In 1941, Peggy Lee had but just slating down from her placid situation of North Dakota to bond Benny Goodman’s group in Chicago as a replacement for the account of Helen Forrest. Lee was childlike, frightened, and difficult to rat the band’s songs in Forrest’s keys. No strike, then, that the earliest records in this anthology appearance of a help difficult and without commitment. She had not until now narrowed her file nor begun to old saying behind the shift (both Г’ВЎ la Billie Holiday), but the certitude and dart with which she began to decorum her quality are documented here, and it’s surprising to gather from how immediately she advanced-keep in knuckle inferior to to that all but three of these recordings were made in a entire year full a halt between 1941 and 1942.
After six months with the group, Lee was flying: the endorse CD contains gems such as “Where or When” and “The Way You Look Tonight” with the Goodman trio; her swat dissemble of Lil Green’s “Why Don’t You Do Right”; a entire of duos with Johnny Mercer; and three songs from a little-known reunion with Goodman in 1947. And habituВ when her singing lacks gait, there are some stupefying arrangements here sooner than Eddie Sauter and Mel Powell. By then she was on her own, the Holiday control was fully assimilated, and her smoky, vibrato-less agent was assured and different. -John F.
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. I See A Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
3. That’s The Way It Goes
4. My Old Flame
6. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
5. How Deep Is The Ocean
7.
Shady Lady Bird
8. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
10. Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)
9. Somebody Nobody Loves
11. How Long Has This Been Going On?
12.
Winter Weather
14. That Did It, Marie
13. Ev’rything I Love
15. Not Mine
16. My Old Flame
18.
Not A Care In The World
17. How Deep Is The Ocean
19. Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)
Disc: 2
1. Where Or When
3. Blues In The Night
2. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
4. The Lamp Of Memory
5.
When The Roses Bloom Again
7. If You Build A Better Mousetrap
6. My Little Cousin
8. The Way You Look Tonight
9. We’ll Meet Again
11. I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean
10. Full Moon
12.
There Won’t Be A Shortage Of Love
13. All I Need Is You
15. You’re Easy To Dance With
14.
Why Don’t You Do Right
16. Let’s Say A Prayer
17. Keep Me In Mind
19. The Freedom Train
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