Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues | ||||
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Studio album by Peggy Lee | ||||
Released | 1988 | |||
Recorded | February 1988 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 47:49 | |||
Label | Musicmasters Records | |||
Producer | Gregory K. Squires | |||
Peggy Lee chronology | ||||
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Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues is a 1988 studio album by jazz singer Peggy Lee.[1] This was Lee's first album for nine years, and the first of two albums that she recorded for the Musicmasters label.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Scott Yanow reviewed the album for AllMusic and wrote that "By 1988, 68-year-old Peggy Lee did not have much of a voice left. Although she was still determined, physical problems had weakened her, and despite Gene Lees' absurd raving in the liner notes ("Her work has never flagged, the quality of it has never faltered"), this set finds her way past her prime." Yanow described the material as "pretty strong" and praised the quintet that supported Lee on the album, and concluded his review by writing that "This is one of the better releases from Peggy Lee's later years, but it still pales next to her 1950s recordings."[1]
Track listing
- "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey, Traditional) – 5:06
- "Basin Street Blues" (Clarence Williams) – 3:10
- "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller, Williams) – 2:47
- "You Don't Know" (Walter Spriggs) – 4:09
- "Fine and Mellow" (Billie Holiday) – 5:13
- "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Williams) – 3:25
- "Kansas City" (Leiber and Stoller) – 3:43
- "Birmingham Jail" (Traditional) – 4:15
- "Love Me" (Kansas Joe McCoy) – 4:10
- "Beale Street Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:52
- "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins, Williams) – 5:45
- "God Bless the Child" (Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 3:14
Personnel
- Peggy Lee - vocals
- Mike Renzi - piano
- John Chiodini - guitar
- Jay Leonhart - double bass
- Mark Sherman - percussion
- Grady Tate - drums
- Gregory K. Squires - producer
- Bill Kipper, Andrew Milano - engineer
References
- ^ a b c Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues at AllMusic
External links
- New York Times album review
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- Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
- Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
- Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
- Black Coffee
- Dream Street
- Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman
- Sea Shells
- Miss Wonderful
- The Man I Love
- Jump for Joy
- Things Are Swingin'
- I Like Men!
- Beauty and the Beat!
- Latin ala Lee!
- All Aglow Again!
- Pretty Eyes
- Christmas Carousel
- Olé ala Lee
- Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee
- If You Go
- Blues Cross Country
- Sugar 'n' Spice
- Mink Jazz
- I'm a Woman
- In Love Again!
- Pass Me By
- Then Was Then – Now Is Now!
- Guitars a là Lee
- Big $pender
- Extra Special!
- Somethin' Groovy!
- 2 Shows Nightly
- A Natural Woman
- Is That All There Is?
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Make It with You
- Where Did They Go
- Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota
- Let's Love
- Mirrors
- Live in London
- Peggy
- Close Enough for Love
- Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
- The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring
- Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen
- Moments Like This
- The Best of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years
- "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
- "Blues in the Night"
- "We'll Meet Again"
- "The Way You Look Tonight"
- "Why Don't You Do Right?"
- "It's a Good Day"
- "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"
- "Bali Ha'i"
- "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"
- "The Old Master Painter"
- "Lover"
- "Just One of Those Things"
- "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
- "Let Me Go, Lover"
- "Fever"
- "Hallelujah, I Love Him So"
- "I'm a Woman"
- "I Go to Sleep"
- "Big Spender"
- "Spinning Wheel"
- "Is That All There Is?"
- "Black Coffee"
- "The Folks Who Live on the Hill"
- "Kansas City"
- "I Love Being Here with You"
- Stage Door Canteen
- Jasper in a Jam
- The Jazz Singer
- Lady and the Tramp
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- Discography
- Benny Goodman
- Dave Barbour (first husband)
- Brad Dexter (second husband)
- Dewey Martin (third husband)
- Jo Stafford
- Patti Page
- Rosemary Clooney