jazzbo Posted August 30, 2004 Author Report Posted August 30, 2004 Yes, this looks like a good one. . . something to consider for my next EMI order! Quote
jazzbo Posted October 7, 2004 Author Report Posted October 7, 2004 I've been listening to some Peggy Lee again lately. I find myself looking at the cover of the "Singles" collection (I have it facing me on a "shelf" on the wall in front of me, right next to the Nat King Cole "Classic Singles" collection) and hearing her voice in my head and then reaching for one of her cds. She's slowly becoming one of my very favorites! Quote
P.D. Posted October 7, 2004 Report Posted October 7, 2004 (edited) Soon to be reissued by the real bastards.. verve Black Coffee, the original was an 8 tune 10" Lp this has been padded out by 4 extra tracks that were recorded to supplement the original LP when 12" became the standard vinyl format The 'new" tracks are good but the original 8 are absolute musts for Lee followers You get up tempo swingers My Heart Belongs to Daddy I've Got you Under My Skin I Didn't Know What Time Love me or Leave Me and sultry moody pieces Black Coffee A woman alone With the Blues Easy Living When the World was Young Her version of When the World sounds like she had already lived her life through, even though the album was the first recorded under her own name. There have been various Lee comps, titled Black Coffee, and songs from the album placed in others.. but I'm not sure if any give you all 8 songs. The quartet led by "Cootie Chesterfield".. yes I know who that is, makes this a solid jazz recording. The 12" album was released with " Sea Shells", which I think was her final Decca album on a British MCA 2 LPs one CD issue in 1998.. Amazon has new and used from about $10.0 Sea Shells is a bit of a strange one.. probably for Lee collectors only, but it does have the sexiest childrens song ever.. I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard Edited October 7, 2004 by P.D. Quote
jazzbo Posted October 7, 2004 Author Report Posted October 7, 2004 I'm probably going to get this "Black Coffee" though I think I have almost all the material here and there. . . .You're right on target Peter, great stuff! Quote
frank m Posted October 7, 2004 Report Posted October 7, 2004 I don't know anything about the poodle story,nor do I care to know, but out of my deep respect for Peggy Lee, I hope you suppress what is a dirty rumor. When she died, the NYTimes had some punk kid, who knew her work only when she was old and ill, wrote a snide "funny" obit. The Times announced later that they were immersed in letters of complaint about it,(one of them mine). About "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" I heard her say that it was her favorite, going back to the time of her marriage to Barbour. and that she always ended in tears when she sang it. And I might point out to you new discoverers of her work, that there is a little known recording of hers that I consider close to her best. Just Peggy and piano--"While We're Young" . It is available as a single at iTunes for 99 cents to download. Quote
king ubu Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 Here's a nice article and an interview: http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Peggy%20Lee_2.htm Check the site out, many nice things there! (Rooster just linked to the Horace Silver band's Blindfold Test in his new Tyrone Washington thread). ubu Quote
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