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Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
''Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman'' is a jazz album by Peggy Lee backed by Benny Goodman, released in 1957. History The album contains Peggy Lee's early recordings with the Benny Goodman orchestra, made in 1941 through 1943. The "Harmony" LP, released in 1957, was a reissue of the 1952 Columbia EP, which had contained four songs: That Did It Marie, My Old Flame, Elmer's Tune, and We'll Meet Again. Neither the EP nor the LP contains Peggy Lee's first hit with the Goodman orchestra, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place". CD release A CD version of the album was released on CBS Records in 1988. It includes the following songs:Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman, Columbia Records, CK7005, 1988 # " How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) # "That Did It, Marie" ( Irene Higginbotham, Fred Meadows) # "Elmer's Tune" ( Elmer Albrecht, Dick Jurgens, Sammy Gallop) # "I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean" ( Irving Berlin) # " We'll Meet Again" ( Ross Parker, Hughie Charles} ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music," Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. Early life Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad. Her family were Lutherans. Her father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American. After her mother died when Lee was four, her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese. Lee an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |