''Big $pender'' is a 1966
studio album
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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 recorded with the orchestra of
Bill Holman
Track listing
# "
Come Back to Me" (
Burton Lane
Burton Lane ( Levy; February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997) was an American composer and lyricist primarily known for his theatre and film scores. His most popular and successful works include '' Finian's Rainbow'' in 1947 and ''On a Clear Day You ...
,
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre bot ...
) - 2:17
# "
You've Got Possibilities" (
Charles Strouse,
Lee Adams) - 2:10
# "It's a Wonderful World" (
Jan Savitt,
Leo Watson,
Harold Adamson) - 1:48
# "
I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him" (
Jimmy Van Heusen
James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.
Life and care ...
,
Sammy Cahn) - 2:48
# "
Big Spender
"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical ''Sweet Charity'', first performed in 1966. Peggy Lee was the first artist to record the song for her album of the same name also that year. It is sung, in the musi ...
" (
Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.
Life and career
Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, United States, to Eastern European Jewish parents ...
,
Dorothy Fields) - 2:07
# "I Must Know" (
Neal Hefti, Lil Mattis) - 2:48
# "
Alright, Okay, You Win" (
Sid Wyche
Sidney Jackson Wyche ( February 11, 1922 – November 11, 1983) was an American songwriter and pianist. Wyche is best known for writing the jazz standard "Alright, Okay, You Win", Elvis Presley's Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper "A Big Hunk o' Lov ...
, Mayme Watts) - 2:26
# "
Watch What Happens Watch What Happens may refer to:
* "Watch What Happens", Norman Gimbel's English relyricization of Michel Legrand's song "Recit de Cassard" from 1964 film ''Umbrellas of Cherbourg''
* ''Watch What Happens'', a 1967 jazz album by Harold Vick
* ''Wa ...
" (
Michel Legrand,
Norman Gimbel) - 3:09
# "Touch the Earth" (
Jeri Southern
Jeri Southern (born Genevieve Lillian Hering, August 5, 1926 – August 4, 1991) was an American jazz singer and pianist.
Early years
Born Genevieve Lillian Hering in Royal, Nebraska, United States, Southern was the granddaughter of a German pig ...
, Gail Allen) - 2:30
# "You Don't Know" (Walter Spriggs) - 2:37
# "
Let's Fall in Love" (
Harold Arlen
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,
Ted Koehler) - 2:04
# "
Gotta Travel On
"Gotta Travel On" is an American folksong. The earliest known version was printed in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best kno ...
" (
Paul Clayton) - 1:45
References
1966 albums
Peggy Lee albums
Albums produced by Dave Cavanaugh
Capitol Records albums
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