Celebrate Romance With Peggy Lee on ``Peggy Lee: Love Songs,'' Featuring ``I've Grown Accustomed to His Face,'' ``I've Got You under My Skin'' and a Dozen More Classics.Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2002 There has not been a more intimate and sensual female singer in music history than Peggy Lee. In her hands, in her voice, every song was a torch song. "Peggy Lee: Love Songs" (MCA/Decca/UME), released January 14, 2003, culled from her 1952 to 1956 association with Decca Records, showcases the passion and emotion of Miss Peggy Lee. Among the 14 selections, each digitally remastered, are three rarities not reissued since their original single releases in the `50s. "Me," a seldom-heard tune from Irving Berlin Noun 1. Irving Berlin - United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989) Israel Baline, Berlin , is a recording conducted by her beloved ex-husband Dave Barbour. Her "I Belong To You" was last heard on the 1955 soundtrack to "The Racers," with orchestra directed by Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 . The hauntingly lovely "The Night Holds No Fear (For The Lover)" completes the collectible trio. For the woman who would later score a hit with the melancholy "Is That All There Is?," Love Songs is an unabashed celebration of crazy love. Her rendition of Cole Porter's classic "I've Got You Under My Skin" hails from her legendary 1953 album "Black Coffee" and "You're My Thrill" from the 12" 1956 edition of "Black Coffee." "You Go To My Head," popularized by one of Lee's idols, Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day (see "Jazz royalty" regarding similar nicknames), was an American jazz singer, a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers, and generally regarded as one of the , is the compilation's earliest recording. Two other tracks were recorded in the `50s but released in the `60s: Victor Young's poignant "Love Letters" on 1960's "The Best Of Peggy Lee" and Cole Porter's "Do I Love You?" from 1964's "The Fabulous Peggy Lee." Young's sweeping, string-filled arrangements are also heard on "Autumn In Rome" and "I've Grown Accustomed To His Face," a gender reversal of the Lerner and Loewe Lerner and Loewe refers to the American musical comedy writing team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, more commonly known as Fritz, had their fateful meeting in 1942 at an exclusive club song from "My Fair Lady." For "Crazy In The Heart," she's accompanied by the big band of Sy Oliver Melvin "Sy" Oliver (born December 17, 1910 in Battle Creek, Michigan — died May 28, 1988 in New York City) was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader. , as she is on "Love You So." An actress as well as singer, Lee received an Oscar nomination for her supporting role supporting role n → second rôle m supporting role n → ruolo non protagonista as down-and-out singer Rose Hopkins in 1955's "Pete Kelly's Blues." The wistful ballad "I Never Knew" and rambunctious "Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine)" are two numbers from the film that she also recorded for the Top 10 album "Songs From Pete Kelly's Blues." "Love Songs" is presented nearly one year after the passing of Peggy Lee on January 21, 2002, at age 81. "Peggy Lee: Love Songs" is the latest in the artist-driven, genre-crossing yet thematic "Love Songs" series, which has previously included collections from Neil Diamond, Michael Jackson Noun 1. Michael Jackson - United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958) Michael Joe Jackson, Jackson , The Temptations, Aaron Neville Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American soul and R&B singer. Career Aaron Neville has had a career as a solo artist and as one of the Neville Brothers. , Etta James, Elton John, and Stephanie Mills and is scheduled to release albums from Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, the Moody Blues and more. |
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