''Make It with You'' is a 1970 album by

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 vocalis ...

. It was arranged and conducted by

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. The album peaked at No. 194 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in December 1970. It was Lee's last album to make the ''Billboard'' chart.

Track listing

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Notes

The recording sessions for this album took place at the

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. Peggy Lee recorded "You'll Remember Me" in February 1970 for '' Bridge Over Troubled Water'', her previous album for Capitol Records. The song was a minor hit single, peaking at #16 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, and so it was released on both ''Make It With You'' and ''Bridge Over Troubled Water''. Unlike the rest of the album, "You'll Remember Me" was arranged by Mike Melvoin. The 2008 Collectors' Choice Music CD reissue of ''Make It With You'' also included the song "Pieces of Dreams (Little Boy Lost)" (the

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-nominated theme from the 1970 movie of the same name), which Lee recorded on June 1, 1970, between the sessions for ''Bridge Over Troubled Water'' and the sessions for this album. Lee had recently turned 50 when she recorded this album. She had also won a

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for Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance for "

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" in March 1970. In a 1983 interview with the magazine ''Crescendo International'', Benny Golson, the arranger of this album, said:

On the other hand — what a delight to work with Peggy Lee. I mean, she’s a real professional. I had an experience with her that I’ve never had with any other artist as the arranger/conductor of the music for a complete recording session (''Make It with You'' on Capitol). Incidentally, at a time when people were all overdubbing the strings, the horns and everything, she insisted on doing the whole date live. The strings, the whole orchestra was there, and she was singing in the room. We did half of it in L.A. and half in New York. She wasn’t there for the mix, and when she heard it, it had been mixed so that the singing was very loud and you could hardly hear the arrangements – the vocal was just wiping the brass and everything. She said: 'The voice is too loud.' They went back in and remixed it, and she went with ‘em this time – that’s the way it should be. Of course, that was more money she’d have to pay off, for the remixing of the session, before she’d go into profit. I never got over that. I talked to her about it later; I said: "That was really something, Peggy, that you would do that." Yes, Peggy is very musicianly; she writes good lyrics too.

"Passenger of the Rain" is the theme from the 1969 French film ''

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'' (or ''Le Passager de la Pluie''). Lee wrote the English lyrics, which she sings on this album.

References

External links

Peggy Lee Discography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Make It With You (Peggy Lee Album) 1971 albums Capitol Records albums Peggy Lee albums Albums arranged by Benny Golson Albums conducted by Benny Golson