''Mirrors'' is a 1975 album by Peggy Lee on

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. The album is made up of neo-

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" art songs" sung by Peggy, written and produced by rock & roll pioneers

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Lyricist Jerome Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller (born March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners. They found success as the writers of such crossover hit songs as " Hound Dog" ( ...

and mostly arranged & conducted by

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Track listing

All lyrics by Jerry Leiber; all music by Mike Stoller #"

Is That All There Is? "Is That All There Is?", a song written by American songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller during the 1960s, became a hit for American singer Peggy Lee and an award winner from her album of the same title in November 1969. The song wa ...

" – 4:21 (''see notes'') #"Ready to Begin Again (Manya's Song)" – 3:26 #"Some Cats Know" – 4:18 #"I've Got Them Feelin' Too Good Today Blues" – 2:20 #"A Little White Ship" – 3:10 #"Tango" – 5:21 #"Professor Hauptmann's Performing Dogs" – 5:40 #"The Case of M. J." – 2:54 #"I Remember" – 2:51 #"Say It" – 3:58 #"Longings for a Simpler Time" – 3:54

Notes

" was recorded in January 1969 and originally released as a single on Capitol Records the following September. It reached #11 on the Billboard Pop charts and #1 on the

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charts, and Peggy Lee won a

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for her performance in March, 1970. This unexpected success provided the impetus for an entire album of similar material. However, instead of recording a fully realized follow-up album, Capitol's November 1969 ''Is That All There Is?'' LP was hastily assembled from one new October recording date and a variety of sessions going back to June 1967, while Miss Lee toured on the strength of the hit. Six years would lapse before ''Mirrors'' was recorded, by which time Miss Lee had changed record labels. "Is That All There Is?" was not part of the original ''Mirrors'' LP; it was first added as a bonus track for the 1989 A&M CD reissue. All the tracks from ''Mirrors'', including two previously unreleased outtakes, were remixed and included in the limited edition CD, '' Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller'' (

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, 2005.) "Is That All There Is?" was arranged and conducted by Randy Newman. "Ready to Begin Again (Manya's Song)" was arranged and conducted by Perry Botkin, Jr.

References

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