LP Black Coffee in it’s entirety plus six tracks from the movie Pete Kelly’s Blues in which Peggy gained an Oscar nomination. Rounding off with perhaps her most famous song “He’s A Tramp” (from Disney’s Lady And The Tramp).
Peggy Lee died in 2002 at the ripe old age of 81, her place in the pantheon of great female singers of popular American music assured.