Peggy Lee - Classics & Collectibles

Title: Classics & Collectibles Artist: Peggy Lee Release Date: 12/2/2003 Re-Released On: 12/30/2003 Label: Universal Distribution, Universal International Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 008811303426, 766489926124, 0008811303426 Genre: Vocal Music Styles: Torch Songs, Vocal Pop, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz Moods: Confident, Elegant, Intimate, Smooth, Stylish, Warm, Amiable/Good-Natured, Brassy, Bright, Carefree, Dramatic, Lively, Reflective, Sensual, Sophisticated, Sweet, Cheerful, Gentle, Innocent, Passionate, Playful, Poignant, Reserved, Romantic, Sentimental, Sparkling, Springlike Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Mr. Wonderful
2. He's a Tramp
3. Black Coffee
4. Lover
5. Where Can I Go Without You?
6. This Is a Very Special Day
7. Sing a Rainbow
8. Just One of Those Things
9. Johnny Guitar
10. The Siamese Cat Song
11. The Moon Came Up With a Great Idea Last Night
12. Apples, Peaches and Cherries
13. (Sorry Baby) You Let My Love Get Cold
14. Sans Souci
15. La la Lu
16. I Hear the Music Now
17. Oh! No! (Please Don't Go)
18. How Bitter, How Sweet
19. I Don't Know Enough About You
20. It Never Entered My Mind
21. Ooh, That Kiss
22. I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
23. Sisters
24. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face

1. I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You)
2. The Tavern
3. It Must Be So
4. That's What a Woman Is For
5. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
6. Never Mind
7. Me
8. How Strange
9. The Merry-Go-Run-Around
10. Wrong Joe
11. The Night Holds No Fear for the Lover
12. Summer Vacation
13. Go You Where You Go
14. Straight Ahead
15. The Gypsy With Fire in His Shoes
16. Pablo Pasablo
17. Little Jack Frost, Get Lost
18. I Belong to You
19. It's Because We're in Love
20. Singing ('Cause He Wants to Sing)
21. That Fellow's a Friend of Mine
22. Old Trusty
23. Jim Dear
24. What Is a Baby?
25. Mister Magoo Does the Cha-Cha-Cha
26. Three Cheers for Mister Magoo

Year Type Label Catalog # 2003 CD Universal Distribution 113034 2003 CD Universal International 113034

No other editions were found for this album.

Peggy Lee's five-year stint with Decca doesn't get much attention, since her period at Capitol not only lasted longer but surrounded the Decca years and resulted in many more hits. (One caveat: two of her biggest, "Lover" and "Black Coffee," were recorded for Decca.) While there, she enjoyed the freedom to write much of her own material -- she'd proved herself as a professional songwriter years before -- and pursue projects that were outside the norm for a pop singer during the '50s (much less, for a female pop singer). One of those is the unjustly neglected Songs From Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp, a song cycle written with Sonny Burke that spends time dealing with the confusion and stresses of a new mother at home ("Jim Dear," "What Is a Baby?"), but is remembered strictly as the origin of the "Siamese Cat Song." Universal's Classics & Collectibles reissues 50 tracks from Lee's five years at Decca, many of which make their CD debut. The hits are dispatched very quickly, leaving most of the set to air the selections that rarely show up, including a re-recording of her big-band-era hit "I Don't Know Enough About You" that's slightly more languorous than the original, and many duets with her fellow Decca colleagues -- Bing Crosby (along with Bob Hope), the Mills Brothers, and even the myopic Mr. Magoo (aka Jim Backus), who is very convincingly seduced by Lee on "Mister Magoo Does the Cha-Cha." ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Name Credits Dave Barbour Orchestra Director Gene DiNovi Orchestra Director Gordon Jenkins Orchestra Director Harold Mooney Orchestra Director Jim Pierson Compilation John Scott Trotter Orchestra Director Joseph Lilley Orchestra Director Small Japanese Soldier Design Sonny Burke Orchestra Director Sy Oliver Orchestra Director Victor Young Orchestra Director