''Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman'' is a jazz 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 ...

backed by

Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His co ...

, 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 George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

Ira Gershwin Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 2 ...

) # "That Did It, Marie" ( Irene Higginbotham, Fred Meadows) # "

Elmer's Tune "Elmer's Tune" is a 1941 big band and jazz standard written by Elmer Albrecht, Dick Jurgens and Sammy Gallop. Glenn Miller and his Orchestra and Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra both charted with recordings of the composition. Background Elmer A ...

" ( Elmer Albrecht, Dick Jurgens,

Sammy Gallop Sammy Gallop (March 16, 1915 – February 24, 1971) was an American lyricist, known for his big band and swing songs of the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Gallop was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He originally worked as a surveyor and draftsman. On ...

) # "I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean" ( Irving Berlin) # " We'll Meet Again" ( Ross Parker,

Hughie Charles Hughie Charles (24 July 1907 – 6 October 1995), was an English songwriter and producer of musical theatre. Born Charles Hugh Owen Ferry in Manchester, he is best known for co-writing the songs "We'll Meet Again" and "There'll Always Be an Engla ...

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My Old Flame "My Old Flame" is a 1934 song composed by Arthur Johnston with lyrics by Sam Coslow for the film ''Belle of the Nineties''. It has since become a jazz standard. History "My Old Flame" first appeared in the 1934 film ''Belle of the Nineties'' when ...

" ( Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) # "That’s The Way It Goes" ( Morris Levy, Don Parker, credited on the disc to “S. Robin, Wilder”) # "All I Need Is You" (

Benny Davis Benny Davis (August 21, 1895 - December 20, 1979) was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. Biography Davis started performing in vaudeville in his teens. He began writing songs when working as an accompanist for Blossom Seeley. In ...

, Peter De Rose, Mitchell Parish) # "Not a Care in the World" (

Vernon Duke Vernon Duke ( 16 January 1969) was a Russian-born American composer/songwriter who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love," with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche (1940), "I Can't ...

, John Latouche) # "Full Moon (Noche de Luna)" (

Gonzalo Curiel Gonzalo Paul Curiel (born September 7, 1953) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Early life and education Curiel was born in East Chicago, Indiana, the youngest of four ...

, Marcelene Odette, Bob Russell)

References

1957 albums Peggy Lee albums Benny Goodman albums {{1950s-jazz-album-stub